Direction of a Musical, Trevor Nunn and John
Caird
1987 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Musical, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil,
and Herbert KretzmerStarlight Express(opened March 15, 1987) 761 per-
formances
Fences(opened March 26, 1987) 525 performances
1987 Tony Awards: Best Play, August Wilson
(playwright) and Carole Shorenstein Hays and
Yale Repertory Theatre (producers); Best Actor
in a Play, James Earl Jones; Best Featured Actress
in a Play, Mary Alice: Best Direction of a Play,
Lloyd Richards
1987 Pulitzer Prize: August Wilson
1987 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play, August Wilson*
Les Liaisons Dangereuses(opened April 30, 1987) 149
performances
1987 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Foreign Play, Christopher Hampton (playwright)
Burn This(opened October 14, 1987) 437 perfor-
mances
1988 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Play, Joan
Allen
Anything Goes(opened October 19, 1987) 784 per-
formances (revival)
1988 Tony Awards: Best Featured Actor in a Musi-
cal, Bill McCutcheon; Best Choreography, Mi-
chael Smuin; Best Revival, Lincoln Center The-
ater (producer)
Cabaret(opened October 22, 1987) 261 perfor-
mances (revival)
Into the Woods(opened November 5, 1987) 765 per-
formances
1988 Tony Awards: Best Book of a Musical, James
Lapine; Best Original Score, Stephen Sondheim;
Best Actress in a Musical, Joanna Gleason
1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Musical, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Plays Opening in 1988
The Phantom of the Opera*(opened January 26, 1988)
8,213 performances as of October 7, 2007
1988 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Cameron Mack-
intosh and the Really Useful Theatre Company
(producers); Best Actor in a Musical, Michael
Crawford; Best Featured Actress in a Musical,
Judy Kaye; Best Direction of a Musical, Harold
Prince
1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Musical Runner-Up, Andrew Lloyd Webber,
Charles Hart, and Richard StilgoeSarafina!(opened January 28, 1988) 597 perfor-
mancesM. Butterfly(opened March 20, 1988) 777 perfor-
mances
1988 Tony Awards: Best Play, David Henry
Hwang* (playwright) and Stuart Ostrow and Da-
vid Geffen (producers); Best Featured Actor in a
Play, B. D. Wong; Best Direction of a Play, John
Dexter
1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play Runner-Up, David Henry Hwang*Joe Turner’s Come and Gone(opened March 27, 1988)
105 performances
1988 Tony Awards: Best Featured Actress in a Play,
L. Scott Caldwell
1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play, August Wilson* (playwright)Romance, Romance(opened May 1, 1988) 297 perfor-
mancesJackie Mason’s The World According to Me!(opened
May 2, 1988) 206 performances (return engage-
ment)Speed-the-Plow(opened May 3, 1988) 279 perfor-
mances
1988 Tony Awards: Best Actor in a Play, Ron SilverRumors(opened November 17, 1988) 535 perfor-
mances
1989 Tony Awards: Best Featured Actress in a Play,
Christine Baranski1090 Entertainment: Major Broadway Plays and Awards The Eighties in America