SILVER SPRING, MD; March 6, 2007 —Acorn Media announces the May 1, 2007 release of The Best of the Tony Awards®-The Plays, part of Acorn’s bestselling Broadway’s Lost Treasures Collection, not previously available separately.

Four-time Tony®-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein is 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.

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

BONUS EXTRA: Original PLAYBILL® cover art for the featured plays.

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