34th Tony Awards

The 34th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS television on June 8, 1980, from the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The hosts were Mary Tyler Moore and Jason Robards. The theme was "understudies"; each of the hosts and presenters had been understudies and offered anecdotes of that beginning.

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1979–1980 season before May 15, 1980 are eligible.

Original plays

• Bent
• Betrayal
• Charlotte
• Children of a Lesser God
• Clothes for a Summer Hotel
• Devour the Snow
• Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth
• Goodbye Fidel
• Harold and Maude
• Heartaches of a Pussycat
• Hide and Seek
• Home
• Horowitz and Mrs. Washington
• I Ought to Be in Pictures
• The Lady from Dubuque
• Last Licks
• Lone Star
• Loose Ends
• Mister Lincoln
• Night and Day
• Nuts
• Once a Catholic
• Past Tense
• Pvt. Wars
• The Roast
• Romantic Comedy
• Strider
• Talley's Folly
• Teibele and Her Demon

Original musicals

• Barnum
• But Never Jam Today
• Censored Scenes from King Kong
• Comin' Uptown
• A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
• Evita
• Got Tu Go Disco
• Happy New Year
• King of Schnorrers
• A Kurt Weill Cabaret
• The Madwoman of Central Park West
• Musical Chairs
• The 1940's Radio Hour
• Reggae
• Sugar Babies

Play revivals

• Filumena
• Major Barbara
• Morning's at Seven
• The Price
• Richard III
• Watch on the Rhine

Musical revivals

• Canterbury Tales
• The Most Happy Fella
• Oklahoma!
• Peter Pan
• West Side Story

The ceremony

Presenters: Eve Arden, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, James Earl Jones, Elia Kazan, Richard Kiley, James MacArthur, Nancy Marchand, Dudley Moore, Anthony Perkins, Gilda Radner, Lynn Redgrave, Tony Roberts, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Dick Van Dyke.

Musicals represented:

• A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine ("Doin' the Production Code" - Company)
• Barnum ("Come Follow the Band"/"There is a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" - Jim Dale and Company)
• Evita ("A New Argentina" - Patti LuPone and Company)
• Oklahoma! ("People Will Say We're In Love" - Joel Higgins and Christine Andreas)
• Peter Pan ("I'm Flying" - Sandy Duncan and children)
• Sugar Babies ("A McHugh Medley" - Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney)
• West Side Story ("America" - Debbie Allen and Company)

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special awards

• Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre — Helen Hayes
• Regional Theatre Award Winner - Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky
• Mary Tyler Moore, Whose Life Is It Anyway?.

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 11 nominations: Evita
• 10 nominations: Barnum
• 9 nominations: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
• 8 nominations: Sugar Babies
• 5 nominations: Talley's Folly
• 4 nominations: Children of a Lesser God and Morning's at Seven
• 3 nominations: West Side Story
• 2 nominations: Bent, Betrayal, Home, The Lady from Dubuque, Night and Day, Oklahoma!, Peter Pan and Strider

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 7 wins: Evita
• 3 wins: Barnum, Children of a Lesser God and Morning's at Seven
• 2 wins: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine

See also

• Drama Desk Awards
• 1980 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
• Obie Award
• New York Drama Critics' Circle
• Theatre World Award
• Lucille Lortel Awards

External links

• Official Site