45th Tony Awards

The 45th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Minskoff Theatre on June 2, 1991. The hosts were Julie Andrews and Jeremy Irons.

Presenters: Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Tyne Daly, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Steve Guttenberg, Audrey Hepburn, Raul Julia, Jackie Mason, Shirley MacLaine, James Naughton, Penn & Teller, Anthony Quinn, Lily Tomlin, Denzel Washington.

Musicals represented:

• Miss Saigon "The American Dream" - Jonathan Pryce and Company);
• Once On This Island ("The Human Heart"/"Mama Will Provide" - La Chanze, Lillias White and Company);
• The Secret Garden (Medley - Company);
• The Will Rogers Follies ("Will-A-Mania"/"Favorite Son" - Keith Carradine, Cady Huffman and Company).

Special Salute: "The Year of the Musical Actor": "I Believe in You" from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Robert Morse; "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof with Topol; "Rosie" from Bye, Bye Birdie with Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking (a live remote from Seattle); My Fair Lady and Camelot with Julie Andrews; "Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera with Michael Crawford).

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Production

Best Play

• Lost in Yonkers by Neil Simon. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg
• Our Country's Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Produced by Frank and Woji Gero, Karl Sydow, Raymond L:. Gaspard, Frederick Zollo, Diana Bliss, and Hartford Stage Company
• Shadowlands by William Nicholson. Produced by Elliot Martin, James M. Nederlander, Brian Eastman, Terry Allen Kramer, and Roger L. Stevens
• Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare. Produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, Gregory Mosher, and Bernard Gersten

Best Musical

• The Will Rogers Follies. Produced by Pierre Cossette, Martin Richards, Sam Crothers, James M. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane, Max Weitzenhoffer, and Japan Satellite Broadcasting, Inc.
• Miss Saigon. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh
• Once On This Island. Produced by The Shubert Organization, Capital Cities/ABC Inc., Suntory International, James Walsh, and Playwrights Horizons
• The Secret Garden. Produced by Heidi Landesman, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, Elizabeth Williams, Jujamcyn Theaters, TV Asahi, and Dodger Productions

Best Revival

• Fiddler on the Roof. Produced by Barry and Fran Weissler and Pace Theatrical Group
• The Miser. Produced by Circle in the Square Theatre, Theodore Mann, and Paul Libin
• Peter Pan. Produced by James M. Nederlander, Arthur Rubin, Thomas P. McCoy, Keith Stava, PP Investments, Inc., and John. B. Platt

Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Nigel Hawthorne (Shadowlands)
• Peter Frechette (Our Country's Good)
• Tom McGowan (La Bête)
• Courtney B. Vance (Six Degrees of Separation)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Mercedes Ruehl (Lost in Yonkers)
• Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation)
• Julie Harris (Lucifer's Child)
• Cherry Jones (Our Country's Good)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Jonathan Pryce (Miss Saigon)
• Keith Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies)
• Paul Hipp (Buddy)
• Topol (Fiddler on the Roof)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon)
• June Angela (Shogun: The Musical)
• Dee Hoty (The Will Rogers Follies)
• Cathy Rigby (Peter Pan)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Kevin Spacey (Lost in Yonkers)
• Adam Arkin (I Hate Hamlet)
• Dylan Baker (La Bête)
• Stephen Lang (The Speed of Darkness)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Irene Worth (Lost in Yonkers)
• Amelia Campbell (Our Country's Good)
• Kathryn Erbe (The Speed of Darkness)
• J. Smith-Cameron (Our Country's Good)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Hinton Battle (Miss Saigon)
• Bruce Adler (Those Were the Days)
• Gregg Burge (Oh, Kay!)
• Willy Falk (Miss Saigon)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Daisy Eagan (The Secret Garden)
• Alison Fraser (The Secret Garden)
• Cady Huffman (The Will Rogers Follies)
• LaChanze (Once on this Island)

Craft

Best Direction of a Play

• Jerry Zaks (Six Degrees of Separation)
• Richard Jones (La Bête)
• Mark Lamos (Our Country's Good)
• Gene Saks (Lost in Yonkers)

Best Direction of a Musical

• Tommy Tune (The Will Rogers Follies)
• Graciela Daniele (Once on this Island)
• Nicholas Hytner (Miss Saigon)
• Eleanor Reissa (Those Were the Days)

Best Choreography

• Tommy Tune (The Will Rogers Follies)
• Bob Avian (Miss Saigon)
• Graciela Daniele (Once on this Island)
• Dan Siretta (Oh, Kay!)

Best Book of a Musical

• The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman
• Miss Saigon by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Once On This Island by Lynn Ahrens
• The Will Rogers Follies by Peter Stone

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre

• The Will Rogers Follies. Music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Miss Saigon. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil
• Once on this Island. Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
• The Secret Garden. Music by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Marsha Norman

Best Scenic Design

• Heidi Landesman (The Secret Garden)
• Richard Hudson (La Bête)
• John Napier (Miss Saigon)
• Tony Walton (The Will Rogers Follies)

Tony Award for Best Costume Design

• Willa Kim (The Will Rogers Follies)
• Theoni V. Aldredge (The Secret Garden)
• Judy Dearing (Once on this Island)
• Patricia Zipprodt (Shogun: The Musical)

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design

• Jules Fisher (The Will Rogers Follies)
• David Hersey (Miss Saigon)
• Allen Lee Hughes (Once on this Island)
• Jennifer Tipton (La Bête)

Special Tony Awards

• Regional Theatre Award -- Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
• Tony Honor—Father George Moore (Given Posthumously)

External links

• Official Site Tony Awards