{"id":21815,"date":"2013-06-10T15:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21815"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:54:45","slug":"courtney-b-vance-wins-first-tony-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21815","title":{"rendered":"Courtney B. Vance Wins First Tony Of The Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Courtney B. Vance<\/strong> has won the first Tony Award of the night, taking the trophy for best featured actor in a play after host <strong>Neil Patrick Harris<\/strong> opened the show with a high-octane song boasting this night would be bigger than ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vance<\/strong>, who was previously nominated for Tonys for <em>\u201cFences\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cSix Degrees of Separation,\u201d<\/em> won for playing a newspaper editor opposite Tom Hanks in <em>\u201cLucky Guy<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cicely Tyson Wins Tony For Best Actress In A Play For \u2018The Trip To Bountiful\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21819\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cicely-tyson-16x911.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21819\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-21819\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cicely-tyson-16x911-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cicely Tyson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 <strong>Cicely Tyson<\/strong>, who returned to Broadway this season for the first time in 30 years, has taken home the Tony Award for best leading actress in a play.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Horton Foote\u2019s<\/strong><em> \u201cThe Trip to Bountiful,\u201d<\/em> <strong>Tyson<\/strong> plays a widow in 1953 whose only desire is to revisit her old home in Bountiful and recapture purpose she lost when she left for Houston.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyson<\/strong>, 88, beat out <strong>Laurie Metcalf<\/strong>, <strong>Amy Morton<\/strong>, <strong>Kristine Nielsen <\/strong>and H<strong>olland Taylor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Courtney B. Vance has won the first Tony Award of the night, taking the trophy for best featured actor in a play after host Neil Patrick Harris opened the show with a high-octane song boasting this night would be bigger than ever. Vance, who was previously nominated for Tonys for \u201cFences\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}