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Article: `Jerome Robbins' Broadway' dances to top in Tony awards
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 1989
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There were no encounters with Snow White, no leering jokes or
bloated production numbers, and not a single semi-literate reading
from a TelePrompTer. Grace, wit and a sense of history ruled. As
practiced awards-watchers must know by now, it had to be the Tonys.
The American Theatre Wing's 1989 Antoinette Perry ("Tony")
Awards, which honor the best work of the Broadway season, were
announced Sunday night in New York, and the big winner was "Jerome
Robbins' Broadway," which received six awards, including that for
best musical.
A splendid retrospective of 15 dance sequences from nine of the
director-choreographer's greatest Broadway triumphs, the show (which
was in rehearsal for a ...