| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Side Man – Warren Leight
- Closer – Patrick Marber
- The Lonesome West – Martin McDonagh
- Not About Nightingales – Tennessee Williams
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- Fosse
- The Civil War
- It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
- Parade
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| Best Revival of a Play |
Best Revival of a Musical |
- Death of a Salesman
- Electra
- The Iceman Cometh
- Twelfth Night
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- Annie Get Your Gun
- Little Me
- Peter Pan
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Brian Dennehy – Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman
- Brian F. O'Byrne – The Lonesome West as Valene Connor
- Corin Redgrave – Not About Nightingales as Bert "Boss" Whalen
- Kevin Spacey – The Iceman Cometh as Theodore Hickman
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- Judi Dench – Amy's View as Esme Allen
- Stockard Channing – The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Marian Seldes – Ring Round the Moon as Madame Desmermortes
- Zoë Wanamaker – Electra as Electra
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Martin Short – Little Me as Noble Eggleston and Various Characters
- Brent Carver – Parade as Leo Frank
- Adam Cooper – Swan Lake as The Swan
- Tom Wopat – Annie Get Your Gun as Frank Butler
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- Bernadette Peters – Annie Get Your Gun as Annie Oakley
- Carolee Carmello – Parade as Lucille Frank
- Dee Hoty – Footloose as Vi Moore
- Siân Phillips – Marlene as Marlene Dietrich
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- Frank Wood – Side Man as Gene
- Kevin Anderson – Death of a Salesman as Biff
- Finbar Lynch – Not About Nightingales as Jim Allison
- Howard Witt – Death of a Salesman as Charley
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- Elizabeth Franz – Death of a Salesman as Linda
- Claire Bloom – Electra as Clytemnestra
- Samantha Bond – Amy's View as Amy Thomas
- Dawn Bradfield – The Lonesome West as Girleen Kelleher
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Roger Bart – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Snoopy
- Desmond Richardson – Fosse as Various Characters
- Ron Taylor – It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues as Various Characters
- Scott Wise – Fosse as Various Characters
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- Kristin Chenoweth – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Sally Brown
- Gretha Boston – It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues as Various Characters
- Valarie Pettiford – Fosse as Various Characters
- Mary Testa – On the Town as Madame Maude P. Dilly
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| Best Book of a Musical |
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
- Alfred Uhry – Parade
- Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman – It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
- Pam Gems – Marlene
- Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie – Footloose
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- Parade – Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics)
- Footloose – Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics), Kenny Loggins, Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar and Jim Steinman (music and lyrics)
- The Civil War – Frank Wildhorn (music) and Jack Murphy (lyrics)
- Twelfth Night – Jeanine Tesori (music)
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- Richard Hoover – Not About Nightingales
- Bob Crowley – The Iceman Cometh
- Bob Crowley – Twelfth Night
- Ricardo Hernandez – Parade
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- Lez Brotherston – Swan Lake
- Santo Loquasto – Fosse
- John David Ridge – Ring Round the Moon
- Catherine Zuber – Twelfth Night
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| Best Lighting Design |
Best Orchestrations |
- Andrew Bridge – Fosse
- Mark Henderson – The Iceman Cometh
- Natasha Katz – Twelfth Night
- Chris Parry – Not About Nightingales
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- Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman – Fosse
- David Cullen – Swan Lake
- Don Sebesky – Parade
- Harold Wheeler – Little Me
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Robert Falls – Death of a Salesman
- Howard Davies – The Iceman Cometh
- Garry Hynes – The Lonesome West
- Trevor Nunn – Not About Nightingales
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- Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake
- Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking – Fosse
- Michael Mayer – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Harold Prince – Parade
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| Best Choreography |
- Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake
- Patricia Birch – Parade
- Rob Marshall – Little Me
- A. C. Ciulla – Footloose
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