“It is a privilege to appear in Lillian Hellman’s eerily prescient play, at this specific moment in history,” she said. Instead, David Hyde Pierce, also a Tony nominee, sang “A Penny in My Pocket,” a solo ditty that was cut from the original Broadway production. VideoBest Show of Star PowerMs. Midler got the last laugh: She won the Tony for best leading actress in a musical and managed to quiet the orchestra as it tried to play her off during her delightfully long-winded acceptance speech. At 83, she won her first competitive Tony, for her costumes in the revival of “The Little Foxes.” (In 2014 she received a special Tony for lifetime achievement.) But John Mulaney and Nick Kroll brought a welcome spritz of irreverence to the stage, reminding us all over again that “Oh, Hello!

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 15:22 UTC