42nd Tony Awards
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The 42nd Tony Awards (1988) were hosted by Angela Lansbury and broadcast live on CBS on Sunday, June 5, 1988, from the Minskoff Theatre on Broadway in New York City. (Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony telecasts than any other individual, with five telecasts: 1968, 1971, 1987, 1988, and 1989).
At these Tony Awards, the longest-running musical on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, competed for awards and received the season's Best Musical award.
Stephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other composer, with seven Tony Awards: Best Music and Best Lyrics for Company (1971); and Best Score for Follies (1972), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd (1979), Into the Woods (1988) and Passion (1994).
Musicals represented were: A Chorus Line; Anything Goes; Dreamgirls; Into the Woods; The Phantom of the Opera; Romance/Romance; and Sarafina!
Plays represented were: M. Butterfly (Scene with John Lithgow and B. D. Wong; Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Scene with Mel Winkler , Ed Hall and Delroy Lindo); A Walk in the Woods (Scene with Sam Waterston and Robert Prosky); and Speed-the-Plow (Scene with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver).
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[edit] Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold
[edit] Production
Nominees:
- A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
- Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet
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[edit] Performance
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
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Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Nominees:
- Blythe Danner (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- Glenda Jackson (Macbeth)
- Frances McDormand (A Streetcar Named Desire)
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
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Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
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Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Nominees:
- Michael Gough (Breaking the Code)
- Lou Liberatore (Burn This)
- Delroy Lindo (Joe Turner's Come and Gone)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Nominees:
- Kimberleigh Aarn (Joe Turner's Come and Gone)
- Kate Nelligan (Serious Money)
- Kimberly Scott (Joe Turner's Come and Gone)
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
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Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Nominees:
- Leleti Khumalo (Sarafina!)
- Alyson Reid (Cabaret)
- Regina Resnik (Cabaret)
[edit] Craft
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Nominees:
- Lar Lubovitch
- Gillian Lynne
- Ndaba Mhlongo and Mbongeni Ngema
Nominees:
- The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer
- The Phantom of the Opera by Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Romance/Romance by Barry Harman
Best Original Score Written for the Theatre
- Into the Woods Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Nominees:
- The Phantom of the Opera Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe
- Romance/Romance Music by Keith Herrmann, lyrics by Barry Harman
- Sarafina! Music and lyrics by Mbongeni Ngema and Hugh Masakela
- Maria Björnson (The Phantom of the Opera)
Nominees:
- Eiko Ishioka
- Tony Straiges
- Tony Walton
Tony Award for Best Costume Design
- Maria Björnson (The Phantom of the Opera)
Nominees:
- Ann Hould-Ward
- Eiko Ishioka
- Tony Walton
Tony Award for Best Lighting
- Andrew Bridge for The Phantom of the Opera
Nominees:
- Paul Gallo
- Richard Nelson
- Andy Phillips
[edit] Special Awards
- Regional Theater Tony Award
South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA
- Special Awards
