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The 23rd Annual Tony Awards

Title: The 23rd Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.
Publication: New York, c1969.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the American Theatre Wing.

Series Statement

Tony Awards

Alternative Title

1969 Tony Awards

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

Includes original television commercials and blackouts intended for commercials.
Credits at end of tape.
Not all awards presented included in the broadcast. For a complete list of recipients see tonyawards.com.
1969 marked the first year scenes from the nominated plays were presented.
Musicals and plays represented (show, song / performer): Zorba, Life is / Lorraine Serabian and Company -- Lovers / Scene with Art Carney and Anna Mannahan -- Promises, promises, She likes basketball; Turkey lurkey time -- Jerry Orbach, Donna McKechnie and Company -- The great white hope / Scene with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander -- 1776, Momma, look sharp / Scott Jarvis, William Duell, B. J. Slater -- Hair; Three-five-zero-zero, Let the sun shine in / Company.
Special Award winners: The National Theatre Company of Great Britain, award accept by Sir Laurence Olivier; The Negro Ensemble Company, Douglas Turner Ward, artistic director; Gerald S. Krone, administrative director; Rex Harrison; Leonard Bernstein; Carol Burnett.

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 Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast April 20, 1969.

Contents

Award recipients (performer, category / play title): James Earl Jones, actor / The great white hope -- Jerry Orbach, actor / Promises, promises -- Al Pacino, featured actor / Does a tiger wear a necktie? -- Ronald Holgate, featured actor / 1776 -- Julie Harris, actress / Forty carats -- Angela Lansbury, actress / Dear world -- Jane Alexander, featured actress / The great white hope -- Marian Mercer, featured actress / Promises, promises.
Award recipients (name, category / play title): Joe Layton, choreographer / George M! -- Loudon Sainthill, costume designer, award accepted by Hermione Baddeley / Canterbury tales -- Peter Dews, director, play, award accepted by Arlene Francis / Hadrian VII -- Peter Hunt, director, musical / 1776 -- Peter Stone, book; Sherman Edwards, music and lyrics; Stuart Ostrow, producer, musical / 1776 -- Howard Sackler, playwright; Herman Levin, producer, play / The great white hope -- Boris Aronson, scenic designer / Zorba.

Call Number

NCOX 283

OCLC

81148410

Title

The 23rd Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / executive producer, Alexander H. Cohen ; written by Hildy Parks ; directed by Clark Jones.

Imprint

New York, c1969.

Series

Tony Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

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

Performer

Hosts: Diahann Carroll and Alan King.

Presenters: Lauren Bacall, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Richard Benjamin, Godfrey Cambridge, Betty Comden, Patty Duke, Adolph Green, Dustin Hoffman, Angela Lansbury, Jack Lemmon, Ethel Merman, Arthur Miller, Robert Morse, Zero Mostel, Paula Prentiss, Robert Preston, Vanessa Redgrave, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Shelley Winters.

Event

Videotaped by the NBC Television Network at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York, N.Y., during a live broadcast April 20, 1969.

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Local Subject

Broadway theater -- Awards.

Added Author

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

Parks, Hildy, 1926-2004, writer.

Jones, Clark, 1920-2002, director.

Lawrence, Elliot, 1925-2021, conductor.

Somlyo, Roy A, producer.

Carroll, Diahann, host.

King, Alan, 1927-2004, host.

Bacall, Lauren, 1924-2014, presenter.

Bailey, Pearl, presenter.

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, presenter.

Benjamin, Richard, 1938- presenter.

Cambridge, Godfrey, 1933-1976, presenter.

Comden, Betty, presenter.

Duke, Patty, 1946-2016, presenter.

Green, Adolph, presenter.

Hoffman, Dustin, 1937- presenter.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022, presenter.

Lemmon, Jack, presenter.

Merman, Ethel, presenter.

Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005, presenter.

Morse, Robert, 1931-2022, presenter.

Mostel, Zero, 1915-1977, presenter.

Prentiss, Paula, 1938- presenter.

Preston, Robert, 1918-1987, presenter.

Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937- presenter.

Uggams, Leslie, presenter.

Verdon, Gwen, presenter.

Winters, Shelley, presenter.

Serabian, Lorraine, performer.

Manahan, Anna, performer.

Carney, Art, 1918-2003, performer.

Orbach, Jerry, performer.

McKechnie, Donna, performer.

Jones, James Earl, performer.

Jarvis, Scott, performer.

Slater, W. B, performer.

Duell, William, 1923-2011, performer.

Baddeley, Hermione, 1908-1986, recipient.

Aronson, Boris, 1900-1980, recipient.

Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989, recipient.

Layton, Joe, 1931- recipient.

Ward, Douglas Turner, recipient.

Krone, Gerald S, recipient.

Francis, Arlene, recipient.

Holgate, Ron, recipient.

Mercer, Marian, recipient.

Harrison, Rex, recipient.

Pacino, Al, 1940- recipient.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, recipient.

Alexander, Jane, 1939- recipient.

Hunt, Peter H, recipient.

Burnett, Carol, recipient.

Jones, James Earl, recipient.

Harris, Julie, 1925-2013, recipient.

Orbach, Jerry, recipient.

Lansbury, Angela, 1925-2022, recipient.

Sackler, Howard, recipient.

Stone, Peter, 1930-2003, recipient.

Ostrow, Stuart, 1932- recipient.

American Theatre Wing, producer.

NBC Television Network.

Research Call Number

NCOX 283

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