LOVE’S LABOR’S FOUND
Mon, Apr 16 – The wind blew in Lear-like gusts last night, but inside the Warner Theatre, the atmosphere at the 23rd annual Helen Hayes Awards suggested the title Love’s Labor’s Found. Sparked by the opening flourishes of Marvin Hamlisch at the piano, the warmly modest emceeing of DC actor Jason Kravits, now enjoying a Broadway run in The Drowsy Chaperone (and fondly remembered as the world’s most annoying District Attorney on “The Practice”), guest performer E. Faye Butler, and the surprise appearance of Lynn Redgrave, the crisply produced awards ceremony managed to hand out 27 awards in two hours and ten minutes, with the sold-out audience lustily cheering each nominee.
