Midler wins Tony Award
VETERAN singer-actor Bette Midler won the Tony Award for best actress in a musical for 'Hello Dolly' as Broadway handed out its highest honours last Sunday night in New York.
VETERAN singer-actor Bette Midler won the Tony Award for best actress in a musical for Hello Dolly as Broadway handed out its highest honours last Sunday night in New York.
Midler plays widowed matchmaker Dolly Levi in the role made famous in the original Broadway production by Carol Channing. The revival also won an award for best musical revival.
Oslo, a play in which Israeli and Palestinian negotiators struggle to hammer out a peace deal at the 1993 Oslo Accords, won the Tony Award for best new play and its Jewish lead actor, Michael Aronov, was recognised as best featured actor in a play.
The musical Dear Evan Hansen, about a boy who gets caught up in a lie after the death of a classmate, was named best new musical and led the way with six Tonys, including for its star, Jewish actor Ben Platt, as best actor in a musical, and Rachel Bay Jones for best featured actress.
Benji Pasek, who is Jewish, and Justin Paul also won for best book, best orchestrations and best original score.
Rebecca Teichman won best director for Indecent, which recounts the bumpy journey to Broadway of Sholem Asch’s controversial 1907 Yiddish play God of Vengeance.
Christopher Ashley won the best director award for a musical for Come From Away, about a small town in Newfoundland, Canada, that took in the passengers of 38 airplanes diverted on 9/11. One of the characters in the musical is a rabbi, who helps arrange kosher food, and meets with a local Holocaust survivor.
AMY SPIRO / The Jerusalem Post
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