Lyrics Various First performance 26 February 1989 | Productions 1989 Broadway | |
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Awards Tony Award for Best Musical Award Tony Award for Best Musical Orchestrators William David Brohn, Sid Ramin Similar City of Angels, Hallelujah - Baby!, High Button Shoes, Billion Dollar Baby, Fosse | ||
Jerome robbins broadway tony awards 1989
Jerome Robbins' Broadway is an anthology comprising musical numbers from shows that were either directed or choreographed by Jerome Robbins. The shows represented included, for example, The King and I, On the Town and West Side Story. Robbins won his fifth Tony Award for direction.
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1989 tony awards jerome robbins broadway best musical
Production
The show opened on Broadway on February 26, 1989 at the Imperial Theatre and closed on September 1, 1990 after 633 performances and 55 previews. Directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins with Grover Dale as co-director, the cast featured Jason Alexander as the narrator, Charlotte d'Amboise, Faith Prince, Debbie Shapiro, and Scott Wise.
With an elaborate production and a cast of 62, the show reportedly cost US$8 million to produce, and was expected to recoup about 40 percent from the New York run, according to Bernard B. Jacobs (President of the Shubert Organization). "In a season that was so bereft of original musicals that Kenny Loggins on Broadway and Barry Manilow at the Gershwin were categorized as such, this reminder of Broadway's glory days was greeted with relief and rejoicing (and six Tony Awards). It featured extended sequences from West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof."
