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- Newman won the 1962 Tony for best supporting actress in the musical “Subways Are for Sleeping,” where her costume consisted of a bath towel and which had lyrics co-written by her late husband, Adolph Green. She earned a second Tony Award nomination in 1987 for her performance in the Neil Simon play “Broadway Bound.”
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Sep 16, 2019 · Tony Award winner Phyllis Newman died Sunday at age 86. She won the award for her role in 1962's Subways Are For Sleeping. She also appeared on TV, as an actress and quiz show panelist.
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She won the 1962 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Martha Vail in the musical Subways Are for Sleeping on Broadway, received the Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2009 and was nominated another Tony for Broadway Bound (1987), as well as two nominations for Drama Desk Awards.
Sep 15, 2019 · Phyllis Newman, who won the 1962 Tony for best supporting actress in the musical "Subways Are for Sleeping," later went on to lead causes fighting diseases and issues relating to women's health.
Sep 16, 2019 · Phyllis Newman, who won a Tony Award for Subways Are for Sleeping, has died at 86. Deadline first reported the news. Her son, Vogue theater critic Adam Green, confirmed his mother’s death...
Sep 15, 2019 · Ms. Newman won a Tony in 1962 as best featured actress in a musical for “Subways Are for Sleeping,” whose book and lyrics were written by her husband, Adolph Green, and his regular collaborator,...
Sep 16, 2019 · Phyllis Newman, a Tony Award-winning Broadway veteran and show-business personality who eventually turned her attention to fight for women’s health, died Sept. 15 in Manhattan. She was 86.
Sep 15, 2019 · She beat out Barbra Streisand (as Miss Marmelstein in I Can Get It for You Wholesale) to win the Tony in 1962. She landed another nomination in 1987 for her turn as Blanche in Neil Simon’s...