 On Broadway, as elsewhere, awards drive ticket sales, and Stereophonic did win a boatload of Tonys, five, including for Best Play. Here is playwright David Adjmi accepting that award. This was a very hard journey to get this play up here. Michael McKeel and Fran Offenhauser, who gave me a place to live for seven years so that I could write this play. It's really hard to make a career in the arts