Contents
1 Award categories 2 History
2.1 The medallion
3 Details of the Tony Awards
3.1 Rules for a new play or musical 3.2 Committees and voters 3.3 Eligibility date (Season) 3.4 Broadway theatre
4 Criticism 5 Award milestones 6 See also 7 References 8 External links
Award categories[edit]
As of 2014[update], there are 26 categories of awards, plus several
special awards. Starting with 11 awards in 1947, the names and number
of categories have changed over the years. Some examples: the category
Best Book of a Musical was originally called "Best Author (Musical)".
The category of Best Costume Design was one of the original awards.
For two years, in 1960 and 1961, this category was split into Best
Costume Designer (Dramatic) and Best Costume Designer (Musical). It
then went to a single category, but in 2005 it was divided again. For
the category of Best Director of a Play, a single category was for
directors of plays and musicals prior to 1960.[9]
A newly established non-competitive award, The Isabelle Stevenson
Award, was given for the first time at the awards ceremony in 2009.
The award is for an individual who has made a "substantial
contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more
humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations".[10]
The category of Best
Special
Special Theatrical Event was retired as of the
2009–2010 season.[11] The categories of Best Sound Design of a Play
and Best Sound Design of a Musical were retired as of the 2014-2015
season.[12] On April 24, 2017, the Tony Awards administration
committee announced that the Sound Design Award would be reintroduced
for the 2017-2018 season.[13]
Performance categories
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Show and technical categories
Best Musical Best Revival of a Musical Best Direction of a Musical Best Book of a Musical Best Original Score Best Orchestrations Best Choreography Best Scenic Design in a Musical Best Costume Design in a Musical Best Lighting Design in a Musical Best Sound Design of a Musical Best Play Best Revival of a Play Best Direction of a Play Best Scenic Design in a Play Best Costume Design in a Play Best Lighting Design in a Play Best Sound Design of a Play
Special
Special awards
Regional Theatre Tony Award Special Tony Award (includes Lifetime Achievement Award) Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre Isabelle Stevenson Award
Retired awards
Best Author
Best Conductor and Musical Director
Best Costume Design (split into two categories: Best Costume Design in
a Musical and Best Costume Design in a Play)
Best Lighting Design (split into two categories: Best Lighting Design
in a Musical and Best Lighting Design in a Play)
Best Newcomer
Best Revival (split into two categories: Best Revival of a Musical and
Best Revival of a Play)
Best Scenic Design (split into two categories: Best Scenic Design in a
Musical and Best Scenic Design in a Play)
Best Stage Technician
Best
Special
Special Theatrical Event
Best Director (split into two categories: Best Direction of a Musical
and Best Direction of a Play)
History[edit] Main article: List of Tony Awards ceremonies
Former logo
The award was founded in 1947 by a committee of the American Theatre
Wing headed by Brock Pemberton. The award is named after Antoinette
Perry, nicknamed Tony, an actress, director, producer and co-founder
of the
American Theatre
American Theatre Wing, who died in 1946.[14] As her official
biography at the Tony Awards website states, "At [
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. story
editor] Jacob Wilk's suggestion, [Pemberton] proposed an award in her
honor for distinguished stage acting and technical achievement. At the
initial event in 1947, as he handed out an award, he called it a Tony.
The name stuck."[15]
The first awards ceremony was held on April 6, 1947, at the Waldorf
Astoria hotel in New York City.[16] The first prizes were "a scroll,
cigarette lighter and articles of jewelry such as 14-carat gold
compacts and bracelets for the women, and money clips for the
men."[17] It was not until the third awards ceremony in 1949 that the
first Tony medallion was given to award winners.[17] Awarded by a
panel of approximately 868 voters (as of 2014)[18] from various areas
of the entertainment industry and press.
Since 1967, the award ceremony has been broadcast on U.S. national
television and includes songs from the nominated musicals, and
occasionally has included video clips of, or presentations about,
nominated plays. The
American Theatre Wing
American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League
jointly present and administer the awards. Audience size for the
telecast is generally well below that of the
Academy Awards
Academy Awards shows, but
the program reaches an affluent audience, which is prized by
advertisers. According to a June 2003 article in The New York Times:
"What the Tony broadcast does have, say
CBS
CBS officials, is an
all-important demographic: rich and smart. Jack Sussman, CBS's senior
vice president in charge of specials, said the Tony show sold almost
all its advertising slots shortly after
CBS
CBS announced it would present
the three hours. 'It draws upscale premium viewers who are attractive
to upscale premium advertisers,' Mr. Sussman said..."[19][20] The
viewership has declined from the early years of its broadcast history
(for example, the number of viewers in 1974 was 20,026,000, in 1999
9,155,000) but has settled into between six and eight million viewers
for most of the decade of the 2000s.[21] In contrast, the 2009 Oscar
telecast had 36.3 million viewers.[22]
The medallion[edit]
The
Tony Award
Tony Award medallion was designed by art director
Herman Rosse
Herman Rosse and
is a mix of mostly brass and a little bronze, with a nickel plating on
the outside; a black acrylic glass base, and the nickel-plated pewter
swivel.[23] The face of the medallion portrays an adaptation of the
comedy and tragedy masks. Originally, the reverse side had a relief
profile of Antoinette Perry; this later was changed to contain the
winner's name, award category, production and year. The medallion has
been mounted on a black base since 1967.[24][25]
A larger base was introduced in time for the 2010 award ceremony. The
new base is slightly taller – 5 inches (13 cm), up from
3 1⁄4 inches (8.3 cm) – and heavier –
3 1⁄2 pounds (1.6 kg), up from 1 1⁄2 pounds (680
grams). This change was implemented to make the award "feel more
substantial" and easier to handle at the moment the award is presented
to the winners. According to Howard Sherman, the executive director of
the
American Theatre
American Theatre Wing:
We know the physical scale of the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys he said. While we're not attempting to keep up with the Joneses, we felt this is a significant award, and it could feel and look a bit more significant... By adding height, now someone can grip the Tony, raise it over their head in triumph and not worry about keeping their grip he said. Believe me, you can tell the difference.[26]
For the specific Tony Awards presented to a Broadway production,
awards are given to the author and up to two of the producers free of
charge. All other members of the above-the-title producing team are
eligible to purchase the physical award. Sums collected are designed
to help defray the cost of the Tony Awards ceremony itself. An award
cost $400 as of at least 2000, $750 as of at least 2009, and, as of
2013, had been $2,500 "for several years", according to Tony Award
Productions.[27]
Details of the Tony Awards[edit]
Source: Tony Awards Official Site, Rules[18]
Rules for a new play or musical[edit]
For the purposes of the award, a new play or musical is one that has
not previously been produced on Broadway and is not "determined to be
'classic' or in the historical or popular repertoire", as determined
by the Administration Committee (per Section (2g) of the Rules and
Regulations).[4] The rule about "classic" productions was instituted
by the
Tony Award
Tony Award Administration Committee in 2002, and stated (in
summary) "A play or musical that is determined ... to be a 'classic'
or in the historical or popular repertoire shall not be eligible for
an Award in the Best Play or Best Musical
Category but may be eligible
in that appropriate Best Revival category."[28] Shows transferred from
Off-Broadway or the West End are eligible as "new", as are productions
based closely on films.
This rule has been the subject of some controversy, as some shows have
been ruled ineligible for the "new" category, meaning that their
authors did not have a chance to win the important awards of Best Play
or Best Musical (or Best Score or Best Book for musicals). On the
other hand, some people[who?] feel that allowing plays and musicals
that have been frequently produced to be eligible as "new" gives them
an unfair advantage, because they will have benefited from additional
development time as well as additional familiarity with the Tony
voters.
Committees and voters[edit]
The Tony Awards Administration Committee has twenty-four members: ten
designated by the
American Theatre
American Theatre Wing, ten by The Broadway League,
and one each by the Dramatists Guild, Actors' Equity Association,
United Scenic Artists and the Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers. This committee, among other duties, determines
eligibility for nominations in all awards categories.[29]
The Tony Awards Nominating Committee makes the nominations for the
various categories. This rotating group of theatre professionals is
selected by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Nominators serve
three-year terms and are asked to see every new Broadway
production.[30] The Nominating Committee for the 2012-13 Broadway
season (named in June 2012) had 42 members;[31] the Nominating
Committee for the 2014-2015 season has 50 members and was appointed in
June 2014.[30]
There are approximately 868 eligible
Tony Award
Tony Award voters (as of
2014),[18] a number that changes slightly from year to year. The
number was decreased in 2009 when the first-night critics were
excluded as voters.[32][33] That decision was changed, and members of
the
New York Drama Critics' Circle
New York Drama Critics' Circle were invited to be Tony voters
beginning in the 2010-2011 season.[34]
The eligible Tony voters include the board of directors and designated
members of the advisory committee of the
American Theatre
American Theatre Wing,
members of the governing boards of Actors' Equity Association, the
Dramatists Guild, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers,
United Scenic Artists, and the Association of Theatrical Press Agents
and Managers, members of the Theatrical Council of the Casting Society
of America and voting members of
The Broadway League
The Broadway League (in 2000, what
was then The League of American Theaters and Producers changed
membership eligibility and Tony voting status from a life-time honor
to all above-the-title producers, to ones who had been active in the
previous 10 years. This action disenfranchised scores of Tony voters,
including Gail Berman, Harve Brosten, Dick Button, Tony Lo Bianco, and
Raymond Serra).
Eligibility date (Season)[edit]
To be eligible for
Tony Award
Tony Award consideration, a production must have
officially opened on Broadway by the eligibility date that the
Management Committee establishes each year. For example, the cut-off
date for eligibility the 2013–2014 season was April 24, 2014.[35]
The season for
Tony Award
Tony Award eligibility is defined in the Rules and
Regulations.
Broadway theatre[edit]
A
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre is defined as having 500 or more seats, among other
requirements. While the rules define a
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre in terms of
its size, not its geographical location, the list of Broadway theatres
is determined solely by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. As
of the 2016–2017 season, the list consisted solely of the 41
theaters located in the vicinity of
Times Square
Times Square in
New York City
New York City and
Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.[36][37]
Criticism[edit]
While the theatre-going public may consider the Tony Awards to be the
Oscars of live theatre, critics have suggested that the Tony Awards
are primarily a promotional vehicle for a small number of large
production companies and theatre owners in New York City.[38][39] In a
2014
Playbill
Playbill article, Robert Simonson wrote that "Who gets to perform
on the Tony Awards broadcast, what they get to perform, and for how
long, have long been politically charged questions in the Broadway
theatre community..." The producers "accept the situation ... because
just as much as actually winning a Tony, a performance that lands well
with the viewing public can translate into big box-office sales."
Producer Robyn Goodman noted that, if the presentation at the ceremony
shows well and the show wins a Tony, "you’re going to spike at the
box office". [40]
The awards met further criticism when they eliminated the sound design
awards in 2014.[41] In 2014, a petition calling for the return of the
Sound Design categories received more than 30,000 signatures.[42]
Addressing their previous concerns over Tony voters[43] in the
category, it was announced that upon the awards' return for the
2017-2018 season, they would be decided by a subset of voters based on
their expertise.[13][44][45]
Award milestones[edit]
Some notable records and facts about the Tony Awards include the
following:[46]
Productions
Nominations: The most Tony nominations ever received by a single
production was the musical Hamilton (2016) with 16 nominations in 13
categories, narrowly passing the previous holders of this record, The
Producers (2001; 15 nominations in 12 categories) and Billy Elliot
(2009; 15 nominations in 13 categories).
Wins: The most Tony Awards ever received by a single production was
the musical The Producers (2001) with 12 awards, including Best
Musical.
Non-musical wins: The most Tonys ever received by a non-musical play
was
The Coast of Utopia (2007) with 7 Awards, including Best Play.
Most nominated with fewest wins: The musical The Scottsboro Boys
(2011) was nominated for 12 Tony Awards but did not win any.[47] It
also holds the record for most nominations for a closed show (having
closed nearly six months before the Tony Awards).
Three productions, all musicals, have won all "big six" awards for
their category: South Pacific (1950 awards), Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street (1979 Awards) and Hairspray (2003 awards);[48]
each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by
a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best
Direction awards.
Acting Awards: Only one production, South Pacific (1950 awards), has
won all four of the acting Awards in a single year.
Words and Music: Only five musicals have won the
Tony Award
Tony Award for Best
Musical when a person had (co-)written the Book (non-sung dialogue and
storyline) and the Score (music and lyrics): 1958 winner The Music Man
(
Meredith Willson
Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that
year), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin
Drood
Drood (
Rupert Holmes – who
also won for Book and Score), 1996 winner Rent (
Jonathan Larson –
who also won for Book and Score), 2011 winner The Book of Mormon (Trey
Parker, Robert Lopez, and
Matt Stone
Matt Stone also won for Book and Score), and
2016 winner Hamilton (
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda also won for Book and Score).
Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the Design Awards (original 3 of
Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design –
joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008):
Follies
Follies (1972), The
Phantom of the Opera (1986), The Lion King (1998), The Producers
(2001), The Light in the Piazza (2005),
The Coast of Utopia (2007),
the 2008 revival of South Pacific (first to sweep the expanded four
awards for Creative Arts) and
Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher (first
straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts)
(2012).
Revivals:
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman by
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller in 2012 became the
first show (play or musical) to win as Best Production in four
different years, Best Play at the 1949 awards, Best Revival at the
1984 awards (before the Best Revival award was split into two
categories for Play and Musical in 1994), and Best Revival of a Play
at the 1999 and 2012 awards. La Cage aux Folles made history as the
first musical to win as Best Production in three different years, Best
Musical at the 1984 awards and Best Revival of a Musical at both the
2005 awards and the 2010 awards.
Individuals
Wins:
Harold Prince has won 21 Tony Awards, more than anyone else,
including eight for Best Direction of a Musical, eight for Best
Musical, two for Best Producer of a Musical, and three special Tony
Awards.
Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune has won ten Tony Awards including three for
direction, four for choreography, two for performing, and one special
Tony Award.
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other
composer, with eight.
Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse has won the most Tonys for
choreography, also eight. Oliver Smith has won a record eight scenic
design Tony Awards.
Jules Fisher has won the most lighting design
awards, also eight.
Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald has the most performance Tony
Awards with six.
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally and
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard are the most
awarded writers with four Tonys each; McNally has won Best Play twice
and Best Book of a Musical twice, while Stoppard has won Best Play
four times.
Most nominations: Julie Harris and
Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera have been nominated
more often than any other performer, a total of ten times.
Performers in two categories: Five performers have been nominated in
two acting categories in the same year: Amanda Plummer, Dana Ivey,
Kate Burton, Jan Maxwell, and Mark Rylance. Plummer in 1982 was
nominated for Best Actress in a Play for
A Taste of Honey
A Taste of Honey and Best
Featured Actress in a Play for Agnes of God, for which she won. Ivey
in 1984 was nominated as Best Featured Actress in Musical for Sunday
in the Park with George and Best Featured Actress in a Play for
Heartbreak House. In 2002, Burton was nominated for Best Actress in
Play for
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler and Best Featured Actress in a Play for The
Elephant Man. Maxwell was nominated in 2010 for Best Actress in a Play
for The Royal Family and Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lend Me a
Tenor. Rylance was nominated in 2014 for Best Actor in a Play for
Richard III
Richard III and Best Featured Actor in a Play for Twelfth Night, for
which he won.
Performers in all categories: Five performers have been nominated for
all four performance awards for which a performer is eligible.
Boyd Gaines
Boyd Gaines was the first performer to be nominated for each of Best
Featured Actor in a Play in
The Heidi Chronicles
The Heidi Chronicles (1989), Best Actor in
a Musical for
She Loves Me
She Loves Me (1994), Best Featured Actor in a Musical
for Contact (2000) and
Gypsy
Gypsy (2008) and Best Actor in a Play for
Journey's End
Journey's End (2007). Gaines won in three of the categories (and four
of the five nominations), missing only for the performance in
Journey's End.
Raúl Esparza
Raúl Esparza was the second performer to be nominated in all four
categories (no wins), achieving this over a mere six seasons: Best
Featured Actor in a Musical for Taboo (2004), Best Actor in a Musical
for Company (2007), Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Homecoming
(2008), and Best Actor in a Play for
Speed-the-Plow (2009).
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury was the third performer to be nominated for all four
performance awards. She won Best Actress in a Musical for Mame (1966),
Dear World
Dear World (1969),
Gypsy
Gypsy (1975), and
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd (1979). She was
nominated for Best Actress in a Play for Deuce (2007). She won Best
Featured Actress in a Play for Blithe Spirit (2009). She was nominated
for Featured Actress in a Musical for
A Little Night Music
A Little Night Music (2010).
Jan Maxwell
Jan Maxwell became the fourth performer to achieve this distinction by
being nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang (2005), Best Featured Actress in a Play for Coram Boy
(2007) and
Lend Me a Tenor
Lend Me a Tenor (2010), Best Actress in a Play for The
Royal Family (2010), and Best Actress in a Musical for
Follies
Follies (2012).
Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald became the fifth performer to accomplish the feat and
the first to win in all four categories, winning Best Performance by a
Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel (1994) and Ragtime (1998),
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for Master Class
(1996) and
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun (2004), Best Performance by a Leading
Actress in a Musical for
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess (2012), and Best Performance
by a Leading Actress in a Play for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
(2014). She was nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in
a Musical for
Marie Christine
Marie Christine (2000) and
110 in the Shade
110 in the Shade (2007).
Performers Playing Opposite Sex: While several performers have won
Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only four have won
for playing a character of the opposite sex:
Mary Martin
Mary Martin in the title
role of Peter Pan (1955),
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in
Hairspray (2003),
Mark Rylance
Mark Rylance as Olivia in
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night (2014), and
Lena Hall
Lena Hall as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014). In 2000,
Australian actor
Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries won the
Special Tony Award for a live
theatrical event at the 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna: The
Royal Tour.
Shared Performances: All three of the young actors who shared the
duties of performing the lead character in Billy Elliot the Musical
(2009 awards) – David Alvarez,
Trent Kowalik
Trent Kowalik and Kiril
Kulish – also shared a single nomination, then shared the win,
for Best Actor in a Musical. Previously, the only prior joint winners
were
John Kani
John Kani and Winston Ntshona, who shared the Best Actor in a
Play award in 1975 for
Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island, two plays
they co-wrote and co-starred in.
Both sexes in one role:
Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen and
Patina Miller
Patina Miller both won,
respectively, Best Actor in a Musical in 1972 and Best Actress in a
Musical in 2013 for the role of the Leading Player in Pippin, marking
the first time the same role has been won by both a male and a female
in a Broadway production.
Writing and performing: Two people have won Tonys as an author and as
a performer.
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein won Best Play and Best Lead Actor in a
Play for Torch Song Trilogy (1983), Best Book of a Musical for La Cage
aux Folles, and Best Lead Actor in a Musical for Hairspray. Tracy
Letts, the author of 2008 Best Play August: Osage County, won Best
Lead Actor in a Play for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013).
Firsts
First female author to win Best Play:
Frances Goodrich with her
partner (and husband) Albert Hackett for The Diary of Anne Frank in
1956.
First African-American to win Best Performance by a Leading Actress in
a Musical:
Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll for
No Strings
No Strings in 1962.
First African-American to win Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a
Play:
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones for
The Great White Hope
The Great White Hope in 1969.
First African-American to win Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a
Musical:
Cleavon Little
Cleavon Little for
Purlie
Purlie in 1970.
First African-American author to win Best Play: Joseph A. Walker for
The River Niger in 1974.
First Asian-American author to win Best Play:
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang for M
Butterfly in 1988.
First Asian-American to win Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a
Play:
B. D. Wong
B. D. Wong for
M Butterfly in 1988.
First female author to solely win Best Play:
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein for The
Heidi Chronicles in 1989.
First Asian to win Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical:
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga for
Miss Saigon
Miss Saigon in 1991.
First female to win Best Direction of a Musical:
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor for The
Lion King in 1998.
First female to win Best Direction of a Play:
Garry Hynes for The
Beauty Queen of Leenane in 1998.
First African-American to win Best Performance by a Leading Actress in
a Play:
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad for
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun in 2004.
First female to solely win
Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Score:
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper for
Kinky Boots in 2013.
First Asian-American to win Best Performance by a Featured Actress in
a Musical:
Ruthie Ann Miles for
The King and I
The King and I in 2015.
First female team to win
Tony Award for Best Score and
Tony Award
Tony Award for
Best Book:
Jeanine Tesori &
Lisa Kron for Fun Home in 2015.
See also[edit]
New York City
New York City portal
Theatre portal
List of Tony Awards ceremonies Drama Desk Award Laurence Olivier Award Helpmann Awards Obie Award New York Drama Critics' Circle Theatre World Award Broadway theatre The Society of London Theatre List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards List of African-American Tony nominees and winners
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External links[edit]
Official website
www.cbs.com/shows/tony_awards/, the Tony Award's official broadcast
website
americantheatrewing.org, the
American Theatre
American Theatre Wing's official website
broadwayleague.com, The Broadway League's official website
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The Broadway League
List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
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Musical
Best Musical Best Direction of a Musical Best Leading Actor in a Musical Best Leading Actress in a Musical Best Featured Actor in a Musical Best Featured Actress in a Musical Best Book of a Musical Best Choreography Best Costume Design in a Musical Best Lighting Design in a Musical Best Orchestrations Best Original Score Best Revival of a Musical Best Scenic Design in a Musical
Special
Special (non-competitive)
Regional Theatre Tony Award
Special
Special Tony Award
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Retired
Best Author
Best Conductor and Musical Director
Best Costume Design
Best Director
Best Lighting Design
Best Newcomer
Best Revival
Best Scenic Design
Best Sound Design
Best
Special
Special Theatrical Event
Best Stage Technician
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