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2008 Tony Award Winners


2008 Tony Award Winners

The nominees and recipients of the 62nd Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards follow. Winners are listed in boldface, with an asterisk.

 

Best Musical:

Cry-Baby
* In the Heights
Passing Strange
Xanadu


Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical

Kerry Butler, Xanadu
*Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Kelli O'Hara, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
Faith Prince, A Catered Affair
Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park With George


Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical

Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park With George
Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Stew, Passing Strange
*Paulo Szot, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair


Best Revival of a Musical

Grease
Gypsy
* Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
Sunday in the Park With George


Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Stephen Sondheim

 

Best Play:

*August: Osage County
Rock 'n' Roll
The Seafarer
The 39 Steps


Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play

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


Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Play

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


Best Direction of a Play

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


Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Musical

Daniel Breaker, Passing Strange
Danny Burstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Robin De Jesús, In The Heights
Christopher Fitzgerald, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
*Boyd Gaines, Gypsy


Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical

de'Adre Aziza, Passing Strange
*Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Andrea Martin, The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein
Olga Merediz, In The Heights
Loretta Ables Sayre, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific


Best Original Score

Cry-Baby, Music & Lyrics: David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger
* In The Heights, Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Little Mermaid, Music: Alan Menken and Lyrics: Howard Ashman and Glenn Slater
Passing Strange, Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew

 

Best Direction of a Musical

Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park with George
Thomas Kail, In The Heights
Arthur Laurents, Gypsy
*Bartlett Sher, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific


Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Play

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


Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Play

Sinead Cusack, Rock 'n' Roll
Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing
Laurie Metcalf, November
Martha Plimpton, Top Girls
*Rondi Reed, August: Osage County


Best Scenic Design of a Musical

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
*Michael Yeargan, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific


Best Scenic Design of a Play

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


Best Sound Design of a Musical

Acme Sound Partners, In the Heights
Sebastian Frost, Sunday in the Park with George
*Scott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Dan Moses Schreier, Gypsy


Best Sound Design of a Play

Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing
Adam Cork, Macbeth
Ian Dickson, Rock 'n' Roll
*Mic Pool, The 39 Steps


Best Costume Design of a Musical

David Farley, Sunday in the Park with George
Martin Pakledinaz, Gypsy
Paul Tazewell, In the Heights
*Catherine Zuber, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific


Best Costume Design of a Play

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


Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park with George
Howell Binkley, In the Heights
*Donald Holder, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Natasha Katz, The Little Mermaid


Best Lighting Design of a Play

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


Best Revival of a Play

*Boeing-Boeing
The Homecoming
Les Liaisons Dangereueses
Macbeth


Best Book of a Musical

Cry-Baby, Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
In the Heights, Quiara Alegria Hudes
* Passing Strange, Stew
Xanadu, Douglas Carter Beane

 

Best Choreography

Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby
*Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights
Christopher Gattelli, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Dan Knechtges, Xanadu


Best Orchestrations

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


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 Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.

 

Regional Theatre Tony Award

Chicago Shakespeare Theater