Jennifer Greyhad a special honor at the2023 Tony Awards.
On Sunday, the actress presented her dadJoel Greywith the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award during the Tony Awards: Act One, Live Pre-Show.
“It’s ultimately the people, the community… all of you… who have made this ride more outstanding than I could have imagined,” expressed the actor, 91, while receiving the award from his daughter, 63, as she teared up onstage next to her dad.
Joel most recently served as a director for the Yiddish Off-Broadway production ofFiddler on the Roofand is highly regarded for his performance in the 1972 film version ofCabaret, which earned him an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award. He is also one of only nine actors to have won both the Tony and Academy Award for playing the Master of Ceremonies inCabaret.
This doesn’t mark the first time Jennifer haspresentedher dad with a prestigious honor: in 2015 she was on hand to honor Joel with the Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award at the 33rd Annual Fred & Adele Astaire Awards in New York City.
“I didn’t expect to feel like that,” Jennifer, choking up, told the audience at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at the time. “I feel like Liza [Minnelli], all gaspy and stuff!”
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She began to speak but immediately had to pause. “Just give me a moment, sorry about that,” she said, as the crowd broke out in applause.
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Fellow Broadway legend, composer John Kander, was also awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tony Awards on Sunday. Kander is best known as one-half of the Broadway duo of Kander and Ebb, a collaboration behind iconic musicals likeChicagoandKiss of the Spider Woman.
The Tony Awards are airing live on CBS and Paramount+.
source: people.com
