58th Tony Awards

58th Tony Awards
Official poster for the 58th annual Tony Awards
Date	June 6, 2004
Venue	Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Host	Hugh Jackman
TV in the United States
Network	CBS
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The 58th Annual Tony Awards were held June 6, 2004 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS television. Hugh Jackman was the host and won an Emmy for his work as the host ^[1].

The ceremony

Jackman performed the opening number, "One Night Only" with the "Dynamites" from Hairspray, the "Radio" from Caroline, or Change, and the "Urchins" from Little Shop of Horrors, along with members of the casts of Avenue Q, The Boy from Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Wonderful Town, and Wicked, and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.

Tony Bennett performed "Lullaby of Broadway" and Mary J. Blige sang "What I Did for Love" from the Tony Awards Songbook.

Presenters were: Carol Channing, Sean Combs, Taye Diggs, Edie Falco, Jimmy Fallon, Harvey Fierstein, Victor Garber, Joel Grey, Ethan Hawke, Anne Heche, Billy Joel, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Jane Krakowski, Peter Krause, Swoosie Kurtz, LL Cool J, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Rob Marshall, Anne Meara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Dame Helen Mirren, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Paquin, Bernadette Peters, Phylicia Rashad, Chita Rivera, John Rubenstein, Carole Bayer Sager, Martin Short, Patrick Stewart, Jerry Stiller, Sigourney Weaver, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Renee Zellweger.

Shows that performed were: New Musicals

• Avenue Q The company performed "It Sucks to Be Me"
• The Boy from Oz - Hugh Jackman and members of the company performed "Not the Boy Next Door", with a special appearance by Sarah Jessica Parker
• Caroline, or Change Tonya Pinkins performed "Lot's Wife"
• Wicked Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and members of the company performed "Defying Gravity"

Revivals

• Assassins Members of the company performed "Everybody's Got the Right"
• Fiddler on the Roof Alfred Molina and company performed "Tradition"/"Bottle Dance"
• Wonderful Town Donna Murphy and members of the company performed "Swing!"

Winners and nominations

Winners are in bold

Production

Best Play

• Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz
• Frozen by Bryony Lavery
• I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright
• The Retreat from Moscow by William Nicholson

Best Musical

• Avenue Q
• The Boy from Oz
• Caroline, or Change
• Wicked

Best Revival of a Play

• Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)
• Jumpers
• King Lear
• A Raisin in the Sun

Best Revival of a Musical

• Assassins
• Big River
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Wonderful Town

Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Kevin Kline in Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)
• Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife
• Simon Russell Beale in Jumpers
• Christopher Plummer in King Lear
• Frank Langella in Match

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Swoosie Kurtz in Frozen
• Tovah Feldshuh in Golda's Balcony
• Phylicia Rashad in A Raisin in the Sun
• Eileen Atkins in The Retreat from Moscow
• Anne Heche in Twentieth Century

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• John Tartaglia in Avenue Q
• Hugh Jackman in The Boy from Oz
• Alfred Molina in Fiddler on the Roof
• Hunter Foster in Little Shop of Horrors
• Euan Morton in Taboo

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Stephanie D'Abruzzo in Avenue Q
• Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change
• Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked
• Idina Menzel in Wicked
• Donna Murphy in Wonderful Town

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Aidan Gillen in The Caretaker
• Brian F. O'Byrne in Frozen
• Ben Chaplin in The Retreat from Moscow
• Omar Metwally in Sixteen Wounded
• Tom Aldredge in Twentieth Century

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Daphne Rubin-Vega in Anna in the Tropics
• Margo Martindale in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Essie Davis in Jumpers
• Sanaa Lathan in A Raisin in the Sun
• Audra McDonald in A Raisin in the Sun

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Michael Cerveris in Assassins
• Denis O'Hare in Assassins
• Michael McElroy in Big River
• John Cariani in Fiddler on the Roof
• Raul Esparza in Taboo

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Beth Fowler in The Boy from Oz
• Isabel Keating in The Boy from Oz
• Anika Noni Rose in Caroline, or Change
• Karen Ziemba in Never Gonna Dance
• Jennifer Westfeldt in Wonderful Town

Craft

Best Book of a Musical

• Avenue Q by Jeff Whitty
• The Boy from Oz by Martin Sherman, Nick Enright
• Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner
• Wicked by Winnie Holzman

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre

• Avenue Q, Music & Lyrics by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx
• Caroline, or Change, Music by Jeanine Tesori; Lyrics by Tony Kushner
• Taboo, Music & Lyrics by Boy George
• Wicked, Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Best Direction of a Play

• Doug Hughes for Frozen
• Jack O'Brien for Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)
• Moises Kaufman for I Am My Own Wife
• David Leveaux for Jumpers

Best Direction of a Musical

• Joe Mantello for Assassins
• Jason Moore for Avenue Q
• George C. Wolfe for Caroline, or Change
• Kathleen Marshall for Wonderful Town

Best Choreography

• Anthony Van Lasst, Farah Khan for Bombay Dreams
• Jerry Mitchell for Never Gonna Dance
• Wayne Cilento for Wicked
• Kathleen Marshall for Wonderful Town

Best Orchestrations

• Michael Starobin for Assassins
• Paul Bogaev for Bombay Dreams
• Larry Hochman for Fiddler on the Roof
• William David Brohn for Wicked

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

• Robert Brill for Assassins
• Tom Pye for Fiddler on the Roof
• Ralph Funicello for Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)
• Eugene Lee for Wicked

Tony Award for Best Costume Design

• Mark Thompson for Bombay Dreams
• Jess Goldstein for Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)
• Mike Nicholls, Bobby Pearce for Taboo
• Susan Hilferty for Wicked

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design

• Jules Fisher, Peggy Eisenhauer for Assassins
• Brian MacDevitt for Fiddler on the Roof
• Brian MacDevitt for Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)
• Kenneth Posner for Wicked

Special awards

• Regional Theatre Award Winner - Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
• Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Winner - James M. Nederlander
• Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Winner
  • The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River
  • Nancy Coyne
  • Frances & Harry Edelstein and Vincent Sardi, Jr.
  • Martha Swope

References

External links

• 2004 Tony Awards