| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Children of a Lesser God – Mark Medoff
- Bent – Martin Sherman
- Home – Samm-Art Williams
- Talley's Folly – Lanford Wilson
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- Evita
- A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
- Barnum
- Sugar Babies
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| Best Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
- Morning's at Seven
- Major Barbara
- Peter Pan
- West Side Story
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- Tim Rice – Evita
- Dick Vosburgh – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
- Mark Bramble – Barnum
- Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby – Sugar Babies
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- John Rubinstein – Children of a Lesser God as James Leeds
- Charles Brown – Home as Cephus Miles
- Gerald Hiken – Strider as Strider
- Judd Hirsch – Talley's Folly as Matt Friedman
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- Phyllis Frelich – Children of a Lesser God as Sarah Norman
- Blythe Danner – Betrayal as Emma
- Maggie Smith – Night and Day as Ruth Carson
- Anne Twomey – Nuts as Claudia Draper
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Jim Dale – Barnum as P. T. Barnum
- Gregory Hines – Comin' Uptown as Scrooge
- Mickey Rooney – Sugar Babies as Mickey
- Giorgio Tozzi – The Most Happy Fella as Tony
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- Patti LuPone – Evita as Eva Perón
- Christine Andreas – Oklahoma! as Laurey Williams
- Sandy Duncan – Peter Pan as Peter Pan
- Ann Miller – Sugar Babies as Ann
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- David Rounds – Morning's at Seven as Homer Bolton
- David Dukes – Bent as Horst
- George Hearn – Watch on the Rhine as Kurt Muller
- Earle Hyman – The Lady from Dubuque as Oscar
- Joseph Maher – Night and Day as Geoffrey Carson
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- Dinah Manoff – I Ought to Be in Pictures as Libby Tucker
- Maureen Anderman – The Lady from Dubuque as Carol
- Pamela Burrell – Strider as Various Characters
- Lois de Banzie – Morning's at Seven as Myrtle Brown
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Mandy Patinkin – Evita as Che
- David Garrison – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine as Serge B. Samovar
- Harry Groener – Oklahoma! as Will Parker
- Bob Gunton – Evita as Perón
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- Priscilla Lopez – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine as Gino/Usherette
- Debbie Allen – West Side Story as Anita
- Glenn Close – Barnum as Charity 'Chairy' Barnum
- Josie de Guzman – West Side Story as Maria
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- Evita – Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics)
- A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine – Frank Lazarus (music) and Dick Vosburgh (lyrics)
- Barnum – Cy Coleman (music) and Michael Stewart (lyrics)
- Sugar Babies – Arthur Malvin (music and lyrics)
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- Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
- Ernest Flatt – Sugar Babies
- Larry Fuller – Evita
- Joe Layton – Barnum
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Vivian Matalon – Morning's at Seven
- Gordon Davidson – Children of a Lesser God
- Peter Hall – Betrayal
- Marshall W. Mason – Talley's Folly
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- Harold Prince – Evita
- Ernest Flatt and Rudy Tronto – Sugar Babies
- Joe Layton – Barnum
- Tommy Tune – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- John Lee Beatty – Talley's Folly
- David Mitchell – Barnum
- Timothy O'Brien and Tazeena Firth – Evita
- Tony Walton – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
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- Theoni V. Aldredge – Barnum
- Pierre Balmain – Happy New Year
- Timothy O'Brien and Tazeena Firth – Evita
- Raoul Pene Du Bois – Sugar Babies
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| Best Lighting Design |
- David Hersey – Evita
- Beverly Emmons – A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
- Craig Miller – Barnum
- Dennis Parichy – Talley's Folly
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