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42nd Tony Awards
The 42nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 1988, at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS, hosted by Angela Lansbury. The Ceremony Musicals represented were:"1988 - 42nd Annual Tony Awards" tonyawards.com, accessed April 29, 2011 * '''', "Music and the Mirror" - Donna McKechnie * '''', "" - Patti LuPone and Company * '' |
Minskoff Theatre
The Minskoff Theatre is a Broadway theater on the third floor of the One Astor Plaza office building in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1973, it is operated by the Nederlander Organization and is named after Sam Minskoff and Sons, the building's developers. There are approximately 1,710 seats in the auditorium, spread across an orchestra level and a balcony. Over the years it has served as host to musicals, dance companies, and concerts. The Minskoff was designed by Kahn and Jacobs, who designed One Astor Plaza. It was one of the first theaters constructed under the Special Theater District amendment of 1967. The theater's main entrances are from a passageway connecting 44th and 45th Streets, in the middle of a city block between Broadway to the east and Eighth Avenue to the west. There are escalators leading from the ground floor to the lobby, where further escalators lead to the auditorium. One Astor Plaza's eastern section is directly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Winkler
Mel Winkler (October 23, 1941 – June 11, 2020) was an American actor, perhaps best known as the voice of Aku Aku in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' video games, from '' Crash Bandicoot: Warped'' to ''Crash Twinsanity''. Early life Winkler was born to an African-American family in St. Louis, Missouri on October 23, 1941. Career In 1969, Winkler began a tap dancing career in ''Anything Goes''. In 1970s and 1980s, He moved to his home town St. Louis and New York City. Though Winkler mostly appeared in minor live-action roles, such as Melvin in ''Doc Hollywood'', in 1977 and 1978 he appeared in a two-show ''Anything Goes'' (1977) as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh and ''West Side Story'' (1978) as Action. He also spent time on Broadway, appearing in ''The Great White Hope'' in 1968, in August Wilson's ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'' in 1988 and in Neil Simon's ''Proposals'' from 1997 to 1998. He is the voice of the guardian mask Aku Aku in the ''Crash Bandicoot'' series, Lucius Fox in ''The Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
