European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Riga s magic earns beef actress title by the associated press Diana Rigg the vengeful sorceress of medea was named Best actress in a play and Stephen Spinella the aids afflicted hero of Angels in America part 2 perestroika won Best actor in a play As the 1994 Tony awards honoured a 199394 Broadway season dominated by old shows. A i shall carry this Home not Only this but the wonderful memories of american audiences and playing on Broadway a Rigg said As she accepted her award during the ceremony sunday at new Yorkus Gershwin theater. Quot its been an incredible year a said a subdued Spinella who then named four actor friends who had died during the year. For Spinella it was his second consecutive Tony win. He picked up the featured actor prize last year for playing the same character in millennium approaches the first half of the epic Angels in America. Carousel and an inspector Calls two productions from England a Royal National theater were chosen As Best musical and play revivals. But in the big Battle it was Walt Disney is. Stephen Sondheim and Sondheim won. Beauty and the beast and passion two very different love stories competed for the top musical prizes. Beauty and the beast a lavish stage version of the Disney animated movie was the seasons most popular new show. Lulled with Eye popping special effects the fairy talc Romance brought the worlds Best known film company a and its expert marketing a to Broadway. Passion is the work of the coolly cerebral Sondheim Broadways most celebrated composer and author do Rector James la Pine. It tells an adult Story of obsessive love the desire by a Plain unhappy woman for a handsome military officer. Not even in the running were the other two nominees for Best musical a grand night for singing a revue of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammer Stein songs and Cyrano a dutch musical about the Long nosed swordsman. Both shows already have closed. The Competition Between passion and Beauty and the beast for Best musical overshadowed the other awards even the contest for Best play where perestroika the second half of Tony Kushnerz a epic aids drama Angels in America was the favorite. Millennium approaches the plays first part took the prize last year. Competing against Kushnerz a play were broken Glass Arthur Millers look at an unravelling marriage Twilight los Angeles 1992, Anna Deaver Smiths examination of the California riots and the already closed Kentucky Cycle Robert Schynk Kane a seven hour Marathon about 200 years of greed and treachery in the Bluegrass state. .1994 Tony awards the winners of the 1994 Tony awards for the Best of Broadway s 1993-1994 season presented sunday at new York s Gershwin theater were play Tony Kushnerz a Angels in America part 2 perestroika musical passion play revival an inspector Calls musical revival Carousel musical Book passion. Original score written for Thaten pass Vav leading actress play Diana Rigg in medea leading actor play Stephen Spinelia in Angels in America part 2 perestroika a leading actress musical Donna Murphy in a passion a leading actor musical Boyd Gaines in she loves me a Quot. A a featured actress play Jane Adams in an ? inspector Callas featured actor play Jeffrey Wright in Angels m a America part 2 perestroika a a it featured actress Mue Cal Audra Ann Mcdonald in Carousel a v. Featured actor musical jarred Emick in Damn a Yankees a a a �1 a a a a a a a �1a a 1 a a a a a a. Direction play Stephen Daldry an inspector Calls a. A a direction musical Nicholas Hytner Carousel scan la design Bob Crowley Carousel a costume design Ann hould Ward Beauty and the beast a a a a a a Quot a a a a. A lighting desist Rick Fisher an inspector Calls choreography Kenneth Macmillan carouse j a map British actress Diana Rigg recipient of a Tony award for her title role in the Brood Way play Quot medea pauses outside her new York hotel last week a Rigg gained Fame As Emma Peel in the 1960s to series Quot the avengers Quot Gary Smith producer of the Tony awards telecast proclaimed the theme of the show As past present and future but it was the past that prevailed Over the last 12 months. Seventeen old shows a 10 plays and seven musicals a opened on Broadway during the  ended May 31, compared with 20 new shows and special attractions. It did no to Hurt the Box office. Buoyed by such crowd pleases As carouse Abe Lincoln in Illinois Damn Yankees medea grease and she loves me Broadway attracted More than 8.1 million theatregoers during the season the highest attendance level in five years. Grosses climbed to $356 million up from $327 million the previous year. Jessica Tandy Broadways original Blanche Dubois in a Streetcar named desire and Hume Cronyn Tandyk a actor husband were the first recipients of a special Tony award for lifetime achievement. The award for regional theater based on a recon Mendat Iori of the american theater critics association was Given to the Mccarter theater of Princeton . A. The Tony awards Are presented by the league of american Heaters and producers and the american theater Wing which founded the prizes in 1947, the winners were chosen by 687 theater professionals and journalists who voted by secret ballot. The nominees in 20 categories were selected by a 13-member panel appointed by the Tony awards administration committee. The evenings most poignant moment was the appearance of director George Abbott who will turn 107 on june 25. Abbott was accompanied by Gwen Verdon and Jean Stapleton two of the original performers in Damn Yankees which Abbott directed in 1955 he brought a cheering audience to its feet. 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