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The 22nd Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 22nd Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written by Hildy Parks ; directed by Stan Harris.
Publication: New York, c1968.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1968 Tony Awards

Subject

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.
In addition to the current musicals nominated, this year's theme saluted previous Tony Award-winning musicals.
The Tony Award Medallion is now mounted on a pedestal.
Musicals represented: Golden rainbow, Twenty-four hours a day / Company -- The happy time, The happy time; A certain girl / Robert Goulet, David Wayne, Michael Rupert -- Man of La Mancha, The impossible dream / David Atkinson -- Fiddler on the roof, Matchmaker, matchmaker / Tanya Everett, Bette Midler, Mimi Turque -- Cabaret, Cabaret / Jill Haworth -- Hello, Dolly!, Put on your Sunday clothes; So long, dearie / Pearl Bailey and Company -- How now, Dow Jones, Step to the rear / Tony Roberts and Company -- Hallelujah, baby!, Smile, smile / Leslie Uggams, Lillian Hayman, Robert Hooks.
Special awards winners: Audrey Hepburn; Carol Channing; Pearl Bailey; David Merrick; Maurice Chevalier; APA-Phoenix Theatre, award accepted by Helen Hayes, member APA Repertory Company; Marlene Dietrich.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

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

Event (note)

Videotaped by the NBC Television Network at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast April 21, 1968.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Martin Balsam, actor / You know I can't hear you when the water's running -- Robert Goulet, actor / The happy time -- James Patterson, featured actor / The birthday party -- Hiram Sherman, featured actor / How now, Dow Jones -- Zoe Caldwell, actress / The prime of Miss Jean Brodie -- Patricia Routledge, actress (tie) / Darling of the day -- Leslie Uggams, actress (tie) / Hallelujah, baby! -- Zena Walker, featured actress / Joe Egg -- Lillian Hayman, featured actress / Hallelujah, baby!
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Gower Champion, choreographer / The happy time -- Jule Styne, music; Betty Comden, and Adolph Green, lyrics, composer and lyricist / Hallelujah, baby! -- Desmond Heeley, costume designer / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- Mike Nichols, director, play / Plaza suite -- Gower Champion, director, musical / The happy time -- Arthur Laurents, book; Jule Styne, music; Betty Comden and Adolph Green, lyrics; Albert Selden, Hal James, Jane C. Nusbaum, and Harry Rigby, producers, musical / Hallelujah, baby! -- Tom Stoppard, playwright; David Merrick Arts Foundation, producer / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- David Merrick Arts Foundation, producer (dramatic) / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead -- Albert Selden, Hal James, Jane C. Nussbaum, and Harry Rigby, producer (musical) / Hallelujah, baby! -- Desmond Heeley, scenic designer / Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Call Number

NCOX 282

OCLC

81145194

Title

The 22nd Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written by Hildy Parks ; directed by Stan Harris.

Imprint

New York, c1968.

Series

Tony Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

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

Performer

Hosts: Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov. Assisted by: Jack Benny. Narrator: Alfred Drake.

Presenters: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Art Carney, Trudy Carson, Diahann Carroll, Carol Cole, Sandy Dennis, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Herman, Anne Jackson, Alan King, Groucho Marx, Liza Minnelli, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Harold Prince, Tony Randall, Eli Wallach, Joanne Woodward.

Event

Videotaped by the NBC Television Network at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast April 21, 1968.

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Local Subject

Broadway theater -- Awards.

Added Author

Cohen, Alexander H, 1920-2000, producer.

Parks, Hildy, 1926-2004, writer.

Harris, Stan, director.

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

Somlyo, Roy A, producer.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022, host.

Ustinov, Peter, host.

Benny, Jack, 1894-1974, host.

Drake, Alfred, 1914-1992, narrator.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, performer.

Wayne, David, 1914-1995, performer.

Rupert, Michael, performer.

Atkinson, David, performer.

Everett, Tanya, performer.

Midler, Bette, performer.

Turque, Mimi, performer.

Haworth, Jill, performer.

Bailey, Pearl, performer.

Roberts, Tony, 1939- performer.

Uggams, Leslie, performer.

Hayman, Lillian, performer.

Hooks, Robert, 1937- performer.

Bancroft, Anne, 1931-2005, presenter.

Booth, Shirley, presenter.

Carney, Art, 1918-2003, presenter.

Carson, Trudy, presenter.

Carroll, Diahann, presenter.

Cole, Carol, presenter.

Dennis, Sandy, 1937-1992, presenter.

Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993, presenter.

Herman, Jerry, 1931-2019, presenter.

Jackson, Anne, 1925-2016, presenter.

King, Alan, 1927-2004, presenter.

Marx, Groucho, 1890-1977, presenter.

Minnelli, Liza, presenter.

Newman, Paul, 1925-2008, presenter.

Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003, presenter.

Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, presenter.

Randall, Tony, presenter.

Wallach, Eli, 1915-2014, presenter.

Woodward, Joanne, 1930- presenter.

Heeley, Desmond, recipient.

Champion, Gower, 1919-1980, recipient.

Hepburn, Audrey, 1929-1993, recipient.

Styne, Jule, 1905-1994, recipient.

Comden, Betty, recipient.

Green, Adolph, recipient.

Nichols, Mike, recipient.

Channing, Carol, recipient.

Bailey, Pearl, recipient.

Chevalier, Maurice, 1888-1972, recipient.

Sherman, Hiram, 1908-1989, recipient.

Hayman, Lillian, recipient.

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993, recipient.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, recipient.

Routledge, Patricia, recipient.

Uggams, Leslie, recipient.

Dietrich, Marlene, recipient.

Balsam, Martin, 1919-1996, recipient.

Caldwell, Zoe, recipient.

Merrick, David, 1911-2000, recipient.

Stoppard, Tom, recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

NBC Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 282

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