The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (2006)

Documentary

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.

Director: Christopher A. Cohen

Casts

	Harvey Fierstein as Host
	James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson (segment "The Great White Hope") / Troy Maxson (segment "Fences")
	Jane Alexander as Eleanor Bachman (segment "The Great White Hope") / Sara Goode (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
	Gary Sinise as Randle P. McMurphy (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
	Amy Morton as Nurse Ratched (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
	Tim Sampson as Chief Bromden (segment "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")
	Maggie Smith as Lettice Douffet (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
	Margaret Tyzack as Lotte Schoen (segment "Lettice and Lovage")
	John Lithgow as René Gallimard (segment "M. Butterfly")
	BD Wong as Song Liling (segment "M. Butterfly")
	Sam Waterston as John Honeyman (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
	Robert Prosky as Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
	Annette Bening as Holly Dancer (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
	Tim Daly as Leo Hart (segment "Coastal Disturbances")
	Madeline Kahn as Gorgeous Teitelbaum (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
	Robert Klein as Mervyn Kant (segment "The Sisters Rosensweig")
	Art Carney as Andy Tracey (segment "Lovers")
	Anna Manahan as Hanna (segment "Lovers")
	Joan Allen as Heidi Holland (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
	Peter Friedman as Scoop Rosenbaum (segment "The Heidi Chronicles")
	Linda Lavin as Marjorie (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
	Michele Lee as Lee (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
	Tony Roberts as Ira (segment "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife")
	Joe Mantegna as Bobby Gould (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
	Ron Silver as Charlie Fox (segment "Speed-the-Plow")
	Philip Bosco as Saunders (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
	Victor Garber as Max (segment "Lend Me a Tenor")
	Charles S. Dutton as Boy Willie (segment "The Piano Lesson")
	Rocky Carroll as Lymon (segment "The Piano Lesson")
	Carl Gordon as Doaker (segment "The Piano Lesson")
	S. Epatha Merkerson as Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")
	Courtney B. Vance as Corey (segment "Fences")
	Brian Stokes Mitchell as King (segment "King Hedley II")
	Viola Davis as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
	Delroy Lindo as Herald Loomis (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
	Ed Hall as Bynum Walker (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
	Mel Winkler as Seth Holly (segment "Joe Turner's Come and Gone")
	Kevin Kline as Hamlet (segment "Hamlet")
	Len Cariou as James Tyrone (segment "Long Day's Journey Into Night")
	Morgan Freeman as Jaques (segment "As You Like It")

Crew