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The 34th Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 34th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; produced and written by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.
Publication: New York, c1980.

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Description

2 videodiscs (DVD) (111 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1980 Tony Awards

Subject

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Credits at end of video.
Includes commercials.
Not all awards presented included in the broadcast. For a complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
Musicals and plays represented (show, song / performer): A day in Hollywood/A night in the Ukraine, Doin' the production code / Company -- Barnum, Come follow the band; There is a sucker born ev'ry minute / Jim Dale and Company -- Evita, New Argentina / Patti LuPone and Company -- Oklahoma!, People will say we're In love / Joel Higgins and Christine Andreas -- Peter Pan, I'm flying / Sandy Duncan and children -- Sugar Babies, Jimmy McHugh medley / Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney -- West side story, America / Debbie Allen and Company.
The theme of this year's Tonys focused on "understudies." The evening's hosts and presenters at one time or another had been understudies and offered anecdotes of that humble but honorable beginning.
Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre: Helen Hayes.
Special award winner: Mary Tyler Moore (Whose life is it anyway?).

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 Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 8, 1980.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Mandy Patinkin, featured actor / Evita -- David Rounds, featured actor / Morning's at seven -- Jim Dale, actor / Barnum -- John Rubinstein, actor / Children of a lesser god -- Priscilla Lopez, featured actress / A day in Hollywood/A night in the Ukraine -- Dinah Manoff, featured actress / I ought to be in pictures -- Patti LuPone, actress / Evita -- Phyllis Frelich, actress, acceptance speech translated into spoken English by Phyllis Frelich's husband Robert Steinberg / Children of a lesser god.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Tim Rice, book / Evita -- Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh, choreographers / A day in Hollywood/A night in the Ukraine -- Theoni V. Aldredge, costume designer / Barnum -- Harold Prince, director, musical / Evita -- Vivian Matalon, director, play / Morning's at seven / David Hersey, lighting designer / Evita -- Robert Stigwood, producer, musical / Evita -- Mark Medoff, playwright; Emanuel Azenberg, The Shubert Organization, et al., producers, play / Children of a lesser god -- Elizabeth I. McCann, Nelle Nugent and Ray Larson, producers, revival / Morning's at seven -- John Lee Beatty, scenic designer (tie) / Talley's folly -- David Mitchell, scenic designer (tie) / Barnum -- Andrew Lloyd Webber, music; Tim Rice, lyrics, score / Evita.

Call Number

NCOX 294

Title

The 34th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; produced and written by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.

Imprint

New York, c1980.

Series

Tony Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

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

Performer

Hosts: Mary Tyler Moore, Jason Robards.

Presenters: Eve Arden, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, James Earl Jones, Elia Kazan, Richard Kiley, James MacArthur, Nancy Marchand, Dudley Moore, Anthony Perkins, Gilda Radner, Lynn Redgrave, Tony Roberts, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Dick Van Dyke.

Event

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 8, 1980.

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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.

Moore, Mary Tyler, 1936-2017, host.

Robards, Jason, host.

Dale, Jim, performer.

LuPone, Patti, performer.

Higgins, Joel, performer.

Andreas, Christine, performer.

Duncan, Sandy, 1946- performer.

Miller, Ann, 1923-2004, performer.

Rooney, Mickey, performer.

Allen, Debbie, 1950- performer.

Arden, Eve, 1908-1990, presenter.

Channing, Carol, presenter.

Cronyn, Hume, presenter.

Dunaway, Faye, presenter.

Farrow, Mia, 1945- presenter.

Jones, James Earl, presenter.

Kazan, Elia, presenter.

Kiley, Richard, presenter.

MacArthur, James, 1937-2010, presenter.

Marchand, Nancy, 1928-2000, presenter.

Moore, Dudley, 1935-2002, presenter.

Perkins, Anthony, 1932-1992, presenter.

Radner, Gilda, presenter.

Redgrave, Lynn, 1943-2010, presenter.

Roberts, Tony, 1939- presenter.

Tandy, Jessica, presenter.

Tyson, Cicely, presenter.

Van Dyke, Dick, presenter.

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993, recipient.

Moore, Mary Tyler, 1936-2017, recipient.

Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 1948- recipient.

Patinkin, Mandy, recipient.

Rounds, David, 1930- recipient.

Dale, Jim, recipient.

Rubinstein, John, 1946- recipient.

Lopez, Priscilla, 1948- recipient.

Manoff, Dinah, recipient.

LuPone, Patti, recipient.

Frelich, Phyllis, recipient.

Steinberg, Robert.

Medoff, Mark, 1940-2019, recipient.

Azenberg, Emanuel, recipient.

Rice, Tim, 1944- recipient.

Tune, Tommy, recipient.

Walsh, Thommie, recipient.

Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, recipient.

Matalon, Vivian, recipient.

Beatty, John Lee, 1948- recipient.

Mitchell, David, recipient.

Stigwood, Robert, 1934-2016, recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

CBS Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 294

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