《火腿骑士》，《怀颖》获托尼戏剧奖

Spamalot, Doubt Earn Top Tony Awards

《火腿骑士》，《怀颖》获托尼戏剧奖

 

Monty Python's Spamalot has been a sold-out hit since it opened on Broadway in March. The much anticipated musical comedy is based loosely on the popular 1975 British cult¹ movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It won the the Antoinette Perry Awards, the Tonys, for best musical, and for director and featured actress in the musical category. With $27 million in advanced sales, Spamalot is already a solid Broadway hit.

 

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A movie also spawned³ the musical that won the award for the best revival⁴ of a musical, La Cage Aux Folles, introduced during the Tony award ceremony by leading man Robert Goulet.

 

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This year's Tonys did not, however, represent a clean sweep for any one musical. A new musical, The Light in the Piazza⁵, won the largest number of awards, six, including several in the musical score and orchestrations categories for Adam Guettel, the grandson of Broadway legend Richard Rodgers.

 

Broadway's top dramatic honors went to the much-acclaimed play, Doubt, A Parable⁶. The story of a nun's suspicion of child abuse at a parochial school won the Pulitzer Prize earlier this year after switching to Broadway from a successful off-Broadway run. Veteran actress Cherry Jones and director Doug Hughes also took home the top honors in the dramatic category. Mr. Hughes says the reason John Patrick Shanley's play has been so widely honored is clear.

 

Mr. Hughes: What happened with Doubt is very, very simple. John Patrick Shanley wrote a play for our time, and I was given the opportunity to work on it every day in the company of geniuses.

 

Playwright⁷ Edward Albee, the author of Broadway classics, such as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Delicate Balance and The Zoo Story, was presented with a special Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Edward Albee: I think the virtue⁸ of being given a lifetime achievement award before you have necessarily achieved your lifetime work is probably because, if you wait until you have achieved all of your lifetime work, you probably will have died. This is better.

 

The 59th annual Tony awards ceremony was broadcast nationwide, from Radio City Music Hall. More than 700 theater professionals vote on the awards in over two dozen categories.

 

 Barbara Schoetzau, VOA news, New York.

 

注释：

anticipated [An5tisipeitid] adj. 预期的

spawn² [spC:n] v. 生产出

sweep [swi:p] v. 席卷

orchestration [9R:ki5streiFEn] n. 管弦乐编曲

category [5kAti^Eri] n. 种类

genius [5dVi:njEs] n.天才

1 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

2 spawn   

n.卵，产物，后代，结果；vt.产卵，种菌丝于，产生，造成；vi.产卵，大量生产

参考例句：

• The fish were madly pushing their way upstream to spawn.鱼群为产卵而疯狂地向上游挤进。
• These fish will lay spawn in about one month from now.这些鱼大约一个月内会产卵。

3 spawned   

（鱼、蛙等）大量产（卵）( spawn的过去式和过去分词 )； 大量生产

参考例句：

• The band's album spawned a string of hit singles. 这支乐队的专辑繁衍出一连串走红的单曲唱片。
• The computer industry has spawned a lot of new companies. 由于电脑工业的发展，许多新公司纷纷成立。

4 revival   

n.复兴，复苏，（精力、活力等的）重振

参考例句：

• The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.这一时期葡萄酒业出现了很大的复苏。
• He claimed the housing market was showing signs of a revival.他指出房地产市场正出现复苏的迹象。

5 piazza   

n.广场；走廊

参考例句：

• Siena's main piazza was one of the sights of Italy.锡耶纳的主要广场是意大利的名胜之一。
• They walked out of the cafeteria,and across the piazzadj.他们走出自助餐厅,穿过广场。

6 parable   

n.寓言，比喻

参考例句：

• This is an ancient parable.这是一个古老的寓言。
• The minister preached a sermon on the parable of the lost sheep.牧师讲道时用了亡羊的比喻。

7 playwright   

n.剧作家，编写剧本的人

参考例句：

• Gwyn Thomas was a famous playwright.格温·托马斯是著名的剧作家。
• The playwright was slaughtered by the press.这位剧作家受到新闻界的无情批判。

8 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。