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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 | Michael Smuin | 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 | David S. Landay | 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 | George Rose | 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 | Richard Press | A Lesson From Aloes producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Lester Osterman | 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 | Roger S. Berlind | 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 | 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 | Donald C. Carter | The Little Foxes
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| Tony Awards | Best Revival | The New York Shakespeare Festival | The Pirates of Penzance
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| 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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