Rose Billings and the Board of Governors of The National Arts Club presented the medal of honor to legendary stage designer, Tony Walton, at their cocktail and dinner ceremony "A Night the Shining Stars Come Out" on Sunday November 18. On-hand at the event were notables Mike Nichols, Sydney Lumet and Jim Dale.
Tony Walton has been working as a stage director and teacher increasingly over the last 12 years, but is principally a designer of settings and, frequently, costumes for theatre and film. His many designs for Broadway and the West End include last season's Well and the recent revivals of Our Town, I'm Not Rappaport, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Uncle Vanya, Annie Get Your Gun, 1776, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls and Anything Goes. Other Broadway designs include Bob Fosse's original productions of Chicago and Pippin, Pinter's Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes, Grand Hotel, The Real Thing, The Will Rogers Follies, The House of Blue Leaves, Madison Square Garden's Annual Christmas Carol and Julie Andrew's triumphant revival of The Boyfriend, which recently completed its US tour.
The National Arts Club is located at 15 Gramercy Park South.
Photos by Barry Gordin
