53rd Tony Awards

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999; "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The show did not have a formal host.

The opening number was "There's No Business Like Show Business", sung by Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat, and the presenters.

Host/Presenters: Julie Andrews, Bea Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Christine Baranski, Matthew Broderick, Carol Burnett, Zoe Caldwell, Mario Cantone, Stockard Channing, Alan Cumming, Judi Dench, Brian Dennehy, Laurence Fishburne, Calista Flockhart, David Hare, William Hurt, Swoosie Kurtz, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, Terrence McNally, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Hyde Pierce, Chita Rivera, Jason Robards, Christian Slater, Kevin Spacey, Scott Wolf.

The musicals represented were:
*"The Civil War" ("Freedom's Child" - Lawrence Clayton and Company);
*"Peter Pan" ("I'm Flying" - Cathy Rigby and children);
*"Parade" ("This Is Not Over Yet"/"The Old Red Hills of Home" - Carolee Carmello, Brent Carver and Company);
*"You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" ("My New Philosophy"/"Happiness" - Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Rapp and Company);
*"Fosse" ("Sing Sing Sing" - Company);
*"Little Me" ("Boom Boom" - Martin Short and Company);
*"Annie Get Your Gun" ("I Got the Sun in the Morning"/"Hoedown"/ "Old-Fashioned Wedding" - Tom Wopat, Bernadette Peters and Company).

The telecast included a special presentation featuring performers from several of the productions nominated as Best Play and Best Revival of a Play.

Winners and Nominees

"Winners are in bold **"

Production

Best Play
*"Side Man **" by Warren Leight
*"Closer" by Patrick Marber
*"The Lonesome West" by Martin McDonagh
*"Not About Nightingales" by Tennessee Williams

Best Musical
*"Fosse **"
*"The Civil War"
*"It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues"
*"Parade"

Best Revival of a Play
*"Death of a Salesman **"by Arthur Miller
*"Electra"
*"The Iceman Cometh"
*"Twelfth Night"

Best Revival of a Musical
*"Annie Get Your Gun **"
*"Little Me"
*"Peter Pan"
*"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"

Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
*Brian Dennehy ** for "Death of a Salesman"
*Brian F. O'Byrne ("The Lonesome West")
*Corin Redgrave ("Not About Nightingales")
*Kevin Spacey ("The Iceman Cometh")

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
*Judi Dench ** for "Amy's View"
*Stockard Channing ("The Lion in Winter")
*Marian Seldes ("Ring Round the Moon")
*Zoe Wanamaker ("Electra")

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
*Martin Short ** for "Little Me"
*Brent Carver ("Parade")
*Adam Cooper ("Swan Lake")
*Tom Wopat ("Annie Get Your Gun")

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
*Bernadette Peters ** for "Annie Get Your Gun"
*Carolee Carmello ("Parade")
*Dee Hoty ("Footloose")
*Sian Phillips ("Marlene")

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
*Frank Wood ** for "Side Man"
*Kevin Anderson ("Death of a Salesman")
*Finbar Lynch ("Not About Nightingales")
*Howard Witt ("Death of a Salesman")

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
*Elizabeth Franz ** for "Death of a Salesman"
*Claire Bloom ("Electra")
*Samantha Bond ("Amy's View")
*Dawn Bradfield ("The Lonesome West")

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
*Roger Bart ** for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
*Desmond Richardson ("Fosse")
*Ron Taylor ("It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues")
*Scott Wise ("Fosse")

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
*Kristin Chenoweth ** for "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
*Gretha Boston ("It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues")
*Valarie Pettiford ("Fosse")
*Mary Testa ("On the Town")

Craft

Best Direction of a Play
*Robert Falls for "Death of a Salesman **
*Howard Davies ("The Iceman Cometh")
*Garry Hynes ("The Lonesome West")
*Trevor Nunn ("Not About Nightingales")

Best Direction of a Musical
*Matthew Bourne for "Swan Lake **
*Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking ("Fosse")
*Michael Mayer ("You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown")
*Harold Prince ("Parade")

Best Choreography
*Matthew Bourne for "Swan Lake **
*Patricia Birch ("Parade")
*Rob Marshall ("Little Me")
*A. C. Ciulla ("Footloose")

Best Book of a Musical
*Alfred Uhry for "Parade **
*Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman for "It Aint Nothin But the Blues"
*Pam Gems for "Marlene"
*Dean Pichford and Walter Bobbie for "Footloose"

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre
*Parade (Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown) **
*Footloose
*The Civil War
*Twelfth Night

Best Orchestrations
*Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman ** ("Fosse")
*David Cullen ("Swan Lake")
*Don Sebesky ("Parade")
*Harold Wheeler ("Little Me")

Best Scenic Design
*Richard Hoover ** ("Not About Nightingales")
*Bob Crowley ("The Iceman Cometh")
*Bob Crowley ("Twelfth Night")
*Ricardo Hernandez ("Parade")

Tony Award for Best Costume Design
*Lez Brotherston** ("Swan Lake")
*Santo Loquasto ("Fosse")
*John David Ridge ("Ring Round the Moon")
*Catherine Zuber ("Twelfth Night")

Tony Award for Best Lighting Designer
*Andrew Bridge ** ("Fosse")
*Mark Henderson ("The Iceman Cometh")
*Natasha Katz ("Twelfth Night")
*Chris Parry ("Not About Nightingales")

pecial Awards

*Regional Theater Tony Award
**Crossroads Theatre Company (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

*Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
**Arthur Miller

*Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
**Isabelle Stevenson

*Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
**Uta Hagen

*Special Tony Award For a Live Theatrical Presentation
**Fool Moon

External links

* [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html Tony Awards Official Site]