53rd Tony Awards
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The 53rd Annual Tony Awards (1999) was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999; "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The show did not have a formal host.
The opening number was "There's No Business Like Show Business", sung by Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat, and the presenters.
Host/Presenters: Julie Andrews, Bea Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, Matthew Broderick, Carol Burnett, Zoe Caldwell, Mario Cantone, Stockard Channing, Alan Cumming, Judi Dench, Brian Dennehy, Laurence Fishburne, Calista Flockhart, David Hare, William Hurt, Swoosie Kurtz, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, Terrence McNally, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Jason Robards, Christian Slater, Kevin Spacey, Scott Wolf.
The musicals represented were:
- The Civil War ("Freedom's Child" - Lawrence Clayton and Company);
- Peter Pan ("I'm Flying" - Cathy Rigby and children);
- Parade ("This Is Not Over Yet"/"The Old Red Hills of Home" - Carolee Carmello, Brent Carver and Company);
- You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown ("My New Philosophy"/"Happiness" - Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Rapp and Company);
- Fosse ("Sing Sing Sing" - Company);
- Little Me ("Boom Boom" - Martin Short and Company);
- Annie Get Your Gun ("I Got the Sun in the Morning"/"Hoedown"/ "Old-Fashioned Wedding" - Tom Wopat, Bernadette Peters and Company).
The telecast included a special presentation featuring performers from several of the productions nominated as Best Play and Best Revival of a Play.
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[edit] Winners and Nominees
Winners are in bold **
[edit] Production
- Side Man ** by Warren Leight
- Closer by Patrick Marber
- The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
- Not About Nightingales by Tennessee Williams
- Death of a Salesman **by Arthur Miller
- Electra
- The Iceman Cometh
- Twelfth Night
[edit] Performance
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
- Brian Dennehy ** for Death of a Salesman
- Brian F. O'Byrne (The Lonesome West)
- Corin Redgrave (Not About Nightingales)
- Kevin Spacey (The Iceman Cometh)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
- Judi Dench ** for Amy's View
- Stockard Channing (The Lion in Winter)
- Marian Seldes (Ring Round the Moon)
- Zoe Wanamaker (Electra)
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
- Martin Short ** for Little Me
- Brent Carver (Parade)
- Adam Cooper (Swan Lake)
- Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
- Bernadette Peters ** for Annie Get Your Gun
- Carolee Carmello (Parade)
- Dee Hoty (Footloose)
- Sian Phillips (Marlene)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
- Frank Wood ** for Side Man
- Kevin Anderson (Death of a Salesman)
- Finbar Lynch (Not About Nightingales)
- Howard Witt (Death of a Salesman)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
- Elizabeth Franz ** for Death of a Salesman
- Claire Bloom (Electra)
- Samantha Bond (Amy's View)
- Dawn Bradfield (The Lonesome West)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
- Roger Bart ** for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Desmond Richardson (Fosse)
- Ron Taylor (It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues)
- Scott Wise (Fosse)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
- Kristin Chenoweth ** for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Gretha Boston (It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues)
- Valarie Pettiford (Fosse)
- Mary Testa (On the Town)
[edit] Craft
- Robert Falls for Death of a Salesman **
- Howard Davies (The Iceman Cometh)
- Garry Hynes (The Lonesome West)
- Trevor Nunn (Not About Nightingales)
- Matthew Bourne for Swan Lake **
- Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking (Fosse)
- Michael Mayer (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
- Harold Prince (Parade)
- Matthew Bourne for Swan Lake **
- Patricia Birch (Parade)
- Rob Marshall (Little Me)
- A. C. Ciulla (Footloose)
- Alfred Uhry for Parade **
- Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman for It Aint Nothin But the Blues
- Pam Gems for Marlene
- Dean Pichford and Walter Bobbie for Footloose
Best Original Score Written for the Theatre
- Parade (Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown) **
- Footloose
- The Civil War
- Twelfth Night
- Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman ** (Fosse)
- David Cullen (Swan Lake)
- Don Sebesky (Parade)
- Harold Wheeler (Little Me)
- Richard Hoover ** (Not About Nightingales)
- Bob Crowley (The Iceman Cometh)
- Bob Crowley (Twelfth Night)
- Ricardo Hernandez (Parade)
Tony Award for Best Costume Design
- Lez Brotherston** (Swan Lake)
- Santo Loquasto (Fosse)
- John David Ridge (Ring Round the Moon)
- Catherine Zuber (Twelfth Night)
Tony Award for Best Lighting Designer
- Andrew Bridge ** (Fosse)
- Mark Henderson (The Iceman Cometh)
- Natasha Katz (Twelfth Night)
- Chris Parry (Not About Nightingales)
[edit] Special Awards
- Regional Theater Tony Award
- Crossroads Theatre Company (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
- Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
- Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
- Isabelle Stevenson
- Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
- Special Tony Award For a Live Theatrical Presentation
