Tony Awards: 2008 (log) by JDWActor

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

August: Osage County

Tracy Letts (playwright)
Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Ostar Productions, Jennifer Manocherian, The Weinstein Company, Debra Black/Daryl Roth, Ronald & Marc Frankel/Barbara Freitag, Rick Steiner/Staton Bell Group, The Steppenwolf Theatre Company (producers)

Rock 'n' Roll

Tom Stoppard (playwright)
Bob Boyett & Sonia Friedman Productions, Ostar Productions, Roger Berlind, Tulchin/Bartner, Douglas G. Smith, Dancap Productions, Jam Theatricals, The Weinstein Company, Lincoln Center Theater, The Royal Court Theatre London (producers)

The Seafarer

Conor McPherson (playwright)
Ostar Productions, Bob Boyett, Roy Furman, Lawrence Horowitz, Jam Theatricals, Bill Rollnick/Nancy Ellison Rollnick, James D’Orta, Thomas S. Murphy, Ralph Guild/Jon Avnet, Philip Geier/Keough Partners, Eric Falkenstein/Max OnStage, The National Theatre of Great Britain (producers)

The 39 Steps

Patrick Barlow (playwright)
Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Bob Boyett, Harriet Newman Leve/Ron Nicynski, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Manocherian Golden Prods., Olympus Theatricals/Douglas Denoff, Marek J. Cantor/Pat Addiss, Huntington Theatre Company/Nicholas Martin/Michael Maso, Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Ltd. (producers)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

In the Heights

Quiara Alegría Hudes (book)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics)
Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, Sander Jacobs, Goodman/Grossman, Peter Fine, Everett/Skipper (producers)

Cry-Baby

Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan (book)
David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger (music and lyrics)
Adam Epstein, Allan S. Gordon, Élan V. McAllister, Brian Grazer, James P. MacGilvray, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Anne Caruso, Adam S. Gordon, Latitude Link, The Pelican Group, Philip Morgaman, Andrew Farber/Richard Mishaan (producers)

Passing Strange

Stew (book)
Stew and Heidi Rodewald (music)
Stew (lyrics)
The Shubert Organization, Elizabeth Ireland McCann LLC, Bill Kenwright, Chase Mishkin, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Broadway Across America, Emily Fisher Landau, Peter May, Boyett Ostar, Larry Hirschhorn, Janet Pailet/Steve Klein, Elie Hirschfeld/Jed Bernstein, Spring Sirkin/Ruth Hendel, Vasi Laurence/Pat Flicker Addiss, Wendy Federman/Jackie Barlia Florin, Joey Parnes, The Public Theater, The Berkeley Repertory Theatre (producers)

Xanadu

Douglas Carter Beane (book)
Jeff Lynne and John Farrar (music and lyrics)
Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel, Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith (producers)

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Boeing-Boeing

Sonia Friedman Productions, Bob Boyett, Act Productions, Matthew Byam Shaw, Robert G. Bartner, The Weinstein Company, Susan Gallin/Mary Lu Roffe, Broadway Across America, Tulchin/Jenkins/DSM, The Araca Group (producers)

The Homecoming

Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Ergo Entertainment, Barbara & Buddy Freitag, Michael Gardner, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Terry E. Schnuck, Harold Thau, Michael Filerman/Lynne Peyser, Ronald Frankel/David Jaroslawicz, Love Bunny Entertainment (producers)

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy (producers)

Macbeth

Duncan C. Weldon & Paul Elliott, Jeffrey Archer, Bill Ballard, Terri & Timothy Childs, Rodger Hess, David Mirvish, Adriana Mnuchin, Emanuel Azenberg, BAM, The Chichester Festival Theatre (producers)

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

South Pacific

Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Bob Boyett (producers)

Grease

Paul Nicholas and David Ian, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Terry Allen Kramer, Robert Stigwood (producers)

Gypsy

Roger Berlind, The Routh-Frankel-Baruch-Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin, Jack Viertel (producers)

Sunday in the Park with George

Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Bob Boyett, Debra Black, Jam Theatricals, Stephanie P. McClelland, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Barbara Manocherian/Jennifer Manocherian, Ostar Productions, The Menier Chocolate Factory/David Babani(producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Mark Rylance – Boeing-Boeing
Ben Daniels – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Laurence Fishburne - Thurgood
Rufus Sewell - Rock 'n' Roll
Patrick Stewart - Macbeth

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Deanna Dunagan - August: Osage County
Eve Best - The Homecoming
Kate Fleetwood - Macbeth
S. Epatha Merkerson - Come Back, Little Sheba
Amy Morton – August: Osage County

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Paul Szot - South Pacific
Daniel Evans - Sunday in the Park with George
Lin-Manuel Miranda - In the Heights
Stew - Passing Strange
Tom Wopat - A Catered Affair

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Patti LuPone - Gypsy
Kerry Butler - Xanadu
Kelli O'Hara - South Pacific
Faith Prince - A Catered Affair
Jenna Russell - Sunday in the Park with George

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Jim Norton - The Seafarer
Bobby Cannavale - Mauritius
Raúl Esparza - The Homecoming
Conleth Hill - The Seafarer
David Pittu - Is He Dead?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Boyd Gaines - Gypsy
Daniel Breaker – Passing Strange
Danny Burstein – South Pacific
Robin De Jesús – In the Heights
Christopher Fitzgerald – The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Laura Benanti – Gypsy
de'Adre Aziza – Passing Strange
Andrea Martin – The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
Olga Merediz – In the Heights
Loretta Ables Sayre – South Pacific

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Anna D. Shapiro – August: Osage County
Maria Aitken – The 39 Steps
Conor McPherson – The Seafarer
Matthew Warchus – Boeing-Boeing

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Bartlett Sher – South Pacific
Sam Buntrock – Sunday in the Park with George
Thomas Kail – In the Heights
Arthur Laurents – Grey Gardens

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Andy Blankenbuehler – In the Heights
Rob Ashford – Cry-Baby
Christopher Gattelli – South Pacific
Dan Knechtges – Xanadu

BEST SCORE

Lin-Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics) – In the Heights

David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger (music and lyrics) – Cry-Baby
Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman & Glenn Slater (lyrics) – The Little Mermaid
Stew & Heidi Rodewald (music) and Stew (lyrics) – Passing Strange

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Stew – Passing Strange
Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan – Cry-Baby
Quiara Alegría Hudes – In the Heights
Douglas Carter Beane – Xanadu

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS

Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman - In the Heights
Jason Carr – Sunday in the Park with George
Stew and Heidi Rodewald – Passing Strange
Jonathan Tunick – A Catered Affair

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER FOR A PLAY

Todd Rosenthal – August: Osage County
Peter McKintosh – The 39 Steps
Scott Pask – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Anthony Ward – Macbeth

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER FOR A MUSICAL

Michael Yeargan – South Pacific
David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network – Sunday in the Park with George
Anna Louizos – In the Heights
Robin Wagner – The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER FOR A PLAY

Katrina Lindsay – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Gregory Gale – Cyrano de Bergerac
Rob Howell – Boeing-Boeing
Peter McKintosh – The 39 Steps

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER FOR A MUSICAL

Catherine Zuber – South Pacific
David Farley – Sunday in the Park with George
Martin Pakledinaz – Gypsy
Paul Tazewell – In the Heights

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER FOR A PLAY

Kevin Adams – The 39 Steps
Howard Harrison – Macbeth
Donald Holder – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Ann G. Wrightson – August: Osage County

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER FOR A MUSICAL

Donald Holder – South Pacific
Ken Billington – Sunday in the Park with George
Howell Binkley – In the Heights
Natasha Katz – The Little Mermaid

BEST SOUND DESIGNER FOR A PLAY

Mic Pool – The 39 Steps
Simon Baker – Boeing-Boeing
Adam Cork – Macbeth
Ian Dickinson – Rock 'n' Roll

BEST SOUND DESIGNER FOR A MUSICAL

Scott Lehrer – South Pacific
Acme Sound Partners – In the Heights
Sebastian Frost – Sunday in the Park with George
Dan Moses Schreier – Gypsy

SPECIAL TONY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE

Stephen Sondheim

REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD

Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL

SPECIAL TONY AWARD

Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981)

Passing Strange	We don't write 'round here much anymore	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Tony Awards: 2009
Tony Awards: 2007	Mark Rylance	South Pacific	Sunday in the Park with George
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Stephen Sondheim	Xanadu

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