The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays(2006)
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.
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Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")
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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.
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