The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)

Summary

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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Cast
Crew

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")
Annette Bening

as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Tim Daly

as Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
Madeline Kahn

as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Robert Klein

as Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
Art Carney

as Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")
Anna Manahan

as Hanna (segment "Lovers")
Joan Allen

as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Peter Friedman

as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
Linda Lavin

as Marjorie (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Michele Lee

as Lee (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Tony Roberts

as Ira (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
Joe Mantegna

as Bobby Gould (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
Ron Silver

as Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
Philip Bosco

as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
Victor Garber

as Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
Charles S. Dutton

as Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Rocky Carroll

as Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Carl Gordon

as Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson")
S. Epatha Merkerson

as Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Courtney B. Vance

as Corey (segment "Fences")
Brian Stokes Mitchell

as King (segment "King Hedley II")
Viola Davis

as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
Delroy Lindo

as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Ed Hall

as Bynum Walker (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Mel Winkler

as Seth Holly (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
Kevin Kline

as Hamlet (segment "Hamlet")
Len Cariou

as James Tyrone (segment "Long Day's Journey Into Night")
Morgan Freeman

as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")

Directing	Christopher A. Cohen	Director
Production	Christopher A. Cohen	Executive Producer
Production	Steven Hecht	Executive Producer
Production	Sharon Radcliffe	Associate Producer
Writing	Steven Hecht	Writer
Production	Susan Fraser	Researcher
Editing	Anita Robertson	Editor
Sound	Jay Stollman	Music Supervisor
Sound	Chris Denman	Music Editor
Sound	Ashley Malcolm	Music Supervision Assistant
Sound	Jay Stollman	Music
Sound	Michael Terry	Music
Production	Emily Scheible	Production Assistant
Production	Brian Currie	Production Assistant
Art	Robert Fredette	Graphic Designer