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Morning Open Thread & Antoinette Perry [1]
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Date: 2023-05-31
Good morning, MOTleys!
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So who was Antoinette “Tony” Perry, anyway?
Antoinette Perry [was] an actress, director, producer, and the dynamic wartime leader of the American Theatre Wing. www.tonyawards.com/...
In fact, Perry was one of the founders of the American Theatre Wing, and the year after hear death at age 58 in 1946, the ATW founded her namesake awards, the Tonys, for excellence in the theater.
The theater bug gripped her at an early age.
Born in Denver, Colorado,[2] she spent her childhood aspiring to replicate the thespian artistry of her aunt and uncle, Mildred Hall and George Wessels, who were both well-respected touring actors.[3] She performed at the Elitch Theater near Denver when she was only 11 years old.[4 en.wikipedia.org/...
Naturally, her father disapproved of a life in the theater. But he did send her to New York to study music. There, she pursued her stage career — and it was quite a career.
Now, the Tonys celebrate that career, and the theater. And there are always some amazing production numbers.
This year’s Tony Awards will air on CBS and Paramount+ June 11 at 8 p.m. Eastern
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The winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie was the 2002 season's most awarded new show on Broadway! Based on the 1967 Academy Award-winning film, Thoroughly Modern Millie takes you back to the height of the Jazz Age in New York City…. www.mtishows.com/...
Sutton Foster and the Company of Thoroughly Modern Millie, “Forget About the Boy” (2002)
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A tune-filled comic gem that took Broadway by storm, winning both the Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying boasts an exhilarating score by Frank Loesser, including "I Believe in You," "Brotherhood of Man" and "The Company Way." www.mtishows.com/...
Daniel Radcliffe, John Larroquette and the Company of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, “Brotherhood of Man” (2011)
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This acclaimed musical by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin is [the] winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album. It intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on an unforgettable journey to the underworld and back www.hadestown.com/...
The Company of Hadestown, “Wait for Me” (2019)
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[This is an] intelligent, intuitive, and architecturally sound production “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” in which [Director Diane Paulus] and [playwright Suzan-Lori] Parks have rescued a work that was mired in condescension and a bizarre and unreal sexuality. — Hilton Als, The New Yorker
Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis & David Alan Grier, and the Company of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (2012)
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Anything Goes is set aboard the ocean liner S. S. American, where nightclub singer/evangelist Reno Sweeney is en route from New York to England. Her pal Billy Crocker has stowed away to be near his love, Hope Harcourt, but ... Hope is engaged to the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Joining this love triangle … are Public Enemy #13, Moonface Martin and his sidekick-in-crime Erma. www.broadway.com/...
Sutton Foster and the Company of Anything Goes, “Anything Goes” (2011)
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Have a great day!
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