The Ceremony
Presenters and Performers: Barry Bostwick, Betty Buckley, Zoe Caldwell, Nell Carter, Carol Channing, Colleen Dewhurst, Jerry Herman, James Earl Jones, Larry Kert, Swoosie Kurtz, John Lithgow, Steve Martin, Richard Thomas, Tommy Tune, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, August Wilson, B.D. Wong.
Musicals and Plays represented:
- Black and Blue ("Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do"/"That Rhythm Man" - Company)
- Jerome Robbins' Broadway ("Dance at the Gym" from West Side Story - Company)
- Starmites ("Starmites"/"Hard to Be the Diva" - Company)
- The Heidi Chronicles (Scene with Joan Allen and Peter Friedman)
- Largely New York (with Bill Irwin and ensemble)
- Lend Me a Tenor (Scene with Philip Bosco and Victor Garber)
- Shirley Valentine (Scene with Pauline Collins)
Special Salute:
- "The Eleven O'clock Number" (with Angela Lansbury)
- "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music
- "Memory" from Cats (with Betty Buckley)
- "Being Alive" from Company (with Larry Kert)
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Famous quotes containing the word ceremony:
“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)
“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)