The Ceremony
Presenters: Alan Alda, Ed Asner, Karen Black, David Carradine, Johnny Carson, Bette Davis, Peter Falk, Henry Fonda, Elliott Gould, Ken Howard, Gynis Johns, Cloris Leachman, Michael Learned, Elizabeth Montgomery, Carroll O'Connor, Al Pacino, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Powell, Lynn Redgrave, Esther Rolle, Marlo Thomas, Lesley Ann Warren.
Performers: Beatrice Arthur, Carol Channing, Will Geer, Joel Grey, Florence Henderson, Cleavon Little, Charles Nelson Reilly, Nancy Walker.
Musicals represented:
- Over Here! ("Over Here"/"Charlie's Place" - Patty and Maxene Andrews and Company)
- Raisin ("Whole Lot of Sunshine" - Virginia Capers/"Sidewalk Tree" - Ralph Carter)
- Lorelei ("Men" - Carol Channing, Peter Palmer and Ian Tucker)
- Good News ("You're the Cream in My Coffee" - Alice Faye and John Payne)
- Seesaw ("I'm Way ahead"/"Seesaw" - Michele Lee)
- Fanny ("Welcome Home" - Florence Henderson)
- A Mother's Kisses ("There Goes My Life" - Bea Arthur)
- Medley of Songs from Broadway Shows - Charles Nelson Reilly
- The Cradle Will Rock (Medley - Will Geer)
- George M! (Medley - Joel Grey)
- Phoenix '55 ("Upper Berth" - Nancy Walker and Men)
- Purlie ("New Fangled Preacher Man" - Cleavon Little)
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Famous quotes containing the word ceremony:
“No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs,
Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)