News & Views from the Drama Desk
For Immediate Release
DRAMA DESK 50TH ANNIVERSARY TELECAST TO BE STAR-STUDDED!
AWARDS SHOW WILL FEATURE MANY STARS AS PRESENTERS AND PERFORMANCES BY CAST MEMBERS OF
NOMINATED MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS
Awards Ceremony to be Televised by Public Television Stations Nationally, Including Thirteen/WNET New York
When Harvey Fierstein, the multi award-winning comic actor currently winning rave reviews in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, hoststhe 50 TH ANNUAL DRAMA DESK AWARDS on Sunday, May 22 at the LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, he will be joined on-stage by some of the brightest luminaries of the current New York theatre season as award presenters and performers. Among the confirmed Award Presenters are: Alan Alda (Glengarry Glen Ross), Hank Azaria (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Christina Applegate (Sweet Charity), Delta Burke (Steel Magnolias), Sutton Foster (Little Women), Jeff Goldblum (The Pillowman), Robert Goulet(La Cage aux Folles), Ethan Hawke (Hurlyburly), Patti Lupone, David Hyde Pierce (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Rue McClanahan, Maureen McGovern (Little Women),Lynn Redgrave(The Constant Wife), Liev Schreiber (Glengarry Glen Ross), Tommy Tune,Kathleen Turner (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) and the cast of The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
In addition, there will be performances by cast members from current nominated musicals, including the cast of Altar Boyz, nominee Victoria Clarke (The Light in the Piazza), nominee Sherie Renee Scott (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), and nominee Maureen McGovern (Little Women).
The Awards Ceremony will be taped and a two-hour version will be aired on NYC TV Channel 25 on Wednesday, May 25, and Friday, May 27, at 8 PM each night, as well as on Thirteen/WNET on Sunday, May 29, at 12 Noon.
The two-hour taped Drama Desk Awards special will also be fed to all public television stations around the country via satellite for later broadcast by the National Educational Television Association (NETA). To date, the following PBS stations have confirmed broadcast dates and times:
| WEAO TV (Akron, Ohio) | Friday, May 27, at 10 PM |
| WNEO TV Alliance (Ohio) | Friday, May 27, at 10 PM |
| WQED TV Pittsburgh (PA) | Sunday, May 29, at 3 PM |
| WHYY TV Philadelphia | Thursday, June 2, at 10 PM |
| KTCI TV Channel 17 | Thursday, June 2, at 8 PM |
| WKNO TV Memphis (TN) | Sunday, June 12, at 6 PM |
| KQED TV San Francisco (CA) | Sunday, June 12, at 6 PM |
| WPBT TV Channel 2 Miami FL | Sunday, June 26, at 4 PM |
Press Contact: Les Schecter
Tel: 212/586-2600
Email: lester.schecter@verizon.net
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