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61st Tony Awards

The 61st Annual Tony Award ceremony was held on June 10, 2007, at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS television broadcasting live. The cut-off date for eligibility was May 9, meaning that to be qualified for the 2006–2007 season, shows must have opened before or on this date.

Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs announced the nominations on May 15, 2007.

This Tony Awards telecast won an Emmy Award, Outstanding Special Class Program, at the 59th Creative Arts Emmy Awards presented on September 8, 2007. Glenn Weiss, the director of the awards show, received a Directors Guild of America Awards nomination, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety (television). Spring Awakening, won 8 awards including Best Musical, the most of the night.

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2006–07 season before May 10, 2007, are eligible.

Original plays
Original musicals
Play revivals
Musical revivals

The ceremony

As with the 2006 Tony Award ceremony, there was no formal host and the show was emceed by the presenters.

Presenters

Performances

The opening number showed the cast of A Chorus Line in rehearsal clothing dancing and singing "I Hope I Get It," outside of Radio City Music Hall accompanied by Marvin Hamlisch on the piano, with the cast then ending on the stage in full gold costumes performing "One".

The following musicals or performers performed:

<nowiki>*</nowiki>(Because it was a live TV performance, some of the lyrics to "The Bitch of Living" and "Totally Fucked" were altered for that night's performance.)

Winners and nominees

  • Winners are in bold.

In Memoriam

Special Tony Award

Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event
  • Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!, Producers: Roger Alan Gindi, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Dan Whitten, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Ken Grossman, Bob & Rhonda Silver, Michael A. Jenkins/Dallas Summer Musicals, Inc., Wetrock Entertainment
  • Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway, Producers: David J. Foster, Jared Geller, Ruth Hendel, Jonathan Reinis, Inc., Billy Zavelson, Jamie Cesa, Anne Strickland Squadron, Jennifer Manocherian, Gary Allen, Melvin Honowitz
Regional Theatre Tony Award
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
  • Not awarded

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

The following productions received multiple awards.

See also

References

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