The 43rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS

CBS

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 from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 205 West 46th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, it was built by producer Charles Dillingham and opened as the Globe Theatre, in honor of London's Shakespearean playhouse, on...

 on June 4, 1989. The hostess was Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...

. (Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony telecasts than any other individual, with five telecasts: 1968, 1971, 1987, 1988, and 1989).

Presenters and Performers: Barry Bostwick, Betty Buckley, Zoe Caldwell, Nell Carter, Carol Channing Colleen Dewhurst, Jerry Herman, James Earl Jones, Larry Kert, Swoosie Kurtz, John Lithgow, Steve Martin, Richard Thomas, Tommy Tune, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, August Wilson, B.D. Wong.

Musicals and Plays represented:

• Black and Blue
  Black and Blue (musical)
  Black and Blue is a musical revue celebrating the black culture of dance and music in Paris between World War I and World War II.Based on an idea by Mel Howard and conceived by Hector Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia, it consists of songs by artists such as W. C...
  
   ("Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do"/"That Rhythm Man" - Company)
• Jerome Robbins' Broadway
  Jerome Robbins' Broadway
  Jerome Robbins' Broadway is an anthology comprising musical numbers from earlier shows that were either directed or choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Robbins won his fifth Tony Award for direction of the show....
  
   ("Dance at the Gym" from West Side Story - Company)
• Starmites
  Starmites
  Starmites is a musical with music and lyrics by Barry Keating and a book by Stuart Ross and Barry Keating, first presented at the Ark Theatre Company. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Musical....
  
   ("Starmites"/"Hard to Be the Diva"- Company)

• The Heidi Chronicles
  The Heidi Chronicles
  The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Production history:A workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan....
  
   (Scene with Joan Allen
  Joan Allen
  Joan Allen is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.She has received three Academy Award nominations;...
  
   and Peter Friedman
  Peter Friedman
  Peter Friedman is an American stage, film and television actor.Born in New York City, Friedman graduated from Hofstra University before making his Broadway debut in The Great God Brown in 1972...
  
  )
• Largely New York (with Bill Irwin
  Bill Irwin
  William Mills "Bill" Irwin is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on...
  
   and ensemble)
• Lend Me a Tenor
  Lend Me a Tenor
  Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy by Ken Ludwig. The play was produced on both the West End and Broadway . Although it received seven Tony Award nominations, it won only one, for Best Actor. A Broadway revival opened in 2010. Lend Me a Tenor has been translated into sixteen languages and produced in...
  
   (Scene with Philip Bosco
  Philip Bosco
  -Personal life:Bosco was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Margaret Raymond , a policewoman, and Philip Lupo Bosco, a carnival worker. Bosco went to high school at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City. He attended the Catholic University of Washington, D.C. Bosco married Nancy...
  
   and Victor Garber
  Victor Garber
  Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.-Early life:Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Garber is...
  
  )
• Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.-Plot:...
  
   (Scene with Pauline Collins
  Pauline Collins
  Pauline Collins, OBE is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which...
  
  )

Special Salute: "The Eleven O'clock Number" -- with Angela Lansbury: "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music; Betty Buckley

Betty Buckley

Betty Lynn Buckley is an American theater, film and television actress and singer. She is a Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee.-Early life:...

: "Memory" from Cats; Larry Kert

Larry Kert

Larry Kert was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He is best known for creating the role of Tony in the original Broadway version of West Side Story.-Early life:...

: "Being Alive" from Company.

Production

Best Play

Tony Award for Best Play

The Tony Award for Best Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theatre, including musical theatre, honoring productions on Broadway in New York. It currently takes place in mid-June each year.There was no award in the Tony's first year...

• The Heidi Chronicles
  The Heidi Chronicles
  The Heidi Chronicles is a 1988 play by Wendy Wasserstein. The play won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Production history:A workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre was held in April 1988, directed by Daniel J. Sullivan....
  
   by Wendy Wasserstein
  Wendy Wasserstein
  Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...
  
  . Produced by The Shubert Organization, Suntory International Corp., James Walsh, and Playwrights Horizons
• Largely New York by Bill Irwin. Produced by James Freydberg, Kenneth Feld, Jerry L. Cohen, Max Weitzenhoffer, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Walt Disney Studios.
• Lend Me a Tenor
  Lend Me a Tenor
  Lend Me a Tenor is a comedy by Ken Ludwig. The play was produced on both the West End and Broadway . Although it received seven Tony Award nominations, it won only one, for Best Actor. A Broadway revival opened in 2010. Lend Me a Tenor has been translated into sixteen languages and produced in...
  
   by Ken Ludwig. Produced by Martin Stargar and The Really Useful Theatre Co., Inc.
• Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine
  Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad.-Plot:...
  
   by Willy Russell. Produced by The Really Useful Theater Co., Inc., and Bob Swash

Best Musical

Tony Award for Best Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical, first awarded in 1949. This award is presented to the producers of the musical.-1940s:* 1949: Kiss Me, Kate – Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Samuel and Bella Spewack...

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• Jerome Robbins' Broadway
  Jerome Robbins' Broadway
  Jerome Robbins' Broadway is an anthology comprising musical numbers from earlier shows that were either directed or choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Robbins won his fifth Tony Award for direction of the show....
  
  . Produced by The Shubert Organization, Roger Berlind, Suntory International Corp., Byron Goldman, and Emanuel Azenberg
• Black and Blue
  Black and Blue (musical)
  Black and Blue is a musical revue celebrating the black culture of dance and music in Paris between World War I and World War II.Based on an idea by Mel Howard and conceived by Hector Orezzoli and Claudio Segovia, it consists of songs by artists such as W. C...
  
  . Produced by Mel Howard and Donald K. Donald
• Starmites
  Starmites
  Starmites is a musical with music and lyrics by Barry Keating and a book by Stuart Ross and Barry Keating, first presented at the Ark Theatre Company. It received a Tony Award nomination as Best Musical....
  
  . Produced by Hinks Shimberg, Mary Keil, and Steven Warnick

Best Revival

Tony Award for Best Revival

The Tony Award for Best Revival was presented from 1977 until 1994, when it was split into the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. If there are not enough revivals, it is possible under the current Tony rules for the "Best Revival of a Play or...

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• Our Town
  Our Town
  Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder. It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives...
  
  . Produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, Gregory Mosher, and Bernard Gersten
• Ah, Wilderness!
  Ah, Wilderness!
  Ah, Wilderness! is a comedy by American playwright Eugene O'Neill that premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 2 October 1933.-Plot summary:...
  
   Produced by Ken Marsolis, Alexander H. Cohen, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Yale Repertory Theater, Richard Norton, Irma Oestreicher, and Elizabeth D. White
• Ain't Misbehavin'. Produced by The Shubert Organization, Emanuel Azenberg, Dasha Epstein, and Roger Berlind
• Cafe Crown. Produced by LeFrak Entertainment, James M. Nederlander, Francine LeFrak, James L. Nederlander, and Arthur Rubin

Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play presented since 1947, is awarded to actors in productions of new or revival plays.-1940s:*1947 - José Ferrer – Cyrano de Bergerac / Fredric March – Years Ago...

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• Philip Bosco
  Philip Bosco
  -Personal life:Bosco was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Margaret Raymond , a policewoman, and Philip Lupo Bosco, a carnival worker. Bosco went to high school at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City. He attended the Catholic University of Washington, D.C. Bosco married Nancy...
  
   (Lend Me a Tenor)
• Mikhail Baryshnikov
  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a Soviet and American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974...
  
   (Metamorphosis)
• Victor Garber
  Victor Garber
  Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.-Early life:Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Garber is...
  
   (Lend Me a Tenor)
• Bill Irwin
  Bill Irwin
  William Mills "Bill" Irwin is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on...
  
   (Largely New York)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. The award has been presented since 1947, and is for performance in new productions or revivals.-1940s:...

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• Pauline Collins
  Pauline Collins
  Pauline Collins, OBE is an English actress of the stage, television, and film. She first came to prominence portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah during the 1970s. She later drew acclaim for playing the title role in the play Shirley Valentine for which...
  
   (Shirley Valentine)
• Joan Allen
  Joan Allen
  Joan Allen is an American actress. She worked in theatre, television and film during her early career, and achieved recognition for her Broadway debut in Burn This, winning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in 1989.She has received three Academy Award nominations;...
  
   (The Heidi Chronicles)
• Madeline Kahn
  Madeline Kahn
  Madeline Kahn was an American actress. Kahn was known primarily for her comedic roles in films such as Paper Moon, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, What's Up, Doc?, and Clue.-Early life:...
  
   (Born Yesterday)
• Kate Nelligan
  Kate Nelligan
  Patricia Colleen "Kate" Nelligan is a Canadian BAFTA award winning stage, film and television actress.-Early life:Nelligan, the fourth of six children, was born in London, Ontario, the daughter of Josephine Alice , a schoolteacher, and Patrick Joseph Nelligan, a factory repairman and municipal...
  
   (Spoils of War)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival...

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• Jason Alexander
  Jason Alexander
  Jay Scott Greenspan , better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, writer, comedian, television director, producer, and singer. He is best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld, appearing in the sitcom from 1989 to 1998...
  
   (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Gabriel Barre (Starmites)
• Brian Lane Green
  Brian Lane Green
  Brian Lane Green is an American stage, film and television actor.Born in Columbus, Indiana, he is known for his recurring roles throughout the country as Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Mr...
  
   (Starmites)
• Robert La Fosse (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is the Tony Awards award given to the actress who was voted as the best leading actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival...

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• Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown
  Ruth Brown was an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, composer and actress, noted for bringing a pop music style to R&B music in a series of hit songs for Atlantic Records in the 1950s, such as "So Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes" and " He Treats Your Daughter Mean".For these...
  
   (Black and Blue)
• Charlotte d'Amboise
  Charlotte d'Amboise
  Charlotte d'Amboise is an American actress and dancer. She has played starring roles in musical theatre, and has been nominated for two Tony Awards and won the Los Angeles Ovation Awards for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for Chicago...
  
   (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Linda Hopkins (Black and Blue)
• Sharon McNight (Starmites)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. The award has been presented since 1949.-1950s:* 1951: Eli Wallach – The Rose Tattoo* 1952: John Cromwell – Point of No Return...

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• Boyd Gaines
  Boyd Gaines
  Boyd Payne Gaines is an American stage, film, and television actor.Gaines was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Ida and James Gaines. He has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Fame, L.A...
  
   (The Heidi Chronicles)
• Peter Frechette
  Peter Frechette
  Peter Frechette is an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Born and raised in Coventry, Rhode Island, Frechette earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater from the University of Rhode Island.- Career :...
  
   (Eastern Standard)
• Eric Stoltz
  Eric Stoltz
  Eric Hamilton Stoltz is an American actor, director and producer. He is widely known for playing the role of Rocky Dennis in the biographical drama film Mask, which earned him the nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture...
  
   (Our Town)
• Gordon Joseph Weiss (Ghetto)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

This is a list of winners and nomination of the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress. The award was first presented in 1947.-1940s:* 1947: Patricia Neal – Another Part of the Forest* 1949: Shirley Booth – Goodbye, My Fancy-1950s:...

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• Christine Baranski
  Christine Baranski
  Christine Jane Baranski is an American stage and screen actress, and is perhaps best known for her Emmy Award winning portrayal as "Maryanne Thorpe" in the sitcom Cybill, and her Emmy nominated portrayal of "Diane Lockhart" in The Good Wife...
  
   (Rumors)
• Joanne Camp (The Heidi Chronicles)
• Tovah Feldshuh
  Tovah Feldshuh
  Tovah Feldshuh is an American actress, singer and playwright.-Early life:Terri Sue Feldshuh was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Lillian and Sidney Feldshuh, who was a lawyer. She was raised in Scarsdale, New York, an affluent community in Westchester County and graduated...
  
   (Lend Me a Tenor)
• Penelope Ann Miller
  Penelope Ann Miller
  Penelope Ann Miller , sometimes credited as Penelope Miller, is an American actress...
  
   (Our Town)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. The award has been presented since 1947...

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• Scott Wise
  Scott Wise
  -Life and career:Although a life-trained dancer, Wise first became seriously interested in dance as a career while studying to become an accountant. He performed with the Joffrey II, then moved into musical theater in the early 1980s after auditioning for A Chorus Line "as a dare more than...
  
   (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Bunny Briggs (Black and Blue)
• Savion Glover
  Savion Glover
  Savion Glover is an American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer. As a learning prodigy, he was taught by notable dancers from previous generations. Glover is currently interested in restoring African roots to tap...
  
   (Black and Blue)
• Scott Wentworth (Welcome to the Club)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

This is a list of the winners and nominations of the Tony Award for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical. The award, introduced in 1950, was previously named as Best Performance by a Featured or Supporting Actress in a Musical until 1976....

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• Debbie Shapiro
  Debbie Shapiro
  Debbie Shapiro Gravitte is an American actress and singer.Shapiro was born in Los Angeles, California, and went on to make her Broadway debut in the chorus of They're Playing Our Song in 1979...
  
   (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Jane Lanier (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Faith Prince
  Faith Prince
  Faith Prince is an American actress and singer known primarily for her work on Broadway. Prince has won the Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical and received three Tony nominations.-Life and career:...
  
   (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Julie Wilson
  Julie Wilson
  Julie Wilson is an American singer and actress.Born in Omaha, Nebraska and first finding a musical outlet with local musical group Hank's Hepcats, Wilson headed to New York City during World War II and found work in two of Manhattan's leading nightclubs, the Latin Quarter and the Copacabana...
  
   (Legs Diamond)

Craft

Best Direction of a Play

Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play

The Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play has been given since 1960. Before 1960 there was only one award for both play direction and musical direction, then in 1960 the award was split into two categories: Dramatic and Musical. In 1976 the Dramatic category was renamed to Play...

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• Jerry Zaks
  Jerry Zaks
  Jerry Zaks is a German-born American stage and television director, and actor. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play and Drama Desk Award for directing The House of Blue Leaves, Lend Me A Tenor, and Six Degrees of Separation and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and Drama...
  
   (Lend Me a Tenor)
• Bill Irwin
  Bill Irwin
  William Mills "Bill" Irwin is an American actor and clown noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He is known for his vaudeville-style stage acts, but has made a number of appearances on film and television and won a Tony Award for a dramatic role on...
  
   (Largely New York)
• Gregory Mosher
  Gregory Mosher
  Gregory Mosher is a long time director and producer of stage productions – at the Lincoln Center and Goodman Theatres, on and off-Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre, and in the West End. He is also a film and television director, producer, and writer...
  
   (Our Town)
• Daniel Sullivan
  Daniel J. Sullivan
  Daniel J. Sullivan is an American theatre and film director and playwright.-Life and career:Sullivan was born in Wray, Colorado, the son of Mary Catherine and John Martin Sullivan. He was raised in San Francisco, where he graduated from San Francisco State University...
  
   (The Heidi Chronicles)

Best Direction of a Musical

Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical. Prior to 1960, category for direction included plays and musicals.-1950s:Note: this category was for both dramatic and musical productions...

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• Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
   (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Larry Carpenter (Starmites)
• Peter Mark Schifter (Welcome to the Club)
• Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli (Black and Blue)

Best Choreography

Tony Award for Best Choreography

-1940s:* 1947: Agnes de Mille – Brigadoon / Michael Kidd – Finian's Rainbow* 1948: Jerome Robbins – High Button Shoes* 1949: Gower Champion – Lend An Ear-1950s:* 1950: Helen Tamiris – Touch and Go* 1951: Michael Kidd – Guys and Dolls...

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• Cholly Atkins, Henry LeTang, Frankie Manning, and Fayard Nicholas (Black and Blue)
• Michele Assaf (Starmites)
• Bill Irwin, Kimi Okada (Largely New York)
• Alan Johnson (Legs Diamond)

Best Scenic Design
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• Santo Loquasto
  Santo Loquasto
  Santo Richard Loquasto is a Sicilian-Italian-American production designer, scenic designer and costume designer for stage, film, and dance. He is a descendant of Libertino lo Guasto of Serradifalco, Caltanissetta, Sicily. Indy race car driver Al Loquasto was his first cousin...
  
   (Cafe Crown)
• Thomas Lynch (The Heidi Chronicles)
• Claudio Segovio and Hector Orezzoli (Black and Blue)
• Tony Walton
  Tony Walton
  Tony Walton is an English set and costume designer.Walton was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. He began his career in 1957 with the stage design for Noel Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece. Throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s he designed for the New...
  
   (Lend Me a Tenor)

Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Tony Award for Best Costume Design

These are the winners and nominees for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design. The award was first presented in 1947 and included both plays and musicals...

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• Claudio Segovio and Hector Orezzoli (Black and Blue)
• Jane Greenwood (Our Town)
• Willa Kim
  Willa Kim
  Willa Kim is an American costume designer for stage, dance, and film.Kim was born in Los Angeles, California and is a 1935 graduate of Belmont High School where she excelled in art and was an art editor for the 1935 Campanile...
  
   (Legs Diamond)
• William Ivey Long
  William Ivey Long
  William Ivey Long is an American costume designer for stage and film. His most notable work includes The Producers, Hairspray, Nine, Crazy for You, Grey Gardens and Young Frankenstein.-Early life and education:...
  
  (Lend Me a Tenor)

Tony Award for Best Lighting
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• Jennifer Tipton (Jerome Robbins' Broadway)
• Neil Peter Jampolis and Jane Reisman (Black and Blue)
• Brian Nason (Metamorphosis)
• Nancy Schertler (Largely New York)

External links

• Tony Awards Official Site