57th Tony Awards


The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast by CBS television. The event was hosted for the first time by Hugh Jackman.

The ceremony

The ceremony was broadcast on national prime time television on CBS for three hours, rather than two hours on CBS and one hour on PBS, as had been done for several years previously. The television ratings were 5.4, down slightly from the 2002 telecast of 5.9. During the ceremony, at the end of their acceptance speech for Hairspray, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman kissed each other, making them the first public same-sex kiss at an awards show, predating Britney Spears and Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Presenters included: Benjamin Bratt, Toni Braxton, Matthew Broderick, Alan Cumming, Edie Falco, Joey Fatone, Laurence Fishburne, Sutton Foster, Danny Glover, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, John Leguizamo, John Lithgow, Julianna Margulies, Bebe Neuwirth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Perez, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Ann Reinking, John Spencer, Marisa Tomei, Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters. In addition, Jason Alexander and Martin Short, the stars of the national company of The Producers, presented an award from the stage of Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.
There were memorial tributes to cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, writer Peter Stone, and lyricist Adolph Green.
Shows that performed were:
New Musicals:
Revivals:
Winners are in bold
Source:The New York Times
Best PlayBest Musical

  • Hairspray
  • * Amour
  • * A Year with Frog and Toad
  • * Movin' Out
    • Best Revival of a PlayBest Revival of a Musical
  • Long Day's Journey into Night
  • * A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  • * Dinner at Eight
  • * Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
  • Nine
  • * Gypsy
  • * La bohème
  • * Man of La Mancha
    • Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a PlayBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
  • Brian Dennehy – Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone, Sr.
  • * Brian Bedford – Tartuffe as Orgon
  • * Eddie Izzard – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Bri
  • * Paul Newman – Our Town as Stage Manager
  • * Stanley Tucci – Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune as Johnny
  • Vanessa Redgrave – Long Day's Journey into Night as Mary Tyrone
  • * Jayne Atkinson – Enchanted April as Lotty Wilton
  • * Victoria Hamilton – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Sheila
  • * Clare Higgins – Vincent in Brixton as Ursula Loyler
  • * Fiona Shaw – Medea as Medea
    • Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a MusicalBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
  • Harvey Fierstein – Hairspray as Edna Turnblad
  • * Antonio Banderas – Nine as Guido Contini
  • * Malcolm Gets – Amour as Dusoleil
  • * Brian Stokes Mitchell – Man of La Mancha as Don Quixote/Cervantes
  • * John Selya – Movin' Out as Eddie
  • Marissa Jaret Winokur – Hairspray as Tracy Turnblad
  • * Melissa Errico – Amour as Isabella
  • * Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Man of La Mancha as Aldonza/Dulcinea
  • * Elizabeth Parkinson – Movin' Out as Brenda
  • * Bernadette Peters – Gypsy as Mama Rose
    • Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a PlayBest Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
  • Denis O'Hare – Take Me Out as Mason Marzak
  • * Thomas Jefferson Byrd – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Toledo
  • * Philip Seymour Hoffman – Long Day's Journey into Night as Jamie
  • * Robert Sean Leonard – Long Day's Journey into Night as Edmund
  • * Daniel Sunjata – Take Me Out as Darren Lemming
  • Michele Pawk – Hollywood Arms as Louise
  • * Christine Ebersole – Dinner at Eight as Millicent Jordan
  • * Linda Emond – Life x 3 as Inez
  • * Kathryn Meisle – Tartuffe as Elmire
  • * Marian Seldes – Dinner at Eight as Carlotta Vance
    • Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a MusicalBest Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
  • Dick Latessa – Hairspray as Wilbur Turnblad
  • * Michael Cavanaugh – Movin' Out as Various Characters
  • * John Dossett – Gypsy as Herbie
  • * Corey Reynolds – Hairspray as Seaweed J. Stubbs
  • * Keith Roberts – Movin' Out as Tony
  • Jane Krakowski – Nine as Carla Albanese
  • * Tammy Blanchard – Gypsy as Louise
  • * Mary Stuart Masterson – Nine as Luisa Contini
  • * Chita Rivera – Nine as Liliane La Fleur
  • * Ashley Tuttle – Movin' Out as Judy
    • Best Book of a MusicalBest Original Score Written for the Theatre
  • Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan – Hairspray
  • * Didier van Cauwelaert and Jeremy Sams – Amour
  • * Willie Reale – A Year with Frog and Toad
  • * David Henry Hwang – Flower Drum Song
  • Hairspray – Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and Shaiman
  • * A Year with Frog and Toad – Robert Reale and Willie Reale
  • * Amour – Michel Legrand and Didier van Cauwelaert and Jeremy Sams
  • * Urban Cowboy – Various Composers
    • Best Scenic DesignBest Costume Design
  • Catherine Martin – La bohème
  • * John Lee Beatty – Dinner at Eight
  • * Santo Loquasto – Long Day's Journey into Night
  • * David Rockwell – Hairspray
  • William Ivey Long – Hairspray
  • * Gregg Barnes – Flower Drum Song
  • * Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie – La bohème
  • * Catherine Zuber – Dinner at Eight
    • Best Lighting DesignBest Orchestrations
  • Nigel Levings – La bohème
  • * Donald Holder – Movin' Out
  • * Brian MacDevitt – Nine
  • * Kenneth Posner – Hairspray
  • Billy Joel and Stuart Malina – Movin' Out
  • * Nicholas Kitsopoulos – La bohème
  • * Jonathan Tunick – Nine
  • * Harold Wheeler – Hairspray
    • Best Direction of a PlayBest Direction of a Musical
  • Joe Mantello – Take Me Out
  • * Laurence Boswell – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  • * Robert Falls – Long Day's Journey into Night
  • * Deborah Warner – Medea
  • Jack O'Brien – Hairspray
  • * David Leveaux – Nine
  • * Baz Luhrmann – La bohème
  • * Twyla Tharp – Movin' Out
    • Best Choreography-
  • Twyla Tharp – Movin' Out
  • * Robert Longbottom – Flower Drum Song
  • * Jerry Mitchell – Hairspray
  • * Melinda Roy – Urban Cowboy
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    Special awards

    ;Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
    ;Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
    ;Special Theatrical Event
    ;Regional Theatre Tony Award
    These productions had multiple nominations:
    The following productions received multiple awards.