Plays Opening in 1989
Black and Blue(opened January 26, 1989) 829 per-
formances
1989 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Musical, Ruth
Brown; Best Choreography, Cholly Atkins, Henry
LeTang, Frankie Manning, and Fayard Nicholas
Shirley Valentine(opened February 16, 1989) 324 per-
formances
1989 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Play, Pauline
Collins
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway(opened February 26, 1989)
633 performances
1989 Tony Awards: Best Musical, The Shubert
Organization, Roger S. Berlind, Suntory Inter-
national Corporation, Byron Goldman, and
Emanuel Azenberg (producers); Best Actor in a
Musical, Jason Alexander; Best Featured Actor in
a Musical, Scott Wise; Best Featured Actress in a
Musical, Debbie Shapiro; Best Direction of a Mu-
sical, Jerome Robbins
Lend Me a Tenor(opened March 2, 1989) 476 perfor-
mances
1989 Tony Awards: Best Actor in a Play, Philip
Bosco; Best Direction of a Play, Jerry Zaks
The Heidi Chronicles*(opened March 9, 1989) 622
performances
1989 Tony Awards: Best Play, Wendy Wasserstein
(playwright) and The Shubert Organization and
Playwrights Horizons (producers); Best Featured
Actor in a Play, Boyd Gaines
1989 Pulitzer Prize: Wendy Wasserstein
1989 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Play, Wendy WassersteinAristocrats(opened April 11, 1989) 189 performances
1989 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Best
Foreign Play, Brian Friel (playwright)Largely New York(opened May 1, 1989) 144 perfor-
mances
1989 New York Drama Critics Circle Award: Spe-
cial Citation, Bill IrwinMeet Me in St. Louis(opened November 2, 1989) 253
performancesGrand Hotel(opened November 12, 1989) 1,018 per-
formancesA Few Good Men(opened November 15, 1989) 497
performancesGypsy(opened November 16, 1989) 476 perfor-
mances (revival)The Circle(opened November 20, 1989) 208 perfor-
mances (revival)City of Angels(opened December 12, 1989) 878 per-
formancesTr u(opened December 19, 1989) 295 performances
(revival)The Eighties in America Entertainment: Major Broadway Plays and Awards 1091