Len Cariou has amassed all manner of awards bric-a-brac in his 65-year career, including a Tony in 1979 as Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd. But Cariou’s collection does not include a Rosie—an oversight that will be remedied May 13 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center where Amas Musical Theater will present him and choreographer-director Patricia Birch with its annual award, nicknamed for Amas’ late founder, actress Rosetta LeNoire. Cariou — currently wrapping up a run in the two-man show Tuesdays with Morrie at the Sea Dog Theater — has crossed paths with Birch before, in 1973 when Birch was the choreographer for Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Hence, the title of the Amas evening, A Lotta Night Music, which will include performances from Robert Cuccioli, Liz Callaway, and Cyndi Lauper.

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Cariou has also previously crossed professional paths with Amas. The company produced his one-man show Broadway and the Bard and presented it Off-Broadway in 2016. It made capital use of his strongest suits, sandwiching together Shakespearean lines with showtunes. (Before he was turned loose on Main Stem musicals like the aforementioned Sweeney, Cariou was brushing up his Shakespeare as Prospero and Petruchio and Iago in places like the Stratford Festival and the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.) “We created a nice little piece of theater,” Cariou tells........

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