PERFECT CRIME Celebrates Its 31st Anniversary Today
The Off-Broadway 'whodunit' Perfect Crime will celebrate its 31st Anniversary today - continuing on as the longest-running play in the city's history. The smart, funny and fast-paced thriller plays in the Anne L. Bernstein Theater at The Theater Center in Times Square (1627 Broadway).
- The Internet was in its infancy.
- Hardly anyone had a cell phone.
- The best selling video game was Zelda II
- USA Today became the first US newspaper to publish a digital photograph on its front page.
- Airplanes were just being outfitted to fly using computer-driven, fly-by-wire controls.
- Pioneer introduced its erasable-recordable laser video disc
- The NYC subway cost $1 and you used tokens - there were no Metro Cards.
- The Iron Curtain was still up in Berlin, and the USSR wasn't called Russia.
- The first episode of The Simpsons aired, Married with Children and 21 Jump Street were the top shows on TV and Fatal Attraction was on the silvers screen. Top of Form
- After many years of research a new drug AZT is used for the treatment of AIDS.
Perfect Crime features Catherine Russell, who was recently featured by the Associated Press as "The Off Broadway force of nature" and by Forbes Magazine as "Off Broadway's leading Lady." She has starred in the show since its first performance and has never taken a sick day or a vacation day in the past 31 years! It's a feat that has landed her in the Guinness Book of World Records. Russell's incredible streak has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, The Today Show, Good Morning America and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News and numerous other media outlets including The Associated Press and People, which dubbed her "The Cal Ripken of Broadway."
