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49th Tony Awards
49th Tony Awards • Love! Valour! Compassion! By Terrence McNally.
Produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne
Date June 4, 1995 Meadow, Barry Grove, and Jujamcyn Theatres.
Venue Minskoff Theatre, New York City, New York Nominees:
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard. Produced by Lincoln
Host Nathan Lane, Glenn Close, Gregory Hines
Center Theater, Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten.
TV in the United States • Having Our Say by Emily Mann. Produced by Camille
O. Cosby and Judith Rutherford James
Network CBS
• Indiscretions by Jean Cocteau. Produced by The
Shubert Organization, Roger Berlind, Capital Cities/
ABC, and Scott Rudin.
Best Musical
The 49th Annual Tony Awards was held at the Minskoff
• Sunset Boulevard (musical) Produced by The Really
Theatre on June 4, 1995 and broadcast by CBS. Hosts were
Useful Company
Glenn Close, Gregory Hines, and Nathan Lane.
Nominee:
• Smokey Joe’s Cafe Produced by Richard Frankel,
The ceremony Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Jujamcyn Theaters/
The musical sequence was "Broadway Songs We’ve Never Jack Viertel, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson,
Done, and Never Will" with Gregory Hines and Nathan Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre/Gordon
Lane. Davidson.
Presenters were: Maria Conchita Alonso, Lauren Ba- Best Revival of a Play
call, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Red Buttons, Walter • The Heiress Produced by Lincoln Center Theater,
Heiress,
Cronkite, Jim Dale, Laurence Fishburne, Gloria Foster, Andre Bishop, Bernard Gersten
Michele Lee, Lonette McKee, Robert Morse, Sarah Jessica Nominees:
Parker, Jon Secada, Patrick Stewart, Elaine Stritch, Marlo • Hamlet, Produced by Dodger Productions, Roger
Thomas, Kathleen Turner, Joan Van Ark.[1] Berlind, Endemol Theatre Productions, Inc.,
Musicals represented:[1] Jujamcyn Theaters, Kardana Productions, Inc., Scott
• Smokey Joe’s Cafe "On Broadway" - The Men; Rudin, The Almeida Theatre Company
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying • The Moliere Comedies, Produced by Roundabout
"Brotherhood of Man" - Matthew Broderick, Lillias Theatre Company, Todd Haimes
White and Company; • The Rose Tattoo, Produced by Circle in the Square
• Show Boat "Kim’s Charleston" - Elaine Stritch, Tammy Theatre, Theodore Mann, Josephine R. Abady, Robert
Amerson and Company; Bennett
• Sunset Boulevard- "As If We Never Said Goodbye - Best Revival of a Musical
Glenn Close and Company. • Show Boat Produced by Livent (U.S.) Inc.
A special segment,"Broadway Across America" featured: Nominee:
Buskers in San Francisco ("Busker Alley" - Tommy Tune • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,
and Company); Master Class in Los Angeles (Scene with Produced by Dodger Productions & Kardana
Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald); Grease in Boston Productions, Inc., The John F. Kennedy Center for the
("We Go Together" - Company); Hello, Dolly! in San Diego. Performing Arts, The Nederlander Organization.
Performance
Award winners and nominees Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Winners are in bold • Ralph Fiennes (Hamlet)
Nominees:
Production • Brian Bedford (The Molière Comedies)
Best Play • Roger Rees (Indiscretions)
• Joe Sears (A Tuna Christmas)
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
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• Cherry Jones (The Heiress) Best Choreography
Nominees: • Susan Stroman (Show Boat)
• Mary Alice (Having Our Say) Nominees:
• Eileen Atkins (Indiscretions) • Bob Avian (Sunset Boulevard)
• Helen Mirren (A Month in the Country) • Wayne Cilento (How to Succeed in Business Without
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Really Trying)
• Matthew Broderick (How to Succeed in Business Without • Joey McKneely (Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
Really Trying!) Best Book of a Musical
Nominees: • Sunset Boulevard by Don Black and Christopher
• Alan Campbell (Sunset Boulevard) Hampton
• Mark Jacoby (Show Boat) No other nominees[2]
• John McMartin (Show Boat) Best Original Score Written for the Theatre
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical • Sunset Boulevard Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber,
• Glenn Close (Sunset Boulevard) Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton
Nominee: No other nominees[2]
• Rebecca Luker (Show Boat) Best Scenic Design
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play • John Napier (Sunset Boulevard)
• John Glover (Love! Valour! Compassion!) Nominees:
Nominees: • John Lee Beatty (The Heiress)
• Stephen Bogardus (Love! Valour! Compassion!) • Stephen Brimson Lewis (Indiscretions)
• Anthony Heald (Love! Valour! Compassion!) • Mark Thompson (Arcadia)
• Jude Law (Indiscretions) Best Costume Design
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play • Florence Klotz (Show Boat)
• Frances Sternhagen (The Heiress) Nominees:
Nominees: • Jane Greenwood (The Heiress)
• Suzanne Bertish (The Molière Comedies) • Stephen Brimson Lewis (Indiscretions)
• Cynthia Nixon (Indiscretions) • Anthony Powell (Sunset Boulevard)
• Mercedes Ruehl (The Shadow Box) Best Lighting Design
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical • Andrew Bridge (Sunset Boulevard)
• George Hearn (Sunset Boulevard) Nominees:
Nominees: • Beverly Emmons (The Heiress)
• Michel Bell (Show Boat) • Mark Henderson (Indiscretions)
• Joel Blum (Show Boat) • Paul Pyant (Arcadia)
• Victor Trent Cook (Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
• Gretha Boston (Show Boat)
Special awards
Nominees: Goodspeed Opera House
• Brenda Braxton (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
• B. J. Crosby (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) • National Endowment for the Arts
• DeLee Lively (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) Special Tony Award
• Carol Channing — Lifetime Achievement
Craft • Harvey Sabinson — Lifetime Achievement
Best Direction of a Play
• Gerald Gutierrez (The Heiress) References
Nominees:
[1] ^ "1995 Tony Awards" tonyawards.com, accessed
• Emily Mann (Having Our Say)
April 29, 2011
• Joe Mantello (Love! Valour! Compassion!)
[2] ^ McNeil, Donald G, Jr.’Sunset’ Leads The Race For
• Sean Mathias (Indiscretions)
Tony Awards" New York Times, May 9, 1995
Best Direction of a Musical
• Harold Prince (Show Boat)
Nominees: External links
• Des McAnuff (How to Succeed in Business Without Really
• Official Site Tony Awards
Trying)
• Trevor Nunn (Sunset Boulevard)
• Jerry Zaks (Smokey Joe’s Cafe)
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