The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Name: The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Released: 2006
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Len Cariou, Kevin Kline, Mel Winkler, Ed Hall

2006Directed by Christopher A. CohenDocumentary

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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Amy Morton

as Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

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Anna Manahan

as Hanna (segment "Lovers")

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Annette Bening

as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

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Art Carney

as Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")

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BD Wong

as Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")

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Brian Stokes Mitchell

as King (segment "King Hedley II")

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Carl Gordon

as Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson")

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Charles S. Dutton

as Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson")

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Courtney B. Vance

as Corey (segment "Fences")

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Delroy Lindo

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

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Ed Hall

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

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Gary Sinise

as Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

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Harvey Fierstein

as Host

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James Earl Jones

as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")

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Jane Alexander

as Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")

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Joan Allen

as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

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Joe Mantegna

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

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John Lithgow

as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

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Kevin Kline

as Hamlet (segment "Hamlet")

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Len Cariou

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

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Linda Lavin

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

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Madeline Kahn

as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")

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Maggie Smith

as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")

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Margaret Tyzack

as Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")

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Mel Winkler

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

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Michele Lee

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

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Morgan Freeman

as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")

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Peter Friedman

as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

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Philip Bosco

as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")

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Robert Klein

as Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")

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Robert Prosky

as Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

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Rocky Carroll

as Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson")

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Ron Silver

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

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S. Epatha Merkerson

as Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")

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Sam Waterston

as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")

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Tim Daly

as Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

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Tim Sampson

as Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")

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Tony Roberts

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

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Victor Garber

as Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")

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Viola Davis

as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")