Three-time Tony honoree Bernadette Peters was presented with the 2024 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater at the York Theatre Company's 32nd Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala November 11 at the Edison Ballroom.
The evening also honored producer Ted Snowdon (Patriots, Spring Awakening, York’s Souvenir)
with The York Theatre Company Founders’ Award.
Michael Urie, currently starring in the Broadway revival of Once Upon Mattress, hosted the evening, which featured the talents of Alex Newell (Shucked), Andrew Rannells (The Book of Mormon), Jelani Remy (Back to the Future), Klea Blackhurst, Victor Garber (Sweeney Todd), Julie Halston (Our Town), James Lapine, Marilyn Maye, Robert Cuccioli (Jekyll and Hyde), Randy Rainbow, and Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill). Stephen DeAngelis directed.
Check out photos from the festive evening in the gallery below:
Elizabeth Stanley
Debra Walton
Robert Cuccioli
Klea Blackhurst
Ted Snowdon
Michael Urie and Ted Snowdon
Julie Halston
Victor Garber
Michael Urie
Michael Urie
Randy Rainbow
Jenna Gavigan
Jelani Remy
Joseph Hayward
Christine Baranksi
Andrew Rannells
Richard Maltby, Jr.
Alex Newell
James Lapine
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters and Michael Urie
Jamie deRoy and Bernadette Peters
Ted Snowdon and Bernadette Peters
W. David McCoy, Ted Snowdon, Bernadette Peters, and Jim Kierstead
Debra Walton, Joan T. Mischo, Jim Kierstead, Riki Kane Larimer, Tim Collins, Joan Ross Sorkin,
Bernadette Peters, Laurence Holzman, Marie Grace LaFerrera, Joseph Hayward
Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante
Joan T. Mischo, Jim Kierstead, Debra Walton, Tim Collins, Riki Kane Larimer, Ted Snowdon,
W. David McCoy, Joan Ross Sorkin, Marie Grace LaFerrera, Joseph Hayward, and Laurence Holzman
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters and Andrew Rannells
Julie Halston, Bernadette Peters, Jenna Gavigan, and Elizabeth Stanley
Marilyn Maye and Bernadette Peters
Tom Sorce and Bernadette Peters
Tom Sorce, Kyra Sorce, Bernadette Peters, and Luke Sorce
Bernadette Peters and Michael Urie
Ryan Spahn and Michael Urie
Michael Urie, Elizabeth Stanley, and Andrew Rannells
Joseph Hayward and Debra Walton
Laila Robbins, Randy Rainbow and Christine Baranski
Frank DiLella, Jamie deRoy and Randy Rainbow
Ben Davis and Randy Rainbow
Frank DiLella and Jelani Remy
Michael Urie
W. David McCoy
Marie Grace LaFerrrara
The Oscar Hammerstein Award, named in honor of the legendary lyricist and librettist, recognizes significant lifetime achievement in musical theatre. Past recipients include Stephen Sondheim, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Harold Prince, Cy Coleman, Charles Strouse, Arthur Laurents, Jerry Herman, Stephen Schwartz, Peter Stone, David Merrick, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Terrence McNally, Cameron Mackintosh, Carol Channing, Tony Walton, Joseph Stein, George S. Irving, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, Thomas Meehan, Barbara Cook, Paul Gemignani, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Angela Lansbury, Joel Grey, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Susan Stroman, André De Shields, Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, Leslie Uggams, and, most recently, Patti LuPone.
The York Theatre Company Founders’ Award, recognizing individuals who have made a significant impact on the sustainability of the arts, has previously been presented to York Founding Artistic Director Janet Hayes Walker, W. David McCoy, Sarah Tod Smith, Molly Grose, Robert Goldberg, Gerald F. Fisher, Betty Cooper Wallerstein, Riki Kane Larimer, Elisa Loti Stein, Ted Chapin, and, most recently, Jamie deRoy.
Peters received both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performance in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance. She earned her second Tony for her work in Annie Get Your Gun. She also received Tony nominations for her performances in Sam Mendes’ critically acclaimed revival of Gypsy, Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl, Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman-Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel, and the Leonard Bernstein-Comden and Green musical On the Town. She was last on Broadway in a critically acclaimed turn in the title role of Hello, Dolly!
She
was last seen on the London stage in 2023 in the Sondheim
revue, Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, which will arrive on Broadway later this season. Peters is also the recipient of the 2012 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award.
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