2008 Tony Award Winners

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Tony Awards 2008 IN THE HEIGHTS, CRY BABY, PASSING STRANGE

The 62nd Tony Awards were given out this past Sunday.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific" dominated Broadway's top honors, the Tony Awards, with seven prizes on Sunday, followed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "August: Osage County" with five wins.

"South Pacific," nominated for 11 Tonys, picked up awards for best musical revival, best musical director (Bartlett Sher), best leading actor in a musical (Paulo Szot), scenery, costume, lighting and sound.

A complete list of winners are below:

MUSICAL
In the Heights

PLAY
August: Osage County

REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
South Pacific

REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Boeing-Boeing

DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Bartlett Sher, South Pacific

DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County

PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Paulo Szot, South Pacific

PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Patti LuPone, Gypsy

PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing

PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County

PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Boyd Gaines, Gypsy

PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Laura Benanti, Gypsy

PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Jim Norton, The Seafarer

PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Rondi Reed, August: Osage County

ORIGINAL SCORE
In the Heights, Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda

ORCHESTRATIONS
Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman, In the Heights

CHOREOGRAPHY
Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights

BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Stew, Passing Strange

COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Catherine Zuber, South Pacific

COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Katrina Lindsay, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Michael Yeargan, South Pacific

SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County

SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Scott Lehrer, South Pacific

SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Mic Pool, The 39 Steps

LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Donald Holder, South Pacific

LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Kevin Adams, The 39 Steps

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Stephen Sondheim

REGIONAL THEATER AWARD
Chicago Shakespeare Theatre

SPECIAL TONY AWARD
Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981), in recognition of his historic contribution to American musical theatre in the field of orchestrations, as represented on Broadway this season by South Pacific

NowPublic listing of the nominees on May 13th:

The 2008 Tony Awards will be given out on June 15th…and the nominees are:

Best Play
1.    August: Osage County
2.    Rock ‘n’ Roll
3.    The Seafarer
4.    The 39 Steps

Best Musical
1.    Cry-Baby
2.    In The Heights
3.    Passing Strange
4.    Xanadu

Best Book of a Musical
1.    Cry-Baby
2.    In The Heights
3.    Passing Strange
4.    Xanadu

Best Original Score
1.    Cry-Baby   Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger
2.    In The Heights Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
3.    The Little Mermaid Music: Alan Menken   Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater
4.    Passing Strange Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew

Best Revival of a Play
1.    Boeing-Boeing
2.    The Homecoming
3.    Les Liaisons Dangereuses
4.    Macbeth

Best Revival of a Musical
1.    Grease
2.    Gypsy
3.    Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
4.    Sunday in the Park with George

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
1.    Ben Daniels, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2.    Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood
3.    Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
4.    Rufus Sewell, Rock ‘n’ Roll
5.    Patrick Stewart, Macbeth

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
1.    Eve Best, The Homecoming
2.    Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
3.    Kate Fleetwood, Macbeth
4.    S. Epatha Merkerson, Come Back, Little Sheba
5.    Amy Morton, August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
1.    Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park with George
2.    Lin-Manuel Miranda, In The Heights
3.    Stew, Passing Strange
4.    Paulo Szot, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
5.    Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
1.    Kerry Butler, Xanadu
2.    Patti LuPone, Gypsy
3.    Kelli O’Hara, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
4.    Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
5.    Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park with George

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
1.    Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius
2.    Raúl Esparza, The Homecoming
3.    Conleth Hill, The Seafarer
4.    Jim Norton, The Seafarer
5.    David Pittu, Is He Dead?

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
1.    Sinead Cusack, Rock ‘n’ Roll
2.    Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing
3.    Laurie Metcalf, November
4.    Martha Plimpton, Top Girls
5.    Rondi Reed, August: Osage County

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
1.    Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
2.    Danny Burstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific
3.    Robin De Jesús, In The Heights
4.    Christopher Fitzgerald, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
5.    Boyd Gaines, Gypsy

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
1.    de’Adre Aziza, Passing Strange
2.    Laura Benanti, Gypsy
3.    Andrea Martin, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
4.    Olga Merediz, In The Heights
5.    Loretta Ables Sayre, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

The complete list of Tony Award nominations can be found at www.tonyawards.com

"In the Heights," a bold new musical about Latinos in upper Manhattan, captured an eye-popping 13 Tony nominations, and the critically praised revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" won 12 as the 62nd annual Tony Awards nominees were unveiled today.

"August: Osage County," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a dysfunctional Oklahoma family, captured seven nominations, followed by "The 39 Steps," a humorous reenactment of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film, which won six.

The awards, to be announced at Radio City Music Hall on June 15, featured a mixture of nominees for highly praised dramatic revivals such as "Macbeth" and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," along with well-known musicals, such as "Gypsy" and "Sunday in the Park with George." A special Tony award for lifetime achievement in the theater will be presented to Stephen Sondheim at the awards ceremony, to be broadcast on CBS and hosted by Whoopi Goldberg.

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