| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon
- Our Country's Good – Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Shadowlands – William Nicholson
- Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare
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- The Will Rogers Follies
- Miss Saigon
- Once on This Island
- The Secret Garden
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| Best Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
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- Marsha Norman – The Secret Garden
- Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg – Miss Saigon
- Lynn Ahrens – Once on This Island
- Peter Stone – The Will Rogers Follies
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Nigel Hawthorne – Shadowlands as C.S. Lewis
- Peter Frechette – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. Ralph Clark
- Tom McGowan – La Bête as Valere
- Courtney B. Vance – Six Degrees of Separation as Paul
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- Mercedes Ruehl – Lost in Yonkers as Bella Kurnitz
- Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation as Ouisa Kittredge
- Julie Harris – Lucifer's Child as Karen Blixen
- Cherry Jones – Our Country's Good as Liz Morden/Reverend Johnson
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Jonathan Pryce – Miss Saigon as The Engineer
- Keith Carradine – The Will Rogers Follies as Will Rogers
- Paul Hipp – Buddy as Buddy Holly
- Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye
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- Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon as Kim
- June Angela – Shogun: The Musical as Lady Mariko
- Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies as Betty Blake
- Cathy Rigby – Peter Pan as Peter Pan
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- Kevin Spacey – Lost in Yonkers as "Uncle" Louie
- Adam Arkin – I Hate Hamlet as Gary Peter Lefkowitz
- Dylan Baker – La Bête as Prince Conty
- Stephen Lang – The Speed of Darkness as Lou
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- Irene Worth – Lost in Yonkers as Grandma Kurnitz
- Amelia Campbell – Our Country's Good as Various Characters
- Kathryn Erbe – The Speed of Darkness as Mary
- J. Smith-Cameron – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. William Faddy
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Hinton Battle – Miss Saigon as John
- Bruce Adler – Those Were the Days as Various Characters
- Gregg Burge – Oh, Kay! as Billy Lyes
- Willy Falk – Miss Saigon as Chris
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- Daisy Eagan – The Secret Garden as Mary Lennox
- Alison Fraser – The Secret Garden as Martha Sowerby
- Cady Huffman – The Will Rogers Follies as Ziegfeld's Favorite
- LaChanze – Once on This Island as Ti Moune
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- The Will Rogers Follies – Cy Coleman (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics)
- Miss Saigon – Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil (lyrics)
- Once on This Island – Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics)
- The Secret Garden – Lucy Simon (music) and Marsha Norman (lyrics)
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- Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies
- Bob Avian – Miss Saigon
- Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island
- Dan Siretta – Oh, Kay!
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Jerry Zaks – Six Degrees of Separation
- Richard Jones – La Bête
- Mark Lamos – Our Country's Good
- Gene Saks – Lost in Yonkers
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- Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies
- Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island
- Nicholas Hytner – Miss Saigon
- Eleanor Reissa – Those Were the Days
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- Heidi Landesman – The Secret Garden
- Richard Hudson – La Bête
- John Napier – Miss Saigon
- Tony Walton – The Will Rogers Follies
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- Willa Kim – The Will Rogers Follies
- Theoni V. Aldredge – The Secret Garden
- Judy Dearing – Once on This Island
- Patricia Zipprodt – Shogun: The Musical
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| Best Lighting Design |
- Jules Fisher – The Will Rogers Follies
- David Hersey – Miss Saigon
- Allen Lee Hughes – Once on This Island
- Jennifer Tipton – La Bête
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