65th Tony Awards Stevenson Award is awarded to Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day. The Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre is given to animal trainer William Berloni, The Drama Book Shop (West 40th Street in Manhattan), and Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. The Special Tony Award is given to Handspring Puppet Company, "for creating lifelike horses (manipulated by three actor-puppeteers)". The Regional Theatre Tony Award is presented to Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, Illinois). Source: Tony Awards "The Book of Mormon" received 14 nominations, the most of any production, and won nine, including Best Musical; "The Scottsboro Boys" received 12
Copacabana (musical) from Tulsa, Oklahoma as stated in the beginning of "Just Arrived". Unreleased "Barry Manilow Presents Copacabana" Cast Recording In 1994, the one-hour show was expanded into a three million dollar full-length musical. It premiered on March 21, 1994, at Theatre Royal in Plymouth, England. It also played Manchester, Edinburgh and then London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre from June 23, 1994 to September 9, 1996. It followed with a UK tour for an additional year. This adaptation originally starred Gary Wilmot as Tony/Stephen and Nicola Dawn as Lola. An original cast album of this production was released,