38th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1983–1984 season before May 7, 1984 are eligible.

;Original plays

• Beethoven's Tenth
• Brothers
• Edmund Kean
• End of the World
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• The Golden Age
• The Guys in the Truck
• Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare
• Noises Off
• Open Admissions
• Play Memory
• The Real Thing
• A Woman of Independent Means ;Original musicals
• Amen Corner
• Baby
• Doonesbury
• The Human Comedy
• La Cage aux Folles
• Marilyn: An American Fable
• Peg
• The Rink
• Sunday in the Park with George
• The Tap Dance Kid ;Play revivals
• American Buffalo
• Awake and Sing!
• The Corn Is Green
• Death of a Salesman
• The Glass Menagerie
• Heartbreak House
• A Moon for the Misbegotten ;Musical revivals
• Mame
• Oliver!
• La Tragedie de Carmen
• Zorba

The ceremony

Presenters and performers: Carol Channing, Marilyn Cooper, Nancy Dussault, Robert Goulet, Robert Guillaume, Dustin Hoffman, Beth Howland, Larry Kert, Michele Lee, Dorothy Loudon, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Mary Tyler Moore, Anita Morris, Bernadette Peters, Anthony Quinn, Tony Randall, Tony Roberts, Chita Rivera, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Raquel Welch

Musicals represented:

• Baby ("I Want It All" - Liz Callaway, Catherine Cox and Beth Fowler)
• La Cage aux Folles ("We Are What We Are" - Company/"I Am What I Am" - George Hearn)
• The Tap Dance Kid ("Fabulous Feet" - Hinton Battle, Company)
• The Rink ("Wallflower" - Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli)
• Sunday in the Park with George ("Sunday" - Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Company)

There was a special salute to the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim.

Winners and nominees

Winners in bold

Special awards

• To director Peter Brook and producer Alexander H. Cohen for La tragédie de Carmen, for outstanding achievement in musical theatre
• Peter Feller, a master craftsman who has devoted forty years to theatre stagecraft and magic
• A Chorus Line producer Joseph Papp was presented with a special Gold Tony Award in honor of becoming Broadway's longest-running musical
• Al Hirschfeld, Brooks Atkinson Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre ;Regional Theatre Award
• Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Sunday in the Park with George
• 9 nominations: La Cage aux Folles
• 7 nominations: Baby, The Real Thing and The Tap Dance Kid
• 6 nominations: Heartbreak House
• 5 nominations: The Rink
• 4 nominations: Glengarry Glen Ross, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Noises Off
• 3 nominations: End of the World
• 2 nominations: Play Memory

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 6 wins: La Cage aux Folles
• 5 wins: The Real Thing
• 2 wins: Sunday in the Park with George and The Tap Dance Kid

References

References

1. Gans, Andrew. [http://www.playbill.com/article/diva-talk-a-backwards-glancethe-1984-tonys-plus-ripley-menzel-and-jones-com-126767# "Diva Talk: A Backwards Glance—the 1984 Tonys PLUS Ripley, Menzel and Jones"], Playbill, July 1, 2005, accessed June 1, 2016
2. [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/ceremonies/200909161253133888296.html "Ceremony, 1984"] tonyawards.com, accessed June 1, 2016
3. The Finale was a medley of Jerry Herman songs, including "Milk and Honey' and "Shalom" (Robert Goulet), "Before the Parade Passes By" (Carol Channing), "It Only Takes a Moment" (Nancy Dussault), "[[Hello, Dolly! (song). Hello, Dolly]]!" (chorus plus Channing), "If He Walked Into My Life" (Leslie Uggams) and "Mame" (Dorothy Loudon); a ''[[Mack and Mabel
4. Freedman, Samuel G. [https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/04/theater/real-thing-and-la-cage-dominate-the-tony-awards.html?pagewanted= " 'Real Thing' And 'La Cage' Dominate The Tony Awards"], ''The New York Times'', June 4, 1984, p.C11, accessed June 1, 2016