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The 54th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 4, 2000 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was hosted by Rosie O'Donnell, with special guest Nathan Lane. O'Donnell has hosted a total of three times: 1997, 1998, and 2000. ==The Ceremony== The opening number was "A Tony Opening", performed by Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Jesse L. Martin, and Megan Mullally.〔Lefkowitz, David.("1999-2000 Tony Awards" ) playbill.com, June 5, 2000〕 Production numbers from musicals included ''Contact'', Boyd Gaines and the Girl in the Yellow Dress, Deborah Yates; ''Kiss Me, Kate'', "Too Darn Hot"; ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', "Superstar" and "Gethsemane"; ''The Music Man'', Craig Bierko in "Seventy-Six Trombones" ; ''The Wild Party'', medley from Mandy Patinkin, Eartha Kitt and Toni Collette; ''Swing!'', medley from company and Ann Hampton Callaway and Laura Benanti; and ''James Joyce's The Dead'', "Parnell's Plight."〔Lefkowitz, David.("Putting It Together For PBS: How the First Tony Hour Is Created" ) playbill.com, June 2, 2000〕 Ten awards were presented prior to the main ceremony and were broadcast on Public Television in a show titled "The First 10 Awards: Tonys 2000." The show had interviews and showed clips from the season's productions, and presented the awards: Direction (Play and Musical), Choreography, Original Score, Book of a Musical, Costume Design, Scenic Design, Orchestration, Lighting Design and Regional Theater.〔 Michael Blakemore is the only director to win Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play and Best Director of a Musical in the same year. He won this year for ''Copenhagen'' (play) and ''Kiss Me, Kate'' (musical). The television ratings for this broadcast were 7.2, down from the 1999 Tony Award broadcast of 7.9. In prior years in which O'Donnell hosted, the program had ratings of 11.2 (1997) and 10.3 (1998).〔Lefkowitz, David.(Tony Award TV Ratings Down Again; Overnights Bested by Regis and B-Ball" ) playbill.com, June 5, 2000〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「54th Tony Awards」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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