| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- I'm Not Rappaport – Herb Gardner
- Benefactors – Michael Frayn
- Blood Knot – Athol Fugard
- The House of Blue Leaves – John Guare
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- Drood
- Big Deal
- Song and Dance
- Tango Argentino
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| Best Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
- Sweet Charity
- Hay Fever
- The Iceman Cometh
- Loot
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- Drood
- Big Deal
- Singin' in the Rain
- Wind in the Willows
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Judd Hirsch – I'm Not Rappaport as Nat
- Hume Cronyn – The Petition as General Sir Edmund Milne
- Ed Harris – Precious Sons as Fred
- Jack Lemmon – Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone
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- Lily Tomlin – The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe as Various Characters
- Rosemary Harris – Hay Fever as Judith Bliss
- Mary Beth Hurt – Benefactors as Sheila
- Jessica Tandy – The Petition as Lady Elizabeth Milne
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- George Rose – Drood as Mayor Thomas Sapsea/Mr. William Cartwright
- Don Correia – Singin' in the Rain as Don Lockwood
- Cleavant Derricks – Big Deal as Charley
- Maurice Hines – Uptown…It's Hot! as Performer
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- Bernadette Peters – Song and Dance as Emma
- Debbie Allen – Sweet Charity as Charity
- Cleo Laine – Drood as The Princess Puffer/Miss Angela Prysock
- Chita Rivera – Jerry's Girls as Performer
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- John Mahoney – The House of Blue Leaves as Artie Shaughnessy
- Peter Gallagher – Long Day's Journey into Night as Edmund Tyrone
- Charles Keating – Loot as McLeavy
- Joseph Maher – Loot as Truscott
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- Swoosie Kurtz – The House of Blue Leaves as Bananas Shaughnessy
- Stockard Channing – The House of Blue Leaves as Bunny Flingus
- Bethel Leslie – Long Day's Journey into Night as Mary Cavan Tyrone
- Zoë Wanamaker – Loot as Fay
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Michael Rupert – Sweet Charity as Oscar
- Christopher d'Amboise – Song and Dance as Joe
- John Herrera – Drood as Neville Landless/Mr. Victor Grinstead
- Howard McGillin – Drood as John Jasper/Mr. Clive Paget
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- Bebe Neuwirth – Sweet Charity as Nickie
- Patti Cohenour – Drood as Rosa Bud/Miss Deirdre Peregrine
- Jana Schneider – Drood as Helena Landless/Miss Janet Conover
- Elisabeth Welch – Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood as Performer
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- Drood – Rupert Holmes
- The News – Paul Schierhorn
- Song and Dance – Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Richard Maltby, Jr.
- Wind in the Willows – William Perry and Roger McGough
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- Bob Fosse – Big Deal
- Graciela Daniele – Drood
- Peter Martins – Song and Dance
- Tango Argentino Dancers – Tango Argentino
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Jerry Zaks – The House of Blue Leaves
- Jonathan Miller – Long Day's Journey into Night
- José Quintero – The Iceman Cometh
- John Tillinger – Loot
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- Wilford Leach – Drood
- Bob Fosse – Big Deal
- Richard Maltby, Jr. – Song and Dance
- Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzoli – Tango Argentino
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- Tony Walton – The House of Blue Leaves
- Ben Edwards – The Iceman Cometh
- David Mitchell – The Boys in Winter
- Beni Montresor – The Marriage of Figaro
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- Patricia Zipprodt – Sweet Charity
- Willa Kim – Song and Dance
- Beni Montresor – The Marriage of Figaro
- Ann Roth – The House of Blue Leaves
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| Best Lighting Design |
- Pat Collins – I'm Not Rappaport
- Jules Fisher – Song and Dance
- Paul Gallo – The House of Blue Leaves
- Thomas R Skelton – The Iceman Cometh
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