And by America, I mean New York. A double victory has been possible only since 1960 when the direction prize was split into play and musical categories. Blair Brown, who portrays physicist Niels Bohr's skeptical wife in the production, was named best featured actress-play.
Dance has lifts and dips and unexpected turns just as real life does.
Its radiant star, Heather Headley was named best actress in a musical to the biggest cheers of the night. Its two stars, Stephen Dillane, as an adulterous playwright, and Jennifer Ehle, as his second wife, took home the top acting awards. Ehle was competing against her mother, Rosemary Harris, in the best actress-play category. It was presented by Dame Edna who gave him a big, messy kiss. A lipstick-smeared Pakledinaz was so flustered that he had a hard time delivering his acceptance speech.