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22nd Tony Awards

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Date
  
April 21, 1968

Network
  
NBC

Location
  
Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York

Hosted by
  
Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov

The 22nd Annual Tony Awards was held on April 21, 1968 at the Shubert Theatre and broadcast on television by NBC. Hosts were Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov, assisted by Jack Benny and with Alfred Drake doing narration.

Contents

The ceremony

The theme of this year's awards ceremony was to salute previous Tony Award-winning musicals.

Presenters: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Art Carney, Trudy Carson, Diahann Carroll, Carol Cole, Sandy Dennis, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Herman, Anne Jackson, Alan King, Groucho Marx, Liza Minnelli, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Harold Prince, Tony Randall, Eli Wallach, Joanne Woodward.

Musicals represented:

  • Golden Rainbow ("Twenty-Four Hours a Day" - Company);
  • The Happy Time ("The Happy Time"/"A Certain Girl" - Robert Goulet, David Wayne, Michael Rupert)
  • Fiddler on the Roof ("Matchmaker,Matchmaker"-Tanya Everett, Bette Midler, Mimi Turque)
  • Cabaret ("Cabaret" - Jill Haworth)
  • Man of La Mancha ("The Impossible Dream" - David Atkinson)
  • Hello, Dolly! ("Put on Your Sunday Clothes"/"So Long, Dearie" - Pearl Bailey and Company)
  • How Now, Dow Jones ("Step to the Rear" - Tony Roberts and Company)
  • Hallelujah, Baby! ("Smile, Smile" - Leslie Uggams, Lillian Hayman, Robert Hooks)

    • Award winners and nominees

    Winners are in bold

    Special awards

  • Audrey Hepburn
  • Carol Channing
  • Pearl Bailey
  • David Merrick
  • Maurice Chevalier
  • APA-Phoenix Theatre
  • Marlene Dietrich

    • References

    22nd Tony Awards Wikipedia
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