42nd Tony Awards
42nd Tony Awards | ||||
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Date | June 5, 1988 | |||
Location | Minskoff Theatre, New York City, New York | |||
Hosted by | Angela Lansbury | |||
Television/radio coverage | ||||
Network | CBS | |||
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The 42nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 1988, at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS, hosted by Angela Lansbury.
The Ceremony
Musicals represented were:[1]
- A Chorus Line, "Music and the Mirror" – Donna McKechnie
- Anything Goes, "Anything Goes" – Patti LuPone and Company
- Dreamgirls, "One Night Only"/"Dreamgirls" – Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine and Terry Burrell;
- Into the Woods, "Into the Woods"/"Children Will Listen" – Phylicia Rashad and Company;
- The Phantom of the Opera, Last verse of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of The Night" – Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford;
- Romance/Romance, "I'll Always Remember the Song"/"It's Not Too Late" – Scott Bakula, Alison Fraser and Company
- Sarafina!, "Sarafina!" – Company
Plays represented were:[1]M. Butterfly, Scene with John Lithgow and BD 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.
A tribute to the late Michael Bennett was performed by Donna McKechnie of the original Chorus Line and the three original Dreamgirls, Terry Burrell, Loretta Devine and Sheryl Lee Ralph.[2]
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.
Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold
Special awards
- South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA
- Special Awards
Multiple nominations and awards
These productions had multiple nominations:
| The following productions received multiple awards.
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See also
- Drama Desk Awards
- 1988 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
- Obie Award
- New York Drama Critics' Circle
- Theatre World Award
- Lucille Lortel Awards
References
- ^ a b "1988 - 42nd Annual Tony Awards" tonyawards.com, accessed April 29, 2011
- ^ Rothstein, Mervyn." 'Phantom Of The Opera' Wins Seven Tonys; Best Play: 'Butterfly' " New York Times, June 6, 1988
External links
- Tony Awards Official Site
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