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Browse Awards By Year for 1981
| Note: Award winners will appear on a | RED BACKGROUND |
| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Michael Stewart |
42nd Street Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Monty Norman |
The Moony Shapiro Songbook
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Mary Kyte |
Tintypes
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Peter Stone |
Woman of the Year
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Gower Champion |
42nd Street production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Roland Petit |
Can-Can
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Henry le Tan |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Graciela Daniele |
The Pirates of Penzance
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge |
42nd Street production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | John Bury |
Amadeus production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Franca Squarciapino |
Can-Can
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Willa Kim |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Gower Champion |
42nd Street Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Michael Smuin |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Wilford Leach |
The Pirates of Penzance
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Robert Moore |
Woman of the Year
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Peter Coe |
A Life production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Peter Hall |
Amadeus Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Marshall W. Mason |
Fifth of July production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Austin Pendleton |
The Little Foxes
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Tharon Musser |
42nd Street production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | John Bury |
Amadeus production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Dennis Parichy |
Fifth of July production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Jennifer Tipton |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | David Merrick |
42nd Street production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Roger S. Berlind |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Richmond Crinkley |
Tintypes
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Lawrence Kasha |
Woman of the Year
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| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Charles Strouse |
Charlie and Algernon producer, production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Al Kasha |
Copperfield
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| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Lance Mulcahy |
Shakespeare's Cabaret
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| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | John Kander |
Woman of the Year
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Paxton Whitehead |
Camelot
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Hinton Battle |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Tony Azito |
The Pirates of Penzance production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Adam Redfield |
A Life production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Brian Backer |
The Floating Light Bulb
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Tom Aldredge |
The Little Foxes
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Shepperd Strudwick |
To Grandmother's House We Go
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Martin Vidnovic |
Brigadoon
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gregory Hines |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Kevin Kline |
The Pirates of Penzance
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Roy Dotrice |
A Life production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Ian McKellen |
Amadeus production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Jack Weston |
The Floating Light Bulb
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Wanda Richert |
42nd Street production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Phyllis Hyman |
Sophisticated Ladies
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Lynne Thigpen |
Tintypes
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Marilyn Cooper |
Woman of the Year
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Swoosie Kurtz |
Fifth of July production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Zoe Wanamaker |
Piaf
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Jessica Tandy |
Rose
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Maureen Stapleton |
The Little Foxes
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Meg Bussert |
Brigadoon
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Chita Rivera |
Bring Back Birdie
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Linda Ronstadt |
The Pirates of Penzance
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Lauren Bacall |
Woman of the Year
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Jane Lapotaire |
Piaf
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Glenda Jackson |
Rose
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Elizabeth Taylor |
The Little Foxes
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Eva Le Gallienne |
To Grandmother's House We Go
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Peter Shaffer |
Amadeus
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Athol Fugard |
A Lesson From Aloes
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Hugh Leonard |
A Life producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Richard Horner |
A Life
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Hinks Shimberg |
A Life producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | The Shubert Organization |
Amadeus production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Elizabeth I. McCann |
Amadeus production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Nelle Nugent |
Amadeus production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Lanford Wilson |
Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Robert Lussier |
Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Warner Theater Productions |
Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Zev Bufman |
Brigadoon producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Revival | MikeMerrick |
Camelot
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| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Zev Bufman |
The Little Foxes
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| Tony Awards | Best Revival | Joseph Papp |
The Pirates of Penzance producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Bury |
Amadeus producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | David Mitchell |
Can-Can
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Lee Beatty |
Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Santo Loquasto |
The Suicide producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Regional Theater Tony Award | Trinity Square Repertory Company |
Providence producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Regional Theater Tony Award | Rhode Island |
Trinity Square Repertory Company
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| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Lena Horne |
The Lady and Her Music
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