A Chorus Line Awards

A Chorus Line was nominated for 12 Tony Award nominations, winning nine:

• Best Musical
• Best Actress in a Musical (Donna McKechnie)
• Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Sammy Williams)
• Best Featured Actress in a Musical ( Carole "Kelly" Bishop)
• Best Director ( Michael Bennet)
• Best Musical Book (James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante)
• Best Score ( Marvin Hamlisch and Ed Kleban)
• Best Lighting Design (Tharon Musser)
• Best Choreography (Michael Bennet)

Also:

• the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
• the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the season
• The West End production won the Laurence Olivier Award as Best Musical of the Year 1976, the first year in which the awards were presented

From July 25, 1975 at the Shubert Theatre it ran 6, 137 performances, the longest running show in Broadway history, until Cats in 1997.