Thoroughly Modern Millie, the wildly popular revival based on a 1967 Hollywood movie, picked up six Tony awards last night, including honors for best musical, leading actress in a musical and featured actress.
The Tony for best play went to Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia, about a man who falls in love with a goat.
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Actors Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson present the 2002 Tony Award for best leading actress in a play at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Photo: Reuters
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The best revival of a musical in the 56th annual competition was won by Stephen Sondheim's
Into the Woods
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The award for best revival of a play went to the Noel Coward comedy Private Lives, while Briton Lindsay Duncan won the award for leading actress in a play for her work in it. The satire Urinetownnabbed the award for best score.
Veteran actors Alan Bates and Frank Langella won respectively for leading actor and featured actor for their work in Fortune's Fool, by Ivan Turgenev.
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Actress Elaine Stritch accepts the 2002 Tony 'Special Theatrical Event' Award for her one man show 'At Liberty'. Photo: Reuters
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Another Broadway perennial 76-year-old Elaine Stritch whose one-person comedy show
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
was one of the highlights of the Broadway season, won the Tony for best special theatrical event.
Chicago director Mary Zimmerman won best director of a play for her production of Metamorposes, which presents adaptations of ancient myths. It was a first Tony for Zimmerman, who thanked "everyone I have ever met," - especially the play's costume designer, who "talked me out of what I was going to wear tonight, thank God."
AFP