The Best of the Tony Awards: The Plays on Video – 2005

Four-time Tony®-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein is your 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. Collected here with commentary by a Broadway veteran, they become a treasure-trove for fans of great drama.

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