Alan Cumming / Angela Lansbury

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Find out on Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR. This is Fresh Air. I'm TV critic David Biancoley. The 79th annual Tony Awards are this Sunday, honoring the best of Broadway from the previous season of stage plays and musicals. To note the occasion, we're revisiting interviews with two dynamic Tony winning stars from Broadway's past.

We'll hear from Angela Lansbury, a six-time Tony recipient. including for the musicals Mame, Gypsy, and Sweeney Todd the demon barber of Fleet Street. And we'll start with Alan Cumming, who won a Tony for his role as the MC in the revival of cabaret. Both of them had a major impact on the New York stage, yet both came from the UK, Angela Lansbury from England and Alan Cumming from Scotland. Alan Cumming was born in 1965 and has been acting in television movies in the theater since the 1980s.

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