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The 31st Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 31st Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written and produced by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.
Publication: New York, c1977.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Videodiscs 1 and 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 291 Videodiscs 1 and 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

2 videodiscs (DVD) (159 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1977 Tony Awards

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Credits at end of tape.
Includes television commercials and blackouts intended for commercials.
Not all awards presented included in the broadcast. For a complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
Survival was the theme of the 1977 Tony Awards. The hosts each did a solo turn, reinforcing the theme with songs of determination and perseverance, including I'm still here, Before the parade passes by, Don't rain on my parade, September song, You'll never walk alone, New York City rhythm, Climb ev'ry mountain, and Being alive.
Musicals and plays represented (show, song / performer): Annie, You're never fully dressed without a smile; Easy street; Tomorrow / Andrea McArdle, Dorothy Loudon and Company -- Happy end, Bilboa song / Company -- I love my wife, I love my wife; Married couple seeks married couple; Hey there, good times / Company -- Side by side by Sondheim, I'm still here / Millicent Martin.
Regional Theatre Award winner: Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Calif., Gordon Davidson, director.
Lawrence Langner Award winner: Cheryl Crawford.
Special Tony Awards: National Theatre of the Deaf, David Hayes, artistic director; Equity Library Theatre, New York, N.Y. George Wojtasik, managing director; Diana Ross.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

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

Event (note)

Videotaped by the ABC Television Network at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 5, 1977.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): Lenny Baker, featured actor / I love my wife -- Jonathan Pryce, featured actor / Comedians -- Barry Bostwick, actor / The robber bridegroom -- Al Pacino, actor / The basic training of Pavlo Hummel -- Delores Hall, featured actress / Your arm's too short to box with God -- Trazana Beverley, featured actress / For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf -- Dorothy Loudon, actress / Annie -- Julie Harris, actress / The belle of Amherst.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Thomas Meehan, book / Annie -- Peter Gennaro, choreographer / Annie -- Theoni V. Aldredge, costume designer / Annie -- Gene Saks, director, musical / I love my wife -- Gordon Davidson, director, play / The shadow box -- Jennifer Tipton, lighting designer / The cherry orchard -- Sherwin M. Goldman and Houston Grand Opera, producers, revival / Porgy and Bess -- Lewis Allen, Mike Nichols, Irwin Meyer, and Stephen R. Friedman, producers, musical / Annie -- Michael Cristofer, playwright; Allan Francis, Ken Marsolais, Lester Osterman, and Leonard Soloway, producers, play / The shadow box -- David Mitchell, scenic designer / Annie -- Charles Strouse, music; Martin Charnin, lyrics, score / Annie.

Call Number

NCOX 291

OCLC

78579565

Title

The 31st Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written and produced by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.

Imprint

New York, c1977.

Series

Tony Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

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

Performer

Hosts-performers-presenters: Jack Albertson, Beatrice Arthur, Buddy Ebsen, Damon Evans, Jean Stapleton, Leslie Uggams.

Presenters-performers: Jane Alexander, Alan Arkin, Lauren Bacall, Valerie Harper, Barry Manilow, Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Lily Tomlin.

Event

Videotaped by the ABC Television Network at the Shubert Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast June 5, 1977.

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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.

Loudon, Dorothy, performer.

Martin, Millicent, performer.

Albertson, Jack, 1910-1981, presenter.

Arthur, Beatrice, presenter.

Ebsen, Buddy, 1908-2003, presenter.

Evans, Damon, presenter.

Stapleton, Jean, 1923-2013, presenter.

Uggams, Leslie, presenter.

Alexander, Jane, 1939- presenter.

Arkin, Alan, presenter.

Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014, presenter.

Harper, Valerie, 1939-2019, presenter.

Manilow, Barry, performer.

Preston, Robert, 1918-1987, presenter.

Randall, Tony, presenter.

Tomlin, Lily, presenter.

Baker, Lenny, 1945-1982, recipient.

Pryce, Jonathan, recipient.

Bostwick, Barry, recipient.

Pacino, Al, 1940- recipient.

Hall, Delores, recipient.

Beverley, Trazana, recipient.

Hays, David, 1930- recipient.

Loudon, Dorothy, recipient.

Harris, Julie, 1925-2013, recipient.

Meehan, Thomas, recipient.

Gennaro, Peter, 1919-2000, recipient.

Aldredge, Theoni V, recipient.

Davidson, Gordon, 1933-2016, recipient.

Tipton, Jennifer, recipient.

Mitchell, David, recipient.

Strouse, Charles, recipient.

Charnin, Martin, recipient.

Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986, recipient.

Goldman, Sherwin M, recipient.

Wojtasik, George, recipient.

Cristofer, Michael, recipient.

Osterman, Lester, 1914-2003, recipient.

Ross, Diana, 1944- recipient.

Nichols, Mike, recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

ABC Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 291

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