Tony Awards: 2004

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

I Am My Own Wife

Doug Wright (playwright)
Delphi Productions, Playwrights Horizons (producers)

Anna in the Tropics

Nilo Cruz (playwright)
Roger Berlind, Daryl Roth, Ray Larsen, Robert G. Bartner, The McCarter Theatre Center (producers)

Frozen

Barry Lavery (playwright)
MCC Theater, Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, John G. Schultz, Hal Newman, Zollo/Paleologos and Jeffrey Sine, Roy Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy and Beth Smith, Peggy Hill, Thompson H. Rogers, Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert (producers)

The Retreat from Moscow

William Nicholson (playwright)
Susan Quint Gallin, Stuart Thompson, Ron Kastner, True Love Productions, Mary Lu Roffe, Jam Theatricals (producers)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Avenue Q

Jeff Whitty (book)
Robert Lopez (music)
Jeff Marx (lyrics)
Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group (producers)

Caroline, or Change

Tony Kushner (book and lyrics)
Jeanine Tesori (music)
Carole Shorenstein Hays, HBO Films, Jujamcyn Theaters, Freddy DeMann, Scott Rudin, Hendel/Morten/Wiesenfeld, Fox Theatricals/Manocherian/Bergére, Roger Berlind, Clear Channel Entertainment, Joan Cullman, Greg Holland/Scott Nederlander, Margo Lion, Daryl Roth, Zollo/Sine, The Public Theater (producers)

The Boy from Oz

Martin Sherman & Nick Enright (book)
Peter Allen (music)
Ben Gannon, Robert Fox (producers)

Wicked

Winnie Holzman (book)
Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics)
Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, David Stone (producers)

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Henry IV

Lincoln Center Theater – André Bishop, Bernard Gersten (producers)

Jumpers

Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Freddy DeMann, Jean Doumanian, Stephanie McClelland, Arielle Tepper, The National Theatre of Great Britain (producers)

King Lear

Lincoln Center Theater – André Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Stratford Festival of Canada (producers)

A Raisin in the Sun

David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh, Ruth Hendel, Arielle Tepper, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Barbara Whitman, Cynthia Stroum (producers)

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

Assassins

Roundabout Theatre Company – Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Julia C. Levy (producers)

Big River

Roundabout Theatre Company – Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Julia C. Levy, Deaf West Theatre, Ed Waterstreet, Bill O'Brien, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum (producers)

Fiddler on the Roof

James L. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Harbor Entertainment, Terry Allen Kramer, Bob Boyett/Lawrence Horowitz, Clear Channel Entertainment (producers)

Wonderful Town

Roger Berlind, Barry and Fran Weissler, Edwin W. Schloss, Allen Spivak, Clear Channel Entertainment, Harvey Weinstein (producers)

SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT

Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway

: Russell Simmons, Stan Lathan, Jonathan Reinis, Richard Martini, Larry Magid, Allen Spivak, Kimora Lee Simmons, Jeffrey Chartier, Stacy Carter, Island Def Jam Music Group (producers)

Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home

Eric Krebs, Jonathan Reinis, CTM Productions, Anne Strickland Squadron, Michael Viner, David and Adam Friedson, Allen Spivak/Larry Magid, M. Kilburg Reedy (producers)

The Play What I Wrote

David Pugh, Joan Cullman, Mike Nichols, Hamilton South, Charles Whitehead, Stuart Thompson (producers)

Prune Danish

Jyll Rosenfeld, Jon Stoll (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Jefferson Mays – I Am My Own Wife
Simon Russell Beale – Jumpers
Kevin Kline – Henry IV
Frank Langella – Match
Christopher Plummer – King Lear

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Phylicia Rashad – A Raisin in the Sun
Eileen Atkins – The Retreat from Moscow
Tovah Feldshuh – Golda’s Balcony
Anne Heche – Twentieth Century
Swoosie Kurtz – Frozen

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Hugh Jackman – The Boy from Oz
Hunter Foster – Little Shop of Horrors
Alfred Molina – Fiddler on the Roof
Euan Morton – Taboo
John Tartaglia – Avenue Q

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Idina Menzel – Wicked
Kristin Chenowith – Wicked
Stephanie D’Abruzzo – Avenue Q
Donna Murphy – Wonderful Town
Tonya Pinkins – Caroline, or Change

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Brian F. O’Byrne – Frozen
Tom Aldredge – Twentieth Century
Ben Chaplin – The Retreat from Moscow
Aidan Gillen – The Caretaker
Omar Metwally – Sixteen Wounded

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Audra McDonald – A Raisin in the Sun
Essie Davis – Jumpers
Sanaa Lathan – A Raisin in the Sun
Margo Martindale – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Daphne Rubin-Vega – Anna in the Tropics

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Michael Cerveris – Assassins
John Cariani – Fiddler on the Roof
Raul Esparza – Taboo
Michael McElroy – Big River
Denis O’Hare – Assassins

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Anika Noni Rose – Caroline, or Change
Beth Fowler – The Boy from Oz
Isabel Keating – The Boy from Oz
Jennifer Westfeldt – Wonderful Town
Karen Ziemba – Never Gonna Dance

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Jack O’Brien – Henry IV
Doug Hughes – Frozen
Moises Kaufman – I Am My Own Wife
David Leveaux – Jumpers

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Joe Mantello – Assassins
Kathleen Marshall – Wonderful Town
Jason Moore – Avenue Q
George C. Wolfe – Caroline, or Change

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Kathleen Marshall – Wonderful Town
Wayne Cilento – Wicked
Jerry Mitchell – Never Gonna Dance
Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan – Bombay Dreams

BEST SCORE

Robert Lopez (music) and Jeff Marx (lyrics) – Avenue Q

Jeanine Tesorie (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics) – Caroline, or Change
Boy George (music and lyrics – Taboo
Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) – Wicked

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Jeff Whitty – Avenue Q
Tony Kushner – Caroline, or Change
Martin Sherman & Nick Enright – The Boy from Oz
Winnie Holzman – Wicked

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS

Michael Starobin – Assassins

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Eugene Lee – Wicked

Robert Brill – Assassins
Ralph Funicello – Henry IV
Tom Pye – Fiddler on the Roof

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Susan Hilferty – Wicked
Jess Goldstein – Henry IV
Mike Nicholls & Bobby Pearce – Taboo
Mark Thompson – Bombay Dreams

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer – Assassins
Brian MacDevitt – Fiddler on the Roof
Brian MacDevitt – Henry IV
Kenneth Posner – Wicked

REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

SPECIAL LIFETIME AHCIEVEMENT TONY AWARD

James M. Nederlander

TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE

The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River
Nancy Coyne
Frances & Harry Edelstein and Vincent Sardi, Jr.
Martha Swope

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