45th Tony Awards
# 45th Tony Awards

The 45th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Minskoff Theatre on June 2, 1991. The hosts were Julie Andrews and Jeremy Irons.

## The ceremony

Presenters: Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Tyne Daly, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Steve Guttenberg, Audrey Hepburn, Raul Julia, Jackie Mason, Shirley MacLaine, James Naughton, Penn & Teller, Anthony Quinn, Lily Tomlin, Denzel Washington

Musicals represented:

* Miss Saigon ("The Heat is On in Saigon"/"Last Night of the World"/"I Still Believe"/"You Will Not Touch Him"/"The American Dream" - Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce. Company)
* Once on This Island ("The Human Heart"/"Mama Will Provide" - La Chanze, Lillias White, Company)
* The Secret Garden (Medley - Company)
* The Will Rogers Follies ("Will-A-Mania"/"Favorite Son" - Keith Carradine, Cady Huffman, Company)

Special Salute:

* How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ("The Year of the Musical Actor"/"I Believe in You" - Robert Morse)
* Fiddler on the Roof ("If I Were a Rich Man" - Topol)
* Bye Bye Birdie ("Rosie" - Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking [a live remote from Seattle])
* My Fair Lady and Camelot medley performed by Julie Andrews ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly" "Camelot" "I Could Have Danced All Night")
* The Phantom of the Opera ("Music of the Night" - Michael Crawford)

## Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

| Best Play | Best Musical |
| - | - |
| Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon Our Country's Good – Timberlake Wertenbaker Shadowlands – William Nicholson Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare | The Will Rogers Follies Miss Saigon Once on This Island The Secret Garden |
| Best Revival | Best Book of a Musical |
| Fiddler on the Roof The Miser Peter Pan | Marsha Norman – The Secret Garden Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg – Miss Saigon Lynn Ahrens – Once on This Island Peter Stone – The Will Rogers Follies |
| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
| Nigel Hawthorne – Shadowlands as C. S. Lewis Peter Frechette – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. Ralph Clark Tom McGowan – La Bête as Valere Courtney B. Vance – Six Degrees of Separation as Paul | Mercedes Ruehl – Lost in Yonkers as Bella Kurnitz Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation as Ouisa Kittredge Julie Harris – Lucifer's Child as Karen Blixen Cherry Jones – Our Country's Good as Liz Morden/Reverend Johnson |
| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
| Jonathan Pryce – Miss Saigon as The Engineer Keith Carradine – The Will Rogers Follies as Will Rogers Paul Hipp – Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye | Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon as Kim June Angela – Shōgun: The Musical as Lady Mariko Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies as Betty Blake Cathy Rigby – Peter Pan as Peter Pan |
| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play | Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
| Kevin Spacey – Lost in Yonkers as "Uncle" Louie Adam Arkin – I Hate Hamlet as Gary Peter Lefkowitz Dylan Baker – La Bête as Prince County Stephen Lang – The Speed of Darkness as Lou | Irene Worth – Lost in Yonkers as Grandma Kurnitz Amelia Campbell – Our Country's Good as Various Characters Kathryn Erbe – The Speed of Darkness as Mary J. Smith-Cameron – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. William Faddy |
| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical | Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
| Hinton Battle – Miss Saigon as John Bruce Adler – Those Were the Days as Various Characters Gregg Burge – Oh, Kay! as Billy Lyes Willy Falk – Miss Saigon as Chris | Daisy Eagan – The Secret Garden as Mary Lennox Alison Fraser – The Secret Garden as Martha Sowerby Cady Huffman – The Will Rogers Follies as Ziegfeld's Favorite LaChanze – Once on This Island as Ti Moune |
| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Best Choreography |
| The Will Rogers Follies – Cy Coleman (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) Miss Saigon – Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil (lyrics) Once on This Island – Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) The Secret Garden – Lucy Simon (music) and Marsha Norman (lyrics) | Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies Bob Avian – Miss Saigon Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island Dan Siretta – Oh, Kay! |
| Best Direction of a Play | Best Direction of a Musical |
| Jerry Zaks – Six Degrees of Separation Richard Jones – La Bête Mark Lamos – Our Country's Good Gene Saks – Lost in Yonkers | Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island Nicholas Hytner – Miss Saigon Eleanor Reissa – Those Were the Days |
| Best Scenic Design | Best Costume Design |
| Heidi Landesman – The Secret Garden Richard Hudson – La Bête John Napier – Miss Saigon Tony Walton – The Will Rogers Follies | Willa Kim – The Will Rogers Follies Theoni V. Aldredge – The Secret Garden Judy Dearing – Once on This Island Patricia Zipprodt – Shōgun: The Musical |
| Best Lighting Design |
| Jules Fisher – The Will Rogers Follies David Hersey – Miss Saigon Allen Lee Hughes – Once on This Island Jennifer Tipton – La Bête |

## Special Tony Awards

* Regional Theatre Award -- Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
* Tony Honor—Father George Moore (Given Posthumously)
