Tony Award-winning actors gather for a group photo June 1, 2006, at the Shubert Theatre in New York to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Tony Awards, which will be presented June 11 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast live on CBS.
Edward Herrmann, the first to arrive for a group portrait session of approximately 100 Tony Award-winning actors, keeps busy before the shoot June 1, 2006, at the Shubert Theatre in New York. Herrmann won his Tony in 1976 for his work in a featured role in "Mrs. Warren's Profession." He also was nominated in 1983 for his leading role in "Plenty."
Liza Minnelli arrives to take part in a group portrait session of Tony award-winning actors June 1, 2006, at the Shubert Theatre in New York. As lead actress in a musical, Minnelli has won two Tonys: "Flora, the Red Menace" (1965) and "The Act" (1978). She was presented with a special Tony Award in 1974 "for adding lustre to the Broadway season."
Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson arrive at a group portrait session of Tony award-winning actors June 1, 2006, at the Shubert Theatre in New York, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Tony Awards. Fiennes won in 1995 for his performance as "Hamlet" and is nominated this year for his work in "Faith Healer." Richardson won the Tony for her lead performance in "Cabaret" (1998).
Matthew Broderick ("Brighton Beach Memoirs," 1983, and "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," 1995) has his tie adjusted by Betty Buckley ("Cats," 1983), during a group photo of about 100 Tony Award-winning actors at the Shubert Theatre June 1, 2006, in New York. (Also included in this photo are Jane Alexander and Mary Alice, front row left and right, Philip Bosco, left, and Brian Dennehy, back right).
Brian Dennehy, left, Mary Alice and James Earl Jones got together before the portrait session. Dennehy and Jones each have won two Tonys: Dennehy, for his lead performances in "Death of a Salesman" (1999) and "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (2003), and Jones, for his lead performances in "The Great White Hope" (1969) and "Fences" (1987). Alice won as best featured actress in a play for "Fences" (1987).
Harvey Fierstein, Mandy Patinkin and Sutton Foster pose together. Fierstein has won several Tonys as an actor and a writer, for "Hairspray" (2003); best book of a musical, "La Cage aux Folles" (1984); and, for "Torch Song Trilogy" (1983), best actor and best play. Patinkin won for "Evita!" (1980) and Foster for "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (2002). She is up this year for "The Drowsy Chaperone."
Judd Hirsch is interviewed before the group portrait session. Hirsch has won two Tonys as lead actor in a play for "Conversations With My Father" (1992) and "I'm Not Rappaport" (1986).
Glenn Close, second row, Ralph Fiennes, behind her, and Edward Herrmann, behind him, were among Tony winners who gathered for a group photo June 1 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Tony Awards. Close has three Tonys: "Sunset Boulevard" (1995); "Death and the Maiden" (1992) and "The Real Thing" (1984). Fiennes won in 1995 for his performance as "Hamlet" and is nominated this year for his work in "Faith Healer."
Bebe Neuwirth and Ben Vereen pose as they leave a group portrait session of Tony award-winning actors June 1, 2006. Neuwirth won the Tony for her lead performance as Velma in "Chicago" (1997) and as featured actress in a musical for "Sweet Charity" (1986). Vereen won the Tony for his lead performance in the musical "Pippin" (1973).
Tony award-winning actors gather for a group photo at Shubert Theatre on June 1, 2006, in New York. Included in this photo are, in front row, Joan Allen ("Burn This," 1988), left, and Elizabeth Ashley ("Take Her, She's Mine," 1962), second from right; in second row, Ellen Burstyn ("Same Time, Next Year," 1975), second from left. Among those in the fourth row is Joel Grey ("Cabaret," 1967, and "Chicago," 1987).