The 55th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 3, 2001 and broadcast by

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. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television . The event was co-hosted by

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and

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. '' The Producers'' won 12 awards (every award it was eligible to win), breaking the 37-year-old record set by '' Hello, Dolly!'' to become the most awarded show in Tony Awards history.

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's win made him the eighth person to become an EGOT.

The ceremony

Presenters:

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, Dick Cavett,

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, Heather Headley, Cherry Jones, Jane Krakowski, Marc Kudisch, Eric McCormack, Audra McDonald, Reba McEntire, Donna McKechnie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bernadette Peters, Natasha Richardson, Doris Roberts, Gary Sinise, Lily Tomlin, Henry Winkler, and three "Broadway Babies" (Meredith Patterson, Bryn Bowling, and Carol Bentley)."Year by Year 2001"
tonyawards.com, accessed April 28, 2011 The musicals that performed were:Lefkowitz, Davi
2001 Tony Awards Presented at Radio City Music Hall, June 3"
playbill.com, June 2, 2001 * ''A Class Act'' ("Follow Your Star"/"Better"/"Self Portrait"—Nancy Anderson, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Donna Bullock, Randy Graff, David Hibbard (stage actor), David Hibbard, Lonny Price, Patrick Quinn (actor), Patrick Quinn, Sara Ramirez); * ''Bells Are Ringing (musical), Bells Are Ringing'' ("I'm Going Back" -- Faith Prince); * ''42nd Street (musical), 42nd Street'' ("42nd Street" -- David Elder (actor), David Elder, Kate Levering and company); * ''Follies'' ("I'm Still Here" -- Polly Bergen with Louis Zorich, Jessica Leigh Brown, Colleen Dunn, Amy Heggins, and Wendy Waring); * ''The Full Monty (musical), The Full Monty'' ("Let It Go"—John Ellison Conlee, Jason Danieley, André De Shields,

, Romain Fruge, Marcus Neville, Patrick Wilson (American actor), Patrick Wilson, Thomas Fiss, and company); * ''Jane Eyre (musical), Jane Eyre'' ("Sirens" -- Marla Schaffel and James Barbour); * '' The Producers'', the new Mel Brooks Musical ("Along Came Bialy" -- Roger Bart, Gary Beach,

, Cady Huffman,

, Brad Oscar, and company); and * ''The Rocky Horror Show'' ("Time Warp (song), Time Warp" -- Dick Cavett, Lea Delaria, Jerrod Emick, Kristen Lee Kelly, Alice Ripley, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tom Hewitt (actor), Tom Hewitt, Raul Esparza, Sebastian LaCause, and company). Plays were also presented: * ''The Invention of Love'', introduced by playwright Tom Stoppard. Montage with voice-over by Richard Easton. * ''King Hedley II'', introduced by playwright August Wilson. Excerpt performed by Viola Davis and Brian Stokes Mitchell. * ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'', introduced by

. Excerpt performed by Gary Sinise, Amy Morton, Tim Sampson, Bruce McCarty, Jeanine Morick, and Afram Bill Williams. * ''Proof (play), Proof'', introduced by playwright David Auburn. Scene with Mary-Louise Parker and Ben Shenkman. * ''The Tale of the Allergist's Wife'', introduced by playwright Charles Busch. Scene with Linda Lavin, Tony Roberts (actor), Tony Roberts, and Michele Lee.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold Source: BroadwayWorld2001 Tony Awards
broadwayworld.com, accessed April 28, 2011

Special awards

Regional Theatre Award *Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, Illinois Special Theatrical Event *''Blast! (musical), Blast!'' Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award *Paul Gemignani Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre *Betty Corwin and the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts *New Dramatists *Theatre World

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations: *''15 nominations:'' '' The Producers'' *''10 nominations:'' ''The Full Monty (musical), The Full Monty'' *''9 nominations:'' ''42nd Street (musical), 42nd Street'' *''6 nominations:'' ''King Hedley II'' and ''Proof (play), Proof'' *''5 nominations:'' ''A Class Act'', ''Follies'', ''The Invention of Love'' and ''Jane Eyre (musical), Jane Eyre'' *''4 nominations:'' ''The Rocky Horror Show'' *''3 nominations:'' ''Stones in His Pockets'' and ''The Tale of the Allergist's Wife'' *''2 nominations:'' ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (musical), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', ''Bells Are Ringing (musical), Bells Are Ringing'', ''Betrayal (play), Betrayal'', ''Blast! (musical), Blast!'', ''Judgment at Nuremberg'' and ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' The following productions received multiple awards. *''12 wins:'' '' The Producers'' *''3 wins:'' ''Proof (play), Proof'' *''2 wins:'' ''42nd Street (musical), 42nd Street'' and ''The Invention of Love''

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