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The 38th Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 38th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / written and produced by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones ; executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen.
Publication: New York, c1984.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (120 min. ) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards.

Alternative Title

1984 Tony Awards

Subject

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Credits at end of tape.
Not all awards presented are included in the broadcast. For complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
Musicals represented (show, song / performer(s)): Baby, I want it all / Liz Callaway, Catherine Cox, Beth Fowler -- La cage aux folles, We are what we are / Company ; I am what I am / George Hearn -- The tap dance kid, Fabulous feet / Hinton Battle and Company -- The rink, Wallflower / Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli -- Sunday in the park with George, Sunday / Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters and Company.
Special Salute: The Songs of John Kander & Fred Ebb, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim.
Finale: The best of Time / Gene Barry, 1984 Tony Award winners and the Company of La cage aux folles.
Special Awards: A chorus line was presented with a special Gold Tony Award in honor of becoming Broadway's longest-running musical. One of the show's producers, Joseph Papp, accepted the award. Al Hirschfeld was the first recipient of the Brooks Atkinson award for unique theatre related activity, for drawing theatrical personalities for 60 years.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director: Elliot Lawrence ; co-produced by Martha Mason.

Event (note)

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Gershwin Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 3, 1984.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Hinton Battle, featured actor / The tap dance kid -- Joe Mantegna, featured actor / Glengarry Glen Ross -- George Hearn, actor / La cage aux folles -- Jeremy Irons, actor / The real thing -- Lila Kedrova, featured actress / Zorba -- Christine Baranski, featured actress / The real thing -- Chita Rivera, actress / The rink -- Glenn Close, actress / The real thing.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Harvey Fierstein, book, musical / La cage aux folles -- Danny Daniels, choreographer / The tap dance kid -- Theoni V. Aldredge, costume designer / La cage aux folles -- Arthur Laurents, director, musical / La cage aux folles -- Mike Nichols, director, play / The real thing -- Richard Nelson, lighting designer / Sunday in the park with George -- Allan Carr, et al., producers, musical / La cage aux folles / Tom Stoppard, plawright; Emanuel Azenberg, producer, play / The real thing -- Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens, producers, reproduction / Death of a salesman -- Tony Straiges, scenic designer / Sunday in the park with George -- Jerry Herman, score / La cage aux folles.

Call Number

NCOX 306

Title

The 38th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / written and produced by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones ; executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen.

Imprint

New York, c1984.

Series

Tony Awards.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musical director: Elliot Lawrence ; co-produced by Martha Mason.

Performer

Hosts: Julie Andrews, Robert Preston.

Presenters and performers: Carol Channing, Marilyn Cooper, Nancy Dussault, Robert Goulet, Robert Guillaume, Beth Howland, Larry Kert, Michele Lee, Dorothy Loudon, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Mary Tyler Moore, Anita Morris, Bernadette Peters, Anthony Quinn, Tony Randall, Tony Roberts, Chita Rivera, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Raquel Welch, Michael Bennett.

Event

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Gershwin Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 3, 1984.

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Added Author

Parks, Hildy, 1926-2004, producer.

Jones, Clark, 1920-2002, director.

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

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

Mason, Martha, producer.

Preston, Robert, 1918-1987, host.

Andrews, Julie, host.

Channing, Carol, performer.

Cooper, Marilyn, performer.

Dussault, Nancy, performer.

Goulet, Robert, 1933-2007, performer.

Guillaume, Robert, performer.

Howland, Beth, 1941-2015, performer.

Kert, Larry, performer.

Lee, Michele, performer.

Loudon, Dorothy, performer.

MacLaine, Shirley, 1934- performer.

Minnelli, Liza, performer.

Moore, Mary Tyler, 1936-2017, performer.

Morris, Anita, 1943-1994, performer.

Peters, Bernadette, performer.

Quinn, Anthony, 1915-2001, performer.

Randall, Tony, performer.

Roberts, Tony, 1939- performer.

Rivera, Chita, performer.

Uggams, Leslie, performer.

Verdon, Gwen, performer.

Welch, Raquel, performer.

Bennett, Michael, 1943-1987, presenter.

Hirschfeld, Al, recipient.

Battle, Hinton, recipient.

Mantegna, Joe, recipient.

Hearn, George, recipient.

Irons, Jeremy, 1948- recipient.

Kedrova, Lila, recipient.

Baranski, Christine, recipient.

Rivera, Chita, recipient.

Papp, Joseph, recipient.

Close, Glenn, 1947- recipient.

Fierstein, Harvey, 1952- recipient.

Daniels, Danny, 1924-2017, recipient.

Aldredge, Theoni V, recipient.

Laurents, Arthur, recipient.

Nichols, Mike, recipient.

Nelson, Richard, 1938-1996, recipient.

Stoppard, Tom, recipient.

Straiges, Tony, recipient.

Herman, Jerry, 1931-2019, recipient.

Carr, Allan, recipient.

Azenberg, Emanuel, recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

CBS Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 306

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