Performances
- Los Lobos — "La Bamba"
- Bryan Adams — "Only the Strong Survive"/"Victim of Love"
- The Bangles — "Walk Like an Egyptian"/"Walking Down Your Street"
- Bon Jovi — "Livin' on a Prayer"
- Crowded House — "Don't Dream It's Over"/"Now We're Getting Somewhere"
- Madonna — "Causing a Commotion"
- Whitesnake — "Still of the Night"
- Whitney Houston — "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"/"Didn't We Almost Have It All"
- The Cars — "You Are the Girl"/"Double Trouble"
- David Bowie — "Never Let Me Down"
- Prince — "Sign o' the Times"/"Play in the Sunshine"
- Cyndi Lauper — "Change of Heart"/"True Colors"
- Run-D.M.C. (featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry) — "Walk This Way"
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“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
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“At one of the later performances you asked why they called it a “miracle,”
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But you wanted to know why so much action took on so much life
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