61st Tony Awards

The 61st Annual Tony Award ceremony was held on June 10, 2007, at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS television broadcasting live. The cut-off date for eligibility was May 9, meaning that to be qualified for the 2006–2007 season, shows must have opened before or on this date.

Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs announced the nominations on May 15, 2007 with leading the nominations with elevent, followed by The Coast of Utopia, and Grey Gardens with ten nominations each.Playbill News: 2006-2007 "Tony Nominations Announced; 'Spring Awakening' Garners 11 Noms" playbill.com, May 2007"List of nominees" tonyawards.com Spring Awakening was the most awarded musical with eight awards, including for Best Musical.

This Tony Awards telecast won an Emmy Award, Outstanding Special Class Program, at the 59th Creative Arts Emmy Awards presented on September 8, 2007. Glenn Weiss, the director of the awards show, received a Directors Guild of America Awards nomination, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety (television).Gans, Andrew. "Creative Arts Emmy Awards — Featuring Stritch Win — Broadcast Sept. 15" playbill.com, September 15, 2007

Eligibility Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2006–07 season before May 10, 2007, are eligible.

Original plays The Coast of Utopia Coram Boy Deuce Frost/Nixon The Little Dog Laughed Losing Louis Radio Golf The Vertical Hour The Year of Magical Thinking

Original musicals Curtains Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical Grey Gardens High Fidelity Legally Blonde LoveMusik Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me Mary Poppins The Pirate Queen Spring Awakening The Times They Are a-Changin'

Play revivals Butley Heartbreak House Inherit the Wind Journey's End A Moon for the Misbegotten Prelude to a Kiss Talk Radio Translations

Musical revivals The Apple Tree A Chorus Line Company Les Misérables 110 in the Shade

The ceremony As with the 2006 Tony Award ceremony, there was no formal host and the show was emceed by the presenters.

Presenters "The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards - Official Website" tonyawards.com

Jane Alexander Christina Applegate Zach Braff Harry Connick Jr. Claire Danes Jeff Daniels Brian Dennehy Taye Diggs Harvey Fierstein Carla Gugino Marvin Hamlisch Marcia Gay Harden Neil Patrick Harris Anne Heche Marg Helgenberger Christian Hoff Felicity Huffman Mark Indelicato Eddie Izzard John Kander Jane Krakowski Angela Lansbury Robert Sean Leonard John Mahoney Audra McDonald Idina Menzel Bebe Neuwirth Cynthia Nixon Donny Osmond Bernadette Peters David Hyde Pierce Christopher Plummer Daniel Reichard Anika Noni Rose Liev Schreiber Kevin Spacey J. Robert Spencer Tommy Tune John Turturro Usher Ben Vereen Vanessa L. Williams Patrick Wilson Rainn Wilson John Lloyd Young

Performances

The opening number showed the cast of A Chorus Line in rehearsal clothing dancing and singing "I Hope I Get It," outside of Radio City Music Hall accompanied by Marvin Hamlisch on the piano, with the cast then ending on the stage in full gold costumes performing "One".

The following musicals or performers performed:Gans, Andrew. 61st Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards to Be Presented June 10", playbill.com, June 10, 2007

110 in the Shade ("Raunchy") – Audra McDonald and John Cullum Grey Gardens ("The Revolutionary Costume for Today") – Christine Ebersole Spring Awakening (medley of "Mama Who Bore Me," "Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)," "The Bitch of Living," and "Totally Fucked")* – Company Curtains ("Show People") – Company Mary Poppins (medley of "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Step in Time," and "Anything Can Happen") – Company Company ("Being Alive") – Raul Esparza "American Idol" winner and replacement star Fantasia Barrino performed a song from The Color Purple in honor of Regional Theater Tony Winner Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA, where the show premiered.

*(Because it was a live TV performance, some of the lyrics to "The Bitch of Living" and "Totally Fucked" were altered for that night's performance.)

Winners and nominees Nominations were annuncied on May 15, 2007. Winners are in bold. Best Play Best Musical The Coast of Utopia – Tom Stoppard Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan The Little Dog Laughed – Douglas Carter Beane Radio Golf – August Wilson | valign="top" | Spring Awakening Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins Best Revival of a Play Best Revival of a Musical Journey's End Inherit the Wind Talk Radio Translations Company The Apple Tree A Chorus Line 110 in the Shade Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon Boyd Gaines – Journey's End as Lieut. Osborne Brían F. O'Byrne – The Coast of Utopia as Alexander Herzen Christopher Plummer – Inherit the Wind as Henry Drummond Liev Schreiber – Talk Radio as Barry Champlain Julie White – The Little Dog Laughed as Diane Eve Best – A Moon for the Misbegotten as Josie Hogan Swoosie Kurtz – Heartbreak House as Hesione Hushabye Angela Lansbury – Deuce as Leona Mullen Vanessa Redgrave – The Year of Magical Thinking as Joan Didion Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical David Hyde Pierce – Curtains as Lieut. Frank Cioffi Michael Cerveris – LoveMusik as Kurt Weill Raúl Esparza – Company as Robert Jonathan Groff – Spring Awakening as Melchior Gabor Gavin Lee – Mary Poppins as Bert Christine Ebersole – Grey Gardens as 'Little Edie' Beale Laura Bell Bundy – Legally Blonde as Elle Woods Audra McDonald – 110 in the Shade as Lizzie Curry Debra Monk – Curtains as Carmen Bernstein Donna Murphy – LoveMusik as Lotte Lenya Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Billy Crudup – The Coast of Utopia as Vissarion Belinsky Ethan Hawke – The Coast of Utopia as Michael Bakunin Anthony Chisholm – Radio Golf as Elder Joseph Barlow John Earl Jelks – Radio Golf as Sterling Johnson Stark Sands – Journey's End as Lieut. Raleigh Jennifer Ehle – The Coast of Utopia as Various Characters Martha Plimpton – The Coast of Utopia as Varenka/Natasha Tuchkov Xanthe Elbrick – Coram Boy as Alexander/Aaron Dana Ivey – Butley as Edna Shaft Jan Maxwell – Coram Boy as Mrs. Lynch Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical John Gallagher Jr. – Spring Awakening as Moritz Stiefel Brooks Ashmanskas – Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me as Various Characters Christian Borle – Legally Blonde as Emmett Forrest John Cullum – 110 in the Shade as H.C. Curry David Pittu – LoveMusik as Bertolt Brecht Mary Louise Wilson – Grey Gardens as 'Big Edie' Beale Charlotte d'Amboise – A Chorus Line as Cassie Ferguson Rebecca Luker – Mary Poppins as Winifred Banks Orfeh – Legally Blonde as Paulette Bonafonté Karen Ziemba – Curtains as Georgia Hendricks Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Steven Sater – Spring Awakening Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone – Curtains Doug Wright – Grey Gardens Heather Hach – Legally Blonde Spring Awakening – Duncan Sheik (music) and Steven Sater (lyrics) Curtains – John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb, Kander and Rupert Holmes (lyrics) Grey Gardens – Scott Frankel (music) and Michael Korie (lyrics) Legally Blonde – Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin (music and lyrics) |- ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Scenic Design of a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Scenic Design of a Musical |- | valign="top" | Bob Crowley and Scott Pask – The Coast of Utopia Jonathan Fensom – Journey's End David Gallo – Radio Golf Ti Green and Melly Still – Coram Boy Bob Crowley – Mary Poppins Christine Jones – Spring Awakening Anna Louizos – High Fidelity Allen Moyer – Grey Gardens Best Costume Design of a Play Best Costume Design of a Musical Catherine Zuber – The Coast of Utopia Ti Green and Melly Still – Coram Boy Jane Greenwood – Heartbreak House Santo Loquasto – Inherit the Wind William Ivey Long – Grey Gardens Gregg Barnes – Legally Blonde Bob Crowley – Mary Poppins Susan Hilferty – Spring Awakening Best Lighting Design of a Play Best Lighting Design of a Musical Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner, and Natasha Katz – The Coast of Utopia Paule Constable – Coram Boy Brian MacDevitt – Inherit the Wind Jason Taylor – Journey's End Kevin Adams – Spring Awakening Christopher Akerlind – 110 in the Shade Howard Harrison – Mary Poppins Peter Kaczorowski – Grey Gardens Best Direction of a Play Best Direction of a Musical Jack O'Brien – The Coast of Utopia Michael Grandage – Frost/Nixon David Grindley – Journey's End Melly Still – Coram Boy Michael Mayer – Spring Awakening John Doyle – Company Scott Ellis – Curtains Michael Greif – Grey Gardens Best Choreography Best Orchestrations Bill T. Jones – Spring Awakening Rob Ashford – Curtains Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear – Mary Poppins Jerry Mitchell – Legally Blonde Duncan Sheik – Spring Awakening Bruce Coughlin – Grey Gardens Jonathan Tunick – LoveMusik Jonathan Tunick – 110 in the Shade

In Memoriam

Patrick Quinn Kitty Carlisle Hart Charles Nelson Reilly Florence Klotz Bob Fennell Anne Pitoniak Howard Rosenstone Jose Vega Daniel McDonald Sidney Sheldon Betty Comden Brett Adams Ian Richardson Arthur Hill Mako Isabel Bigley Robert Earl Jones Barnard Hughes Jay Harnick Roscoe Lee Browne G. Eric Muratalla Gretchen Wyler Lloyd Richards Henry Hewes Curt Dempster

Special Tony Award

Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event

Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!, Producers: Roger Alan Gindi, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Dan Whitten, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Ken Grossman, Bob & Rhonda Silver, Michael A. Jenkins/Dallas Summer Musicals, Inc., Wetrock Entertainment Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway, Producers: David J. Foster, Jared Geller, Ruth Hendel, Jonathan Reinis, Inc., Billy Zavelson, Jamie Cesa, Anne Strickland Squadron, Jennifer Manocherian, Gary Allen, Melvin Honowitz

Regional Theatre Tony Award

Alliance Theatre Company, Atlanta, Georgia

Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Not awarded

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

11 nominations: Spring Awakening 10 nominations: The Coast of Utopia & Grey Gardens 8 nominations: Curtains 7 nominations: Legally Blonde & Mary Poppins 6 nominations: Coram Boy & Journey's End 5 nominations: 110 in the Shade 4 nominations: Inherit the Wind, LoveMusik & Radio Golf 3 nominations: Company & Frost/Nixon 2 nominations: A Chorus Line, Heartbreak House, The Little Dog Laughed & Talk Radio

The following productions received multiple awards.

8 wins: Spring Awakening 7 wins: The Coast of Utopia 3 wins: Grey Gardens

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