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...Part of the insider value is hearing the names of nominees that mean little to the viewers of all other awards shows (i.e., Americans). Consider, for example, the women who were nominated for Leading Actress in a Musical: Kristin Chenoweth, "Wicked"; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, "Avenue Q"; Idina Menzel, "Wicked"; Donna Murphy, "Wonderful Town"; and Tonya Pinkins, "Caroline, or Change...
...beloved Ba'ku babe in "Star Trek: Insurrection" or, for TV cultists, as Stanley Tucci's scheming wife on the first season of "Murder One." Pinkins' only non-Tony nomination was for Best Supporting Actress in a soap opera ("All My Children" in the early 90s). Chenoweth and D'Abruzzo have been seen, fleetingly, on "Sesame Street" - the first as Ms. Noodle, the second as a puppeteer. This is Broadway's idea of star quality...
...Well, it should be. Most of these women are stars to me. All five nominees have appeared on the City Center stage in one or more of the "Encores!" series (which itself won a special Tony in 2000 "for excellence in theatre"). D'Abruzzo was the hardest to notice: she sang in the chorus of the Encores! "Carnival" two seasons back. Pinkins was a sensaysh as the lead in the 2001 "House of Flowers." Of the two "Wicked" witches, Chenoweth (who plays Glinda, the blond one) had two splendid Encores! turns, in "Strike Up the Band...
DIED. Ben Abruzzo, 54, ballooning adventurer who braved sub-zero temperatures, raging storms and "cold sinks" in historic first balloon crossings of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; in the crash of a twin-engine Cessna 421 plane; in Albuquerque. With fellow New Mexico Businessmen Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman, Real Estate Developer Abruzzo flew the helium-filled Double Eagle II on a six-day journey from a Maine meadow to a French wheatfield in 1978. Three years later, with Newman and two others, he took off in Double Eagle V from Nagashima, Japan, and crash-landed in Northern California...
Three years ago, Captain Abruzzo had piloted Double Eagle II across the Atlantic, a pioneering trip that was half as far and twice as calm. This time, he said, "things were very, very bad." The 26-story helium balloon leaked throughout the 5,070-mile journey. Ice built up on its thin skin, and thunderstorms wildly buffeted the craft. Losing altitude prematurely, the crew worried about not making landfall. In the crash landing, Aoki was briefly knocked unconscious. But they were down, no one was seriously hurt, and Abruzzo was asked once again why men do such things...