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The
Tony Award is Broadway theatre's highest and best known honour.
Shuler's Acceptance Speech : "In the words of Jud Fry, 'That's a dinger, that is!' You get up here and you totally blank out. I have to say thank you to the leaders, Trevor Nunn and Susan Stroman, who started this journey four years ago, and I was a part of it. I thank them for their leadership, and most importantly, their friendship. It means the world to me that I can be a friend to both of them. To the cast and crew and orchestra at the Gershwin, stage management, my dresser Mark Caine, who lives in the smokehouse with me eight shows a week. I want to thank my family - Paula, my wife, my daughter, Skyler, and my mom and dad who are here tonight - I love you! My sister and to all the friends and family here who made this journey possible. Thank you so much!"
Marietta native Hensley wins Tony for Oklahoma! : Shuler Hensley - the 35-year-old Westminster Schools graduate whose portrayal of Jud Fry in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! has been one of the most celebrated performances of the Broadway season - picked up a Tony Award at Sunday night's ceremony in Manhattan. "In the words of Jud Fry, that's a dinger, that is," said the Marietta-born star in his acceptance speech. He also thanked his wife Paula, his 2-year-old daughter Skyler; and his parents, Atlanta residents Iris and Sam Hensley, who traveled to New York for the occasion. "Thank everyone from Georgia," Hensley said by 'phone as he departed New Radio City Music Hall for a series of parties. "I'm relieved, basically, because it's been such a build-up. It really hasn't sunk in yet that I've won." Hensley's honor for Best Featured Actor in a Musical was the only Oklahoma! winner. In recent weeks Hensley won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his portrayal of the down-and-out character who pines for the love of the picture-perfect farm girl Laurey. In 1999 he won Britain's coveted Olivier Award for Nunn's London revival. Wendell Brock, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Best Featured Actor in a Musical award went to Shuler Hensley
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