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It was a starry week at 54 Below with performances from Faith Prince and Jason Graae, Maurice Hines and Tonya Pinkins. Among the celebrities who came out for their opening night performances were Elaine Stritch, S. Epatha Merkerson, La Chanze, Liiliane Montevecchi, Donna McKechnie, Ron Raines, Nona Hendryx, Andre de Shields, Adriane Lenox, Jeanine Tesori, Phillip Boykin, Jeff Calhoun, Mary Rodgers, George C. Wolfe, George Faison, Billy Porter, Brenda Braxton, Adrian Bailey, Mark Nadler, Stanley Wayne Mathis, Charles Randolph-Wright and Julie Budd. Check out photos from the events below...

Back in May 2008, The Little Mermaid actor Adrian Bailey, a member of the cast's ensemble, fell over 20 feet through an open trap door during a matinee performance. Bailey subsequently broke both wrists for which he received surgery, and reportedly shattered his pelvis among suffering other injuries. At the time, it had been one of the most serious accidents to occur onstage during a performance that Broadway had witnessed. Subsequent law suits ensued, including a products liability case against the Canadian automation company, Niscon, who provided the automation software that allowed the trap-doors on set to be remotely operated.

Yeauxlanda Kay broke a leg. It happened five years ago during a performance of "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind," with the avant-garde theater group the New York Neo-Futurists. In one of the show's 30 two-minute plays, Kay was chased by another actor and then had to leap over a set of chairs. It worked in rehearsal. In front of an audience, though, she stuck the landing "too well," she said. "I landed like a lawn dart."She remembers her right knee buckling and hearing her femur hit her tibia. She also heard someone in the audience say, "Oh my God, that's not good." But Kay finished the show. The following morning she felt the worst pain of her life. X-rays revealed a chip in her tibia. A doctor told her to stay off the leg for a few weeks to give it time to heal. She didn't have that kind of time.