Huffpost Culture The Blog   Jeryl Brunner Headshot   Posted:
Updated:  I love Oscar Wilde's poignant take on theater. He once
said, "I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms,
the most immediate way in which a human being can share with
another the sense of what it is to be a human being." And when
you're a theater geek like me, there's nothing like the 66th
Annual Tony awards to bring out your inner theater geekiness. As
Hugh Jackman said in the Tony Awards press room after he was
presented with a special Tony for his extraordinary contribution
the Broadway community, "the Tonys is the greatest show. It's
Broadway's greatest hits in one night." I had the opportunity to
cover last Sunday's festivities at the Beacon Theater in New
York City. Here's what I discovered.  When asked, most actors
can recall the first time they appeared on stage...  JOHN
LITHGOW: I grew up in a theater family, so I was acting before I
even remember. I was one of Nora's children in A Doll's House
when I was about 2 ½ year