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:
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)