American Theater Wing's Tony Awards ® celebration of excellence in the theater includes the recognition of winners and nominees in 27 competitive categories.Tony Awards ®, the administrative committee, the honorees of the four categories will compete at the 2009 Tony Awards tonight, 7 June. The Tony Awards 2009, by The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing.
Composer / lyricist Jerry Herman, Virginia Signature Theater, and a long spokesman Shirley Herz is honored at the ceremony of the 63rd annual Tony Awards on 7 June. Writer and actress Phyllis Newman will receive the latest Tony Award for her volunteer work as an advocate for women's health.
Master song smith Jerry Herman was the recipient of the 2009 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater. Herman at the score and wrote the texts of three Tony Award winning Best Musical: Mame, La Cage Aux Folles, and Hello, Dolly! Was it five times in the category of Best Score, the winner of La Cage aux Folles and Hello, Dolly!
Mr. Herman is the only composer-lyricist in history to have three musicals each played more than 1,500 consecutive performances on Broadway. Dear Lord, how their world was in 1969, was the only composer-lyricist in history to have three Broadway productions running simultaneously. His first Broadway show was Milk and Honey (1961), followed by Hello, Dolly! (1964), Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Mack and Mabel (1974), The Grand Tour (1979), La Cage Aux Folles (1983), and Jerry's Girls (1985). He also wrote the 1996 CBS TV special "Mrs. Santa Claus" with Angela Lansbury. Show Tunes, a journal of his life's work is often in regional theaters throughout the country and around the world. Was the theme of the 2008 PBS documentary "Words and Music by Jerry Herman."
The Tony Award-winning actress and writer, Phyllis Newman initially Isabelle Stevenson Award, which recognizes a person in the theater for her humanitarian work. In 1995, Ms. Newman founded the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actor's Fund of America, and the last 12 years has more than $ 3.5 million to 2500 women in the entertainment industry.
Ms. Newman has his Broadway debut, Wish You Were Here in 1952. Judy Holliday was in the bells are Ringing (1956), and then the owner was in many shows such as the apple tree, in the community, the Prisoner of Second Avenue, awake and Sing! And since Broadway. They participated in the spectacle of a woman, the madman of Central Park West, which together with Arthur Laurents wrote. In 1962 he won a Tony Award for his performance in the musical Metro sleep. She is a survivor of breast cancer, as I said, in his memoirs in 1984, "Just in Time ': Notes from my life. For over 40 years was married to another of Tony-winner, the late lyricist / librettist Adolph Green.
On the recommendation of the National Association of Theater Critics of America, the Tony Awards, the theater company Arlington, Virginia, as the recipient of the 2009 Regional Theater Tony Award. The award is a gift of $ 25,000 from Visa USA
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