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ANNOUNCER: And now -- Dixie Carter! The star of CBS-TV's popular, Family Law, Ms. Carter most recently appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning, Master Class.
DIXIE: Thank you. Good evening. In the 1970's, I did some exciting plays for Joe Papp, down at The Public Theatre . . . In one unforgettable piece, I was featured in the top of the second act as (looks up and afar, dramatically) "The Chained Woman." (audience laughs) Well, I just couldn't wait for Joe to see me in all that leather. And, so, on the first preview night, he came. He walked into the theatre; he watched the first act; he walked out of the theatre and he closed that play at INTERMISSION! (purses lips, mock-resentful; audience laughs) Leaving "The Chained Woman" hanging, so to speak. (smiles)
We did not make it to Broadway. We did not make it to the second act! (Dixie and audience laughs) PLUS -- I am not the only person here tonight who was in that thing! (audience erupts in laughter and applause) Mandy Patinkin was in it, too! (Dixie laughs with the audience as if sharing a private joke on one of Broadway's most beloved) He just doesn't put in in his bio. (charmingly wicked smile).
This season, four Broadway productions that together racked up 18 Tony nominations -- Contact, James Joyce's The Dead, The Green Bird, and Dirty Blonde -- were first done Off-Broadway and, in fact, three of tonight's five nominees for Best Featured Actor in a Play originally played their roles Off-Broadway. And, the nominees are:
Kevin Chamberlin, for Dirty Blonde;
Daniel Davis, for Wrong Mountain;
Roy Dotrice, for A Moon for the MIsbegotten;
Derek Smith, for The Green Bird;
and Bob Stillman, for Dirty Blonde.
And the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play goes to . . . Roy Dotrice, A Moon for the Misbegotten!
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