42nd Tony Awards

The 42nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 1988, at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS, hosted by Angela Lansbury.

42nd Tony Awards
Date	June 5, 1988
Location	Minskoff Theatre, New York City, New York
Hosted by	Angela Lansbury
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS
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Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1987–1988 season before May 4, 1988 were eligible.

Original plays Breaking the Code Burn This Joe Turner's Come and Gone La Serva Amorosa M. Butterfly Serious Money Sherlock's Last Case Speed-the-Plow A Walk in the Woods

Original musicals Chess Don't Get God Started The Gospel at Colonus Into the Woods Late Nite Comic Mail Oba Oba The Phantom of the Opera Romance/Romance Roza Sarafina! Teddy & Alice

Play revivals Broadway The Comedy of Errors Macbeth A Streetcar Named Desire

Musical revivals Anything Goes Cabaret Dreamgirls

The ceremony

Musicals represented were:^[1]

• A Chorus Line, "Music and the Mirror" – Donna McKechnie
• Anything Goes, "Anything Goes" – Patti LuPone and Company
• Dreamgirls, "One Night Only"/"Dreamgirls" – Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine and Terry Burrell;
• Into the Woods, "Into the Woods"/"Children Will Listen" – Phylicia Rashad and Company;
• The Phantom of the Opera, Last verse of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of The Night" – Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford;
• Romance/Romance, "I'll Always Remember the Song"/"It's Not Too Late" – Scott Bakula, Alison Fraser and Company
• Sarafina!, "Sarafina!" – Company

Plays represented were:^[1]M. Butterfly, Scene with John Lithgow and BD Wong; Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Scene with Mel Winkler, Ed Hall and Delroy Lindo; A Walk in the Woods, Scene with Sam Waterston and Robert Prosky; and Speed-the-Plow, Scene with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver.

A tribute to the late Michael Bennett was performed by Donna McKechnie of the original Chorus Line and the three original Dreamgirls, Terry Burrell, Loretta Devine and Sheryl Lee Ralph.^[2]

At these Tony Awards, the longest-running musical on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, competed for awards and received the season's Best Musical award.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Best Play	Best Musical
M. Butterfly – David Henry Hwang A Walk in the Woods – Lee Blessing Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson Speed-the-Plow – David Mamet	The Phantom of the Opera Into the Woods Romance/Romance Sarafina!
Best Revival	Best Book of a Musical
Anything Goes A Streetcar Named Desire Cabaret Dreamgirls	James Lapine – Into the Woods Lee Breuer – The Gospel at Colonus Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Phantom of the Opera Barry Harman – Romance/Romance
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Ron Silver – Speed-the-Plow as Charlie Fox Derek Jacobi – Breaking the Code as Alan Turing John Lithgow – M. Butterfly as Rene Gallimard Robert Prosky – A Walk in the Woods as Andrey Botvinnik	Joan Allen – Burn This as Anna Mann Blythe Danner – A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche Du Bois Glenda Jackson – Macbeth as Lady Macbeth Frances McDormand – A Streetcar Named Desire as Stella Kowalski
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Michael Crawford – The Phantom of the Opera as The Phantom of the Opera Scott Bakula – Romance/Romance as Alfred Von Wilmers/Sam David Carroll – Chess as Anatoly Howard McGillin – Anything Goes as Billy Crocker	Joanna Gleason – Into the Woods as The Baker's Wife Alison Fraser – Romance/Romance as Josefine Weninger/Monica Judy Kuhn – Chess as Florence Patti LuPone – Anything Goes as Reno Sweeney
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
BD Wong – M. Butterfly as Song Liling Michael Gough – Breaking the Code as Dillwyn Knox Lou Liberatore – Burn This as Larry Delroy Lindo – Joe Turner's Come and Gone as Herald Loomis	L. Scott Caldwell – Joe Turner's Come and Gone as Bertha Holly Kimberleigh Aarn – Joe Turner's Come and Gone as Mattie Campbell Kate Nelligan – Serious Money as Various Characters Kimberly Scott – Joe Turner's Come and Gone as Molly Cunningham
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Bill McCutcheon – Anything Goes as Moonface Martin Anthony Heald – Anything Goes as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh Werner Klemperer – Cabaret as Herr Schultz Robert Westenberg – Into the Woods as The Wolf / Cinderella's Prince	Judy Kaye – The Phantom of the Opera as Carlotta Guidicelli Leleti Khumalo – Sarafina! as Sarafina Alyson Reed – Cabaret as Sally Bowles Regina Resnik – Cabaret as Fraulein Schneider
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Best Choreography
Into the Woods – Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) The Phantom of the Opera – Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe (lyrics) Romance/Romance – Keith Herrmann (music) and Barry Harman (lyrics) Sarafina! – Mbongeni Ngema and Hugh Masekela (music and lyrics)	Michael Smuin – Anything Goes Lar Lubovitch – Into the Woods Gillian Lynne – The Phantom of the Opera Ndaba Mhlongo and Mbongeni Ngema – Sarafina!
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
John Dexter – M. Butterfly Gregory Mosher – Speed-the-Plow Lloyd Richards – Joe Turner's Come and Gone Clifford Williams – Breaking the Code	Harold Prince – The Phantom of the Opera James Lapine – Into the Woods Mbongeni Ngema – Sarafina! Jerry Zaks – Anything Goes
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Maria Björnson – The Phantom of the Opera Eiko Ishioka – M. Butterfly Tony Straiges – Into the Woods Tony Walton – Anything Goes	Maria Björnson – The Phantom of the Opera Ann Hould-Ward – Into the Woods Eiko Ishioka – M. Butterfly Tony Walton – Anything Goes
Best Lighting Design
Andrew Bridge – The Phantom of the Opera Paul Gallo – Anything Goes Richard Nelson – Into the Woods Andy Phillips – M. Butterfly

Special awards

Regional Theatre Tony Award

• South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA

Special Awards

• Brooklyn Academy of Music

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations: 10 nominations: Anything Goes, Into the Woods and The Phantom of the Opera 7 nominations: M. Butterfly 6 nominations: Joe Turner's Come and Gone 5 nominations: Romance/Romance and Sarafina! 4 nominations: Cabaret 3 nominations: Breaking the Code, Speed-the-Plow and A Streetcar Named Desire 2 nominations: Burn This, Chess and A Walk in the Woods

The following productions received multiple awards. 7 wins: The Phantom of the Opera 3 wins: Anything Goes, Into the Woods and M. Butterfly

See also

• Drama Desk Awards
• 1988 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
• Obie Award
• New York Drama Critics' Circle
• Theatre World Award
• Lucille Lortel Awards