The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays (2005) Review

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(More customer reviews)The best way to think about this DVD is that it gives you snippets of
fantastic moments of Broadway plays...not musicals, but the plays. Just
to see James Earl Jones in "Fences" and Maggie Smith in "Lettice and Lovage" is worth the price of the disc. The problem is that these
moments are so good, that we dearly want to see the whole play. Unfortunately, it appears that DVDs of the entire performance of some of these selections do not exist. Nevertheless, seeing some excellent shorts is better than none at all.

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Four-time Tony®-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein is your host for a compilation of amazing dramatic performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars perform key scenes from 19 legendary shows, performances seen only once in their original telecast. Collected here with commentary by a Broadway veteran, they become a treasure-trove for fans of great drama. James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, cast, THE GREAT WHITE HOPE Gary Sinise, Tim Sampson, cast, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST Maggie Smith, Margaret Tyzack, LETTICE AND LOVAGE John Lithgow, B. D. Wong, M. BUTTERFLY Robert Prosky, Sam Waterston, A WALK IN THE WOODS Annette Benning, Timothy Daly, COASTAL DISTURBANCES Robert Klein, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, SISTERS ROSENSWEIG Art Carney, Anna Manahan, LOVERS Joan Allen, Peter Friedman, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Michele Lee, Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts, THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver, SPEED-THE-PLOW Philip Bosco, Victor Garber, LEND ME A TENOR Charles S. Dutton, Rocky Carroll, Carl Gordon, S. Epatha Merkerson, THE PIANO LESSON James Earl Jones, Courtney B. Vance, FENCES Viola Davis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, KING HEDLEY II Ed Hall, Delroy Lindo, Mel Winkler, JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE Kevin Kline, HAMLET Len Cariou, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Morgan Freeman, AS YOU LIKE IT BONUS EXTRA: Original PLAYBILL® cover art

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