European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stabs and stripes tuesday june 9,1987 Les miserable wins 8 of top Tony awards new York a Les miserable " was the big Tony awards Winner taking eight of Broadway top Honor including Best musical As fences August Wilson s drama of a 1950s Black family won Best play and three other tonys. Me and my girl won three tonys on sunday Tor Robert Lindsay and Maryann Plunkett 31 Best act Rand actress in a musical and for choreographer Gillian Gregory. Lindsay plays a Cockney scamp who discovers he a lord in a pre world War ii London musical finally making its debut on Broadway. Les miserable a also an import from London yielded Tonyi for Alain Bou Bijl and Claude Michel Schonberg who in 1979 in Paris came up with the idea of turning Victor Hugo s epic novel of social injustice into a musical. They won for Best Book of a musical and they and Herbert Kretzmer won Besl score. Michael a fire and Frances Ruffell took Best Fea tured actor and actress in a musical Trevor Nunn and John Caird won for direction and David Mersey for lighting All for Les the 41 is annual awards nationally televised on lbs and including a tribute to the late Robert Preston capped a season in which Broadway reversed i five year decline in attendance. John Napier won the Tony for costume design the Only award garnered by the so million Star Light express which has roller skaters garbed Asen Gines and cars for a train race. Napier who also designed the Starlight express scenery took a second Tony for his Les miserable set As though it were an insult. He said in his second acceptance speech one is not supposed to feel things. But it seems a Little Peculiar to me that Star re her was t nominal cd for set. I d give this Back to you. But it would be a Little resonant voiced James Earl Jones won the Best actor Tony for his role As 3 former baseball player and head of a family in fences the pulitzer prize win Ning play. Mary Alice who plays i wife won for Best supporting actress and Lloyd Richards for director. While playwright Wilson was accepting the Best play Tony fences producer Carole shores Tetra Hays in a maternity evening gown suddenly looked think i m going to give birth right now the said. John Randolph accepting the Tony for Best Fea tured actor for playing the Grandfather in Neil Simon s Broadway bound said the character represent those of us past 70 who Are full of life and fighting spirit no Miller what he body looks like on the out Linda Lavin who plays the Mother of the budding playwright in Broadway bound,1 won her first Tony As Best actress. Arthur Miller s All my sons starring Richard Kizey won Best revival. James Earl Jones and Linda latin show i Clr awards. The evening s emotional highlight was the presenta Tion of a special award to director George Abbott who turns 100 on junes. I am really ashamed at All the fuss that s being made Over my birthday he said. I did t plan it. But i m glad i lasted so Long i Tell people it s because i love the theater so much that i thought i d stick also receiving a special Tony was comedian Jackie Mason whose one Man show the world accordingly me was a Surprise Broadway hit politics also surfaced when the activist san Francis co mime troupe won a special Tony for continued excellence by a regional theater. Some in the audience at the Mark Hellinger theater booed when the award was accepted in the name of a company member killed in Nicaragua by contras financed by the Tony awards were named for actress Antoinette Perry who ran stage door canteens during world War ii. The league of american tit eat and producers and the american theater Wing present the awards based on the votes of 6 1 5 people Active on Broadway. Poce suspect forget shooter in death of teen in n. Carolina Charlotte a someone illegally tar Fet shooting May have been responsible for gunfire that killed a teen Ager and seriously wounded a 6-year old girl police said the incident happened in a theme Park Pool crowded with 2,000 people. It Nesses in the crowd at Ocean Island a 25,000 Square foot Pool with machine made Waves watched in horror sunday As the 16-year-old girl slumped off her raft into the was like she was floating dead said 13-year-old Bryant Artis. Nobody knew what was going Michelle Ann Sexton of Rock Hill s.c., died after a gunshot entered her Back and exited through her Chest lid Barbara Bam Elte a spokeswoman at Charlott memorial Hospital. The other girl Alesha Rollins of Charlotte tinder went surgery sunday for a gunshot wound to the Abdo men. She was listed in serious but stable condition Hospital officials said monday. Mecklenburg county police had no suspects sunday night no witnesses who heard the shots and no certainty about from where the shots were fired. Security guards used a hand held Metal Detector to Check departing guests but no guns were found. Scuba divers searched the Pool and helicopters circled Over problem is there s been no weapon found no weapon seen said Garry Bickett director of Market ing at car winds the 77-acre car winds Park straddles the North Carolina South Carolina Border about 10 Miles South of downtown Charlotte and operates the adjacent id acre Pool area. Assistant police chief . Fertell said Oitice Sajt theorizing that the two Girts May have been shot by someone who was illegally target shooting outside the Park. There is no target Range in the area but it s not an unusual occur rence Tor some folks 10 come to thai area to do this because it is sparsely developed Ferrell said. Of Coreil said loud amusement Park rides May have kept anyone from hearing the gunfire. Laura Brown 37, said she was about is feet from Sexton in the Middle of the wave Pool when the girl slipped off the raft. Her companion a boy about the same age yelled for 6-year-old was in the shallow end about 60 feet away. Brown said. We heard a Lille girl screaming said Robbie Mclaughlin of Indian Trail. We thought she took in some Waler or fell. We did t know what was going we realized two people had been shot. People were screaming and a Luis. shootings occurred around 3 45 . When about 2,000 people were at Ocean Island Sard Caro winds spokeswoman Claire Lang. Stateside jetliner avoids collision with military plane rapid City so. A an ec-135 plane from Ellsworth fab came close to a Northwest airlines plane Jet forcing the Pilot of the com Mercial Craft to Lave evasive action the air Force has confirmed a Federal aviation administration spokes Man said the incident was due loan error by a controller at the Faa s traffic control Center in Colorado. The National transportation safety Board is investigating. The Faa said both planes were flying at 33.000feet and came no closer than one Quarter of a mile. Ec-135s Are airborne command posts for the Sac. Some Are assigned to the 4th airborne come and control so at Ellsworth according to maj. Ron Trithart base Public affairs officer. Conservation taught to japanese hispanics los Angeles a the National part service has begun a program to educate Japa Nese and hispanics on conservation and the preservation of wildlife Parks director William Penn Mot or. Said. Mott Here to address the los Angeles world affairs Council said a lot of people in different coun tries Are taught if it move kill it and eat it " he raid japanese accounted for about 25 percent of the people who visited the grand Canyon last year. With the influx of mexicans to this country Wear now frihling brochures in japanese and Spanish to teach about preserving wildlife Moll said. Widow seeks to drop husband s name from lab Livermore Calif. A the widow of Nobel laureate physicist Ernest Lawrence is seeking to have his name disassociated from the Lawrence Livert Nore National Laboratory be cause of in weapons research. Lawrence crusade in the 1940s to develop uie first nuclear weapon As world War 1 progressed. But Molly Lawrence said her husband was striving to end the War and to beat research efforts by nazi scientists. Lawrence s name was added o the laboratory29 years ago by the University of California s Board of regents shortly after he no torn Ger feel the liver Nore lab ii an appropriate memorial for him the 77-year-old mrs. Lawrence said recently. It s perpetuating the arms race and keeping in in a stale where we re threatened with health of Wallace declining son says Montgomery. Ala. A former c. Wallace a four term governor who finally bowed out of politics in january is in increasingly poor health and i often confined toned his son said. He has Good Days and he has bad Days said George Wallace jr., the state treasurer. And the bad Days Are pretty Wallace 67, has been paralysed from the Wais Down since he was shot in a 1972 assassination attempt while he campaigned for Prai Dent. In addition to pain associated with the paralysis Wallace is suffering from Eye trouble poor bearing arid urinary tract problems. Puppy suffers heat stroke revived by owner s cars a Jose Calif. Up Flower a weimaraner Puppy owes her life to her owner s train ing in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A recent heal wave knocked out the 6-week-Olddog, and Ann Silva a nurse found the Puppy motionless on its Back in the Yard of her Home. Silva said Flower had no pulse heart rate or respiration Trie nurse said she blew air into Flower s Mouth and applied Light pressure to the Puppy s Chest to bring it around. Flower was then treated to a Cool Bali. The Sci Maranar was listless for a while but Silva said wednesday that Lille Monkey was run Ning around still with lipstick on her
