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The youngest actor to win a Tony Award, at age 11, was Frankie Michaels, for his featured role in Mame (1966) a record which still stands today. 25 years later, at 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 years old, Daisy Eagan took home a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for The Secret Garden, cementing her place in Tony history as the youngest woman to ...
The Tony Awards are the New York theatre industry's equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for film. A person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. The Tony Awards are the U.S. equivalent of the United Kingdom's Laurence Olivier Awards and France's Molière Awards.
The 34th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS television on June 8, 1980, from the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The hosts were Mary Tyler Moore and Jason Robards . The theme was " understudies "; each of the hosts and presenters had been understudies and offered anecdotes of that beginning.
The 66th Annual Tony Awards was held on June 10, 2012, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2011–2012 season. The ceremony was held at the Beacon Theatre, and was broadcast live on CBS television. [4] With Neil Patrick Harris was the host of the ceremony, it marked the third time that Harris hosted the Tony Awards show.
The ultimate achievement in Hollywood is achieving an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (an EGOT). There are only 21 actors, producers, directors, and composers who have been awarded all four.
Arden won Best Direction of a Musical for his revivial of ‘Parade’
The award show, which honors Broadway's biggest stars, had plenty of surprise winners on Sunday evening.
Ceremony Date Best Musical Best Play Host(s) Location Network(s) U.S. viewers (millions) 1st: April 6, 1947 — — Brock Pemberton: Waldorf Astoria New York