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The 32nd Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 32nd Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written and produced by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.
Publication: New York, c1978.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1978 Tony Awards
Footlights

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Credits at end of tape.
Not all awards presented included in the broadcast. For a complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
Includes commercials.
The theme for the 1978 Tony Awards show was "footlights." The presenters recalled their first experiences in live theatre.
Musicals and plays represented (show, song / performer): The act, City lights / Liza Minnelli and company -- Ain't misbehavin', Ladies who sing with the band; Off time / company -- Dancin', Sing, sing, sing / company -- On the Twentieth Century, On the Twentieth Century -- company -- Runaways, medley / company.
Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre winner: Irving Berlin.
Regional Theatre Award winner: The Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence ; co-produced by Roy A. Somlyo.

Event (note)

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 4, 1978.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Kevin Kline, featured actor / On the Twentieth Century -- Lester Rawlins, featured actor / Da -- John Cullum, actor / On the Twentieth Century -- Barnard Hughes, actor / Da -- Nell Carter, featured actress / Ain't misbehavin' -- Ann Wedgeworth, featured actress / Chapter two -- Liza Minnelli, actress / The act -- Jessica Tandy, actress / The gin game.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Betty Comden and Adolph Green, book / On the twentieth century -- Bob Fosse, choreographer / Dancin' -- Edward Gorey, costume designer / Dracula -- Richard Maltby, Jr., director, musical / Ain't misbehavin' -- Melvin Bernhardt, director, play / Da -- Jules Fisher, lighting designer / Dancin' -- Jujamcyn Theaters, Elizabeth I. McCann, et al., producers, revival / Dracula -- Emanuel Azenberg, et al., producers, musical / Ain't misbehavin -- Hugh Leonard, playwright; Lester Osterman, Marilyn Strauss, and Marc Howard, producers, play / Da -- Robin Wagner, scenic designer / On the twentieth century -- Cy Coleman, music; Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics, score / On the Twentieth Century.

Call Number

NCOX 292

Title

The 32nd Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written and produced by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.

Imprint

New York, c1978.

Series

Tony Awards

Credits

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence ; co-produced by Roy A. Somlyo.

Performer

Principal: Bonnie Franklin.

Presenters: Ed Asner, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carol Channing, Robert Guillaume, Julie Harris, Helen Hayes, Bob Hope, Gene Kelly, Linda Lavin, Jack Lemmon, Hal Linden, Roy Scheider, Dick Van Patten.

Event

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 4, 1978.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Added Author

Cohen, Alexander H., 1920-2000, producer.

Parks, Hildy, 1926-2004, producer.

Parks, Hildy, 1926-2004, writer.

Jones, Clark, 1920-2002, director.

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

Somlyo, Roy A, producer.

Franklin, Bonnie, performer.

Minnelli, Liza, performer.

Asner, Edward, presenter.

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948- presenter.

Channing, Carol, presenter.

Guillaume, Robert, presenter.

Harris, Julie, 1925-2013, presenter.

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993, presenter.

Hope, Bob, 1903-2003, presenter.

Kelly, Gene, 1912-1996, presenter.

Lavin, Linda, 1937- presenter.

Lemmon, Jack, presenter.

Linden, Hal, presenter.

Scheider, Roy, presenter.

Van Patten, Dick, presenter.

Kline, Kevin, recipient.

Rawlins, Lester, recipient.

Cullum, John, 1930- recipient.

Hughes, Barnard, 1915-2006, recipient.

Carter, Nell, recipient.

Wedgeworth, Ann, recipient.

Minnelli, Liza, recipient.

Tandy, Jessica, recipient.

Comden, Betty, recipient.

Green, Adolph, recipient.

Coleman, Cy, recipient.

Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987, recipient.

Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000, recipient.

Maltby, Richard, Jr., 1937- recipient.

Bernhardt, Melvin, recipient.

Fisher, Jules, recipient.

Azenberg, Emanuel, recipient.

Wagner, Robin, 1933- recipient.

McCann, Elizabeth I. (Elizabeth Ireland), 1931- recipient.

Leonard, Hugh, recipient.

Osterman, Lester, 1914-2003, recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

CBS Television Network.

Added Title

1978 Tony Awards

Title on screen: Footlights