57th Tony Awards
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57th Tony Awards
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 Official poster for the 57th annual Tony Awards |
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| Date | June 8, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York | |||
| Host | Hugh Jackman | |||
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| Network | CBS | |||
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The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003 and broadcast by CBS television. The event was hosted for the first time by Hugh Jackman.
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The ceremony
The ceremony was broadcast on national prime time television on CBS for three hours, rather than two hours on CBS and one hour on PBS, as had been done for several years previously.[1] The television ratings were 5.4, down slightly from the 2002 telecast of 5.9.[2]
Presenters included: Benjamin Bratt, Toni Braxton, Matthew Broderick, Alan Cumming, Edie Falco, Joey Fatone, Laurence Fishburne, Sutton Foster, Danny Glover, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, John Leguizamo, John Lithgow, Julianna Margulies, Bebe Neuwirth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Perez, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Ann Reinking, John Spencer, Marisa Tomei, Mike Wallace, and Barbara Walters. In addition, Jason Alexander and Martin Short, the stars of the national company of The Producers, presented an award from the stage of Pantages Theatre[disambiguation needed 
] in Los Angeles.[3]
There were memorial tributes to cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, writer Peter Stone, and lyricist Adolph Green.
Shows that performed were:[3]
New Musicals
- Movin' Out: Billy Joel opened by performing "New York State of Mind" live from Times Square, leading to a medley of "River of Dreams", "Keep the Faith" and "Only the Good Die Young" performed by the company of Movin' Out on stage at Radio City Music Hall.
- Hairspray, Harvey Fierstein, Matthew Morrison and Marissa Jaret Winokur led the company with "You Can't Stop the Beat"
- A Year with Frog and Toad, Mark Linn-Baker and Jay Goede performed "Alone"
Revivals
- Nine, Antonio Banderas performed "Guido's Song" with the company
- La bohème, The company (including all 10 members of the principal ensemble) performed a medley from the opera
- Gypsy, Bernadette Peters performed "Rose's Turn"
- Man of La Mancha, Brian Stokes Mitchell performed "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Awards and nominees
Winners are in bold
Source:New York Times[4]
Production
- Enchanted April by Matthew Barber
- Say Goodnight, Gracie by Rupert Holmes
- Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg
- Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright
- A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Dinner at Eight
- Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
- Long Day's Journey into Night
Performances
- Brian Bedford (Tartuffe)
- Brian Dennehy (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Eddie Izzard (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)
- Paul Newman (Our Town)
- Stanley Tucci (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune)
- Jayne Atkinson (Enchanted April)
- Victoria Hamilton (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)
- Clare Higgins (Vincent in Brixton)
- Vanessa Redgrave (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Fiona Shaw (Medea)
- Antonio Banderas (Nine)
- Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray)
- Malcolm Gets (Amour)
- Brian Stokes Mitchell (Man of La Mancha)
- John Selya (Movin' Out)
- Melissa Errico (Amour)
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Man of La Mancha)
- Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin' Out)
- Bernadette Peters (Gypsy)
- Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray)
- Thomas Jefferson Byrd (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
- Denis O'Hare (Take Me Out)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Robert Sean Leonard (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Daniel Sunjata (Take Me Out)
'Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
- Christine Ebersole (Dinner at Eight)
- Linda Emond (Life (x) 3)
- Kathryn Meisle (Tartuffe)
- Michele Pawk (Hollywood Arms)
- Marian Seldes (Dinner at Eight)
- Dick Latessa (Hairspray)
- Michael Cavanaugh
- John Dossett
- Corey Reynolds
- Keith Roberts
Craft
- Joe Mantello (Take Me Out)
- Laurence Boswell
- Robert Falls
- Deborah Warner
- Twyla Tharp (Movin' Out)
- Robert Longbottom
- Jerry Mitchell
- Melinda Roy
- Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan (Hairspray)
- Didier van Cauwelaert & Jeremy Sams
- Willie Reale
- David Henry Hwang
- Hairspray (Music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
- A Year With Frog and Toad
- Amour
- Urban Cowboy
- Billy Joel & Stuart Malina
- Nicholas Kitsopoulos
- Jonathan Tunick
- Harold Wheeler
Special awards
- The principal ensemble of La bohème, including Mimis Lisa Hopkins, Ekaterina Solovyeva and Wei Huang; Rodolfos David Miller, Jesús Garcia and Alfred Boe; Musettas Jessica Comeau and Chlöe Wright; and Marcellos Eugene Brancoveanu and Ben Davis
- Paul Huntley
- Johnson-Liff Casting Associates
- The Acting Company
- Special Theatrical Event
- Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway
- Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN)
References
- ^ McKinley, Jesse.Broadway Enjoys Its Moment" The New York Times, June 9, 2003
- ^ Simonson, Robert."Final Ratings for Tonys Down from 2002" playbill.com, June 10, 2003
- ^ a b "2003 Ceremony" tonyawards.com, accessed April 28, 2011
- ^ The Winners" The New York Times, accessed April 28, 2011
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