53rd Tony Awards

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television.^[1] The show did not have a formal host.

53rd Tony Awards
Date	June 6, 1999
Location	Gershwin Theatre, New York City, New York
Television/radio coverage
Network	CBS
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Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1998–1999 season before April 30, 1999 are eligible.

Original plays Amy's View The Blue Room Closer Colin Quinn – An Irish Wake Getting and Spending I'm Still Here... Damn It! The Lonesome West More to Love Not About Nightingales Side Man Via Dolorosa The Weir

Original musicals Band in Berlin The Civil War Footloose Fosse The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues Marlene Parade Swan Lake

Play revivals Death of a Salesman Electra Fool Moon The Iceman Cometh The Lion in Winter Night Must Fall Ring Round the Moon Twelfth Night

Musical revivals Annie Get Your Gun Little Me On the Town Peter Pan You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

The ceremony

The opening number was "There's No Business Like Show Business", sung by Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat.^[1]

Presenters

Julie Andrews Bea Arthur Alec Baldwin Christine Baranski Matthew Broderick Carol Burnett Zoe Caldwell Mario Cantone Stockard Channing Alan Cumming Judi Dench Brian Dennehy Laurence Fishburne Calista Flockhart

David Hare William Hurt Swoosie Kurtz Angela Lansbury Audra McDonald Terrence McNally Sarah Jessica Parker David Hyde Pierce Chita Rivera Jason Robards Christian Slater Kevin Spacey Scott Wolf

The musicals represented were:

• The Civil War ("Freedom's Child" - Lawrence Clayton and Company)
• Peter Pan ("I'm Flying" - Cathy Rigby and children)
• Parade ("This Is Not Over Yet"/"The Old Red Hills of Home" - Carolee Carmello, Brent Carver and Company)
• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown ("My New Philosophy"/"Happiness" - Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Rapp and Company)
• Fosse ("Sing Sing Sing" - Company)
• Little Me ("Boom Boom" - Martin Short and Company)
• Annie Get Your Gun ("I Got the Sun in the Morning"/"Hoedown"/"Old-Fashioned Wedding" - Tom Wopat, Bernadette Peters and Company)^[2]

The telecast included a special presentation (a "collage of moments") featuring performers from several of the productions nominated as Best Play and Best Revival of a Play.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold^[1]

Best Play	Best Musical
Side Man – Warren Leight Closer – Patrick Marber The Lonesome West – Martin McDonagh Not About Nightingales – Tennessee Williams	Fosse The Civil War It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues Parade
Best Revival of a Play	Best Revival of a Musical
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller Electra – Sophocles The Iceman Cometh – Eugene O'Neill Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare	Annie Get Your Gun Little Me Peter Pan You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Brian Dennehy – Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman Brían F. O'Byrne – The Lonesome West as Valene Connor Corin Redgrave – Not About Nightingales as Bert "Boss" Whalen Kevin Spacey – The Iceman Cometh as Theodore Hickman	Judi Dench – Amy's View as Esme Allen Stockard Channing – The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine Marian Seldes – Ring Round the Moon as Madame Desmermortes Zoë Wanamaker – Electra as Electra
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Martin Short – Little Me as Noble Eggleston and Various Characters Brent Carver – Parade as Leo Frank Adam Cooper – Swan Lake as The Swan Tom Wopat – Annie Get Your Gun as Frank Butler	Bernadette Peters – Annie Get Your Gun as Annie Oakley Carolee Carmello – Parade as Lucille Frank Dee Hoty – Footloose as Vi Moore Siân Phillips – Marlene as Marlene Dietrich
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Frank Wood – Side Man as Gene Kevin Anderson – Death of a Salesman as Biff Finbar Lynch – Not About Nightingales as Jim Allison Howard Witt – Death of a Salesman as Charley	Elizabeth Franz – Death of a Salesman as Linda Claire Bloom – Electra as Clytemnestra Samantha Bond – Amy's View as Amy Thomas Dawn Bradfield – The Lonesome West as Girleen Kelleher
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Roger Bart – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Snoopy Desmond Richardson – Fosse as Various Characters Ron Taylor – It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues as Various Characters Scott Wise – Fosse as Various Characters	Kristin Chenoweth – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown as Sally Brown Gretha Boston – It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues as Various Characters Valarie Pettiford – Fosse as Various Characters Mary Testa – On the Town as Madame Maude P. Dilly
Best Book of a Musical	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Alfred Uhry – Parade Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman – It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues Pam Gems – Marlene Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie – Footloose	Parade – Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) Footloose – Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics), Kenny Loggins, Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar and Jim Steinman (music and lyrics) The Civil War – Frank Wildhorn (music) and Jack Murphy (lyrics) Twelfth Night – Jeanine Tesori (music)
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Richard Hoover – Not About Nightingales Bob Crowley – The Iceman Cometh Bob Crowley – Twelfth Night Ricardo Hernandez – Parade	Lez Brotherston – Swan Lake Santo Loquasto – Fosse John David Ridge – Ring Round the Moon Catherine Zuber – Twelfth Night
Best Lighting Design	Best Orchestrations
Andrew Bridge – Fosse Mark Henderson – The Iceman Cometh Natasha Katz – Twelfth Night Chris Parry – Not About Nightingales	Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman – Fosse David Cullen – Swan Lake Don Sebesky – Parade Harold Wheeler – Little Me
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Robert Falls – Death of a Salesman Howard Davies – The Iceman Cometh Garry Hynes – The Lonesome West Trevor Nunn – Not About Nightingales	Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking – Fosse Michael Mayer – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Harold Prince – Parade
Best Choreography
Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake Patricia Birch – Parade Rob Marshall – Little Me A. C. Ciulla – Footloose

Special awards

The following non-completive awards were presented:

• Regional Theater Tony Award
  • Crossroads Theatre (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
• Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
  • Arthur Miller
• Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
  • Isabelle Stevenson
• Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award
  • Uta Hagen
• Special Tony Award For a Live Theatrical Presentation
  • Fool Moon (Bill Irwin and David Shiner)^[3]

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations: 9 nominations: Parade 8 nominations: Fosse 6 nominations: Death of a Salesman and Not About Nightingales 5 nominations: The Iceman Cometh, Swan Lake and Twelfth Night 4 nominations: Footloose, It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues, Little Me, The Lonesome West and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 3 nominations: Annie Get Your Gun and Electra 2 nominations: Amy's View, The Civil War, Marlene, Ring Round the Moon and Side Man

The following productions received multiple awards. 4 wins: Death of a Salesman 3 wins: Fosse and Swan Lake 2 wins: Annie Get Your Gun, Parade, Side Man and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

See also

• Drama Desk Awards
• 1999 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
• Obie Award
• New York Drama Critics' Circle
• Theatre World Award
• Lucille Lortel Awards