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48th Tony Awards
The 48th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 12, 1994. The hosts were Sir Anthony Hopkins and Amy Irving. Presenters George Abbott, Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Carol Burnett, Nell Carter, Glenn Close, Tony Danza, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Peter Falk, Melanie Griffith, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Keitel, Jack Klugman, Swoosie Kurtz, Linda Lavin, Michael Learned, Steve Martin, Bebe Neuwirth, Rosie O'Donnell, Bernadette Peters, Tony Randall, Tony Roberts, Martin Short, Paul Sorvino, Jean Stapleton, Marlo Thomas, Gwen Verdon, Vanessa L. Williams Musical Sequence Victor Garber introduced scenes from the 1994 nominees for Best Revival of a Musical: *'' Grease'' ("We Go Together" – Company); *''She Loves Me'' ("I Don't Know His Name"/"She Loves Me" – Diane Fratantoni, Sally Mayes and Boyd Gaines); *''Damn Yankees'' ("Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo." – Vicki Lewis and Company); *''Carousel'' ("You'll Never Walk Alone"- Shirley Verrett and Company). *Vane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershwin Theatre
The Gershwin Theatre (originally the Uris Theatre) is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater at 222 West 51st Street (Manhattan), 51st Street, on the second floor of the Paramount Plaza office building, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Opened in 1972, it is operated by the Nederlander Organization and is named after brothers George Gershwin, George and Ira Gershwin, who wrote several Broadway musicals. The Gershwin is Broadway's largest theater, with approximately 1,933 seats across two levels. Over the years, it has hosted Musical theatre, musicals, dance companies, and concerts. The Gershwin was designed by Ralph Alswang. It was one of the first theaters constructed under the Special Theater District amendment of 1967. The theater's main entrances are from a midblock passageway that runs between 50th Street (Manhattan), 50th and 51st Streets. There are escalators leading from the ground floor to the second-story lobby and rotundas. The American Theater Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanie Griffith
Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. She began her career in the 1970s, appearing in several independent thriller films before achieving mainstream success in the mid-1980s. Born in Manhattan, New York City, to actress Tippi Hedren and advertising executive Peter Griffith, she was raised mainly in Los Angeles, where she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School at age 16. In 1975, 17-year-old Griffith appeared opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's neo-noir film '' Night Moves''. She later rose to prominence as an actor in films such as Brian De Palma's thriller ''Body Double'' (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in the comedy '' Something Wild'' (1986) attracted critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's ''Working Girl'', which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe. In the 1990s Griffith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and writer. He has received various awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. In 2019 Short became an Officer of the Order of Canada. He is known for his work on the television programs '' SCTV'' and ''Saturday Night Live''. Short created the characters Jiminy Glick and Ed Grimley. He also acted in the sitcom ''Mulaney'' (2014–2015), the variety series ''Maya & Marty'' (2016), and '' The Morning Show'' (2019). He has also had an active career on stage, starring in Broadway productions including Neil Simon's musicals ''The Goodbye Girl'' (1993) and '' Little Me'' (1998–1999). The latter earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and the former a nomination in the same category. He has starred in comedy films such as ''Three Amigos'' (1986), ''Innerspace'' (1987), ''Three Fugitives'' (1989), ''Captain Ron'' (1992), '' Clifford'' (1994), ''Mars Attacks!'' (1996), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Roberts (actor)
David Anthony "Tony" Roberts (born October 22, 1939) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in six Woody Allen movies—most notably ''Annie Hall''—often playing Allen's best friend. Early life Roberts was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of Norma (née Finkelstein), an animator, and CBS radio announcer Ken Roberts. His family is Jewish. He had a sister, Nancy, and is the cousin of late actor Everett Sloane. Roberts attended the High School of Music & Art Alumni & Friends of LaGuardia High School website. Accessed Feb. 29, 2016. and , and made his |
Tony Randall
Anthony Leonard Randall (born Aryeh Leonard Rosenberg; February 26, 1920 – May 17, 2004) was an American actor. He is best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in a television adaptation of the 1965 play ''The Odd Couple'' by Neil Simon. In a career spanning six decades, Randall received six Golden Globe Award nominations and six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning one Emmy. Biography Early years Randall was born to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia (née Finston) and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer. He attended Tulsa Central High School. Randall attended Northwestern University for a year before going to New York City to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He studied under Sanford Meisner and choreographer Martha Graham. Randall worked as an announcer at radio station WTAG in Worcester, Massachusetts. As Anthony Randall, he starred with Jane Cowl in George Bernard Shaw's '' Candida'' and Ethel Barrymore i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters ( ''née'' Lazzara; born February 28, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and children's book author. Over a career spanning more than six decades, she has starred in musical theatre, television and film, performed in solo concerts and released recordings. She is a critically acclaimed Broadway performer, having received seven nominations for Tony Awards, winning two (plus an honorary award), and nine Drama Desk Award nominations, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards. Regarded by many as the foremost interpreter of the works of Stephen Sondheim,Witchel, Alex"A True Star, Looking For Places to Shine" ''The New York Times'', February 28, 1999, pg. AR5, retrieved March 28, 2008. Peters is particularly noted for her roles on the Broadway stage, including in the musicals ''Mack and Mabel'' (1974), '' Sunday in the Park with George'' (1984), ''Song and Dance'' (1985), ''Into the Woods'' (1987), ''The Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American comedian, television producer, actress, author, and television personality. She began her comedy career as a teenager and received her breakthrough on the television series ''Star Search'' in 1984. After a series of television and film roles that introduced her to a larger national audience, O'Donnell hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show'', between 1996 and 2002, which won several Daytime Emmy Awards. During this period, she developed the nickname "Queen of Nice", as well as a reputation for philanthropic efforts. From 2006 to 2007, O'Donnell endured a controversial run as the moderator on the daytime talk show '' The View'', which included a public feud with Donald Trump and on-air disputes regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War. She hosted ''Rosie Radio'' on Sirius XM Radio between 2009 and 2011, and from 2011 to 2012 hosted a second, short-lived talk show on OWN, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Jane Neuwirth ( ; born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. On television, she played Dr. Lilith Sternin, Frasier Crane's wife, on both the TV sitcom ''Cheers'' (in a starring role) and its spin-off ''Frasier'' (in a recurring guest role). The role won her two Emmy Awards. In 2005, Neuwirth was cast as Bureau Chief/ADA Tracey Kibre in the short-lived ''Law & Order'' courtroom drama series, '' Law & Order: Trial by Jury'' on NBC that ran for 12 episodes. In film, she portrayed Nora Shepherd in the original ''Jumanji'' (1995) and '' Jumanji: The Next Level'' (2019). On stage she played the Tony Award–winning roles of Nickie in the revival of '' Sweet Charity'' (1986) and Velma Kelly in the revival of ''Chicago'' (1996). Other Broadway musical roles include Lola in the revival of ''Damn Yankees'' (1994) and Morticia Addams in ''The Addams Family'' (2010). From 2014 to 2017, she starred as Nadine Tolliver in the CBS political drama '' Mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013. Additionally, he was nominated for two Tony Awards for his musical '' Bright Star'' in 2016. Among many honors, he has received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center Honors, and an AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. ''The Guardian'' named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Martin came to public notice in the 1960s as a writer for ''The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1969, and later as a frequent host on ''Saturday Night Live''. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before sold-out theaters on national tours. Since the 1980s, having ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Learned
Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is a distinguished American actor, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series ''The Waltons'' (1972–1981). She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. Three of the wins were for ''The Waltons'' (1973, 1974, 1976), while the other was for ''Nurse'' (1982). Early life Learned was born in Washington, D.C., the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Duane "Betti" (née Hooper) and Bruce Learned, a diplomat. Her maternal grandfather was an attaché for the United States Embassy in Rome. She has five younger sisters: Gretl, Susan, Sabra, Dorit and Philippa. She lived on a Connecticut farm for the first 10 years of her life. Learned said that her parents never explained why she received a masculine first name, once saying of her father: "All he told me was that if I had been a boy, I would have been named Caleb, but I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom '' Alice'' and for her stage performances, both on and off-Broadway. After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began appearing on Broadway in the 1960s, earning notice in '' It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman'' in 1966 and receiving her first Tony Award nomination for ''Last of the Red Hot Lovers'' in 1970. She moved to Hollywood in 1973 and began to work on television, making recurring appearances on the sitcom ''Barney Miller'' before landing the title role on the hit comedy '' Alice'', which ran from 1976 to 1985. She appeared in many telefilms and later she appeared in other TV works. She has also played roles in several feature films. In 1987, she returned to Broadway, starring in ''Broadway Bound'' (winning a Tony Award), ''Gypsy'' (1990), ''The Sisters Rosensweig'' (1993), ''The Diary of Anne Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swoosie Kurtz
Swoosie Kurtz ( ; born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. Kurtz made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the 1975 revival of ''Ah, Wilderness''. She has received five Tony Award nominations, winning for both ''Fifth of July'' (1981) and ''The House of Blue Leaves'' (1986); her other nominations were for ''Tartuffe'' (1988), ''Frozen (play), Frozen'' (2004), and ''Heartbreak House'' (2007). For her television work, she has received eight Emmy Award nominations, with one win for ''Carol and Company'' in 1990. Other television credits include the NBC drama ''Sisters (American TV series), Sisters'' (1991–1996), ''Huff (TV series), Huff'' (2004–2006), ''Pushing Daisies'' (2007–2009), and the hit CBS sitcom ''Mike & Molly'' (2010–2016). Her films include, ''Wildcats (film), Wildcats'' (1986), ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), ''Stanley & Iris'' (1990), ''Citizen Ruth'' (1996), ''Liar Liar'' (1997) and ''Bubbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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