Honoring the American dream: baseball and Hairspray rack up the pre-Tony awards in New York City.(Awards & Prizes)
American Theatre, July, 2003 by Hart, Sarah
The whirlwind of New York's 2003 awards season--which began in early May with the Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards and culminated in early June with Broadway's Tony festivities--reads like a love letter to classic Americana, from rock-and-roll, to Billy Joel, to the old ballgame. For complete listings of the season's honorees, go to www.tcg.org.
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The big winner of the year, of course, also had the biggest hair: The musical remake of John Waters's campy, Cinderellameets--"American Bandstand" film Hairspray took best-musical laurels from ...
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