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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006 · Documentary

The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.

Cast

• Harvey Fierstein as Host
• James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
• Jane Alexander as Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
• Gary Sinise as Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
• Amy Morton as Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
• Tim Sampson as Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
• Maggie Smith as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
• Margaret Tyzack as Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
• John Lithgow as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
• BD Wong as Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")
• Sam Waterston as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
• Robert Prosky as Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

Details

Director

Christopher A. Cohen

Released

May 2, 2006

Genres

Documentary

Studio

Acorn Media Enterprises

Status

Released