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The 50th Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 50th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Gary Smith ; produced and directed by Walter C. Miller ; written by Thomas Meehan ; managing producer, Roy A. Somlyo.
Publication: New York, c1996.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1996 Tony Awards

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Credits at end of tape.
Not all awards presented are included in the broadcast. For a complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
Opening number: The show must go on, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, and Tony Awards alumni.
Regional Theater award: Alley Theatre of Houston, Gregory Boyd, artistic director.
Musicals and plays represented (show, song / performer): A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, Comedy tonight / Nathan Lane and company -- The king and I, Shall we dance? / Lou Diamond Phillips, Donna Murphy, and children -- Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk, Taxi; Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk / Savion Glover and company -- Big, Fun / Daniel Jenkins and company -- State fair, All I owe I-oh-way / John Davidson, Andrea McArdle, and company -- Rent, Seasons of love; La vie boheme / Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel and company -- Chronicle of a death foretold, Swinging on a star / company.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence.

Event (note)

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Majestic Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast on June 2, 1996.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Wilson Jermaine Heredia, featured actor / Rent -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson, featured actor / Seven guitars -- Nathan Lane, actor, musical / A funny thing happened on the way to the forum -- George Grizzard, actor, play / A delicate balance -- Ann Duquesnay, featured actress / Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk -- Audra McDonald, featured actress / Master class -- Donna Murphy, actress, musical / The king and I -- Zoe Caldwell, actress, play / Master class.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Jonathan Larson, book; award accepted by Julie Larson McCollum / Rent -- Savion Glover, choreographer / Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk -- Roger Kirk, costume designer / The king and I -- George C. Wolfe, director, musical / Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk -- Gerald Gutierrez, director, play / A delicate balance -- Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, lighting designers / Bring in 'da noise, bring in 'da funk -- Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon, et al. producers, musical / Rent -- Jonathan Larson, original musical score; award accepted by Julie Larson McCollum / Rent -- Terrence McNally, playwright; Robert Whitehead, Lewis Allen, Spring Sirkin, producers, play / Master class -- Dodger Productions, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Michael David, et al., producers, musical, revival / The king and I -- Lincoln Center Theater, Andre Bishop, Bernard Gersten, producers, play, revival / A delicate balance -- Brian Thomson, scenic designer / The king and I.

Call Number

NCOX 1395

Title

The 50th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Gary Smith ; produced and directed by Walter C. Miller ; written by Thomas Meehan ; managing producer, Roy A. Somlyo.

Imprint

New York, c1996.

Series

Tony Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence.

Performer

Host: Nathan Lane.

Presenters: Bea Arthur, Edward Albee, Christine Baranski, Harry Belafonte, Matthew Broderick, Diahann Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, Gregory Hines, Uta Hagen, James Earl Jones, John Lithgow, Liza Minnelli, Patricia Neal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bernadette Peters, John Rubinstein, Jane Seymour, Ron Silver, Lily Tomlin, Ben Vereen, Eli Wallach, Ray Walston, Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.

Event

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Majestic Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast on June 2, 1996.

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Added Author

Smith, Gary, producer.

Miller, Walter C, producer.

Miller, Walter C, director.

Meehan, Thomas, writer.

Somlyo, Roy A, producer.

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

Lane, Nathan, 1956- host.

Minnelli, Liza, performer.

Peters, Bernadette, performer.

Lane, Nathan, 1956- performer.

Phillips, Lou Diamond, 1962- performer.

Murphy, Donna, performer.

Glover, Savion, performer.

Jenkins, Daniel H, performer.

Davidson, John, 1941- performer.

McArdle, Andrea, performer.

Rapp, Anthony, performer.

Diggs, Taye, performer.

Pascal, Adam, performer.

Menzel, Idina, performer.

Arthur, Beatrice, presenter.

Albee, Edward, 1928-2016, presenter.

Baranski, Christine, presenter.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, presenter.

Broderick, Matthew, 1962- presenter.

Carroll, Diahann, presenter.

Cronyn, Hume, presenter.

Fabray, Nanette, presenter.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, presenter.

Hines, Gregory, presenter.

Hagen, Uta, 1919-2004, presenter.

Jones, James Earl, presenter.

Lithgow, John, 1945- presenter.

Minnelli, Liza, presenter.

Neal, Patricia, 1926-2010, presenter.

Parker, Sarah Jessica, presenter.

Peters, Bernadette, presenter.

Rubinstein, John, 1946- presenter.

Seymour, Jane, 1951- presenter.

Silver, Ron, 1946-2009, presenter.

Tomlin, Lily, presenter.

Vereen, Ben, presenter.

Wallach, Eli, 1915-2014, presenter.

Walston, Ray, 1917-2001, presenter.

Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 1948- presenter.

Albee, Edward, 1928-2016, recipient.

Heredia, Wilson Jermaine, recipient.

Santiago-Hudson, Ruben, 1956- recipient.

Grizzard, George, recipient.

Duquesnay, Ann, recipient.

McDonald, Audra, recipient.

Murphy, Donna, recipient.

Caldwell, Zoe, recipient.

Glover, Savion, recipient.

Kirk, Roger, recipient.

Wolfe, George C, recipient.

Gutierrez, Gerald, recipient.

Fisher, Jules, recipient.

Eisenhauer, Peggy, recipient.

Seller, Jeffrey, recipient.

McCollum, Kevin, recipient.

Gordon, Allan S, recipient.

Thomson, Brian, 1946- recipient.

David, Michael, recipient.

Gersten, Bernard, recipient.

Bishop, André, recipient.

Boyd, Gregory, recipient.

McCollum, Julie Larson, recipient.

McNally, Terrence, recipient.

Whitehead, Robert, 1916-2002, recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

CBS Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 1395

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