Lansbury's first
Broadway production, the 1964
Frank D. Gilroy play
The Subject Was Roses, won him the
Tony Award for Best Play. Other Broadway credits include
Promenade (1969, co-produced with
Joseph Beruh),
The Only Game in Town,
Look to the Lilies,
The Magic Show, the 1974 revival of
Gypsy starring his sister,
Godspell,
American Buffalo (which earned him a nomination for the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play), and
Lennon.
Off-Broadway Lansbury has produced, among other productions, revivals of
Arms and the Man,
Waiting for Godot, and ''
Long Day's Journey into Night, and the comedy As Bees In Honey Drown'', which earned him a second Drama Desk Award nomination. Lansbury was the recipient of the
John Houseman Award, presented to him by
The Acting Company to honor his commitment to the development of classical actors and a national audience for the theater. Lansbury's film credits include
The Wild Party,
Blue Sunshine, and
Squirm and the screen adaptations of
The Subject Was Roses and
Godspell. He produced the television series
Coronet Blue, which was broadcast by
CBS in 1967. ==References==