’age 8 • The Battalion • Monday, June 3, 1996
Rent, The King and I ‘break a leg" at 1996 Tony Awards
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Welcome to the Tabloid Tonys — The hills were alive with the sounds of Julie (Andrews),
NATHAN LANE, TONY AWARDS HOST
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rent and Bring
n ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk, two
ihows representing a new generation
>f American musicals, and The King
ind I, a musical classic, dominated the
L996 Tony Awards Sunday as Broad
way celebrated its best season in
/nars. Each won four awards.
The biggest non-winner was Julie
\ndrews who was beaten for the best
actress-musical award by Donna Mur-
ahy who plays the starchy governess in
The King and I.
Murphy, in her acceptance speech,
aaid tribute to her fellow nominees in-
duding “the inspiring Julie Andrews”
as the crowd roared its approval of her
jpset win.
Rent, a gritty celebration of East Vil
lage artists, was named best musical, a
bittersweet victory since its creator,
Jonathan Larson, died in January at
the age of 35.
Master Class, Terrence McNally’s
look at opera superstar Maria Callas
was named best play. Zoe Caldwell who
plays the diva captured the best-actress
prize, her fourth Tony.
Andrews had publicly rejected her
nomination because her show
Victor/Victoria was snubbed in every
other category. At the beginning of the
telecast, host Nathan Lane was
cheered when he entered dressed as
Andrews in one of her glamorous Vic
tor/Victoria costumes.
“Welcome to the Tabloid Tonys — The
hills were alive with the sounds of Julie,”
Lane cracked. “How do
you solve a problem
like the Tonys?”
Lane, after several
years of not even be
ing nominated, finally
got his best actor-mu
sical Tony for starring
in the revival of A
Funny Thing Hap
pened on the Way to
the Forum.
Rent, also took the
awards for book and score of a musical.
The show also received an award for
best featured-actor in a musical, Wilson
Jermaine Heredia who plays a drag
queen in the production.
Noise/Funk, an examination of the
ANDREWS
black American experience through
dance, picked up the choreography prize
for its star, Savion Glover.
It also won awards for lighting
(Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer),
featured actress-musical (Ann
Duquesnay) and for direction of a mu
sical (George C. Wolfe). Wolfe
thanked Glover’s parents “for giving
birth to a genius.”
The King and I was chosen best revival
of a musical and also won two technical
awards — scenic design, Brian Thomson,
and costume design, Roger Kirk.
Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance
copped the best-play revival award.
George Grizzard as the anguished hus
band in A Delicate Balance, was named
best actor.
Gerald Gutierrez won the best direc
tion of a play award for the second year
in a row, picking up the prize for A Deli
cate Balance.
A visibly stunned Audra McDonald
was named best featured actress in a
play for her role as an aspiring opera
student in Master Class. “I’m going to
try really hard not to faint — I’m good
at it, though,” said McDonald, who
won a Tony two years ago for the re
vival of Carousel. Ruben Santiago-
Hudson of Seven Guitars took home
the featured actor prize.
Despite the good season, the Tony
telecast was boycotted by superstar
Julie Andrews and bedeviled by threats
of lawsuits and strikes until the end of
last week.
Non-lethal gun
marketed for
self-protection
by Chuck Johnson
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AP—The bouncers at Woofer
Magoo’s had their hands full with a
meaty patron when bar manager
Charles Bundy reached for the lat
est in self-defense gadgetry.
Bundy pointed a plastic device
the size of a flashlight at the man
and pressed a small button. Two
tiny darts flew to their target,
knocking the man out cold with
50,000 volts of electricity.
From the rough bar in working-
class Lebanon, Pa., to tranquil
neighborhoods in Portland, Ore., a
new weapon called the Air Taser is
being added to the private citizen’s
personal shield against crime.
Police have used tasers since
the 1970s. About 18 months ago,
Air Taser Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz.,
began exclusive marketing of the
civilian version; the company
claims to have sold more than
10,000 guns.
The cost is $250, but it can
climb to $500 with the addition of
laser sights, fanny packs and re
placement cartridges.
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