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	Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Award_for_Best_Actor_in_a_Musical (796 words)

	Wikinfo \| Tony Award
		Awarded by a panel of approximately 700 judges from various areas of the industry, it is generally regarded as the theatre's closest equivalent to the Oscars.
		Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
		Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tony_Award (472 words)

	Mako (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mako Iwamatsu (マコ岩松) (born Makoto Iwamatsu (岩松信 Iwamatsu Makoto)); December 10, 1933 − July 21, 2006), was a Japanese-American actor.
		He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles, and for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for the 1976 musical Pacific Overtures.
		Animation fans may know him as the voice actor of the evil demon Aku in the animated series Samurai Jack, and as the parody of Aku, Achoo, in Duck Dodgers, as well as Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mako_(actor) (380 words)

	Awards: Wicked On Broadway
		Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Idina Menzel
		Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Kristin Chenoweth
		The awards were given on Sunday, June 8 in a televised broadcast that will be hosted this year by Hugh Jackman, who was also nominated (and won) for Best Actor for his work in The Boy From Oz.
	www.wickedonbroadway.net /awards.html (265 words)

	Tony Awards 2004
		While both missed out on the main awards, they were rewarded for their acting, with Idina Menzel taking out best actress in a musical for her part in Wicked; and Aniki Noni Rose winning the nod for featured actress in a musical for Caroline, or Change.
		Phylicia Rashad (probably best known here as the mother on The Cosby Show) took out best leading actress in a play for her performance in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun (the play which also marked to stage debut of rapper and ex-J. Lo accessory P. Diddy).
		Best direction of a musical went to Joe Mantello for Assassins, edging out the fancied Kathleen Marshall for Wonderful Town and Jason Moore for Avenue Q. From here on the other side of the Pacific, theatre directors and audiences will undoubtedly be salivating at some of the offerings from the 2004 Tonys.
	www.theblurb.com.au /Issue43/Tonys.htm (745 words)

	Mr. Broadway, Stewart F. Lane, Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Tony Award is the industry nickname for the coveted Antoinette Perry Award.
		This annual award is given for distinguished achievement in theater and was originated in 1947.
		When a show wins a Tony Award for play of the year, the award goes to the producer/producers as well as the author.
	www.mrbroadway.com /awards.html (301 words)

	My Way - Entertainment
		NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 57th Tony Awards show was a big night for gays on Broadway, with top honors going to gay-themed productions and artists relishing the openness that has marked this theatrical season.
		The Best Play award went to "Take Me Out," a drama about a star baseball player revealing that he is gay, and Best Musical honors to "Hairspray," whose leading actor, Harvey Fierstein, plays the gravel-voiced mother of the heroine in drag.
		Many of the Tony winners rode a wave of awards night euphoria Sunday to unabashedly address their gayness or to comment on the phenomenon to the Radio City Music Hall crowd.
	entertainment.myway.com /article/id/331758\|entertainment\|06-09-2003::03:03\|reuters.html (326 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		Marissa Jaret Winokur accepts the Tony Award for Best Actress for a Musical for "Hairspray" during the 57th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 8, 2003, at New York‘s Radio City Music Hall.
		It was Fierstein's fourth Tony Award, having won previously as the star and author of "Torch Song Trilogy" in 1983 and as author of the book for "La Cage aux Folles" in 1984.
		The Tonys, chosen in 22 categories, are voted on by more than 700 members of the theatrical community and journalists.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=4737 (754 words)

	'Avenue Q' upset winner at Tonys - THEATER - MSNBC.com
		Actor Hugh Jackman accepts the 2004 Tony Award for best leading actor in a musical for "The Boy From Oz" on Sunday.
		NEW YORK - “Avenue Q,” a cheeky little musical that uses puppets, four-letter words and catchy, jinglelike tunes, was the upset winner Sunday at the Tonys where history was made as Phylicia Rashad became the first fl actress to win for a leading dramatic role.
		The regional theater award was presented to the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5151193 (1068 words)

	"Contact", "Copenhagen" honored at Tony awards
		NEW YORK, JUNE 5: The musical, Contact and the dramatic play, Copenhagen were honoured as the best on Broadway in a star-studded Tony awards ceremony late on Sunday.
		In addition to the awards for direction and revival, one of its stars, Brian Stokes Mitchell, won for best actor in a musical.
		The musical adaptation of the legend that inspired Verdi's opera was honoured for its score, adapted by Elton John and Tim Rice.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000606/ien06046.html (402 words)

	Classic TV & Movie Hits - Robert Preston
		Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts, the son of a garment worker.
		Preston appeared in many Hollywood films, but is probably best remembered as "Professor" Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's musical, The Music Man, for which he won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical in 1958.
		Although he was not a singer, he appeared in several other film musicals, notably Mame in 1974 and Victor/Victoria, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982.
	www.classictvhits.com /cast.php?id=2869 (173 words)

	Jackman nominated for Tony Award. 11/05/2004. The Space: Arts News.
		Australian Hugh Jackman has been nominated for the Tony Award for the best leading actor in a musical, in Broadway's biggest awards night of the year.
		Wicked, a musical prequel to the Wizard of Oz told from the witches' point of view, has picked up 10 nominations to lead the field for this year's Tonys.
		The leading actor in a play category matches up veteran stage and screen actors Kevin Kline and Christopher Plummer for their Shakespearean turns in Henry IV and King Lear respectively.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/news/artsnews_1105370.htm (146 words)

	The 55th Annual Tony Award Winners--AllYourTV.com
		The Tony Awards are presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing.
		This award is given to a regional theatre company that has displayed a continuous level of artistic achievement contributing to the growth of theatre nationally.
		Tony Honors for excellence in theatre were given to Betty Corwin and the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the playwright workshop New Dramatists, and Theatre World, the annual statistics and photography book which has been published since 1945.
	www.allyourtv.com /awards/awardstonys55th.html (324 words)

	`Rent' leads Tony nominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Both shows were nominated for best musical, along with two productions that already have closed -- Chronicle of a Death Foretold, based on a short novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Swinging on a Star, a revue featuring the songs of lyricist Johnny Burke.
		Glover was nominated for two Tonys -- for leading actor in a musical and for choreography, for his work on Bring on 'da Noise.
		The 50th Annual Tony Awards ceremonies, presented by the American Theater Wing and the League of American Theaters and Producers, will be broadcast live from the Majestic Theatre in New York 8-10 p.m.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/05/07/tony-nomssub.0-0.html (421 words)

	'Spamalot' and 'Doubt' Take Top Tony Honors - Entertainment News
		The underdog musical of the evening, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, walked away with two awards of the evening, including Featured Actor in a Musical award for Dan Fogler's performance as William Barfee ("pronounced bar-FAY"), the nasally-challenged footwriting speller.
		During the performance of a song from the musical, the cast surprised the audience by sneaking in a appearance by Rev. Al Sharpton as a guest speller who is eliminated in the first round.
		Among its six Tonys won was the award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, which went to Victoria Clark, and Best Original Score.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art32354.asp (946 words)

	Tonys: "Spamalot" Wins Not So Much - Jun 06, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aside from the Best Musical prize, Mike Nichols took home the Tony for Best Direction of a Musical and Sara Ramirez won for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.
		The night's biggest winner was the musical The Light in the Piazza, a romance set in Italy, which took home six Tonys in all, including Best Original Score and Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Victoria Clark, who plays a mother accompanying her mentally challenged daughter on a European vacation.
		Nominations for the Tony Awards are made by a group of about 30 theater professionals and the winners are voted upon by about 750 journalists and theatrical types.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,16696,00.html?tnews (722 words)

	Floridian: Young actor has luxury of choice
		He auditioned for the god of American musical theater, Stephen Sondheim, when he was being considered for a role in a revival in the fall of Sondheim's Assassins.
		For the Tony telecast, The Full Monty cast will perform the finale, Let It Go, in which the guys bare it all, though their nudity is obscured by stage lighting.
		Leading actors in Broadway musicals don't make movie-star money, unless they actually are movie stars.
	www.sptimes.com /News/060301/Floridian/Young_actor_has_luxur.shtml (2148 words)

	'Monty Python's Spamalot' receives leading 14 Tony nominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NEW YORK - "Monty Python's Spamalot," a madcap medieval musical loosely based on the zany British troupe's film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," led the field with 14 Tony nominations Tuesday, including best musical and bids for its King Arthur, Tim Curry, and Lancelot, Hank Azaria.
		The musicals "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," about a couple of scam artists working the French Riviera, and "The Light in The Piazza," the lushly romantic tale of love at first sight and its ramifications, got 11 each.
		Best actor nominees: Billy Crudup, a jailed writer in "The Pillowman"; Philip Bosco for a disbelieving juror in "Twelve Angry Men"; James Earl Jones for a cantankerous father in "On Golden Pond"; Bill Irwin, Turner's boozy, battling husband in "Virginia Woolf"; and Brian F. O'Byrne, an accused priest in "Doubt."
	www.abcactionnews.com /entertainment/stories/0505/050510tony.shtml (549 words)

	Mel Brooks and "The Producers" Rule Tony Nominations
		Tony Award nominations of any show in history.
		The finalists for the 55th annual Tony Awards, presented by the League of American Theaters and Producers and the American Theater Wing, were announced in New York on May 7.
		The remaining Tony taps for "The Producers" are Susan Stroman for Best Choreography and Best Direction of a Musical; William Ivey Long for Best Costume Design; Doug Besterman for Best Orchestrations; Peter Kaczorowski for Best Lighting Design; and Robin Wagner for Best Scenic Design.
	www.bmi.com /news/200105/20010509b.asp (480 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2005_06_05 - Spamalot Wins Tony For Best Musical
		Still, winning Best Musical, the evening's top award, is the kind of recognition that pushes the Pythons to ever-greater historic relevance.
		Sara accepted the award for Featured Actress with comedic grace, adjusting her revealing low-cut dress while climbing the stage.
		Photo: Kathy Willens/AP For the final award of the evening, Best Musical, the producers, Eric Idle, and the entire cast came on stage to accept the award.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2005/llama296.html (590 words)

	A few surprises from Tony
		Among the awards won by "Piazza" was best leading actress for Victoria Clark, one for Guettel's score and a handful of awards for set, costumes and orchestrations.
		He said the "ferocious and generous" other three actors in Albee's searing play "find the breath of life out of the cry of the heart" that is the play.
		The awards show had a couple of lapses in taste, odd for a show reputed to be the most tasteful of TV awards shows.
	www.thejournalnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050606/LIFESTYLE01/506060342/1031 (922 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2005_05_10 - Spamalot Leads Pack with 14 Tony Nominations
		The 2004-2005 Tony Award nominations were announced May 10 by some of Broadway's celebrities (such as Alan Cumming and Lynn Redgrave) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
		The four musicals were chosen out of a field of eleven eligible new shows this year.
		The 59th annual Tony Awards will be handed out in a live ceremony on Sunday, June 5, 2005 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2005/llama290.html (458 words)

	'La Bohème' - 2003 Tony Awards and Nominations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Winners in four 2003 Tony Awards categories were announced in a pre-show ceremony prior to the 8-11 PM (ET) main show June 8: Movin' Out, La Boheme and Hairspray were the first Tony winners of the season.
		Actor Hugh Jackman is co-hosting the big night, while Oscar-winner Catherine Martin and her husband Baz Luhrmann are hoping to win up to six awards for their Broadway adaptation of La Boheme.
		Leading the Aussie charge in many respects is Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and Nigel Levings for La Boheme, which has scored six Tony nominations, including for best revival of a musical, best direction and best scenic design.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /bazthegreat/labohemearticles9.htm (6688 words)

	New Category For Tony Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Beginning with the 2006 Tony Awards, cast replacements in leading roles (performers in long-running shows who join a show after its opening night) will be eligible for this new award.
		In order for a performer to be eligible for this award, according to the committee, "he or she must not have appeared in the role when the production opened on Broadway.
		Furthermore, performers eligible for a Tony in a Recreated Role must be playing a role which was eligible for the Tony Award in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor or Leading Actress category for the season in which the production first opened."
	arts.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_10098.php (231 words)

	E! Online News - Tony Brakes for "Avenue Q" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It was a night of firsts at the 2004 Tony Awards--a bunch of puppets scored an upset to take home the Best Musical trophy and onetime Cosby Show mom Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American woman to win for Best Actress.
		On a more serious note, Rashad was one of three African-American actresses to take home Tonys, winning Best Actress for her role in A Raisin in the Sun, a revival starring, among others, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.
		The Tonys Awards are chosen in 22 different categories and selected by a 700-member panel of theatrical types and journalists.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,14257,00.html (628 words)

	- toledoblade.com -
		Gavin Creel is nominated for a Tony award as best actor in a musical
		Gavin Creel, left, and Sutton Foster, the lead actor and actress in the Broadway musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, hold their Tony award nominations.
		Singing and dancing in a new Broadway show, he's nominated for a Tony award for best leading actor in a musical.
	www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20020602&Category=ART10&ArtNo=106020051&Ref=AR (1200 words)

	Southern Voice Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There was little surprise Sunday when the 58th annual Tony Awards telecast from Radio City Music Hall was chock full of gay moments, gay winners — and alas, gay losers.
		Whitty, who was given the award by longtime gay playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein, also followed recognition of his parents with “Steve, I love you.
		Best Direction of a Musical also went to Sondheim’s “Assassins.” Joe Manello beat out gay directors George C. Wolfe and Jason Moore for the trophy.
	www.southernvoice.com /print.cfm?content_id=2251 (601 words)

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