{"id":2155,"date":"2010-08-08T23:55:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2010-08-09T00:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:10:57","slug":"patricia-neway-wins-a-tony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=2155","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Neway wins a Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the nationwide telecast of the Tony Awards, the awards used to be held in a hotel ballroom in the midtown area. Before Alexander Cohen turned it into the event it became, it was a simple affair and there were no performances. The ceremony was telecast locally in NY, and here is a quick sample of 1959&#8217;s winner for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Patricia Neway, accepting for<em> <\/em>the original production of <em>The Sound of Music, <\/em>in which she played the Mother Abbess.<\/p>\n<p>Included after the Tony footage is a photo montage of Neway set to a live recording of the act one finale of <em>The Sound of Music <\/em>from 1960 (For the neophytes: she sings &#8220;Climb Ev&#8217;ry Mountain&#8221; to dramatically bring down the curtain on act one). Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p>%CODE1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the nationwide telecast of the Tony Awards, the awards used to be held in a hotel ballroom in the midtown area. Before Alexander Cohen turned it into the event it became, it was a simple affair and there were no performances. The ceremony was telecast locally in NY, and here is a quick sample &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=2155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patricia Neway wins a Tony<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1872,1813,1006],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-patricia-neway","tag-the-sound-of-music","tag-tony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}