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)
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Famous quotes containing the word ceremony:
“But ceremony never did conceal,
Save to the silly eye, which all allows,
How much we are the woods we wander in.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)