| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Fences – August Wilson
- Broadway Bound – Neil Simon
- Coastal Disturbances – Tina Howe
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses – Christopher Hampton
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- Les Misérables
- Me and My Girl
- Rags
- Starlight Express
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| Best Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
- All My Sons
- The Front Page
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
- Pygmalion
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- Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg – Les Misérables
- L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber, Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent – Me and My Girl
- Joseph Stein – Rags
- Howard Ashman – Smile
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- James Earl Jones – Fences as Troy Maxson
- Philip Bosco – You Never Can Tell as Waiter
- Richard Kiley – All My Sons as Joe Keller
- Alan Rickman – Les Liaisons Dangereuses as Le Vicomte de Valmont
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- Linda Lavin – Broadway Bound as Kate
- Lindsay Duncan – Les Liaisons Dangereuses as La Marquise de Merteuil
- Geraldine Page – Blithe Spirit as Madame Arcati
- Amanda Plummer – Pygmalion as Eliza Doolittle
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Robert Lindsay – Me and My Girl as Bill Snibson
- Roderick Cook – Oh Coward! as Performer
- Terrence Mann – Les Misérables as Inspector Javert
- Colm Wilkinson – Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
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- Maryann Plunkett – Me and My Girl as Sally Smith
- Catherine Cox – Oh Coward! as Performer
- Teresa Stratas – Rags as Rebecca Hershkowitz
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- John Randolph – Broadway Bound as Ben
- Frankie R. Faison – Fences as Gabriel
- Jamey Sheridan – All My Sons as Chris Keller
- Courtney B. Vance – Fences as Corey
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- Mary Alice – Fences as Rose
- Annette Bening – Coastal Disturbances as Holly Dancer
- Phyllis Newman – Broadway Bound as Blanche
- Carole Shelley – Stepping Out as Maxine
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Michael Maguire – Les Misérables as Enjolras
- George S. Irving – Me and My Girl as Sir John Tremayne
- Timothy Jerome – Me and My Girl as Herbert Parchester
- Robert Torti – Starlight Express as Greaseball
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- Frances Ruffelle – Les Misérables as Éponine
- Jane Connell – Me and My Girl as Maria
- Judy Kuhn – Les Misérables as Cosette
- Jane Summerhays – Me and My Girl as Lady Jaqueline Carstone
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) and Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil (lyrics)
- Me and My Girl – Noel Gay (music) and L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber (lyrics)
- Rags – Charles Strouse (music) and Stephen Schwartz (lyrics)
- Starlight Express – Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Richard Stilgoe (lyrics)
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- Gillian Gregory – Me and My Girl
- Ron Field – Rags
- Brian Macdonald – The Mikado
- Arlene Phillips – Starlight Express
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Lloyd Richards – Fences
- Howard Davies – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Mbongeni Ngema – Asinamali!
- Carole Rothman – Coastal Disturbances
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- Trevor Nunn and John Caird – Les Misérables
- Brian Macdonald – The Mikado
- Trevor Nunn – Starlight Express
- Mike Ockrent – Me and My Girl
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- John Napier – Les Misérables
- Bob Crowley – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Martin Johns – Me and My Girl
- Tony Walton – The Front Page
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- John Napier – Starlight Express
- Bob Crowley – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Ann Curtis – Me and My Girl
- Andreane Neofitou – Les Misérables
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| Best Lighting Design |
- David Hersey – Les Misérables
- Martin Aronstein – Wild Honey
- David Hersey – Starlight Express
- Beverly Emmons and Chris Parry – Les Liaisons Dangereuses
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