The Notion

"The place and time: a town in Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century. Fredrik Egerman, a prosperous, widowed lawyer in his early forties with a twenty-year-old son, Henrik, has been married for almost a year to an eighteen-year-old girl, Anne, whome he has known since she was a child. Due to her shyness, he has not been able to consummate the marriage. Desiree Armfeldt, an actress and his ex-lover, arrives in town to appear in a play. When she and Fredrik meet again, the old flame is rekindled, but she has a married lover, Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm, whose wife Charlotte's sister once went to school with Anne. Romantic complications ensue during a weekend party at the country estate of Madame Armfeldt, Desiree's imperious, wealthy ex-courtesan of a mother, involving also Desiree's teenage daughter, Fredrika, and Petra, the Egermans' flirtacious maid, to whom both Henrik and Frid, Madame Armfeldt's butler, are both attracted."

- Stephen Sondheim in Finishing the Hat - 

Pippin won the following:

• Bob Fosse: Tony Award for Direction

• Ben Vereen: Tony Award for Leading Actor

• Jules Fisher: Tony Award for Lighting Design

• Tony Walton: Tony Award for Scenic Design

Other winners:

• George S. Irving: Tony Award for Featured Actor (Irene)

Charlie Smalls & Jerry Wexler won the Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album (The Wiz)

John Mollo won the Academy Award for Costume Design (Star Wars)

Other winners:

• Karen Ziemba: Drama Desk Award for Featured Actress (And the World Goes 'Round)

• Tchaikovsky 150th Birthday Gala from Leningrad: Emmy Award for Classical Program

Other winners:

• Sheila Gish: Olivier Award for Featured Performance (Company)

• Dein Perry: Olivier Award for Choreography (Tap Dogs)

• Anthony Ward: Olivier Award for Costume Design (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Hello, Dolly! won the following:

• Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival

• Evening Standard Award for Best Musical

• Samantha Spiro: Olivier Award for Leading Actress

Spring Awakening won the following:

• Aneurin Barnard: Olivier Award for Leading Actor

• Iwan Rheon: Olivier Award for Featured Performance

Other winners:

• La Cage aux Folles won the Tony, Drama Desk, & Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Revival of a Musical

• Katie Finneran: Tony, Drama Desk, & Outer Critics Circle Awards for Featured Actress (Promises, Promises)

• Robert Kaplowitz: Tony Award for Sound Design (Fela!)

• Billie Joe Armstrong, Chris Dugan,& Chris Lord-Alge: Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album (American Idiot)