40th Tony Awards
The 40th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 1, 1986 at the Minskoff Theatre and was broadcast by CBS television.
The ceremony
The opening number was "Wanna Sing A Show Tune". The special number was "Forty Years of Broadway Show Music", which included songs from musicals including, among others, Annie, Big River, Finian's Rainbow, Hello, Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, and Sweet Charity. The finale was the company singing "Give My Regards to Broadway".[1]
There were also vignettes from past Tony Award winning plays.[2]
The presenters and performers were: Debbie Allen, Susan Anton, Bea Arthur, Nell Carter, Agnes De Mille, Jose Ferrer, Sandy Duncan, Phyllis Frelich, Helen Hayes, Michael Kidd, Jack Lemmon, Cleo Laine, John V. Lindsay, Dorothy Loudon, Hal Linden, Bernadette Peters, Karen Morrow, Stefanie Powers, Juliet Prowse, Tony Randall, Ann Reinking, Lee Roy Reams, Lee Remick, Chita Rivera, Alfonso Ribeiro, Rex Smith, John Rubinstein, Marlo Thomas, Leslie Uggams, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterson, Ben Vereen, Tom Wopat.
Musicals that performed were Big Deal ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar" - Company); Song & Dance ("Unexpected Song" - Bernadette Peters); Tango Argentino (Dance Excerpts - Company); and The Mystery of Edwin Drood ("There You Are"/"Don't Quit While You're Ahead" - George Rose and Company).
Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold **
Production
- Benefactors by Michael Frayn
- Blood Knot by Athol Fugard
- The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
- Big Deal
- Song & Dance
- Tango Argentino
Reproduction (Play or Musical)
- Hay Fever
- The Iceman Cometh
- Loot
Performance
- Hume Cronyn (The Petition)
- Ed Harris (Precious Sons)
- Jack Lemmon (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Rosemary Harris (Hay Fever)
- Mary Beth Hurt (Benefactors)
- Jessica Tandy (The Petition)
- Don Correia (Singin' in the Rain)
- Cleavant Derricks (Big Deal)
- Maurice Hines (Uptown…It's Hot!)
- Debbie Allen (Sweet Charity)
- Cleo Laine (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Chita Rivera (Jerry's Girls)
- Peter Gallagher (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Charles Keating (Loot)
- Joseph Maher (Loot)
- Stockard Channing (The House of Blue Leaves)
- Bethel Leslie (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Zoë Wanamaker (Loot)
- Christopher d'Amboise (Song & Dance)
- John Herrera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Howard McGillin (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Patti Cohenour (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Jana Schneider (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Elisabeth Welch (Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood)
Craft
- Jonathan Miller (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- José Quintero (The Iceman Cometh)
- John Tillinger (Loot)
- Bob Fosse (Big Deal)
- Richard Maltby, Jr. (Song & Dance)
- Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli (Tango Argentino)
- Graciela Daniele (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Peter Martins (Song & Dance)
- Tango Argentino Dancers (Tango Argentino)
- Big Deal by Bob Fosse
- Singin' in the Rain by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
- Wind in the Willows by Jane Iredale
- The News (Paul Schierhorn)
- Song & Dance (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Richard Maltby, Jr.)
- Wind in the Willows (William Perry and Roger McGough)
Nominees:
- Ben Edwards (The Iceman Cometh)
- David Mitchell (The Boys in Winter)
- Beni Montresor (The Marriage of Figaro)
- Willa Kim (Song & Dance)
- Beni Montresor (The Marriage of Figaro)
- Ann Roth (The House of Blue Leaves)
- Jules Fisher (Song & Dance)
- Paul Gallo (The House of Blue Leaves)
- Thomas R Skelton (The Iceman Cometh)
Special award
References
- ^ "Ceremonies, 1986" tonyawards.com, retrieved June 7, 2010
- ^ Nemy, Enid. "Five Tonys Are Won By 'Drood'", The New York Times, June 2, 2986, p.C13
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