| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Love! Valour! Compassion! – Terrence McNally
- Arcadia – Tom Stoppard
- Having Our Say – Emily Mann
- Indiscretions – Jean Cocteau
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| Best Revival of a Play |
Best Revival of a Musical |
- The Heiress
- Hamlet
- The Molière Comedies
- The Rose Tattoo
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- Show Boat
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Ralph Fiennes – Hamlet as Hamlet
- Brian Bedford – The Molière Comedies as Sganarelle
- Roger Rees – Indiscretions as George
- Joe Sears – A Tuna Christmas as Various Characters
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- Cherry Jones – The Heiress as Catherine Sloper
- Mary Alice – Having Our Say as Bessie Delany
- Eileen Atkins – Indiscretions as Léonie
- Helen Mirren – A Month in the Country as Natalia Petrovna
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Matthew Broderick – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying as J. Pierrepont Finch
- Alan Campbell – Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis
- Mark Jacoby – Show Boat as Gaylord Ravenal
- John McMartin – Show Boat as Cap'n Andy
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- Glenn Close – Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
- Rebecca Luker – Show Boat as Magnolia Hawks
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- John Glover – Love! Valour! Compassion! as John and James Jeckyll
- Stephen Bogardus – Love! Valour! Compassion! as Gregory Mitchell
- Anthony Heald – Love! Valour! Compassion! as Perry Sellars
- Jude Law – Indiscretions as Michael
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- Frances Sternhagen – The Heiress as Lavinia Penniman
- Suzanne Bertish – The Molière Comedies as Lisette/Sganerelle's Wife
- Cynthia Nixon – Indiscretions as Madeleine
- Mercedes Ruehl – The Shadow Box as Beverly
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- George Hearn – Sunset Boulevard as Max Von Mayerling
- Michel Bell – Show Boat as Joe
- Joel Blum – Show Boat as Frank
- Victor Trent Cook – Smokey Joe's Cafe as Various Characters
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- Gretha Boston – Show Boat as Queenie
- Brenda Braxton – Smokey Joe's Cafe as Various Characters
- B. J. Crosby – Smokey Joe's Cafe as Various Characters
- DeLee Lively – Smokey Joe's Cafe as Various Characters
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| Best Book of a Musical |
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
- Sunset Boulevard – Don Black and Christopher Hampton
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- Sunset Boulevard – Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Don Black and Christopher Hampton (lyrics)
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- John Napier – Sunset Boulevard
- John Lee Beatty – The Heiress
- Stephen Brimson Lewis – Indiscretions
- Mark Thompson – Arcadia
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- Florence Klotz – Show Boat
- Jane Greenwood – The Heiress
- Stephen Brimson Lewis – Indiscretions
- Anthony Powell – Sunset Boulevard
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| Best Lighting Design |
Best Choreography |
- Andrew Bridge – Sunset Boulevard
- Beverly Emmons – The Heiress
- Mark Henderson – Indiscretions
- Paul Pyant – Arcadia
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- Susan Stroman – Show Boat
- Bob Avian – Sunset Boulevard
- Wayne Cilento – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Joey McKneely – Smokey Joe's Cafe
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Gerald Gutierrez – The Heiress
- Emily Mann – Having Our Say
- Joe Mantello – Love! Valour! Compassion!
- Sean Mathias – Indiscretions
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- Harold Prince – Show Boat
- Des McAnuff – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Trevor Nunn – Sunset Boulevard
- Jerry Zaks – Smokey Joe's Cafe
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