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The 2008 Tony Awards Sunday, June 15th 8/7c CBS
Nominees & Awards Winners List

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Honorees
Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Harold Prince
Harold Prince  Speech
Director and producer Harold Prince will receive his 21st Tony Award this year. Within five years of beginning his Broadway career as an assistant stage manager, he had earned his first Tony, for co-producing The Pajama Game (1955). He has received more Tonys than any other individual: eight for Best Direction of a Musical, eight for his work as a producer of Best Musicals, two as Best Producer of a Musical (a now discontinued category), and two Special Tony Awards for his work on Candide and Fiddler on the Roof.
Regional Theatre Tony Award®
Intiman Theatre, Seattle, WA
Intiman Theatre, Seattle, WA  Speech
Under the direction of Bartlett Sher (2006 Best Direction of a Play nominee for Awake and Sing!) and Laura Penn, Seattle's Intiman Theatre is dedicated to producing new plays and classics. Shows that have premiered at Intiman and gone on to receive Tony Awards and nominations include The Kentucky Cycle and The Light in the Piazza.
Special Tony Award
Sarah Jones
Sarah Jones  Speech
A native of Queens, New York, Sarah Jones has performed throughout the U.S. and toured India, Europe and South Africa. She began her career as a writer and competitor in poetry slams at the Nuyorican Poets Caf�, where she developed her first show, Surface Transit. She will receive a Special Tony Award for Bridge & Tunnel, which she wrote and currently performs at the Helen Hays Theatre. The one-woman show premiered Off Broadway in the spring of 2004 and re-opened on Broadway in January 2006.
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