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34th Tony Awards

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Date
  
June 8, 1980

Network
  
CBS

Location
  
Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, New York

Hosted by
  
Mary Tyler Moore and Jason Robards

The 34th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS television on June 8, 1980 from the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The hosts were Mary Tyler Moore and Jason Robards. The theme was "understudies"; each of the hosts and presenters had been understudies and offered anecdotes of that beginning.

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The ceremony

Presenters: Eve Arden, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, James Earl Jones, Elia Kazan, Richard Kiley, James MacArthur, Nancy Marchand, Dudley Moore, Anthony Perkins, Gilda Radner, Lynn Redgrave, Tony Roberts, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Dick Van Dyke.

Musicals represented:

  • A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine ("Doin' the Production Code" - Company)
  • Barnum ("Come Follow the Band"/"There is a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" - Jim Dale and Company)
  • Evita ("New Argentina" - Patti LuPone and Company)
  • Oklahoma! ("People Will Say We're In Love" - Joel Higgins and Christine Andreas)
  • Peter Pan ("I'm Flying" - Sandy Duncan and children)
  • Sugar Babies ("A McHugh Medley" - Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney)
  • West Side Story ("America" - Debbie Allen and Company)

    • Winners and nominees

    Winners are in bold

    Special awards

  • Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre — Helen Hayes
  • Regional Theatre Award Winner - Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky
  • Mary Tyler Moore, Whose Life Is It Anyway?.

    • References

    34th Tony Awards Wikipedia
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