It won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Choreographer Herbert Ross received the show's sole Tony Award nomination.

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Category: Tony Award winners

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

Category: Tony Award winning musicals

Other productions in the United States include one in 1902 starring Minnie Maddern Fiske and a 1997 production starring Janet McTeer ( in a critically acclaimed performance ) at the Belasco Theater, which received three Tony Awards and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.

Category: Tony Award winning plays

Together with Ulvaeus, Andersson was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in a category " Outstanding Music " ( for the musical Chess ), and for a Tony Award in a category " Best Orchestrations " ( for musical Mamma Mia !).

* 1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate ( 1, 077 performances ), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.

He played the role in London and then on Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

Xanadu was turned into a surprising hit Broadway Musical that opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews and received 4 Tony Award nominations.

Coleman is parodied in the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, which won the 2004 Tony Award for best musical.

Richard Burton received his third Tony Award nomination when he played his second Hamlet, his first under John Gielgud's direction, in 1964 in a production that holds the record for the longest run of the play in Broadway history ( 136 performances ).

Other New York portrayals of Hamlet of note include that of Ralph Fiennes's in 1995 ( for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor ) – which ran, from first preview to closing night, a total of one hundred performances.

His music and lyrics garnerned a Tony Award nomination.

He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins ' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical.

On Broadway, he appeared in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, Kander & Ebb's The Rink, Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, Accomplice, and Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, for which he garnered the 1989 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of " Uncle Louie " in Neil Simon's Broadway hit Lost in Yonkers.

On April 18, 2010, Grammer made his Broadway musical debut playing the role of Georges in a revival of the Jerry Herman / Harvey Fierstein musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

In 2010, Grammer enjoyed his first Tony Award nomination for La Cage Aux Folles as Best Leading Actor in a Musical.

Patinkin went on to win that year's Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical.

" It was not until the third awards ceremony in 1949 that the first Tony medallion was given to award winners.

Ask Tony was doomed from the moment Kupcinet leveled on it in his Sun-Times column.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

This was the beginning of one of the greatest periods in English cricket history with players such as captain Len Hutton, batsmen Denis Compton, Peter May, Tom Graveney, Colin Cowdrey, bowlers Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, Alec Bedser, Jim Laker, Tony Lock and wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans.

When the wake-up call was issued to the Apollo 16 crew for their final day in space by capsule communicator Tony England, the spacecraft was about out from Earth, traveling just over.

The government, headed by Tony Blair, however, blocked all attempts to revise the succession laws, claiming it would raise too many constitutional issues and it was unnecessary at the time.

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as " passing parameters by name " ( which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned ).

The scenic and costume design was by Tony Walton.

On August 18, 1967, Red Sox batter Tony Conigliaro was hit almost directly in the left eye by a fastball thrown by Jack Hamilton of the California Angels.

The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.

Some believed that Hague had been unlucky, although most considered him to be a talented orator and an intelligent statesman, he had come up against the charismatic Tony Blair in the pomp of his political career, and it was no surprise that little progress was made in reducing Labour's majority after a relatively smooth parliament.

After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

Across the street was Tammany Hall, and next to it Tony Pastor's, where stars of the stage were born.

Costas, along with Tony Kubek, was calling the Saturday baseball Game of the Week from Chicago's Wrigley Field.

Commander Tony Less was the squadron's first official commanding officer.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960.

He was seen when Tony Gordon tried to evict him from his property, causing Jed to have a heart attack.

She rightly believed that Tony had murdered Liam, however, no one believed her except Tony's enemy Jed Stone, who was lodging with Emily Bishop.