Английская Википедия:54th Tony Awards
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The 54th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 4, 2000 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was hosted, for the 3rd time since 1997, by Rosie O'Donnell, with special guest Nathan Lane.
Eligibility
Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1999–2000 season before May 2, 2000 are eligible.
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- Original plays
- Copenhagen
- Dirty Blonde
- The Green Bird
- The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
- Rose
- Taller Than a Dwarf
- True West
- Voices in the Dark
- Waiting in the Wings
- Wrong Mountain
- Original musicals
- Aida
- Contact
- James Joyce's The Dead
- Kat and the Kings
- Marie Christine
- Putting It Together
- Riverdance – On Broadway
- Saturday Night Fever
- Swing!
- The Wild Party
- Play revivals
- Amadeus
- Epic Proportions
- A Moon for the Misbegotten
- The Price
- The Rainmaker
- The Real Thing
- Uncle Vanya
- Musical revivals
The Ceremony
The opening number was "A Tony Opening", performed by Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Jesse L. Martin, and Megan Mullally.[1]
Production numbers from musicals included Contact, Boyd Gaines and the Girl in the Yellow Dress, Deborah Yates; Kiss Me, Kate, "Too Darn Hot"; Jesus Christ Superstar, "Superstar" and "Gethsemane"; The Music Man, Craig Bierko in "Seventy-Six Trombones" ; The Wild Party, medley from Mandy Patinkin, Eartha Kitt and Toni Collette; Swing!, medley from company and Ann Hampton Callaway and Laura Benanti; and James Joyce's The Dead, "Parnell's Plight."[2]
Ten awards were presented prior to the main ceremony and were broadcast on Public Television in a show titled "The First 10 Awards: Tonys 2000." The show had interviews and showed clips from the season's productions, and presented the awards: Direction (Play and Musical), Choreography, Original Score, Book of a Musical, Costume Design, Scenic Design, Orchestration, Lighting Design and Regional Theater.[2] Michael Blakemore is the only director to win Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play and Best Director of a Musical in the same year. He won this year for Copenhagen (play) and Kiss Me, Kate (musical).
The television ratings for this broadcast were 7.2, down from the 1999 Tony Award broadcast of 7.9. In prior years in which O'Donnell hosted, the program had ratings of 11.2 (1997) and 10.3 (1998).[3]
Contact controversy
The winner of the award for Best Musical, Contact, raised controversy about what constitutes a musical, as it is a dance musical with no singing and minimal dialogue; and instead of original music, it uses pre-recorded music and songs. As a result of the controversy, a new category was created for the Tony Awards: Best Special Theatrical Event.[4]
Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold
Special awards
Regional Theatre Award
Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
- T. Edward Hambleton
Special Tony Award For a Live Theatrical Presentation
- Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
- Eileen Heckart
- Sylvia Herscher
- City Center Encores!
Multiple nominations and awards
Шаблон:Col-begin Шаблон:Col-1-of-2 These productions had multiple nominations:
- 12 nominations: Kiss Me, Kate
- 8 nominations: The Music Man
- 7 nominations: Contact and The Wild Party
- 6 nominations: Swing!
- 5 nominations: Aida, Dirty Blonde, James Joyce's The Dead, Marie Christine and The Real Thing
- 4 nominations: A Moon for the Misbegotten and True West
- 3 nominations: Copenhagen
- 2 nominations: Amadeus, The Green Bird, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Uncle Vanya and Waiting in the Wings
Шаблон:Col-2-of-2 The following productions received multiple awards.
- 5 wins: Kiss Me, Kate
- 4 wins: Aida and Contact
- 3 wins: Copenhagen and The Real Thing
See also
- Drama Desk Awards
- 2000 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
- Obie Award
- New York Drama Critics' Circle
- Theatre World Award
- Lucille Lortel Awards
References
External links
- ↑ Lefkowitz, David."1999-2000 Tony Awards" Шаблон:Webarchive playbill.com, June 5, 2000
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Lefkowitz, David."Putting It Together For PBS: How the First Tony Hour Is Created" Шаблон:Webarchive playbill.com, June 2, 2000
- ↑ Lefkowitz, David.Tony Award TV Ratings Down Again; Overnights Bested by Regis and B-Ball" Шаблон:Webarchive playbill.com, June 5, 2000
- ↑ Hofler, Robert. "Legit lightning strikes twice". Variety.com, May. 1, 2006, accessed April 27, 2011