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on the aisle with Harry Haun

STARTING HERE, STARTING NOW...
Believe it or not, EILEEN HECKART showed up at an awards event this season where she wasn't a recipient. She was a presenter - at the Theatre World Awards, given to the season's best debuts on Broadway and/or Off. Heckart got hers for Picnic 48 years ago when, she says (modestly but inaccurately), "nobody knew who Paul Newman and Eileen Heckart were," and she in turn passed the honor on to the wistfully flickering firebrand of A Moon for the Misbegotten, GABRIEL BYRNE. Somebody asked if he was having "fun" doing the show. Not quite - he placed the emotion closer to "premenstrual." ◘ John Willis's annual bow to stage bows is theatre's oldest (and, arguably, most beloved) award, and a dozen past recipients recently assembled at Studio 54 to distribute their kudos. ◘ Reinforcing the torch-passing aspects of the ceremony, a mother was tapped for the first time to make a presentation to her daughter; "JENNIFER [EHLE] getting this award means more to me than any other award she will ever get in her life - it meant more to me," said ROSEMARY HARRIS, who got hers for The Climate of Eden in 1952. ◘ (Ehle's win and that one of her Real Thing co-star, STEPHEN DILLANE, were subsequently seconded by Tonys, which made Mama pretty happy, too.) ◘ "I've reached an age now where I  don't know what the hell I got my award for," admitted ELI WALLACH, a presenter for True West's PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN. (It was for The Rose Tattoo, Eli.) ◘ The dithering DAME EDNA EVERAGE was brought on - in the physical form of her manager, BARRY HUMPHRIES - by JANE ALEXANDER and did seven minutes of stand-up about a previous crash-and-burn appearance in New York ("I was infected with leprosy of failure"). With four awards to Heckart's seven, the born-again dame became the season's second-most honored performer. ◘ Other Theatre World honorees: CLAUDIA SHEAR of Dirty Blonde, HENRY CZERNY of Arms and the Man, HAYLEY MILLS of Noël Coward's Suite in Two Keys, CRAIG BIERKO of The Music Man, TONI COLLETTE of The Wild Party, CIGDEM ONAT of Time of the Cuckoo, and Swing!'s ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY and EVERETT BRADLEY.

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[[caption]] From left: The Wild Party's Toni Collette accepts her Theatre World Award; Rosemary Harris, who starred this season in Waiting in the Wings, congratulates daughter (and The Real Thing's) Jennifer Ehle; Cherry Jones hugs honoree and A Moon for the Misbegotten co-star Gabriel Byre (top); Everett Bradley and Ann Hampton Callaway were honored for their debuts in Swing! (below); and John Willis with Music Man's winner, Craig Bierko

4  PHOTOS BY AUBREY REUBEN

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