49th Tony Awards

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The 49th Annual Tony Awards (1995) was broadcast by CBS from the Minskoff Theatre on June 4, 1995. Hosts were Glenn Close, Gregory Hines, and Nathan Lane.

The musical sequence was "Broadway Songs We've Never Done, and Never Will" with Gregory Hines and Nathan Lane.

Presenters were: Maria Conchita Alonso, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Red Buttons, Walter Cronkite, Jim Dale, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Michele Lee, Lonette McKee, Robert Morse, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Secada, Patrick Stewart, Elaine Stritch, Marlo Thomas, Kathleen Turner, Joan Van Ark.

Musicals represented:

A special segment,"Broadway Across America" featured: Buskers (musical) in San Francisco ("Busker Alley" - Tommy Tune and Company); Master Class in Los Angeles (Scene with Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald); Grease in Boston ("We Go Together" - Company); Hello, Dolly! in San Diego.

Contents

[edit] Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

[edit] Production

Best Play


  • Love! Valour! Compassion! By Terrence McNally. Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove, and Jujamcyn Theatres.

Nominees:

  • Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. Produced by Lincoln Center Theater, Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten.
  • Having Our Say by Emily Mann. Produced by Camille O. Cosby and Judith Rutherford James
  • Indiscretions by Jean Cocteau. Produced by The Shubert Organization, Roger Berlind, Capital Cities/ABC, and Scott Rudin.

Best Musical


Nominee:

  • Smokey Joe's Cafe Produced by Richard Frankel, Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Jujamcyn Theaters/Jack Viertel, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre/Gordon Davidson.

Best Revival of a Play


  • The Heiress, Produced by Lincoln Center Theater, Andre Bishop, Bernard Gersten

Nominees:

  • Hamlet, Produced by Dodger Productions, Roger Berlind, Endemol Theatre Productions, Inc., Jujamcyn Theaters, Kardana Productions, Inc., Scott Rudin, The Almeida Theatre Company
  • The Moliere Comedies, Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes
  • The Rose Tattoo, Produced by Circle in the Square Theatre, Theodore Mann, Josephine R. Abady, Robert Bennett

Best Revival of a Musical


Nominee:

[edit] Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play


  • Ralph Fiennes (Hamlet)

Nominees:

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play


Nominees:

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical


Nominees:

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical


Nominee:

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play


Nominees:

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play


Nominees:

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical


Nominees:

  • Michel Bell (Show Boat)
  • Joel Blum (Show Boat)
  • Victor Trent Cook (Smokey Joe's Cafe)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical


Nominees:

  • Brenda Braxton (Smokey Joe's Cafe)
  • B.J. Crosby (Smokey Joe's Cafe)
  • DeLee Lively (Smokey Joe's Cafe)

[edit] Craft

Best Direction of a Play


Nominees:

Best Direction of a Musical


Nominees:

Best Choreography


Nominees:

  • Bob Avian (Sunset Boulevard)
  • Wayne Cilento (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)
  • Joey McKneely (Smokey Joe's Cafe)

Best Book of a Musical


No other nominees

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre


  • Sunset Boulevard Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton

No other nominees

Best Scenic Design


  • John Napier (Sunset Boulevard)

Nominees:

  • John Lee Beatty (The Heiress)
  • Stephen Brimson Lewis (Indiscretions)
  • Mark Thompson (Arcadia)

Tony Award for Best Costume Design


Nominees:

  • Jane Greenwood (The Heiress)
  • Stephen Brimson Lewis (Indiscretions)
  • Anthony Powell (Sunset Boulevard)

Tony Award for Best Lighting


  • Andrew Bridge (Sunset Boulevard)

Nominees:

  • Beverly Emmons (The Heiress)
  • Mark Henderson (Indiscretions)
  • Paul Pyant (Arcadia)

[edit] Regional Theatre Award

Goodspeed Opera House

[edit] Tony Honor

[edit] Special Tony Award

  • Carol Channing — Lifetime Achievement
  • Harvey Sabinson — Lifetime Achievement

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