Reading "Jitney," which won this year's Tony Award for best revival of a play, I was fascinated by the practicality and quiet dignity of Becker, who runs the jitney station.
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The city's black community particularly suffered, which is why in the 1930s it invented its own illegal, unregulated but effective "black market" jitney system (as portrayed in the Pittsburgh-born playwright August Wilson's "Jitney").
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Cramming yourself into a packed jitney hardly feels like a break.
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You won't ever have to wait in line for the Jitney.
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And now there's a bus service modeled after the Hampton Jitney.
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Nearby, the former Westbrook Jitney Station is now a grassy corner.
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"Jitney" is a lament that has the affirmative ring of celebration.
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"It goes back to the lesson of the Jitney," he said.
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We're ready to hop on the next Jitney just thinking about it.
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You were trying for a long time to get "Jitney" to Broadway.
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Parking is limited, but the borough offers jitney service at $25 a month.
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"A Time to Kill," 353 "Jitney" FIRST EXPOSURE I was a corporate salesman.
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He took home the award best revival of a play for Jitney in 2017.
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Legend won a Tony Award for co-producing Jitney, which won for Best Play Revival.
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You won't typically find him at the Surf Lodge, drinking mojitos with the jitney set.
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Mr. Battiste and Mr. Smith — who was terrific in "Jitney" as well — are solid throughout.
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The Jitney, named after the slang for a nickel, was cheap, convenient and very popular.
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The jitney is almost the cheapest way to get around the city at $1.50 a ride.
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This month, the bus service Hampton Jitney has introduced new service to Stratton Mountain in Vermont.
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"Jitney" is coming to Broadway this season — the only Century Cycle play never staged there before.
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And the Hampton Jitney bus stops several times a day in Mattituck, depending on the season.
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When they need a little something more, the city is an easy Hampton Jitney ride away.
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A bus ride on the Hampton Jitney was a tight squeeze with a dog in hand.
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The jitney costs $70 a month, and a monthly rail pass from South Orange is $210.
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There's no air conditioning, but the jitney driver will stop anywhere on their route if you ask.
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BRANTLEY But what do you do when a cast is as uniformly strong as that of "Jitney"?
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But Mr. Thompson does not — and should not — eclipse our sense of "Jitney" as a group portrait.
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A "jitney" is 1910s slang for a nickel, the cost of a typical trolley fare at the time.
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Following his win this year for co-producing the revival of August Wilson's "Jitney," Legend has the "GOT" covered.
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There's no air conditioning, but the jitney driver will stop anywhere on his o her route if you ask.
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The production earned two Tony nominations: for best revival (it lost to "Jitney") and for best leading actor (Mr.
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According to the brand's press release, the Meteor Shower Jitney bag holds both figurative and literal connections for Abloh.
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Talk to real estate brokers and they reinforce the rosy narrative, rattling off options — the jitney stops at the corner!
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Weekenders renting homes through Airbnb is one reason Trailways of New York decided to introduce its new Jitney-like service.
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For everyone in "Jitney" is balancing over a chasm: the prospect of poverty, homelessness, alcoholism, prison and abrupt, imminent death.
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" Best revival of a play: "August Wilson's Jitney" Best performance by a leading actress in a musical: Bette Midler, "Hello, Dolly!
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Allegheny County Police Commissioner Coleman McDonough said the driver had told officers he worked as a jitney, an unlicensed private cab.
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The jitney craze swept the continent in literally a matter of days, and were soon available everywhere from Kansas to Canada.
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The Hampton Jitney from Manhattan to Southold takes about 2 hours and 20 minutes; standard fare is $26, or $21 prepaid.
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Jitney service is available to and from the station during peak hours Monday through Friday; the cost is $2 per trip.
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A second jitney bus arrived to the scene to pick up the remaining passengers -- and it brought them to their next location.
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Instead of resisting that problem, Mr. Santiago-Hudson, who directed the belated Broadway premiere of "Jitney" last year, doubles down on it.
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" He had another Off Broadway success the next year with a remounting of Mr. Wilson's 1982 play, "Jitney," at Second Stage. "Mr.
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The Hampton Jitney stops in the village, but the closest stop on the Long Island Rail Road is Bridgehampton, a 20-minute drive.
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All these plays I've done — Danai came to see "Jitney" recently, and she is the only person I talk to about the work.
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But the day I was there, I asked a boy how I can find the status of the jitney to take me further north.
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Maybe you're traveling already, reading this newsletter at the airport, scrolling through it on a jitney crawling east, or on a train choogling south.
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Whether you're in a car, a train, a jitney or just going for a long walk, it's a great time to listen to podcasts.
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August Wilson's Pittsburgh comes immediately to mind, and not just because his play "Jitney," though set in 1977, turns on a similar plot point.
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GREEN … and Allison Janney (for "Six Degrees of Separation") and Anthony Azizi (for "Oslo") and more of the great ensemble cast of "Jitney" nominated.
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There are nine characters in "Jitney," and it is remarkable how much we learn about each of them within two and a half hours.
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A luxury jitney service calling itself — wait for it — "The New L " is charging commuters $155 each month to shuttle to and from Manhattan.
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But today, health care advertising is skyrocketing and likely to turn up in business-class lounges in airport terminals or the Jitney to the Hamptons.
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To make the Jitney ride even more worth it, we're teaming with some of our favorite brands and ensuring it's an unforgettable weekend for everyone.
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The world portrayed in "Jitney" is a self-contained microcosm, shaped by privation, obstruction and a make-do resourcefulness that becomes its own art form.
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But "Jitney" gives equal stage time to all manner of personal frictions and confrontations, many of which anticipate themes that echo throughout Wilson's later work.
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That, at least, is how the created world of August Wilson's "Jitney," now on Broadway, looks through the eyes of its set designer, David Gallo.
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Best Scenic Design in a Play David Gallo, Jitney Nigel Hook, The Play That Goes Wrong Douglas W. Schmidt, The Front Page Michael Yeargan, Oslo Best Lighting Design of a Play Christopher Akerlind, Indecent Jane Cox, August Wilson's Jitney Donald Holder, Oslo Jennifer Tipton, A Doll's House, Part 2 Best Lighting Design of a Musical Howell Binkley, Come From Away Natasha Katz, Hello, Dolly!
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Rove also takes passengers directly to their destination from either the Sixty SoHo Hotel or the William Vale hotel, unlike the Jitney, which makes multiple stops.
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Now the Manhattan Theater Club says it plans to make it 10 out of 10: the nonprofit said it would bring "Jitney" to Broadway this winter.
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Two landscape architects said clients this summer had asked that their vegetables be picked, packaged and put on the Hampton Jitney for use in city kitchens.
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Mr. Wilson, who died in 2005, felt that Mr. McClinton's "Jitney" and "Jar the Floor" productions elevated Mr. McClinton to the top tier of stage directors.
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He took home the Oscar for best original song in 2015 for his Selma anthem "Glory," and won a Tony for producing the revival of Jitney in 2017.
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" In terms of clarity and pace, it's hard to fault the direction of Mr. Santiago-Hudson, who oversaw last year's splendid, Tony-winning revival of August Wilson's "Jitney.
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The film version of his play "Fences" is in theaters now, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and his early work "Jitney," above, is about to open on Broadway.
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JITNEY Closing a loop, the Manhattan Theater Club will finally place the one play from August Wilson's monumental American Century Cycle that has yet to hit Broadway, where it belongs.
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Those conversations yielded the play "Jitney," the only one of the 225 plays in Wilson's towering Century Cycle to be written in the same decade — the 235s — it was set.
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David Gallo, August Wilson's Jitney Nigel Hook, The Play That Goes Wrong Douglas W. Schmidt, The Front Page Michael Yeargan, Oslo Howell Binkley, Come From Away Natasha Katz, Hello, Dolly!
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The superstar was a producer on August Wilson's Jitney, which took home the best revival of a play award, and leaving him just one step away from earning the elusive EGOT.
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Legend previously won 10 Grammys, an Oscar in 2015 for his song "Glory" featured in Selma and a Tony for his role as a co-producer for the production of Jitney.
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Could it be true that if the jitney, considered the first bona fide example of ride-sharing, "had survived the future of transportation would probably already be here," as Kalanick claims?
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"We were very conflicted on where to go, because we were so close to the city and could catch the jitney right into Port Authority," said Ms. Kershaw, 7.253, a lawyer.
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"We have musical DVDs, we have Bob Marley, we mix it up," said Leroy Morrison, the owner of Alexis Van Lines, who also operates a summer jitney to Fort Tilden beach.
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When "Jitney" opened in New York City this month, it was the final work in August Wilson's 21985-play cycle about African-American lives in the 235th century to reach Broadway.
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More alarming, for some, is the arrival this spring of a Hudson Valley version of the Hampton Jitney, the upscale bus that is a quintessential symbol of the eastern Long Island getaway.
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As for a breakdown of John's other awards ... Tony -- 2017 for Best Revival of A Play for his work on Jitney Oscar -- 2015 Best Original Song for "Glory" Grammy -- Legend has 10 Congrats!
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The play, written by August Wilson, follows a group of cab drivers in the 1970s who drive around with an unlicensed cab, also known as a "jitney," thus giving the play its title.
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With the remounting of "Jitney," Mr. McClinton "pushed and pulled and provoked and forced me to do the necessary work on the play," Mr. Wilson wrote in a 2000 essay in The Times.
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Total of 58 different August Wilson productions, including "Jitney" (2017) FIRST EXPOSURE I saw "Fences" and connected with it pretty quickly because I grew up in Cleveland, which is not far from Pittsburgh.
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Though "Jitney" takes place nearly 40 years ago, it feels even more topically resonant than the first (and last) time I saw it, in Marion McClinton's fine 2000 production for Second Stage Theater.
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The trolley industry saw the threat of the Jitney and got all kinds of laws passed, requiring everything from multiple drivers to mandatory 16-hour days to lights to discourage passengers from smooching.
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A woman who was walking at Green Lake Park says she went to opening night for the popular play "Jitney," put on by the Seattle Rep, where there should have been a full house.
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Conversation sings and swings, bends and bounces and hits heaven smack in the clouds, in the glorious new production of August Wilson's "Jitney," which opened on Thursday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
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Much of Mr. Gallo's back story for the office is based on his own conversations with Wilson, who died in 2005, for the original 2000 New York production of "Jitney," which he also designed.
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Miss Saigon August Wilson's Jitney Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Present Laughter Six Degrees of Separation Christian Borle, Falsettos Josh Groban, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 22017 David Hyde Pierce, Hello, Dolly!
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" Play revival: "Jitney" Leading actor, play: Kevin Kline, "Present Laughter" Leading actress, play: Laurie Metcalf, "A Doll's House, Part 2" Leading actor, musical: Ben Platt, "Dear Evan Hansen" Leading actress, musical: Bette Midler, "Hello, Dolly!
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"Jitney" is also the work, Wilson said, in which he found his voice as a dramatist, one that borrowed from the musical traditions of blues and jazz, transliterated into spoken dialogue and monologues of Shakespearean eloquence.
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"Oslo," J.T. Rogers' play about the behind-the-scenes negotiations in Norway that led to the historic 1993 peace accord between Israel and the PLO, won best play, while August Wilson's "Jitney" was named best play revival.
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For travel to Jersey City and New York, many residents rely on the jitney buses that run along several of Union City's north-south arteries, and cost between $1.50 and $5 a ride, depending on the destination.
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The Jared-Jason jitney — Trump's son-in-law and Jason Greenblatt, his former chief legal officer now charged with resolving the world's most intractable conflict in their spare time — rolls into town but its drivers don't say much.
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Chrissy Teigen and John Legend had a special date night at the Tony Awards in New York City on Sunday where Legend won a GOT for his work as an associate producer on Jitney, the best revival of a play winner.
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I used to love to walk down Second Avenue and see women selling dresses off of trees or watch people run after the jitney, a small van that costs $221 and drives all through the main streets of the area.
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"Jitney," the only one of August Wilson's 10-play Century Cycle never before staged on Broadway, was given a sterling production by the Manhattan Theater Club, and was nominated for six Tony Awards on Tuesday, including for best play revival.
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In exchange for the right to build, Liberty National has said it would offer unspecified funds for park improvements, create access at certain times to the Caven Point beachfront and provide a jitney to transport people across Liberty State Park.
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In exchange for the right to build, Liberty National has said it would offer unspecified funds for park improvements, create access at certain times to the Caven Point beachfront and provide a jitney to transport people across Liberty State Park.
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The everyday chatter — and such chatter is the warp and weft of "Jitney" — often involves getting and spending, the itemization of food and housing costs, of landing jobs with a criminal record, or where a body might find a bed that night.
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And it was a 10-minute walk from the train station, which made the house even more appealing, although by then they had discovered that the town has what the couple call an "adult school bus" — a jitney that runs to and from the station.
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Ours was a path driven by soldiers and truckers and beats and hippies and jitney drivers and families for most of the last century and now, depending on who you talk to, the drive to return to the heartland is either foolhardy or full of sense.
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But Browning's blue-collar bona fides make her the ideal candidate in an area that swung hard from Obama to Trump, and the party should be wary of nominating anyone like Gershon, who likely doesn't know the parts of the district that aren't on the Hampton Jitney.
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Just across John Fitzgerald Kennedy Boulevard, in North Bergen, another mall offers big-box stores, an LA Fitness gym, a ShopRite and a multiplex movie theater, while the many restaurants of Hoboken and Jersey City are within walking distance or a short cab or jitney ride away.
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Bradley King, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Japhy Weideman, Dear Evan Hansen Christopher Akerlind, Indecent Jane Cox, August Wilson's Jitney Donald Holder, Oslo Jennifer Tipton, A Doll's House, Part 2 Additionally, James Earl Jones will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2017 ceremony.
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It is a little more than a mile east of downtown Maplewood (the part with the park, library, post office, movie theater and train station with service to New York City) and three blocks from a jitney that will take you there if you don't feel like driving or walking.
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John Legend, who played Jesus Christ in the musical and was nominated for best actor in a limited series or movie, won an Oscar in 2015 for best original song for "Glory" from the movie "Selma," and a Tony for serving as a producer for "Jitney," which won best revival of a play last year.
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Oslo August Wilson's Jitney Christopher Ashley, Come From Away Rebecca Taichman, Indecent Andy Blankenbuehler, Bandstand Alex Lacamoire, Dear Evan Hansen Rachel Bay Jones, Dear Evan Hansen Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2 Kevin Kline, Present Laughter Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, Dear Evan Hansen Cynthia Nixon, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Gavin Creel, Hello, Dolly!
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Cops say 25-year-old Donahue was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated and reckless driving by Port Authority police when his Dodge Charger Hellcat entered the tunnel from New Jersey around 2 AM. Officials say he smashed into a jitney bus (a private passenger bus) which was carrying 15 passengers -- 4 of whom were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
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Paloma Young, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Catherine Zuber, War Paint Jane Greenwood, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Susan Hilferty, Present Laughter Toni-Leslie James, August Wilson's Jitney David Zinn, A Doll's House, Part 2 Rob Howell, Groundhog Day David Korins, War Paint Mimi Lien, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Santo Loquasto, Hello, Dolly!
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Ms. Pack, 36, is a Livingston native; Mr. Pack, 40, who considers himself a "bit of a handyman," thought Livingston resembled his hometown, Chapel Hill, N.C. They now live near Burnet Hill Elementary School, and Mr. Pack takes a township jitney to South Orange, where he catches a New Jersey Transit Midtown Direct train to his job as a program director in New York.
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The Commute Mass-transit options to New York, each taking roughly an hour, include a jitney service from the Livingston Mall to the New Jersey Transit rail station in South Orange; driving to Harrison and taking the PATH to Lower Manhattan (or, with a transfer, to 33rd Street); or the Community Coach USA Route 77 bus from Livingston Center to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
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Sam Gold, A Doll's House, Part 2 Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson's Jitney Bartlett Sher, Oslo Daniel Sullivan, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Rebecca Taichman, Indecent Andy Blankenbuehler, Bandstand Peter Darling and Ellen Kane, Groundhog Day Kelly Devine, Come From Away Denis Jones, Holiday Inn Sam Pinkleton, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Bill Elliott and Greg Anthony Rassen, Bandstand Larry Hochman, Hello, Dolly!
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Alex Lacamoire, Dear Evan Hansen Dave Malloy, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Best Costume Design of a Play Jane Greenwood, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Susan Hilferty, Present Laughter Toni-Leslie James, August Wilson's Jitney David Zinn, A Doll's House, Part 2 Best Scenic Design in a Musical Rob Howell, Groundhog Day David Korins, War Paint Mimi Lien, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Santo Loquasto, Hello, Dolly!
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Bradley King, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Japhy Weideman, Dear Evan Hansen Best Featured Actor in a Play: Michael Aronov, OsloDanny DeVito, The PriceNathan Lane, The Front PageRichard Thomas, The Little FoxesJohn Douglas Thompson, Jitney Best Featured Actress in a Play: Johanna Day, SweatJayne Houdyshell, A Doll's House, Part 2Cynthia Nixon, The Little FoxesCondola Rashad, A Doll's House, Part 2Michelle Wilson, Sweat Best Featured Actor in a Musical: Gavin Creel, Hello, Dolly!
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" SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: "Sunday in the Park With George"* BEST PLAY REVIVAL WILL WIN: "Jitney" SHOULD WIN: "Present Laughter" SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: "The Glass Menagerie"; "Othello"* BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL WILL WIN: Ben Platt, "Dear Evan Hansen" SHOULD WIN: Ben Platt SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: Jake Gyllenhaal, "Sunday in the Park With George"*; Tony Shalhoub, "The Band's Visit"* BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL WILL WIN: Bette Midler, "Hello, Dolly!
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Mike Faist, Dear Evan Hansen Andrew Rannells, Falsettos Lucas Steele, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Brandon Uranowitz, Falsettos Michael Aronov, Oslo Danny DeVito, Arthur Miller's The Price Nathan Lane, The Front Page Richard Thomas, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes John Douglas Thompson, August Wilson's Jitney Johanna Day, Sweat Jayne Houdyshell, A Doll's House, Part 2 Cynthia Nixon, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes Condola Rashad, A Doll's House, Part 2 Michelle Wilson, Sweat David Hein and Irene Sankoff, Come From Away Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Dear Evan Hansen Tim Minchin, Groundhog Day Dave Malloy, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 David Hein and Irene Sankoff, Come From Away Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen Danny Rubin, Groundhog Day Dave Malloy, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 20173 Christopher Ashley, Come From Away Rachel Chavkin, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 Michael Greif, Dear Evan Hansen Matthew Warchus, Groundhog Day Jerry Zaks, Hello, Dolly!
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