| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Torch Song Trilogy – Harvey Fierstein
- Angels Fall – Lanford Wilson
- 'night, Mother – Marsha Norman
- Plenty – David Hare
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- Cats
- Blues in the Night
- Merlin
- My One and Only
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| Best Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
- On Your Toes
- All's Well That Ends Well
- A View from the Bridge
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
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- T.S. Eliot – Cats
- Betty Comden and Adolph Green – A Doll's Life
- Richard Levinson and William Link – Merlin
- Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer – My One and Only
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Harvey Fierstein – Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff
- Jeffrey DeMunn – K2 as Taylor
- Edward Herrmann – Plenty as Raymond Brock
- Tony Lo Bianco – A View from the Bridge as Eddie
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- Jessica Tandy – Foxfire as Annie Nations
- Kathy Bates – 'night, Mother as Jessie Cates
- Kate Nelligan – Plenty as Susan Traherne
- Anne Pitoniak – 'night, Mother as Thelma Cates
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Tommy Tune – My One and Only as Cpt. Billy Buck Chandler
- Al Green – Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God as Performer
- George Hearn – A Doll's Life as Various Characters
- Michael V. Smartt – Porgy and Bess as Porgy
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- Natalia Makarova – On Your Toes as Vera Barnova
- Lonette McKee – Show Boat as Julie LaVerne
- Chita Rivera – Merlin as The Queen
- Twiggy – My One and Only as Edith Herbert
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- Matthew Broderick – Brighton Beach Memoirs as Eugene Jerome
- Željko Ivanek – Brighton Beach Memoirs as Stanley Jerome
- George N. Martin – Plenty as Leonard Darwin
- Stephen Moore – All's Well That Ends Well as Captain Parolles
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- Judith Ivey – Steaming as Josie
- Elizabeth Franz – Brighton Beach Memoirs as Kate Jerome
- Roxanne Hart – Passion as Kate
- Margaret Tyzack – All's Well That Ends Well as The Countess of Rossillion
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Charles "Honi" Coles – My One and Only as Mr. Magix
- Harry Groener – Cats as Munkustrap
- Stephen Hanan – Cats as Various Characters
- Lara Teeter – On Your Toes as Junior
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- Betty Buckley – Cats as Grizabella
- Christine Andreas – On Your Toes as Frankie Frayne
- Karla Burns – Show Boat as Queenie
- Denny Dillon – My One and Only as Mickey
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- Cats – Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and T.S. Eliot (lyrics)
- A Doll's Life – Larry Grossman (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics)
- Merlin – Elmer Bernstein (music) and Don Black (lyrics)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (music) and Johnny Mercer, Kasha and Hirschhorn (lyrics)
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- Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh – My One and Only
- George Faison – Porgy and Bess
- Gillian Lynne – Cats
- Donald Saddler – On Your Toes
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Gene Saks – Brighton Beach Memoirs
- Marshall W. Mason – Angels Fall
- Tom Moore – 'night, Mother
- Trevor Nunn – All's Well That Ends Well
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- Trevor Nunn – Cats
- Michael Kahn – Show Boat
- Ivan Reitman – Merlin
- Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh – My One and Only
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- Ming Cho Lee – K2
- John Gunter – All's Well That Ends Well
- David Mitchell – Foxfire
- John Napier – Cats
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- John Napier – Cats
- Lindy Hemming – All's Well That Ends Well
- Rita Ryack – My One and Only
- Patricia Zipprodt – Alice in Wonderland
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| Best Lighting Design |
- David Hersey – Cats
- Ken Billington – Foxfire
- Robert Bryan – All's Well That Ends Well
- Allen Lee Hughes – K2
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