{"product_id":"tony-awards-6051988","title":"TONY AWARDS - 6\/05\/1988","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTONY AWARDS - 6\/05\/1988\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 42nd Tony Awards were held on June 5, 1988 at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS, hosted by Angela Lansbury. (Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony Award ceremonies than any other individual: 1968, 1971, 1987, 1988, and 1989).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt these Tony Awards, the longest-running musical on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, competed for awards and received the season's Best Musical award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other composer, with seven Tony Awards: Best Music and Best Lyrics for Company (1971); and Best Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979), Into the Woods (1988) and Passion (1994).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMusicals represented were:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Chorus Line, \"Music and the Mirror\" - Donna McKechnie\u003cbr\u003eAnything Goes, \"Anything Goes\" - Patti LuPone and Company\u003cbr\u003eDreamgirls, \"One Night Only\"\/\"Dreamgirls\" - Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine and Terry Burrell;\u003cbr\u003eInto the Woods, \"Into the Woods\"\/\"Children Will Listen\" - Phylicia Rashad and Company;\u003cbr\u003eThe Phantom of the Opera, Last verse of \"The Phantom of the Opera\" and \"The Music of The Night\" - Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford;\u003cbr\u003eRomance\/Romance, \"I'll Always Remember the Song\"\/\"It's Not Too Late\" - Scott Bakula, Alison Fraser and Company\u003cbr\u003eSarafina!, \"Sarafina!\" - Company\u003cbr\u003ePlays represented were: M. Butterfly, Scene with John Lithgow and B. D. Wong; Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Scene with Mel Winkler , Ed Hall and Delroy Lindo; A Walk in the Woods, Scene with Sam Waterston and Robert Prosky; and Speed-the-Plow, Scene with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA tribute to the late Michael Bennett was performed by Donna McKechnie of the original Chorus Line and the three original Dreamgirls, Terry Burrell, Loretta Devine and Sheryl Lee Ralph.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TV Museum DVDs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48935094550585,"sku":"umk1789909538230","price":9.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/6614\/2521\/files\/tony-awards---6051988_1.jpg?v=1789909541","url":"https:\/\/mineralsunc.shop\/products\/tony-awards-6051988","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}