1982 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play Runner-Up, Athol Fugard (playwright)Nine(opened May 9, 1982) 729 performances
1982 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Michel Stuart,
Harvey J. Klaris, Roger S. Berlind, James M.
Nederlander, Francie LeFrak, and Kenneth D.
Greenblatt (producers); Best Original Score,
Maury Yeston; Best Featured Actress in a Musical,
Lillane Montevecchi; Best Direction of a Musical,
Tommy Tune
Torch Song Trilogy*(opened June 10, 1982) 1,222
performances
1983 Tony Awards: Best Play, Harvey Fierstein
(playwright) and Kenneth Waissman, Martin
Markinson, Lawrence Lane, John Glines, BetMar,
and Donald Tick (producers); Best Actor in a
Play, Harvey Fierstein
1982 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
American Play Runner-Up, Harvey Fierstein
Little Shop of Horrors(opened July 27, 1982) 2,209
performances
1983 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Musical, Alan Menken (music) and Howard
Ashman (book and lyrics)
Cats* (opened October 7, 1982) 7,485 performances
1983 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Cameron Mack-
intosh, The Really Useful Theatre Company, Da-
vid Geffen, and the Shubert Organization (pro-
ducers); Best Book of a Musical, T. S. Eliot; Best
Original Score, Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S.
Eliot; Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Betty
Buckley; Best Direction of a Musical, Trevor Nunn
Foxfire(opened November 11, 1982) 213 perfor-
mances
1983 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Play, Jessica
Tandy
Steaming(December 12, 1982) 65 performances
1983 Tony Awards: Best Featured Actress in a Play,
Judith Ivey
Plays Opening in 1983
Plenty(opened January 6, 1983) 92 performances
1983 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Foreign Play, David Hare (playwright)
On Your Toes(March 6, 1983) 505 performances (re-
vival)
1983 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Musical,
Natalia Makarova; Best Reproduction of a Play or
Musical, Alfred de Liagre, Jr., Roger L. Stevens,
John Mauceri, Donald R. Seawall, and André
Pastoria (producers)Brighton Beach Memoirs(opened March 27, 1983)
1,299 performances
1983 Tony Awards: Best Featured Actor in a Play,
Matthew Broderick*; Best Direction of a Play,
Gene Saks
1983 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play, Neil Simon (playwright)’night, Mother(opened March 31, 1983) 380 perfor-
mances
1983 Pulitzer Prize: Marsha Norman (playwright)
1983 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play Runner-Up, Marsha NormanYou Can’t Take It With You(opened April 4, 1983) 312
performances (revival)My One and Only(opened May 1, 1983) 767 perfor-
mances
1983 Tony Awards: Best Actor in a Musical, Tommy
Tune; Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Charles
Honi Coles; Best Choreography, Tommy Tune
and Thommie WalshThe Caine Mutiny Court-Martial(opened May 5, 1983)
216 performances (revival)La Cage aux Folles(opened August 21, 1983) 1,761
performances
1984 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Allan Carr, Ken-
neth D. Greenblatt, Marvin A. Krauss, Stewart F.
Lane, James M. Nederlander, Martin Richards,
Barry Brown, and Fritz Holt (producers); Best
Book of a Musical, Harvey Fierstein; Best Original
Score, Jerry Herman; Best Actor in a Musical,
George Hearn; Best Direction of a Musical, Ar-
thur LaurentsZorba(opened October 16, 1983) 362 performances
(revival)
1984 Tony Awards: Best Featured Actress in a Mu-
sical, Lila KedrovaThe Eighties in America Entertainment: Major Broadway Plays and Awards 1087