Producer Jeffrey Richards: My partners Jerry Frankel and Jam Theatricals said I should prepare a speech and I'm afraid I didn't. But I want to say that there is nothing more thrilling for all of my partners who are gathered here on stage than to go to the Bernard Jacobs Theatre eight times a week and hear the dazzling dialogue of David Mamet, one of our great playwrights--40 plays and this is his first Tony. We share this with him. We share this with the brilliant director Joe Mantello, and we share it with seven great artists who give eight thrilling performances a week. Let me mention them: Alan Alda, Liev Schrieber, Jeffrey Tambor, Frederick Weller, Tom Wopat, Gordon Clapp and Jordan Lage. Thank you for this great honor tonight.

Additional Thanks

Though the Tony music (to indicate that you have overstayed your time on air) didn't interrupt my speech, I wasn't able to thank so many of the people who made this production of Glengarry so memorable. All of the producers who joined Jerry Frankel and Jam Theatricals (Steve and Arnie) were wonderfully collaborative-- their names are listed in the Playbill above the title but I thank them all. Ultimately I owe an extra special dose of gratitude to Jerry Frankel, who had partnered with me on Gore Vidal's The Best Man and whose support and smarts over the years have been invaluable.

I didn't mention the design team--Santo Loquasto, Laura Bauer, and Ken Posner-- their work was invaluable and inspired. My partners and I salute them.

I mentioned all of our actors who give life to this play eight times a week; we are so grateful to Bernard Telsey and his associates for their magnificent work in putting together this great ensemble--and we thank all the managers and agents who cooperated to make this venture affordable for us. But we especially thank our Managers--the stage management team of Billy Barnes and Jill Cordle who are guiding the show at every performance; our managers Albert Poland and Bruce Klinger who help us all be better producers; and our personal Agent, press agent Irene Gandy, who has worked with me personally for nearly 20 years, and is not only terrific at what she does but is a terrific human being.

We don't get to Broadway without a theatre--and it is so exciting to be in a Shubert House, especially the Bernard B. Jacobs, thank you Jerry and Phil.

A special thanks to Eric Sanders, Alana Karpoff, and Adam Farabee who support me day in and day out at the office.

And finally I dedicate this award to my Mom, Helen, who was a Manager and Press Agent in the theatre and encouraged my love for the theatre for many years. And would have been terrified (but proud) that I became a producer.