Tony Awards: 1980

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Children of a Lesser God

Mark Medoff (playwright)
Emanuel Azenberg, The Shubert Organization, Dasha Epstein, and Ron Dante (producers)

Bent

Martin Sherman (playwright)
Jack Schlissel and Steven Steinlauf (producers)

Home

Samm-Art Williams (playwright)
Elizabeth I. McCann, Nelle Nugent, Gerald S. Krone, and Ray Larsen (producers)

Talley’s Folly

Lanford Wilson (playwright)
Nancy Cooperstein, Porter Van Zandt, and Marc Howard (producers)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Evita

Tim Rice (book and lyrics)
Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)
Robert Stigwood (producer)

A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

Dick Vosburgh (book and lyrics)
Frank Lazarus (music)
Alexander H. Cohen and Hildy Parks (producers)

Barnum

Mark Bramble (book)
Cy Coleman (music)
Michael Stewart (lyrics)
Judy Gordon, Cy Coleman, Lois Rosenfield, and Maurice Rosenfield (producers)

Sugar Babies

Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby (book)
Arthur Malvin (music and lyrics)
Terry Allen Kramer and Harry Rigby (producer)

REPRODUCTION OF A PLAY OR MUSICAL

Morning’s at Seven

Elizabeth I. McCann, Nelle Nugent and Ray Larson (producers)

Major Barbara

Circle in the Square (producer)

Peter Pan

Zev Bufman (producer)

West Side Story

Gladys Rackmil, the John F. Kennedy Center, James M. Nederlander and Ruth Mitchell (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

John Rubinstein – Children of a Lesser God
Charles Brown– Home
Gerlad Hiken – Strider
Judd Hirsch – Talley’s Folly

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Phyllis Frelich – Children of a Lesser God
Blythe Danner – Betrayal
Maggie Smith – Night and Day
Anne Twomey – Nuts

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Jim Dale – Barnum
Gregory Hines – Comin’ Uptown
Mickey Rooney – Sugar Babies
Giorgio Tozzi – The Most Happy Fella

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Patti Lupone – Evita
Christine Andreas – Oklahoma!
Sandy Duncan – Peter Pan
Ann Miller – Sugar Babies

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

David Rounds – Morning’s At Seven
David Dukes – Bent
George Hearn– Watch on the Rhine
Earle Hyman – The Lady From Dubuque
Joseph Maher – Night and Day

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Dinah Manoff – I Ought to be in Pictures
Maurneen Anderman – The Lady from Dubuque
Pamela Burrell – Strider
Lois de Banzie – Morning’s At Seven

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Mandy Patinkin – Evita
David Garrison – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Harry Groener – Oklahoma!
Bob Gunton – Evita

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Priscilla Lopez – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Debbie Allen – West Side Story
Glenn Close – Barnum
Josie de Guzman – West Side Story

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Vivian Matalon – Morning’s at Seven
Gordon Davidson – Children of a Lesser God
Peter Hall – Betrayal
Marshall W. Mason – Talley’s Folly

BES DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Harold Prince – Evita
Ernest Flatt and Rudy Tronto – Sugar Babies
Joe Layton – Barnum
Tommy Tune – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Ernest Flatt – Sugar Babies
Larry Fuller – Evita
Joe Layton – Barnum

BEST SCORE

Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics) – Evita
Frank Lazarus (music) and Dick Vosburgh (lyrics) – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Cy Coleman (music) and Michael Stewart (lyrics) – Barnum
Arthur Malvin ( music and lyrics) – Sugar Babies

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Tim Rice – Evita
Dick Vosburgh – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Mark Bramble – Barnum
Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby – Sugar Babies

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

John Lee Beatty – Talley’s Folly tie
David Mitchell – Barnum tie
Timothy O’Brien and Tazeena Firth – Evita
Tony Walton – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Theoni V. Aldredge – Barnum
Pierre Balmain – Happy New Year
Timothy O’Brien and Tazeena Firth – Evita
Raoul Penè Du Bois – Sugar Babies

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

David Hersey – Evita
Beverly Emmons – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Craig Miller – Barnum
Dennis Parichy – Talley’s Folly

SPECIAL AWARDS

Mary Tyler Moore (Whose Life Is It Anyway?)
Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut

REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD

Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky

LAWRENCE LANGNER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE

Helen Hayes

THEATRE AWARD ’80

Richard Fitzgerald, honored for his installing the infrared system in Broadway theatres, thus bringing the compassion and dedication of making theatergoing for those with impaired hearing, rewarding, stimulating and enjoyable.
Hobe Morrison, theater editor of Variety

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