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Photo Coverage: On the Red Carpet at the American Theatre Wing Gala Honoring Angela Lansbury!

By: Sep. 16, 2014
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The American Theatre Wing held its annual gala last night, September 15 at The Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue at Central Park South), honoring Dame Angela Lansbury, who has served as Honorary Chairman of the American Theatre Wing Board of Trustees since 2010. BroadwayWorld was there for the special event and you can check out photos from the glamorous red carpet arrivals below!

Dame Angela Lansbury has enjoyed an extraordinary career spanning more than seventy years, first as a star of motion pictures, and as an award-winning stage actor in New York and London. Most recently on Broadway, she appeared as Mrs. Sue-Ellen Gamadge in Gore Vidal's The Best Man, and as Madame Armfeldt in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music (Tony Award® nomination). For her energetic portrayal of Madame Arcati in the 2009 revival of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, she won her fifth Tony Award®, as well as Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. She received her four other Tonys for her triumphant leading-actress turns in the musicals Mame in 1966, Dear World in 1968, the Gypsy revival in 1974, and Sweeney Todd in 1979.

From 1984 to 1996, she made television history starring as Jessica Fletcher on "Murder, She Wrote," the longest-running detective drama series in TV history, winning four of her six Golden Globe Awards. In November 2013, Angela received an Honorary Oscar "for her extravagant achievements in cinematic industry of her career of 75 years." She also received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. In 1994, Queen Elizabeth named her a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and promoted to Dame Commander in 2014. Married in 1949, she and husbandPeter Shaw worked together until his death in 2003. She has three children and three grandchildren.

For nearly a century, the Wing has pursued this mission with programs that span the nation to invest in the growth and evolution of American Theatre.Traditionally, the Wing has encouraged members of the theatre community to share their off-stage time and talent directly with the theatre audience at large--whether it was singing for the troops in the Stage Door Canteen of the 1940's, or sharing their stories on a podcast today.

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LaTanya Richardson Jackson

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Judy Collins

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Pauletta Washington

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Dan Rather and Jean Goebel

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Pia Lindstrom and Nick Daly

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Nathan Johnson and Laura Osnes

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Nathan Johnson and Laura Osnes

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Laura Osnes

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Laura Osnes

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Steve Blanchard, Stephanie Styles and Dan DeLuca

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Len Cariou and Heather Summerhayes Cariou

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Kenny Leon

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Tonya Lewis Lee

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James Monroe Iglehart, Courtney Reed, and Adam Jacobs

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Jordan Roth

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Chantel Riley and Aaron Nelson

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Chantel Riley and Aaron Nelson

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James Monroe Iglehart

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James Monroe Iglehart

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Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley

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Roger Rees and Rick Elice

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Jim Dale

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Jim Dale, Heather Hitchens, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, David Henry Hwang and William Ivey Long

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Sir Howard Stringer, Angela Lansbury and Harold Prince

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Marva Smalls, Heather Hitchens, Sir Howard Stringer, Angela Lansbury, Harold Prince , Anki Leeds, William Ivey Long and CeCe Black

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Angela Lansbury

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Angela Lansbury

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James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury

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James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury

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James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury

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Kate Burton and Edward Herrmann

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Kate Burton and Edward Herrmann




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