48th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1993–1994 season before May 12, 1994 are eligible.

;Original plays

• Angels in America: Perestroika
• Any Given Day
• Broken Glass
• The Kentucky Cycle
• Laughter on the 23rd Floor
• Mixed Emotions
• The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
• Sally Marr... and Her Escorts
• Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
• The Twilight of the Golds
• Wonderful Tennessee ;Original musicals
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public
• Cyrano: The Musical
• A Grand Night for Singing
• Passion
• The Red Shoes ;Play revivals
• Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• An Inspector Calls
• The Flowering Peach
• The Government Inspector
• In the Summer House
• Medea
• No Man's Land
• Picnic
• Timon of Athens
• White Liars & Black Comedy ;Musical revivals
• Camelot
• Carousel
• Damn Yankees
• Grease
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• My Fair Lady
• She Loves Me

Presenters

George Abbott, Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Carol Burnett, Nell Carter, Glenn Close, Tony Danza, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Peter Falk, Melanie Griffith, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Keitel, Jack Klugman, Swoosie Kurtz, Linda Lavin, Michael Learned, Steve Martin, Bebe Neuwirth, Rosie O'Donnell, Bernadette Peters, Tony Randall, Tony Roberts, Martin Short, Paul Sorvino, Jean Stapleton, Marlo Thomas, Gwen Verdon, Vanessa L. Williams

Musical Sequence

Victor Garber introduced scenes from the 1994 nominees for Best Revival of a Musical:

• Grease ("We Go Together" – Company);
• She Loves Me ("I Don't Know His Name"/"She Loves Me" – Diane Fratantoni, Sally Mayes and Boyd Gaines);
• Damn Yankees ("Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo." – Vicki Lewis and Company);
• Carousel ("You'll Never Walk Alone"- Shirley Verrett and Company).
• Vanessa L. Williams on live remote from Toronto introduced Show Boat ("Ol' Man River" – Michel Bell and Company).

Musicals represented

• A Grand Night for Singing ("People Will Say We're in Love"/"Some Enchanted Evening"/"It's a Grand Night for Singing" – Company);
• Beauty and the Beast ("Me"/"Be Our Guest"/"If I Can't Love Her"/"Beauty and the Beast" – Company);
• Cyrano: The Musical (Company);
• Passion ("Happiness"/"Drums and Music"/"Finale" – Company).

This was the first year for several awards: the award for Best Revival was given separately for plays and musicals, and the "Lifetime Achievement Award". The first Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to husband-and-wife Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn by another husband-and-wife, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special Tony Awards

• Regional Theatre Award — McCarter Theatre
• Lifetime Achievement Award — Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Passion
• 9 nominations: Beauty and the Beast and She Loves Me
• 6 nominations: Angels in America: Perestroika
• 5 nominations: Carousel and An Inspector Calls
• 4 nominations: Cyrano: The Musical and Damn Yankees
• 3 nominations: Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Grease, The Kentucky Cycle, Medea, Picnic and Timon of Athens
• 2 nominations: A Grand Night for Singing and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 5 wins: Carousel
• 4 wins: An Inspector Calls and Passion
• 3 wins: Angels in America: Perestroika

References

References

1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania), Christopher Rawson, p. D4, June 14, 1994