42nd Tony Awards

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42nd Tony Awards
Date June 5, 1988
Venue Minskoff Theatre, New York City, New York
Host Angela Lansbury
TV in the United States
Network CBS
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The 42nd Tony Awards were held on June 5, 1988 at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS, hosted by Angela Lansbury. (Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony Award ceremonies than any other individual: 1968, 1971, 1987, 1988, and 1989).

At these Tony Awards, the longest-running musical on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, competed for awards and received the season's Best Musical award.

Stephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other composer, with seven Tony Awards: Best Music and Best Lyrics for Company (1971); and Best Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979), Into the Woods (1988) and Passion (1994).

Contents

[edit] The Ceremony

Musicals represented were:[1]

  • A Chorus Line, "Music and the Mirror" - Donna McKechnie
  • Anything Goes, "Anything Goes" - Patti LuPone and Company
  • Dreamgirls, "One Night Only"/"Dreamgirls" - Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine and Terry Burrell;
  • Into the Woods, "Into the Woods"/"Children Will Listen" - Phylicia Rashad and Company;
  • The Phantom of the Opera, Last verse of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of The Night" - Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford;
  • Romance/Romance, "I'll Always Remember the Song"/"It's Not Too Late" - Scott Bakula, Alison Fraser and Company
  • Sarafina!, "Sarafina!" - Company

Plays represented were:[1] M. Butterfly, Scene with John Lithgow and B. D. Wong; Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Scene with Mel Winkler , Ed Hall and Delroy Lindo; A Walk in the Woods, Scene with Sam Waterston and Robert Prosky; and Speed-the-Plow, Scene with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver.

A tribute to the late Michael Bennett was performed by Donna McKechnie of the original Chorus Line and the three original Dreamgirls, Theresa Burrell, Loretta Devine and Sheryl Lee Ralph. [2]

[edit] Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

[edit] Production

Best Play

Best Musical

Best Revival

[edit] Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

[edit] Craft

Best Direction of a Play

Best Direction of a Musical

Best Choreography

Best Book of a Musical

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre

Best Scenic Design

Best Costume Design

Best Lighting Design

[edit] Special awards

Regional Theatre Tony Award
Special Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "1988 - 42nd Annual Tony Awards" tonyawards.com, accessed April 29, 2011
  2. ^ Rothstein, Mervyn." 'Phantom Of The Opera' Wins Seven Tonys; Best Play: 'Butterfly' " New York Times, June 6, 1988

[edit] External links

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