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The 41st Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 41st Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] written by Jeffrey Lane; directed by Walter C. Miller ; produced by David J. Goldberg ; executive producer, Don Mischer ; executive producer for the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing, Roy A. Somlyo.
Publication: New York, c1987.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (126 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1987 Tony Awards.

Subject

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.
Musicals represented (show, song / performer): Broadway bound, scene / Linda Lavin and Jonathan Silverman -- Coastal disturbances, scene / Annette Bening and Timothy Daly -- Fences, scene / James Earl Jones and Courtney B. Vance -- Les liaisons dangereuses, scene / Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman -- Rags, Rags / Judy Kuhn and Dick Latessa -- Les misérables, At the end of the day / U.S. ensemble -- One day more / Company -- Me and my girl, The Lambeth walk / Robert Lindsay and Company -- Starlight express, Starlight express; Light at the end of the tunnel / Company.
Musical Sequence: Bosom buddies from Mame, with Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur.
Tribute to George Abbott: Songs from Flora, The red menace; A funny thing happened on the way to the forum; The boys from Syracuse; Damn Yankees; Where's Charley?; The pajama game.
Special salute to Robert Preston: Mack and Mabel, with Bernadette Peters; The music man, with Barbara Cook; I do! I do!, with Mary Martin.
Regional Theatre Award winner: San Francisco Mime Troupe, Sharon Lockwood and Eduardo Robledo, actors.
Special award winners: George Abbott, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Jackie Mason for The world according to me.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence.

Event (note)

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 7, 1987.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Michael Maguire, featured actor / Les misérables -- John Randolph, featured actor / Broadway bound -- Robert Lindsay, actor, musical / Me and my girl -- James Earl Jones, actor, play / Fences -- Frances Ruffelle, actress, featured / Les misérables -- Mary Alice, actress, featured / Fences -- Maryann Plunkett, actress, musical / Me and my girl -- Linda Lavin, actress, play / Broadway bound.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, book / Les misérables -- Gillian Gregory, choreographer / Me and my girl -- John Napier, costume designer / Starlight express -- Trevor Nunn and John Caird, directors / Les misérables -- Lloyd Richards, director / Fences -- David Hersey, lighting designer / Les misérables -- Cameron Mackintosh, producer, musical / Les misérables -- August Wilson, playwright; Carole Shorenstein Hays and The Yale Repertory Theatre, producers, play / Fences -- John Napier, scenic designer / Les misérables -- Claude-Michel Schönberg, music; Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil, lyrics, score / Les misérables.

Call Number

NCOX 450

Title

The 41st Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] written by Jeffrey Lane; directed by Walter C. Miller ; produced by David J. Goldberg ; executive producer, Don Mischer ; executive producer for the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing, Roy A. Somlyo.

Imprint

New York, c1987.

Series

Tony Awards

Event

Videotaped by the CBS Television Network at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 7, 1987.

Credits

Musical director, Elliot Lawrence.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer

Host: Angela Lansbury.

Presenters and performers: Jane Alexander, Beatrice Arthur, Richard Chamberlain, Glenn Close, Charles "Honi" Coles, Barbara Cook, Hume Cronyn, Bob Fosse, Mark Hamill, Helen Hayes, William Hurt, Bill Irwin, Judy Kuhn, Swoosie Kurtz, Dick Latessa, John Lithgow, Mary Martin, Walter Matthau, Andrea McArdle, Mary Tyler Moore, Bernadette Peters, Lynn Redgrave, Chita Rivera, George Rose, Jessica Tandy, Tommy Tune, Kathleen Turner.

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Added Author

Lane, Jeffrey, writer.

Miller, Walter C, director.

Goldberg, David J, producer.

Mischer, Don, producer.

Somlyo, Roy A, producer.

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022, host.

Alexander, Jane, 1939- performer.

Arthur, Beatrice, performer.

Bening, Annette, performer.

Chamberlain, Richard, 1935- performer.

Close, Glenn, 1947- performer.

Coles, Honi, 1911-1992, performer.

Cook, Barbara, performer.

Cronyn, Hume, performer.

Daly, Tim, 1956- performer.

Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987, performer.

Hamill, Mark, performer.

Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993, performer.

Hurt, William, performer.

Irwin, Bill, 1950- performer.

Kuhn, Judy, performer.

Kurtz, Swoosie, performer.

Latessa, Dick, performer.

Lavin, Linda, 1937- performer.

Lindsay, Robert, 1949- performer.

Lithgow, John, 1945- performer.

Martin, Mary, 1913-1990, performer.

Matthau, Walter, performer.

McArdle, Andrea, performer.

Moore, Mary Tyler, 1936-2017, performer.

Peters, Bernadette, performer.

Redgrave, Lynn, 1943-2010, performer.

Rickman, Alan, performer.

Rivera, Chita, performer.

Rose, George, 1920-1988, performer.

Silverman, Jonathan, 1966- performer.

Tandy, Jessica, performer.

Tune, Tommy, performer.

Turner, Kathleen, 1954- performer.

Boublil, Alain, recipient.

Schönberg, Claude-Michel, recipient.

Gregory, Gillian, recipient.

Napier, John, 1944- recipient.

Nunn, Trevor, recipient.

Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006, recipient.

Mason, Jackie, recipient.

Alice, Mary, 1936-2022, recipient.

Maguire, Michael, 1955- recipient.

Randolph, John, 1915-2004, recipient.

Lindsay, Robert, 1949- recipient.

Jones, James Earl, recipient.

Ruffelle, Frances, recipient.

Plunkett, Maryann, recipient.

Lavin, Linda, 1937- recipient.

Kretzmer, Herbert, recipient.

Lockwood, Sharon, recipient.

Robledo, Eduardo, recipient.

Wilson, August, recipient.

Mackintosh, Cameron, recipient.

Hays, Carole Shorenstein, recipient.

League of American Theatres and Producers.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

CBS Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 450

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