Each artist read a section of a poem by Man-Booker prize-winning author Yann Martel - emphasising the need for all the world's population to have access to clean water - followed by a musical or artistic performance.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's Matilda The Musical won two awards - for best musical production and best performance in a musical for Bertie Carvel.
In South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai read a passage about the link between water and education, followed by a seafront performance by musical group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Reaction to the 90-minute presentation, which also included a performance by Australian musical-comedy trio Tripod, was mixed.
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Rhythm and drums will provide the main musical backbeat to a performance which may be staged in a boxing ring.
Both Ball and Staunton are nominated for best performance in a musical, while the Stephen Sondheim-created show is up for best musical production.
Last year Zeta Jones won a Tony Award for best performance by a leading actress in a musical for her role in A Little Night Music, her Broadway debut.
Every year those in attendance are treated to a performance by a surprise musical guest.
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It's more than the gut strings and the old-style instruments it's the whole range of attitudes that go into phrasing and musical gesture and create a performance that's actually about something deeply meaningful.
Victoria Wood is staging a new musical play about a 1920s Manchester children's choir, while performance artist Marina Abramovic and theatre company Punchdrunk are also showcasing original productions.
Tsuur music is based on a combination of instrumental and vocal performance - a blending of sounds created simultaneously by both the musical instrument and the human throat.
For a rank amateur to accomplish a performance without breaking down in the vast finale was tantamount to a musical revolution.
Best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy motion picture: Kidman, Thora Birch ("Ghost World"), Cate Blanchett ("Bandits"), Reese Witherspoon ("Legally Blonde") and Renee Zellweger ("Bridget Jones's Diary").
The surging vitality of the script allows the actors (Will Ferrell, Uma Thurman, and Roger Bart, among others) to find sure footing, and Gary Beach gives a standout performance as the drag-wearing musical director who eventually is called upon to star (his Judy Garland bit is priceless).
Administrators for the awards met Friday for the fourth and final time to determine the eligibility of certain shows and ruled that the quartet of actresses who rotate as the lead in "Matilda" are not eligible in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical category.
In telling the story of musical performance, the Cambridge work offers a kind of social history as well, describing private and communal music-making and the men and women who gathered to hear it.
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Actress Leleti Khumalo is best known as a soap star in her native South Africa, but in the late 1980s, she made a name for herself in this country with a Tony Award-winning performance in the Broadway musical "Sarafina!"
The Church of Earthalujah part theatre, part musical, part worship service has a performance every Sunday at Theatre 80 in the East Village (the run ends June 26).
Boyle, from West Lothian, became an international star after her performance of I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables stunned the audience and judges on the ITV1 show.
Although the process of transferring a musical composition from a gleam in the composer's eye into a handwritten manuscript and, finally, a performance-ready score has come a long way from the days of copper-plate engraving, it's a process rife with the possibility of transmittal error.
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More like performance art or musical theater, the spectacles offer a dose of levity and form a lasting impression.
Patti LuPone received a rousing ovation as she won the actress-musical prize for her performance as Rose, an indomitable stage mother.
Beyond that, musical revelations are forever generated by this performance a phrase or inflection here, a rhythmic accent or soaring note there.
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Perry later changed to a pink confection that was part Jane Jetson, part Joan Crawford for her musical performance.
He says young people embrace visual stimulation, the fusion of different musical styles and experiences that are shorter and more intense than a two-hours-plus orchestral performance.
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Walken is a musical pro, and when Travolta joins him in a dance, tentatively but with blooming grace, the performance comes together.
Paul, Minnesota, presents a diverse array of musical offerings, from pop and folk to award-winning classical music programs such as ' Performance Today' and ' Pipedreams.
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