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Tony Award Winners by Year

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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1981 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jane Lapotaire Piaf Award winner
1981 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Glenda Jackson Rose
1981 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Eva Le Gallienne To Grandmother's House We Go
1981 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Elizabeth Taylor The Little Foxes
1981 Best Play Louis Bush Hager Associates A Lesson From Aloes producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Peter Shaffer Amadeus Award winner
1981 Best Play Richard Press A Lesson From Aloes producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Yale Repertory Theater A Lesson From Aloes producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Hugh Leonard A Life producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Lester Osterman A Life producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Richard Horner A Life
1981 Best Play Hinks Shimberg A Life producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Freydberg-Cutler-Diamond Productions A Life producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Lanford Wilson Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Jerry Arrow Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Robert Lussier Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Freydberg-Cutler-Diamond Productions A Life producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Warner Theater Productions Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Jay J. Cohen A Lesson From Aloes producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Play Athol Fugard A Lesson From Aloes
1981 Best Play Roger S. Berlind Amadeus production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Play Nelle Nugent Amadeus production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Play Elizabeth I. McCann Amadeus production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Play The Shubert Organization Amadeus production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Revival Joseph Papp The Pirates of Penzance producer, production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Revival The New York Shakespeare Festival The Pirates of Penzance Award winner
1981 Best Revival Zev Bufman Brigadoon producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Revival The Shubert Organization Brigadoon
1981 Best Revival MikeMerrick Camelot
1981 Best Revival Don Gregory Camelot
1981 Best Revival Zev Bufman The Little Foxes
1981 Best Revival Donald C. Carter The Little Foxes
1981 Best Revival Jon Cultler The Little Foxes
1981 Best Scenic Design David Mitchell Can-Can
1981 Best Scenic Design John Bury Amadeus producer, production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Scenic Design John Bury Amadeus producer, production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Best Scenic Design John Lee Beatty Fifth of July producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Best Scenic Design Santo Loquasto The Suicide producer, production took place the previous year
1981 Regional Theater Tony Award Trinity Square Repertory Company Providence producer, production took place the previous year Award winner
1981 Regional Theater Tony Award Rhode Island Trinity Square Repertory Company Award winner
1981 Special Tony Award Lena Horne The Lady and Her Music Award winner
1980 Best Book of a Musical Ralph G. Allen Sugar Babies
1980 Best Book of a Musical Harry Rigby Sugar Babies
1980 Best Book of a Musical Mark Bramble Barnum
1980 Best Book of a Musical Dick Vosburgh A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Book of a Musical Tim Rice Evita Award winner
1980 Best Choreography Tommy Tune A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine Award winner
1980 Best Choreography Thommie Walsh A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine Award winner
1980 Best Choreography Ernest Flatt Sugar Babies
1980 Best Choreography Larry Fuller Evita
1980 Best Choreography Joe Layton Barnum
1980 Best Costume Design Timothy O'Brien Evita
1980 Best Costume Design Harold Prince Evita Award winner
1980 Best Costume Design Theoni V. Aldredge Barnum Award winner
1980 Best Costume Design Pierre Balmain Happy New Year
1980 Best Costume Design Raoul Pene Du Bois Sugar Babies
1980 Best Costume Design Tazeena Firth Evita
1980 Best Direction of a Musical Tommy Tune A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Direction of a Musical Joe Layton Barnum
1980 Best Direction of a Musical Harold Prince Evita Award winner
1980 Best Direction of a Musical Ernest Flatt and Rudy Tronto Sugar Babies
1980 Best Direction of a Play Marshall W. Mason Talley's Folly
1980 Best Direction of a Play Peter Hall Betrayal
1980 Best Direction of a Play Gordon Davidson Children of a Lesser God
1980 Best Direction of a Play Vivian Matalon Morning's at Seven Award winner
1980 Best Lighting Design Beverly Emmons A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Lighting Design David Hersey Evita Award winner
1980 Best Lighting Design Craig Miller Barnum
1980 Best Lighting Design Dennis Parichy Talley's Folly
1980 Best Musical Robert Stigwood Evita Award winner
1980 Best Musical Alexander H. Cohen A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Musical Hildy Parks A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Musical Cy Coleman Barnum
1980 Best Musical Lois Rosenfield Barnum
1980 Best Musical Maurice Rosenfield Barnum
1980 Best Musical Terry Allen Kramer Sugar Babies
1980 Best Musical Harry Rigby Sugar Babies
1980 Best Musical Warner Theater Productions Woman of the Year
1980 Best Musical David Merrick 42nd Street Award winner
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Andrew Lloyd Webber Evita Award winner
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Tim Rice Evita Award winner
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Frank Lazarus A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Dick Vosburgh A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Cy Coleman Barnum
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Michael Stewart Barnum
1980 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Arthur Malvin Sugar Babies
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Bob Gunton Evita
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Mandy Patinkin Evita Award winner
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical David Garrison A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Harry Groener Oklahoma!
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Joseph Maher Night and Day Production took place the previous year.
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Earle Hyman The Lady from Dubuque
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play George Hearn Watch on the Rhine
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play David Dukes Bent
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play David Rounds Morning's at Seven Award winner
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Mickey Rooney Sugar Babies
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Giorgio Tozzi The Most Happy Fella
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Gregory Hines Comin' Uptown producer, production took place the previous year
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Jim Dale Barnum Award winner
1980 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Rubinstein Children of a Lesser God Award winner

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