Each year, the Tony Awards are preceded by the bestowing of several other major theatrical honors. Needless to say, many of the folks who come up roses at these earlier events go on to win the big one. Early last evening at Sardi’s, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Antonio Banderas accepted Outer Critics Circle awards for their top-drawer performances in Hairspray and Nine.
Also among last evening’s winners: Denis O’Hare, for his wonderfully entertaining characterization of Mason Marzac in Take Me Out…
…and Jane Krakowski, whose scintillating performance (and costume!) in Nine will not soon be forgotten.
At the Manhattan Theatre Club Spring Gala at the New York Hilton on May 12, the adorable Marissa Jaret Winokur posed with her Hairspray parents, Harvey Fierstein and Dick Latessa. All three are Tony nominees.
One last kiss: Matt Cavenaugh and Jenn Colella, stars of the shuttered Urban Cowboy, were also on hand for the MTC event.
Christine Ebersole, a Tony nominee for her performance in Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Dinner at Eight, was present at Sardi’s on May 9 for the unveiling of her caricature, which will now take its place on the walls of the restaurant among myriad other caricatures of fabulous celebrities.
Among those on hand to toast Ebersole at Sardi’s were Chris Noth, who co-starred with the lady in the recent Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man…
…and one of Ebersole’s good buddies, Harvey Evans whose Broadway credits include the original productions of West Side Story and Follies and who was most recently seen in The Scarlet Pimpernel and Oklahoma!
Continuing in a Tony vein: Debbie Gravitte, who snagged the award for her performance in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, was one of the stars of “The Broadway Musicals of 1953” at Town Hall on May 12.
Among the other A-list performers in this most recent edition of the Broadway by the Year concert series were Davis Gaines, a long-running Phantom of the Opera…
…the lovely, silver-toned soprano Andrea Burns…
…and the handsome, big-voiced baritone Edward Staudenmayer.
“The Broadway Musicals of 1953” was highlighted by several duets. Here, Scott Coulter joins with Debbie Gravitte in “You’re So Much a Part of Me” from John Murray Anderson’s Almanac…
…here, Julia Murney does a sister act with Andrea Burns in “Ohio” from Wonderful Town…
…and here, Murney and Staudenmayer canoodle on stage in “C’est Magnifique” from Can-Can.
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