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53rd Tony Awards

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Date
  
June 6, 1999

Network
  
CBS

Hosted by
  
None

Location
  
Gershwin Theatre, New York City, New York

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.

Contents

The ceremony

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

Host/Presenters:

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

    Source: Playbill

    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)

    • References

    53rd Tony Awards Wikipedia
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