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Well, thank you a lot and good evening.

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The half century of the Tony's has seen
on the Broadway stage the work of a

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remarkably brilliant cast of American
playwrights along with Arthur Miller to

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name just a few. Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee
Williams, William Eng, Neil Simon,

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Edward Alby, August
Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein,

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Tony Kushner and Terrance McNally, and
the Tony Award for best play goes to,

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I can read it from here,
Terrance McNally's Masterclass.

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This isn't just an.

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That can contain the world of the
Broadway musical. Get my hands around it,

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so to speak. Be the master
of one little universe.

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Besides when I'm alone,

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it gives me great pleasure to sing
and dance around the apartment.

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I especially like big spender from Sweet
Charity and I'm going back where I can

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be me from Bel a ringing.

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I could never do this with anyone
watching, of course, even a boyfriend.

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If I had one, which I don't.

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I'm not going to dedicate
this to my mother,

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but I'm going to dedicate it to my high
school English teacher, Maureen McElroy,

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and I grew up in a really shitty town

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and they know I feel
that way about it. So.

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I will tell you one thing. I could never,

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not in a million years be seriously
involved with a man who says,

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pardon my French all the time.

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Done, finished. You got.

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Where do you pick up? An expression
like that had a respect for a person,

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a woman in this case, the
first time you said it tonight,

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I practically told you I had a
headache and had to go home. See,

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that is so scary that three
little words, pardon my French,

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could separate two people from saying
the three little words that would make

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them connect. What? Three little words.

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I love you.

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We are very proud to welcome the most
talked about playwright in America.

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Mr. Edward Alby.

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There seems to be an underlining

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theme in your plays

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concerned with marriage. Am I right?

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Yeah. Some people have said that.

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It's one of the things that seem
to concern the majority of people.

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Almost everybody who counts is
married except a few people.

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Some people are happy with it,
some people are unhappy with it.

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What do you think of it?

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Am single. I like it. I think it's fine.

00:27:54.455 --> 00:27:57.515
Of course, I would've been wonderful
in the part it was written for me.

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Thank God for my series,

00:28:04.945 --> 00:28:07.165
the egos in this business.

00:29:13.195 --> 00:29:17.555
Lorraine, he tells me,
Lorraine, he says, Lorraine,

00:29:18.585 --> 00:29:19.755
fucking weather, man.

00:29:39.015 --> 00:29:43.325
As strange as it may seem, no one is
going to attack you. Someone already has

00:29:44.925 --> 00:29:45.758
beginner's luck.

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And the winner is

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Rita Marina.

00:36:08.445 --> 00:36:11.705
You still want a sandwich before you
go? Yeah, I still want a sandwich.

00:36:12.025 --> 00:36:14.005
Then you're going, you're
not staying over. Well,

00:36:14.005 --> 00:36:16.285
we'll cross that bridge over
get. There is no bridge to cross.

00:36:16.915 --> 00:36:21.365
What are you scared? I'm not
scared. I'm not scared. Yes you are.

00:36:21.675 --> 00:36:23.085
Well, not like in a horror movie.

00:36:23.445 --> 00:36:26.045
I don't think you're going to pull out a
knife and stab me if that's what you're

00:36:26.045 --> 00:36:28.885
talking about. You need to subject
to, what do you mean? Come on,

00:36:28.885 --> 00:36:31.445
you're going to stand there and tell me
you're not weird. There's some weird,

00:36:31.445 --> 00:36:33.605
there's a whole other side of
you I never saw before. Well,

00:36:33.605 --> 00:36:34.845
what you think all I did was cook.

00:36:34.845 --> 00:36:37.005
There's a whole other side of you I
never saw when we were doing it either.

00:36:37.275 --> 00:36:39.805
Well, because for your first time,

00:36:39.985 --> 00:36:42.525
the passionate and imaginative love.

00:38:47.095 --> 00:38:48.195
All lovers young,

00:38:49.725 --> 00:38:53.745
all lovers must consign
to thee and come to dust.

00:38:57.265 --> 00:38:58.285
You know what's really terrible?

00:38:58.605 --> 00:39:03.535
I can't think of anything terrific
to say in my own words. I mean,

00:39:05.115 --> 00:39:06.375
and I'm the writer in the family.

00:39:10.415 --> 00:39:14.155
Goodbye. I love you.

00:39:40.505 --> 00:39:44.765
I think Andre prefers keeping
me in the dark. I doubt that

00:39:46.915 --> 00:39:48.535
he never tells me anything important.

00:39:49.785 --> 00:39:51.205
Do you ever ask him anything important?

00:39:52.185 --> 00:39:57.005
He can get a straight
answer if I did. Dari.

00:39:58.315 --> 00:39:59.215
Why don't you try him?

00:40:01.625 --> 00:40:03.815
Maybe there's some things
I just assume not know.

00:41:03.265 --> 00:41:05.925
I'd have no career if it
wasn't for Terence McNally.

00:41:06.475 --> 00:41:08.765
When it comes to Terence McNally tributes,

00:41:09.105 --> 00:41:11.605
I'm pretty much on speed
dial for the Tri-state area.

00:41:16.515 --> 00:41:17.485
It's not surprising.

00:41:17.485 --> 00:41:21.245
We have a unique relationship
in the American theater
that began with the Lisbon

00:41:21.545 --> 00:41:23.205
Ravita back in 1989,

00:41:23.205 --> 00:41:26.445
right up to last season's Broadway
revival of its only a play.

00:41:26.825 --> 00:41:29.925
Please understand that
even after all these years,

00:41:30.035 --> 00:41:33.405
it's not hard to find nice things
to say about Terrence McNally.

00:41:33.435 --> 00:41:37.885
He's a brilliant writer and
a wonderful man. Although

00:41:41.465 --> 00:41:45.405
yes, he's nice, but he's not that nice.

00:41:48.105 --> 00:41:52.765
I'm not going to pull any punches.
He has done hard time in the slammer.

00:41:53.435 --> 00:41:55.245
Obviously he has killed people.

00:41:59.915 --> 00:42:03.045
When I wrote this shit, I didn't know
it would be for an opera society.

00:44:24.795 --> 00:44:29.095
It is wonderful to be here to give an
award tonight to my very close friend,

00:44:29.335 --> 00:44:30.095
Terrence McNally,

00:44:30.095 --> 00:44:35.005
because lives together is a wonderful
play and also because Terrance has more

00:44:35.155 --> 00:44:39.445
anxiety about writing a play
than any writer. I know Terrance,

00:44:39.445 --> 00:44:43.925
before sitting down to write a play,
does all his mail, pays all his bills,

00:44:44.735 --> 00:44:48.005
tries to listen to every CD in his
house that he hasn't listened to,

00:44:48.015 --> 00:44:50.005
which is quite a bit to do.

00:44:50.665 --> 00:44:54.645
He then works up his anxiety and
begins thinking, Lynn Meadow hates me.

00:44:54.945 --> 00:44:57.165
The William Morris Agency hates me.

00:44:57.945 --> 00:45:02.045
My mother dot from Texas hates
me. Nathan Lane hates me.

00:45:02.235 --> 00:45:06.085
What am I going to do? And then at
around four in the morning sweating,

00:45:06.145 --> 00:45:10.525
he begins writing a play. And inevitably
these plays are always wonderful,

00:45:11.185 --> 00:45:13.205
so I'm very happy to give
you this award tonight.

00:50:35.390 --> 00:50:38.795
Jesus is just our temporary commercial
of our new musical, the Rink.

00:50:39.025 --> 00:50:42.075
It's a story of a mup and the story
of a daughter and the roller rink.

00:50:42.075 --> 00:50:43.915
They call home the rink.
When we get a free minute,

00:50:43.915 --> 00:50:46.435
we'll do the real commercial with
sets and singing customs, and.

00:51:54.605 --> 00:51:57.345
So close your eyes and you can beat them.

00:51:59.605 --> 00:52:00.438
Why must.

00:52:16.845 --> 00:52:18.505
The nicest thing about being happy.

00:52:20.405 --> 00:52:25.325
You think you'll never be unhappy again.

00:53:04.105 --> 00:53:04.975
Thank you very much.

00:53:05.725 --> 00:53:08.935
This means a lot to someone who grew
up dancing around the house to his

00:53:09.055 --> 00:53:13.055
parents', Broadway cast albums, the
guys were collecting baseball cards.

00:53:13.135 --> 00:53:14.175
I was doing two darn hot.

00:53:53.465 --> 00:53:57.625
I am a God. My name is Ganesha.
I'm also called Vin Shara.

00:53:58.085 --> 00:54:02.305
The queller of obstacles. To this
day before any venture is undertaken,

00:54:02.375 --> 00:54:07.185
Iris Esha, who is invoked and whose
blessings are sought once asked,

00:54:07.765 --> 00:54:12.345
always granted I'm a good
God. Cheerful, giving,

00:54:12.955 --> 00:54:17.465
often smiling, seldom
sad. I am everywhere.

00:54:18.225 --> 00:54:21.145
I am in your mind and in the
thoughts you think in your heart,

00:54:21.375 --> 00:54:26.345
whether full or broken in your face
and in the very air you breathe.

00:54:27.435 --> 00:54:28.268
Inhale.

00:54:32.125 --> 00:54:32.958
Exhale.

00:54:40.735 --> 00:54:45.535
I am in what you eat and evacuate.
I am sunlight, moonlight, dawn,

00:54:45.595 --> 00:54:49.495
and dusk. I am stool. I am
your kiss. I am your cancer.

00:54:50.055 --> 00:54:53.735
I am the smallest insect that
crawls across your picnic basket,

00:54:53.835 --> 00:54:58.295
toward your potato
salad. I am in your hand.

00:54:59.045 --> 00:55:02.595
That squashes it. I am everywhere.

00:55:03.955 --> 00:55:06.985
I am happy. I am Ganesha.

00:56:00.985 --> 00:56:03.905
I think you've come to look more and
more like each other over the years.

00:56:04.125 --> 00:56:06.505
You haven't known us that long.
Oh, that's not what he's saying.

00:56:07.065 --> 00:56:10.025
I think that you love
each other very much.

00:56:10.665 --> 00:56:13.105
I think you will stick it out. Whatever.

00:56:13.385 --> 00:56:18.345
I think right now you're
holding hands that when Perry

00:56:18.525 --> 00:56:21.825
has to take his hand from yours,
Arthur to steer in traffic,

00:56:21.965 --> 00:56:24.125
he puts it back in
yours as soon as he can.

00:56:25.005 --> 00:56:29.005
I think this is how you always drive. I
think this is how you go through life.

00:57:50.145 --> 00:57:53.725
What's your secret? The
secret of unconditional love.

00:57:54.225 --> 00:57:58.725
My brother smiled one lay and shook
his head suggesting he didn't know Dear

00:57:58.725 --> 00:57:59.558
spectators.

00:58:02.175 --> 00:58:06.755
And just then a tear started to
fall from the corner of one eye.

00:58:06.785 --> 00:58:10.875
This tear told me my brother
knew something of the pain I felt

00:58:11.695 --> 00:58:15.675
of never, ever not once being loved.

00:59:57.515 --> 01:00:01.015
The musicals don't all have happy
endings either. Yes, they do.

01:00:01.035 --> 01:00:05.095
That's why I like them. Even the
sad ones, the orchestra plays,

01:00:05.235 --> 01:00:08.215
the characters die. The audience
cries, the curtain falls.

01:00:08.475 --> 01:00:09.895
The actors get up off the floor.

01:00:09.895 --> 01:00:12.655
The audience puts on their couch and
everybody goes home feeling better.

01:00:13.285 --> 01:00:16.175
Lets a happy ending.
Perry, once, just once.

01:00:16.935 --> 01:00:20.615
I want to see a West Side story
where Tony really gets it,

01:00:22.225 --> 01:00:26.895
where they all die. The sharks
and the Jets and Maria asked,

01:00:27.555 --> 01:00:30.895
wow Rat at an officer Crufty, what's
he doing? Sticking out of the theater.

01:00:30.955 --> 01:00:34.855
Get back here and die with everybody
else's hell of a bitch or a king and I

01:00:35.105 --> 01:00:39.655
where you Brenner doesn't get up from
that little Siamese bed for a curtain

01:00:39.805 --> 01:00:40.375
call.

01:00:40.375 --> 01:00:45.295
I want to see a sound of music
where the entire VRA family dies

01:00:48.515 --> 01:00:51.655
in an authentic alpine avalanche,

01:00:52.735 --> 01:00:57.175
a kiss cake where she's got
a big coat on her mouth.

01:00:58.255 --> 01:01:02.375
A funny thing happened on the way to the
forum where the only thing that happens

01:01:02.675 --> 01:01:06.975
is nothing and it's not funny

01:01:07.875 --> 01:01:11.815
and they all die. Waiting, waiting,

01:01:12.445 --> 01:01:15.535
waiting for what? Waiting for nothing.

01:01:16.245 --> 01:01:19.815
Like everyone I know and
care about is including me.

01:01:20.195 --> 01:01:22.215
That's the musical I want to see, Perry,

01:01:22.395 --> 01:01:26.095
but they don't write musicals like
that anymore. In the meantime,

01:01:26.205 --> 01:01:27.935
gateway world get off.

01:03:07.765 --> 01:03:10.065
You all think you're so special.

01:03:11.925 --> 01:03:15.505
You are a D dozen. There are hundreds.

01:03:15.925 --> 01:03:20.705
No thousands of you out there
auditioning, starting, going here,

01:03:20.705 --> 01:03:22.065
there, here and on.

01:03:23.125 --> 01:03:26.625
You expect people to remember
you if you don't have a look.

01:03:30.665 --> 01:03:32.545
I was never arrogant that way.

01:03:33.745 --> 01:03:36.945
I knew I needed a look and I got one.

01:03:38.605 --> 01:03:43.225
You. Yes you. And don't take this person.

01:03:46.445 --> 01:03:47.505
You don't have a look.

01:03:52.535 --> 01:03:56.635
You are very nice. I'm sure
you are. You look very clean,

01:03:56.985 --> 01:04:01.715
very crummy of four, but you
don't have a look. Get one

01:04:04.255 --> 01:04:05.635
as quick as possible.

01:04:06.705 --> 01:04:09.595
It's much easier than
practicing your scales.

01:04:53.815 --> 01:04:58.255
You will believe women can
have balls. She, yes I do.

01:04:59.385 --> 01:05:01.855
There is daring you to show us yours.

01:05:04.025 --> 01:05:06.565
Will you do it? Yes.

01:06:36.585 --> 01:06:39.045
Let me pass. That'll be $25.

01:07:30.295 --> 01:07:32.635
Are they now those who?

01:12:01.585 --> 01:12:05.845
And God saw everything that he
made and behold it was very good.

01:12:06.845 --> 01:12:08.645
I enclo scripture as well as the next man.

01:12:10.065 --> 01:12:13.125
God loves us most when we love each other.

01:12:14.275 --> 01:12:17.455
We accept you and we bless
you. Now who's got to read.

01:12:18.295 --> 01:12:22.255
A controversial play as sending shock
waves from New York City across the whole

01:12:22.255 --> 01:12:22.885
country.

01:12:22.885 --> 01:12:26.615
When a theater announced it would be
performing a non-biblical depiction of a

01:12:26.715 --> 01:12:29.655
gay Jesus Christ's character,
it got death threats.

01:12:51.875 --> 01:12:53.375
In our 25 year history,

01:12:53.715 --> 01:12:58.095
we have never censored a play nor
turned to play down because of content.

01:12:59.435 --> 01:13:01.015
In the face of these accusations,

01:13:01.555 --> 01:13:05.855
we took steps to further evaluate what
has always been the only issue for us

01:13:06.435 --> 01:13:07.895
safety and security.

01:13:14.375 --> 01:13:19.135
I think it's incredibly important
to tell bigots and crazy people that

01:13:19.195 --> 01:13:22.855
in New York City, freedom of
expression is sacrosanct site.

01:15:53.685 --> 01:15:56.185
Hey, who are you calling
A loser. You're my father.

01:15:56.805 --> 01:16:01.065
You're almost a great father except
you needed to kill him. This is it.

01:16:01.585 --> 01:16:04.785
Everyone we know is out there.
You think I'm a great father?

01:16:06.375 --> 01:16:07.208
Said almost.

01:16:08.305 --> 01:16:09.505
I love you. Big fuck.

01:21:06.725 --> 01:21:11.255
Here today to witness reaffirming
of marriage vows of Terrance mc

01:21:12.035 --> 01:21:12.868
and Thomas.

01:21:13.875 --> 01:21:17.615
If there is anyone present today who
knows of any reason why this couple should

01:21:17.615 --> 01:21:22.415
not reaffirm their vows, let them
speak now or forever hold their peace.

01:21:23.895 --> 01:21:24.728
Excellent.

01:21:26.195 --> 01:21:28.975
Do you tar solemnly read,

01:21:28.975 --> 01:21:33.575
declare that you take
Thomas to be your spouse?

01:21:35.955 --> 01:21:40.475
Do you promise to continue to
love, honor, cherish therefore,

01:21:40.475 --> 01:21:44.995
by the powers vested in me by the
state of New York? I nce you, Mary,

01:21:45.335 --> 01:21:47.155
and you may seal your vows with a kiss.

01:22:30.715 --> 01:22:32.775
He was barely 18 when he left Texas.

01:22:33.395 --> 01:22:35.615
That's too young to come
to a city like New York.

01:22:35.955 --> 01:22:38.935
As a young gay man, he didn't
feel comfortable where he was.

01:22:40.345 --> 01:22:42.335
Andre wasn't gay when he came to New York.

01:23:14.135 --> 01:23:16.885
Jesus Christ, woman. Reach
out to someone, let someone.

01:23:17.025 --> 01:23:20.525
In. There's so much I want to
say that's not about Andre.

01:23:20.665 --> 01:23:24.885
It is about me and no one else. Me as
if I were the only person on the planet,

01:23:25.015 --> 01:23:29.365
which is how I felt all my life. There
were other people, a mother, a father,

01:23:29.645 --> 01:23:31.605
a husband, didn't matter.
I was still alone.

01:23:31.865 --> 01:23:35.805
And then there was Andre and I
thought everything would be fine.

01:23:36.345 --> 01:23:39.355
He was going to fix it.
He didn't even come close.