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23rd Tony Awards

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Date
  
April 20, 1969

Network
  
NBC

Location
  
Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, New York

Hosted by
  
Diahann Carroll and Alan King

The 23rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by NBC television on April 20, 1969, from the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. Hosts were Diahann Carroll and Alan King.

Contents

The ceremony

Presenters: Lauren Bacall, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Richard Benjamin, Godfrey Cambridge, Betty Comden, Patty Duke, Adolph Green, Dustin Hoffman, Angela Lansbury, Jack Lemmon, Ethel Merman, Arthur Miller, Robert Morse, Zero Mostel, Paula Prentiss, Robert Preston, Vanessa Redgrave, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Shelley Winters.

Musicals represented:

  • Zorba ("Life Is" - Lorraine Serabian and Company)
  • Promises, Promises ("She Likes Basketball"/"Turkey Lurkey Time" - Jerry Orbach, Donna McKechnie and Company)
  • 1776 ("Momma, Look Sharp" - Scott Jarvis, William Duell, B.J. Slater)
  • Hair ("Three-Five-Zero-Zero"/Let The Sun Shine In" - Company)

    • Scenes from plays were presented for the first time. Plays represented were:

  • Lovers (Scene with Art Carney and Anna Mannahan)
  • The Great White Hope (Scene with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander)

    • Winners and nominees

    Winners are in bold

    Special awards

  • The National Theatre Company of Great Britain (accepted by artistic director Sir Laurence Olivier)
  • The Negro Ensemble Company
  • Rex Harrison
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Carol Burnett

    • References

    23rd Tony Awards Wikipedia
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