61st Tony Awards

61st Tony Awards
Official poster for the 61st annual Tony Awards
Date June 10, 2007
Location Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Hosted by No formal host
Most awards Spring Awakening (8)
Most nominations Spring Awakening (11)
Television/radio coverage
Network CBS

The 61st Annual Tony Award ceremony was held on June 10, 2007 at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS television broadcasting live. The cut-off date for eligibility was May 9, meaning that to be qualified for the 2006-2007 season, shows must have opened before or on this date.

Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs announced the nominations on May 15, 2007.[1][2]

This Tony Awards telecast won an Emmy Award, Outstanding Special Class Program, at the 59th Creative Arts Emmy Awards presented on September 8, 2007. Glenn Weiss, the director of the awards show, received a Directors Guild of America Awards nomination, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety (television).[3]

The ceremony

As at the 2006 Tony Award ceremony, host Jack Black and the show was emceed by the presenters.[4]

Presenters

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Performances

The opening number showed the cast of A Chorus Line in rehearsal clothing dancing and singing "I Hope I Get It," outside of Radio City Music Hall accompanied by Marvin Hamlisch on the piano, with the cast then ending on the stage in full gold costumes performing "One".

The following musicals or performers performed:[4]

  • 110 in the Shade ("Raunchy") – Audra McDonald and John Cullum
  • Grey Gardens ("The Revolutionary Costume for Today") – Christine Ebersole
  • Spring Awakening (medley of "Mama Who Bore Me," "The Bitch of Living," and "Totally Fucked")* – Company
  • Curtains ("Show People") – Company
  • Mary Poppins (medley of "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Step in Time," and "Anything Can Happen") – Company
  • Company ("Being Alive") – Raul Esparza
  • "American Idol" winner and replacement star Fantasia Barrino performed a song from The Color Purple (musical) in honor of Regional Theater Tony Winner Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA, where the show premiered.

*(Because it was a live TV performance, the lyrics to "The Bitch of Living" and "Totally Fucked" were altered for that night's performance.)

Winners and nominees

  • Winners are in bold.
Best Play Best Musical
Best Revival of a Play Best Revival of a Musical
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Best Scenic Design of a Play Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Best Costume Design of a Play Best Costume Design of a Musical
Best Lighting Design of a Play Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Best Direction of a Play Best Direction of a Musical
Best Choreography Best Orchestrations

Nominations and wins tally

ProductionNomination(s)Win(s)
110 in the Shade5-
A Chorus Line2-
A Moon for the Misbegotten1-
Butley1-
Company31
Coram Boy6-
Curtains81
Deuce1-
Frost/Nixon31
Grey Gardens103
Heartbreak House2-
High Fidelity1-
Inherit the Wind4-
Jay Johnson: The Two and Only11
Journey's End61
Kiki and Herb1-
Legally Blonde7-
LoveMusik4-
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me1-
Mary Poppins71
Radio Golf4-
Spring Awakening 118
Talk Radio2-
The Apple Tree1-
The Coast of Utopia107
The Little Dog Laughed21
The Year of Magical Thinking1-
Translations1-

In Memoriam

Special Tony Award

Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event
  • Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!, Producers: Roger Alan Gindi, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Dan Whitten, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Ken Grossman, Bob & Rhonda Silver, Michael A. Jenkins/Dallas Summer Musicals, Inc., Wetrock Entertainment
  • Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway, Producers: David J. Foster, Jared Geller, Ruth Hendel, Jonathan Reinis, Inc., Billy Zavelson, Jamie Cesa, Anne Strickland Squadron, Jennifer Manocherian, Gary Allen, Melvin Honowitz
Regional Theatre Tony Award
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
  • Not awarded

References

  1. ↑ Playbill News: 2006-2007 "Tony Nominations Announced; 'Spring Awakening' Garners 11 Noms" Archived 2007-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. playbill.com, May 2007
  2. ↑ "List of nominees" Archived 2007-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. tonyawards.com
  3. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Creative Arts Emmy Awards — Featuring Stritch Win — Broadcast Sept. 15" playbill.com, September 15, 2007
  4. 1 2 Gans, Andrew. 61st Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards to Be Presented June 10", playbill.com, June 10, 2007
  5. ↑ "The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards - Official Website" Archived 2008-02-14 at the Wayback Machine. tonyawards.com
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