Street was covered in carpeting. The theater also hosted the 1968 Tony Awards. The musical Golden Rainbow, originally scheduled to open at the Shubert in November 1967, instead premiered the following February with Marilyn Cooper, Eydie Gormé, and Steve Lawrence. The Neil Simon musical Promises, Promises opened that December with Jerry Orbach, setting a house record with 1,281 performances over the next three years. This was followed in 1973 by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music, featuring Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, and Hermione Gingold. The next year, the Shubert hosted the musical Over Here! with two Andrews Sisters, John Travolta, and Treat Williams, as well as the 1974 Tony Awards. Edward Albee's play Seascape opened at the Shubert with Deborah Kerr and Barry Nelson in January 1975, followed that April by W. Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife with Ingrid Bergman. Joseph Papp and the Public Theater relocated their production of the musical A Chorus Line from off-Broadway to the Shubert Theatre in October 1975. The show's relocation increased Broadway theater attendance from 6.6 million to 7.3 million in one year, and the musical itself ultimately stayed for more than a decade, winning a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. During the run of Chorus Line, the Shubert hosted Tony Awards ceremonies in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, and 1985. Chorus Line became the longest-running Broadway show in 1983, and it became the first Broadway show to run for 5,000 performances in 1987. The Shubert hosted a memorial service for Chorus Line's choreographer Michael Bennett shortly after the musical's 5,000th performance. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) had started considering protecting the Shubert as a landmark in 1982, with discussions continuing over the next several years. The LPC designated the Shubert's facade and interior as landmarks on December 15, 1987. This was part of the LPC's wide-ranging effort in 1987 to grant landmark status to Broadway theaters. The New York City Board of Estimate ratified the designations in March 1988. The Shubert Organization, the Nederlander Organization, and Jujamcyn collectively sued the LPC in June 1988 to overturn the landmark designations of 22 theaters, including the Shubert, on the merit that the designations severely limited the extent to which the theaters could be modified. The lawsuit was escalated to the New York Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States, but these designations were ultimately upheld