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by Matt Smith
Once a year, the theatre community gathers together to commemorate the season and salute the best of the best. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s plans were instantly, and rightfully, forced to be altered. To fill the void, in celebration of the joy of theatre and the decades-long tradition of the Tony Awards, we put together this star-studded compilation of moments and memories from past ceremonies. To our beloved community and the mélange of Tony winners, nominees and hopefuls of past, would-be-present and future… this one’s for you.
FEATURING:
David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik & Kiril Kulish
Billy Elliot, the Musical
Best Performance by a Leading Actor(s) in a Musical
2009
Laura Benanti
Gypsy
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2008
Michael Bennett
A Chorus Line
Best Director of a Musical
1976
Christian Borle
Something Rotten!
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
2015
Betty Buckley
Cats
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1983
Michael Cerveris
Assassins
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
2004
Michael Cerveris
Fun Home
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2015
Rachel Chavkin
Hadestown
Best Director of a Musical
2019
Kristin Chenoweth
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
1999
Cleavant Derricks
Dreamgirls
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
1982
André De Shields
Hadestown
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
2019
Daisy Eagan
The Secret Garden
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
1991
Cynthia Erivo
The Color Purple
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2016
Harvey Fierstein
Hairspray
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2003
Sutton Foster
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2002
Sutton Foster
Anything Goes
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2011
Robyn Goodman
Avenue Q
Best Musical
2004
Lena Hall
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2014
Ben Harney
Dreamgirls
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
1982
Neil Patrick Harris
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2014
Jennifer Holliday
Dreamgirls
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
1982
James Monroe Iglehart
Aladdin
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
2014
Hugh Jackman
The Boy from Oz
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2004
Nikki M. James
The Book of Mormon
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2011
Michael Jeter
Grand Hotel
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
1990
Larry Kramer
Lifetime Achievement Award
2013
Beth Leavel
The Drowsy Chaperone
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2006
Patti LuPone
Gypsy
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2008
Kevin McCollum
Avenue Q
Best Musical
2004
Audra McDonald
Raisin in the Sun
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
2004
Audra McDonald
Porgy and Bess
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2012
Terrence McNally
Lifetime Achievement Award
2019
Idina Menzel
Wicked
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2004
Patina Miller
Pippin
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2013
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton
Best Score
2016
Kelli O’Hara
The King and I
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2015
Michael Peters
Dreamgirls
Best Choreography
1982
Ben Platt
Dear Evan Hansen
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2017
Billy Porter
Kinky Boots
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2013
Hal Prince
Lifetime Achievement Award
2006
Sara Ramirez
Monty Python’s Spamalot
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2005
Alice Ripley
Next to Normal
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
2009
Anika Noni Rose
Caroline, or Change
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2004
Lea Salonga
Miss Saigon
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
1991
Ali Stroker
Oklahoma!
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2019
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lifetime Achievement Award
2018
Mary Louise Wilson
Grey Gardens
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
2007
John Lloyd Young
Jersey Boys
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
2006
AND CLIPS FROM THE FOLLOWING PERFORMANCES:
“Along Came Bialy”
The Producers
2001
“And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”
Dreamgirls
1982
“Angry Dance”
Billy Elliot, the Musical
2009
“Another Openin’, Another Show”
feat. Bernadette Peters
2005
“Anything Goes”
Anything Goes
2011
“The Best of Times”
La Cage aux Folles
2010
“Bigger”
Music and lyrics by Tom Kitt
Rap verse written by Lin-Manuel Miranda
2013
“Circle of Life”
The Lion King
1998
Costume Swap
Sara Bareilles & Josh Groban
2018
“Curtain Call”
Company
Music composed by Stephen Sondheim
2020
“Defying Gravity”
Wicked
2004
“Do Re Mi”
The Sound of Music
1998
“Everything’s Coming Up Roses”
Gypsy
2008
“Finale Ultimo”
42nd Street
2001
“Find Your Grail”
Monty Python’s Spamalot
2005
“Forget About the Boy”
Thoroughly Modern Millie
2002
“Hot Honey Rag”
Chicago
1997
“Into the Woods”
Into the Woods
2002
“It’s the Hard Knock Life”
Annie
2013
“La Vie Boheme”
Rent
1996
Monologue & “Mary Poppins” Entrance
Whoopi Goldberg
2008
“Memory”
Cats
1983
“The Music of the Night”
The Phantom of the Opera
2013
“My New Philosophy”
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
1999
“Not the Boy Next Door”
The Boy from Oz
2004
“One”
A Chorus Line
2007
“One Day More”
Les Miserables
1987
“One Night Only”
Dreamgirls
2004
“Prologue”
Ragtime
1998
“Rose’s Turn”
Gypsy
2003
“Ring of Keys”
Fun Home
2015
“Seasons of Love”
Rent
1996
“Seize the Day”
Newsies
2012
“Seventy-Six Trombones”
The Music Man
2000
“Shy”
Once Upon a Mattress
1997
“Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”
Guys and Dolls
1992
Spider-Man Entrance
Neil Patrick Harris
2011
“This One’s for You”
Music by Sara Bareilles
Lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban & Shaina Taub
2018
“Totally F*cked”
Spring Awakening
2007
“Wait for Me”
Hadestown
2019
“We Are Live”
Music and lyrics by David Javerbaum & Tom Kitt
2019
“We Are What We Are”
La Cage aux Folles
2010
“We’ll Take a Glass Together”
Grand Hotel
1990
“When I Grow Up”
Matilda the Musical
2013
“Wilkommen”
Cabaret
1998
“You Can’t Stop the Beat”
Hairspray
2003
“You Learn”
Jagged Little Pill
Music and lyrics by Alanis Morissette
2020
“You’re in the Band”
School of Rock: The Musical
2016
Photo & Video courtesy of CBS/Tony Awards Productions
