Product Details

• Actors: Sam Waterston
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Acorn Media
• DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007
• Run Time: 65 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NTM9ZC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,034 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Four-time Tony®-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein is your host for a compilation of amazing dramatic performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars perform key scenes from 19 legendary shows, performances seen only once in their original telecast. Collected here with commentary by a Broadway veteran, they become a treasure-trove for fans of great drama.

James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, cast, THE GREAT WHITE HOPE
Gary Sinise, Tim Sampson, cast, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
Maggie Smith, Margaret Tyzack, LETTICE AND LOVAGE
John Lithgow, B. D. Wong, M. BUTTERFLY
Robert Prosky, Sam Waterston, A WALK IN THE WOODS
Annette Benning, Timothy Daly, COASTAL DISTURBANCES
Robert Klein, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, SISTERS ROSENSWEIG
Art Carney, Anna Manahan, LOVERS
Joan Allen, Peter Friedman, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES
Michele Lee, Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts, THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE
Joe Mantegna, Ron Silver, SPEED-THE-PLOW
Philip Bosco, Victor Garber, LEND ME A TENOR
Charles S. Dutton, Rocky Carroll, Carl Gordon, S. Epatha Merkerson, THE PIANO LESSON
James Earl Jones, Courtney B. Vance, FENCES
Viola Davis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, KING HEDLEY II
Ed Hall, Delroy Lindo, Mel Winkler, JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE
Kevin Kline, HAMLET
Len Cariou, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Morgan Freeman, AS YOU LIKE IT

BONUS EXTRA: Original PLAYBILL® cover art

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Smorgasboard of Delights, July 16, 2007

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Gerard D. Launay (Berkeley, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays (DVD)

The best way to think about this DVD is that it gives you snippets of
fantastic moments of Broadway plays...not musicals, but the plays. Just
to see James Earl Jones in "Fences" and Maggie Smith in "Lettice and Lovage" is worth the price of the disc. The problem is that these
moments are so good, that we dearly want to see the whole play. Unfortunately, it appears that DVDs of the entire performance of some of these selections do not exist. Nevertheless, seeing some excellent shorts is better than none at all.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars interesting to see, June 7, 2007

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Phillip Davis "Philly" (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays (DVD)

I always enjoy watching moments from the broadway shows. I believe this is the first DVD out that shows scenes from actual broadway plays. I have the other DVDs that show moments from the musicals which I still prefer as I am a musical buff. However, I still enjoyed watching scenes from the broadway plays. I only wish that the scenes were longer. I am sure that since this one has been released, there will be more magical momernts from Broadway to come out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent scenes iven if themes are repetitive, July 18, 2010

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Meredith L. Burton "Bookworm" (Lynchburg, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays (DVD)

I am a huge theatre fan! Going to plays has always been an enjoyable experience for me, and I've always dreamed of participating in theatrical productions.

"The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays" contains several scenes from famous dramas and comedies. All the scenes are superbly acted in a live setting. This fact makes them extremely enjoyable. A brief narration before each scene places the action in the appropriate context. My favorite scenes are as follows:

1. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Gary Senise portrays the inmate McMurphy, who pretends to be insane to escape a prison sentence. His flamboyant atitude clashes with authoritative Nurse Ratchet. In this scene, McMurphy tries to buoy the spirits of inmate Chief before they both undergo shock treatment therapy.
2. "Lettice and Lovage." Maggie Smith is hilareous in this comic scene about an eccentric tour guide at a British estate.
3. "Fences." James Erle Jones portrays Troy who confronts his son in this heartwrenching scene.

Please give this excellent compilation a chance. God bless.