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Best Director of a Play, George C. Wolfe

1993 Pulitzer Prize: Tony Kushner

1993 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award: Best

Play, Tony Kushner

She Loves Me(opened June 10, 1993) 355 perfor-
mances
1994 Tony Award: Best Actor in a Musical, Boyd
Gaines

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat(opened
November 10, 1993) 223 performances (revival)

The Kentucky Cycle(opened November 14, 1993) 34
performances
1992 Pulitzer Prize: Robert Schenkkan (playwright)

Laughter on the Twenty-third Floor(opened November
22, 1993) 320 performances

Angels in America*: Perestroika(opened November 23,
1993) 216 performances
1994 Tony Awards: Best Play, Tony Kushner (play-
wright) and Jujamcyn Theaters, Mark Taper Fo-
rum/Gordon Davidson, Margo Lion, Susan
Quint Gallin, Jon B. Platt, the Baruch-Frankel-
Viertel Group, and Frederick Zollo, in association
with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Morde-
cai/Cole Productions, and Herb Alpert (produc-
ers); Best Actor in a Play, Stephen Spinella; Best
Featured Actor in a Play, Jeffrey Wright
1994 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award: Best
Play Runner-Up, Tony Kushner

Plays Opening in 1994
Damn Yankees(opened May 3, 1994) 510 perfor-
mances (revival)
1994 Tony Award: Best Featured Actor in a Musi-
cal, Jarrod Emick

Carousel(opened May 24, 1994) 322 performances
(revival)
1994 Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Musical,
Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard
Gersten, the Royal National Theatre, Cameron
Mackintosh, and the Rodgers and Hammerstein
Organization (producers); Best Featured Actress
in a Musical, Audra McDonald; Best Choreogra-
pher, Sir Kenneth MacMillan; Best Director of a
Musical, Nicholas Hytner

Jackie Mason: Politically Incorrect (opened April 5,

1994) 347 performances

Medea(opened April 7, 1994) 82 performances (re-

vival)

1994 Tony Award: Best Actress in a Play: Diana

Rigg

Beauty and the Beast*(opened April 18, 1994) 3,817

performances

An Inspector Calls(opened April 27, 1994) 454 per-

formances (revival)

1994 Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Play, Noel

Pearson, Shubert Organization, Capital Cities/

ABC, and Joseph Harris (producers); Best Fea-

tured Actress in a Play, Jane Adams; Best Director

of a Play, Stephen Daldry

Passion(opened May 9, 1994) 280 performances

1994 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Shubert Organi-

zation, Capital Cities/ABC, Roger Berlind, and

Scott Rudin (producers); Best Actress in a Musi-

cal, Donna Murphy; Best Book of a Musical,

James Lapine; Best Original Musical Score, Ste-

phen Sondheim (music and lyrics)

Grease(opened May 11, 1994) 1,503 performances

(revival)

Show Boat(opened October 2, 1994) 946 perfor-

mances (revival)

1995 Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Musical,

Livent Inc. (producer, U.S.); Best Featured Ac-

tress in a Musical, Gretha Boston; Best Director of

a Musical, Harold Prince; Best Choreographer,

Susan Stroman

Sunset Boulevard(opened November 17, 1994) 977

performances

1995 Tony Awards: Best Musical, The Really Use-

ful Company (producer); Best Actress in a Musi-

cal, Glenn Close; Best Featured Actor in a Musi-

cal, George Hearn; Best Book of a Musical,

Don Black and Christopher Hampton; Best Orig-

inal Musical Score, Andrew Lloyd Webber (mu-

sic) and Don Black and Christopher Hampton

(lyrics)

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