Special Tony Award
for “ Fool Moon”

NEW YORK, NY —A special Tony Award will go to "Fool Moon"— the '93 and '95 and '98 Broadway musical hit—at the Tony Awards ceremonies here June 6. "Fool Moon" is the co-creation of clown-mimes Bill Irwin and David Shiner and The Red Clay Ramblers, and is produced by James Freydburg.

The show was first performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, in the Serious Fun Festival in July 1992. As "Fool Moon," it next appeared at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway for an eight-month run in 1993 (winning the Ramblers a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play), then went on to set box-office records at the Doolittle Theatre in Los Angeles ('94). It played Vienna and Munich ('94), Broadway again ('95), and, last fall, "Fool Moon" ran at ACT in San Francisco and Seattle Rep in Seattle, returned to Broadway Nov. 98-Jan. 99, and went to Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center this spring.

The Tony Awards will be held June 6, at the Gershwin Theater. The show will begin at 8 PM (broadcast, for the third year in a row, on PBS-TV) and continue from 9-11 p.m., broadcast on CBS TV.