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The 34th Tony Awards Season (1979–80)

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Broadway shows opened in the 1979–80 season, eligible for the 34th Tony Awards.

New Musical

The 1940's Radio Hour
Barnum
But Never Jam Today
Censored Scenes From King Kong
Comin' Uptown
A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
Evita
Evita
Got Tu Go Disco
Happy New Year
Happy New Year
King of Schnorrers
A Kurt Weill Cabaret
The Madwoman of Central Park West
Musical Chairs
Reggae
Sugar Babies

Musical Revival

Canterbury Tales
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella
Oklahoma!
Peter Pan
West Side Story

New Play

Bent
Betrayal
Charlotte
Children of a Lesser God
Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Devour the Snow
Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
Goodbye Fidel
Harold and Maude
Heartaches of a Pussycat
Hide and Seek
Home
Horowitz and Mrs. Washington
I Ought to Be in Pictures
The Lady from Dubuque
Last Licks
Lone Star & Pvt. Wars
Loose Ends
Mister Lincoln
Night and Day
Nuts
Once a Catholic
Past Tense
The Price
The Roast
Romantic Comedy
Strider
Talley's Folly
Teibele and Her Demon

Play Revival

Filumena
King Richard III
Major Barbara
Morning's at Seven
On Golden Pond
Watch on the Rhine
Whose Life is it Anyway?

Other

Bette! Divine Madness
Broadway Opry '79
Bruce Forsyth on Broadway!
Chinese Acrobats & Magicians of Taiwan
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Engelbert (Humperdinck) on Broadway
Les Colombaioni
Shirley Bassey
Twyla Tharp and Dancers

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