Movie

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006Documentary

Overview

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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Cast

Morgan Freeman
as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")

Annette Bening
as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")

Viola Davis
as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")

BD Wong
as Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")

John Lithgow
as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")

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

Kevin Kline
as Hamlet (segment "Hamlet")

Maggie Smith
as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")

Joan Allen
as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")

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

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

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