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The 59th Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 59th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producers, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, White Cherry Entertainment ; director, Glenn Weiss ; writer, Dave Boone.
Publication: New York, c2005.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (131 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

2005 Tony Awards

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Credits at end of disc.
Not all awards presented included in the broadcast. For a complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
Opening number: Bernadette Peters performs "Another Op'nin' Another Show" from Kiss me, Kate, followed by a video montage of clips from all of the musicals that opened during the 2004-2005 season. Company members from each of the musicals nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical then perform a medley of numbers from their shows.
Musicals and plays represented (performer, song / show): Norbert Leo Butz, Gregory Jbara, John Lithgow and company, Great big stuff / Dirty rotten scoundrels -- Michael Berresse, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Victoria Clark, Mark Harelik, Matthew Morrison, Kelli O'Hara and company, Statues and Stories / The light in the piazza -- Christina Applegate, Kyra Da Costa, Janine LaManna and company, medley of Big spender, If my friends could see me now, and I'm a brass band / Sweet Charity -- Robert Goulet, Gary Beach and Les Cagelles, La cage aux folles / La cage aux folles -- Derrick Baskin, Deborah S. Craig, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Dan Fogler, Lisa Howard, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Jose Llana, Jay Reiss and Sarah Saltzberg, with a guest appearance by the Reverend Al Sharpton, Opening number and Serenity prayer / The 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee -- David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, Christopher Sieber, Michael McGrath, Steve Rosen, Sara Ramirez and company, Find your grail / Monty Python's Spamalot.
Also included in the telecast: Hugh Jackman performs a vocal and dance medley of Broadway and Hollywood songs about dancing; Billy Crystal makes a special comic appearance as "host"; Laura Linney provides a tribute to the late Arthur Miller, introducing a segment celebrating members of the Broadway community who died during the 2004-2005 season. Jesse L. Martin and the cast of Chicago perform Razzle dazzle in memory of Jerry Orbach and Fred Ebb; Aretha Franklin and Hugh Jackman perform a duet of Somewhere from West Side story; The first nine awards (webcast exclusively at TonyAwards.com) are hosted by 2004 Tony award winner Idina Menzel, and include a special appearance by John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo, with their puppets from the original cast of Avenue Q.
Regional Theatre Award winner: Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis, MN. Dominique Serrand, artistic director.
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Edward Albee.
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: Peter Neufeld, Theatre Communications Group.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence ; managing producer, Elizabeth I. McCann ; coordinating producer, Joey Parnes.

Event (note)

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at Radio City Music Hall, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 5, 2005.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Bill Irwin, actor / Edward Albee's who's afraid of Virginia Woolf -- Cherry Jones, actress / Doubt -- Norbert Leo Butz, actor / Dirty rotten scoundrels -- Victoria Clark, actress / The light in the piazza -- Liev Schreiber, featured actor / Glengarry Glen Ross -- Adriane Lenox, featured actress / Doubt -- Dan Fogler, featured actor / The 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee -- Sara Ramirez, featured actress / Monty Python's Spamalot.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): John Patrick Shanley, playwright; Carole Shorenstein Hays, et al. producers, play / Doubt -- Boyett Ostar Productions, The Shubert Organization, Arielle Tepper, producers / Monty Python's Spamalot -- Rachel Sheinkin, book, musical / The 25th annual Putnam County spelling bee -- Adam Guettel, score / The light in the piazza -- Jeffrey Richards, et al., producers, revival, play / Glengarry Glen Ross -- James L. Nederlander, et al. producers, revival, musical / La cage aux folles -- Janice Crystal, Larry Magid, Face Productions, producers, special theatrical event / Billy Crystal 700 Sundays -- Scott Pask, scenic design / The pillowman -- Michael Yeargan, scenic design / The light in the piazza -- Jess Goldstein, costume design / The rivals -- Catherine Zuber, costume design / The light in the piazza -- Brian MacDevitt, lighting design / The pillowman -- Christopher Akerlind, lighting design / The light in the piazza -- Doug Hughes, director, play / Doubt -- Mike Nichols, director / Monty Python's Spamalot -- Jerry Mitchell, choreographer / La cage aux folles -- Ted Sperling, Adam Guettel and Bruce Coughlin, orchestrations / The light in the piazza.

Call Number

NCOX 2230

OCLC

174559882

Title

The 59th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producers, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, White Cherry Entertainment ; director, Glenn Weiss ; writer, Dave Boone.

Imprint

New York, c2005.

Series

Tony Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence ; managing producer, Elizabeth I. McCann ; coordinating producer, Joey Parnes.

Performer

Host: Hugh Jackman.

Presenters: Alan Alda, Joan Allen, Christina Applegate, Angela Bassett, Matthew Broderick, Kate Burton, Mario Cantone, Don Cheadle, Marcia Cross, Jon Cryer, Sally Field, Harvey Fierstein, Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Anne Hathaway, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Haysbert, Allison Janney, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, Idina Menzel, Esai Morales, Megan Mullally, Sandra Oh, Bernadette Peters, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Doris Roberts, Emmy Rossum, Keri Russell, Tony Shalhoub, Liev Schreiber, Harry Smith, Julia Stiles, Kathleen Turner and Leslie Uggams.

Event

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at Radio City Music Hall, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 5, 2005.

Local Note

Acquired dub.

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Local Subject

Broadway theater -- Awards.

Added Author

Weiss, Glenn, 1961- producer.

Kirshner, Ricky, producer.

Boone, David, writer.

Weiss, Glenn, 1961- director.

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

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

Parnes, Joey, producer.

Jackman, Hugh, host.

Jbara, Gregory, performer.

Lithgow, John, 1945- performer.

Berresse, Michael, performer.

Berry, Sarah Uriarte, performer.

Clark, Victoria, 1959- performer.

Harelik, Mark, performer.

Morrison, Matthew, 1978- performer.

O'Hara, Kelli, performer.

Da Costa, Kyra, performer.

LaManna, Janine, performer.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, performer.

Beach, Gary, performer.

Baskin, Derrick, performer.

Craig, Deborah S, performer.

Ferguson, Jesse Tyler, performer.

Folger, Dan, performer.

Howard, Lisa (Singer), performer.

Keenan-Bolger, Celia, performer.

Llana, José, performer.

Reiss, Jay, performer.

Saltzberg, Sarah, performer.

Pierce, David Hyde, performer.

Curry, Tim, performer.

Azaria, Hank, 1964- performer.

Sieber, Christopher, performer.

McGrath, Michael, 1957-2023, performer.

Rosen, Steve, performer.

Ramirez, Sara, performer.

Crystal, Billy, performer.

Linney, Laura, speaker.

Martin, Jesse L, performer.

Franklin, Aretha, performer.

Sharpton, Al, performer.

Alda, Alan, 1936- presenter.

Allen, Joan, 1956- presenter.

Applegate, Christina, 1971- presenter.

Broderick, Matthew, 1962- presenter.

Burton, Kate, presenter.

Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- presenter.

Goldblum, Jeff, 1952- presenter.

Hathaway, Anne, 1982- presenter.

Hawke, Ethan, 1970- presenter.

Haysbert, Dennis, presenter.

Janney, Allison, presenter.

Jones, James Earl, presenter.

Lane, Nathan, 1956- presenter.

Linney, Laura, presenter.

Menzel, Idina, presenter.

Morales, Esai, presenter.

Mullally, Megan, presenter.

Oh, Sandra, 1971- presenter.

Peters, Bernadette, presenter.

Pierce, David Hyde, presenter.

Rivera, Chita, presenter.

Roberts, Doris, 1925-2016, presenter.

Rossum, Emmy, 1986- presenter.

Russell, Keri, 1976- presenter.

Shalhoub, Tony, 1953- presenter.

Schreiber, Liev, presenter.

Smith, Harry, 1951- presenter.

Stiles, Julia, 1981- presenter.

Turner, Kathleen, 1954- presenter.

Uggams, Leslie, presenter.

Schreiber, Liev, recipient.

Lenox, Adriane, recipient.

Sheinkin, Rachel, recipient.

Mitchell, Jerry, 1960- recipient.

Guettel, Adam, recipient.

Hughes, Douglas, recipient.

Ramirez, Sara, recipient.

Folger, Dan, recipient.

Albee, Edward, 1928-2016, recipient.

Crystal, Billy, recipient.

Serrand, Dominique, recipient.

Nichols, Mike, recipient.

Nederlander, James L, recipient.

Sperling, Ted, recipient.

Coughlin, Bruce, recipient.

MacDevitt, Brian, recipient.

Akerlind, Christopher, recipient.

Goldstein, Jess, recipient.

Zuber, Catherine, recipient.

Pask, Scott, recipient.

Yeargan, Michael, recipient.

Richards, Jeffrey, recipient.

Irwin, Bill, 1950- recipient.

Jones, Cherry, 1956- recipient.

Shanley, John Patrick, recipient.

Hays, Carole Shorenstein, recipient.

Clark, Victoria, 1959- recipient.

Butz, Norbert Leo, recipient.

Haber, Bill, recipient.

Les Cagelles (Performing group) performer.

White Cherry Entertainment, producer.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

CBS Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2230

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