
Tony Awards (1956)
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Elliot Lawrence — Music Director
Episodes 39
The 21st Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1966-1967 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Black Comedy, A Delicate Balance, The Homecoming, and The Killing Of Sister George. Best musical nominees: The Apple Tree, Cabaret, I Do! I Do!, and Walking Happy.
Read MoreThe 22nd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1967-1968 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, Plaza Suite, The Price, and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Best musical nominees: Hallelujah, Baby!, The Happy Time, Illya Darling, and How Now, Dow Jones.
Read MoreThe 23rd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1968-1969 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Great White Hope, Hadrian VII, Lovers, and The Man In The Glass Booth. Best musical nominees: 1776, Hair, Zorba, and Promises, Promises.
Read MoreThe 24th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1969-1970 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Borstal Boy, Child's Play, Indians, and Last Of The Red Hot Lovers. Best musical nominees: Applause, Coco, and Purlie.
Read MoreThe 25th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1970-1971 Broadway theatre season and a look back at the first 25 years of Tony history. Best play nominees: Home, The Philanthropist, Sleuth, and Story Theatre. Best musical nominees: Company, The Me Nobody Knows, and The Rothschilds.
Read MoreThe 26th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1971-1972 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Old Times, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Sticks And Bones, and Vivat! Vivat Regina!. Best musical nominees: Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death, Follies, Grease, and Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
Read MoreThe 27th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1972-1973 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Butley, The Changing Room, The Sunshine Boys, and That Championship Season. Best musical nominees: A Little Night Music, Pippin, Sugar, and Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.
Read MoreThe 28th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1973-1974 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Au Pair Man, Boom Boom Room, The River Niger, and Ulysses In Nighttown. Best musical nominees: Raisin, Seesaw, and Over Here!.
Read MoreThe 29th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1974-1975 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Equus, The National Health, Seascape, Short Eyes, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/The Island, and Same Time, Next Year. Best musical nominees: The Lieutenant, Mack And Mabel, Shenandoah, and The Wiz.
Read MoreThe 30th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1975-1976 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The First Breeze of Summer, Knock Knock, Lamppost Reunion, and Travesties. Best musical nominees: Bubbling Brown Sugar, Chicago, A Chorus Line, and Pacific Overtures.
Read MoreThe 31st Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1976-1977 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Otherwise Engaged, The Shadow Box, Streamers, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf. Best musical nominees: Annie, Happy End, I Love My Wife, and Side By Side By Sondheim.
Read MoreThe 32nd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1977-1978 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Da, Chapter Two, Deathtrap, and The Gin Game. Best musical nominees: Ain't Misbehavin', Dancin', On The Twentieth Century, and Runaways.
Read MoreThe 33rd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1978-1979 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bedroom Farce, The Elephant Man, Wings, and Whose Life Is It Anyway?. Best musical nominees: Ballroom, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, They're Playing Our Song, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.
Read MoreThe 34th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1979-1980 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bent, Children Of A Lesser God, Home, and Talley's Folly. Best musical nominees: Barnum, Evita, Sugar Babies, and A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine.
Read MoreThe 35th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1980-1981 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Amadeus, Fifth Of July, A Lesson From Aloes, and A Life. Best musical nominees: 42nd Street, Sophisticated Ladies, Tintypes, and Woman Of The Year.
Read MoreThe 36th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1981-1982 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Crimes Of The Heart, The Dresser, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, and "Master Harold" …And The Boys. Best musical nominees: Dreamgirls, Nine, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Pump Boys And Dinettes.
Read MoreThe 37th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1982-1983 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels Fall, Plenty, Torch Song Trilogy, and 'Night, Mother. Best musical nominees: Blues In The Night, Cats, Merlin, and My One And Only.
Read MoreThe 38th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1983-1984 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Glengarry Glen Ross, Noises Off, Play Memory, and The Real Thing. Best musical nominees: Baby, La Cage Aux Folles, Sunday In The Park With George, and The Tap Dance Kid.
Read MoreThe 39th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1984-1985 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: As Is, Biloxi Blues, Hurlyburly, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Best musical nominees: Grind, Leader Of The Pack, Quilters, and Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.
Read MoreThe 40th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1985-1986 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Benefactors, Blood Knot, The House Of Blue Leaves, and I'm Not Rappaport. Best musical nominees: Big Deal, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Tango Argentino, and Song And Dance.
Read MoreThe 42th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1987-1988 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Speed-the-Plow, A Walk In The Woods, Joe Turner's Come And Gone, and M. Butterfly. Best musical nominees: Into The Woods, The Phantom Of The Opera, Sarafina!, and Romance/Romance.
Read MoreThe 43rd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1988-1989 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Heidi Chronicles, Largely New York, Lend Me A Tenor, and Shirley Valentine. Best musical nominees: Starmites, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and Black And Blue.
Read MoreThe 44th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1989-1990 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Grapes Of Wrath, Prelude To A Kiss, The Piano Lesson, and Lettice And Lovage. Best musical nominees: Aspects Of Love, City Of Angels, Grand Hotel, and Meet Me In St. Louis.
Read MoreThe 45th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1990-1991 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Lost In Yonkers, Our Country's Good, Shadowlands, and Six Degrees Of Separation. Best musical nominees: Miss Saigon, Once On This Island, The Secret Garden, and The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue.
Read MoreThe 48th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1993-1994 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels In America: Perestroika, Broken Glass, The Kentucky Cycle, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Best musical nominees: Beauty And The Beast, Passion, A Grand Night For Singing, and Cyrano: The Musical.
Read MoreThe 49th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1994-1995 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Arcadia, Having Our Say, Indiscretions, and Love! Valour! Compassion!. Best musical nominees: Sunset Boulevard and Smokey Joe's Cafe.
Read MoreThe 50th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1995-1996 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Buried Child, Master Class, Racing Demon, and Seven Guitars. Best musical nominees: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, Rent, Swinging On A Star, and Bring In 'Da Noise/Bring In 'Da Funk.
Read MoreThe 52nd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1997-1998 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Art, The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Freak, and Golden Child. Best musical nominees: The Lion King, Ragtime, Side Show, and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Read MoreThe 54th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 1999-2000 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Copenhagen, Dirty Blonde, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, and True West. Best musical nominees: Contact, James Joyce's The Dead, The Wild Party, and Swing!.
Read MoreThe 58th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2003-2004 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Anna In The Tropics, Frozen, I Am My Own Wife, and The Retreat From Moscow. Best musical nominees: Avenue Q, Wicked, The Boy From Oz, and Caroline, Or Change.
Read MoreThe 59th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Doubt, Democracy, Gem Of The Ocean, and The Pillowman. Best musical nominees: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Light In The Piazza, and Monty Python's Spamalot.
Read MoreThe 60th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2005-2006 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The History Boys, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Rabbit Hole, and Shining City. Best musical nominees: The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Jersey Boys, and The Wedding Singer.
Read MoreThe 61st Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2006-2007 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Frost/Nixon, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, and The Coast Of Utopia (Part I: Voyage/Part II: Shipwreck/Part III: Salvage). Best musical nominees: Curtains, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, and Spring Awakening.
Read MoreThe 62nd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2007-2008 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The 39 Steps, The Seafarer, Rock 'N' Roll, and August: Osage County. Best musical nominees: Cry-Baby, In The Heights, Passing Strange, and Xanadu.
Read MoreThe 63rd Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2008-2009 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Dividing The Estate, God Of Carnage, Reasons To Be Pretty, and 33 Variations. Best musical nominees: Next To Normal, Rock Of Ages, Shrek — The Musical, and Billy Elliot: The Musical.
Read MoreThe 64th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2009-2010 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Next Fall, Red, Time Stands Still, and In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). Best musical nominees: American Idiot, Fela!, Memphis, and Million Dollar Quartet.
Read MoreThe 65th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2010-2011 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Good People, Jerusalem, The Motherfucker With The Hat, and War Horse. Best musical nominees: The Book Of Mormon, Catch Me If You Can, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sister Act.
Read MoreThe 66th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2011-2012 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Other Desert Cities, Clybourne Park, Venus In Fur, and Peter And The Starcatcher. Best musical nominees: Once, Newsies, Leap Of Faith, and Nice Work If You Can Get It.
Read MoreThe 67th Annual Tony Awards
Celebrating the 2012-2013 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Assembled Parties, Lucky Guy, The Testament Of Mary, and Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike. Best musical nominees: Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, A Christmas Story: The Musical, and Matilda: The Musical.
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