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. The show did not have a formal host.

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
• An Evening with Jerry Herman
• 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.

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)

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.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

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)

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

References

External links

• Tony Awards official site