TONY AWARDS ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS

The Tony Award nominations for the 2001-02 Broadway season were announced May 6 at Sardi's restaurant by Steven Weber and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The 56th annual Tony ceremony will take place June 2 at Radio City Music Hall, to be televised live on PBS (8-9 PM) and CBS (9 11 PM).

The 2001-02 TONY AWARD NOMINEES ARE:

BEST PLAY
Fortune's Fool by Ivan Turgenev, adapted by Mike Poulton
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee
Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

BEST MUSICAL
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Into the Woods
Oklahoma!

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Morning's at Seven by Paul Osborn
Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Private Lives by Noel Coward

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Alan Bates in Fortune's Fool
Billy Crudup in The Elephant Man
Liam Neeson in The Crucible
Alan Rickman in Private Lives
Jeffrey Wright in Topdog/Underdog

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Kate Burton in Hedda Gabler
Lindsay Duncan in Private Lives
Laura Linney in The Crucible
Helen Mirren in Dance of Death
Mercedes Ruehl in The Goat

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
John Cullum in Urinetown
Gavin Creel in Thoroughly Modern Millie
John Lithgow in Sweet Smell of Success
John McMartin in Into the Woods
Patrick Wilson in Oklahoma!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Nancy Opel in Urinetown
Louise Pitre in Mamma Mia!
Jennifer Laura Thompson in Urinetown
Vanessa Williams in Into the Woods

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Howard Davies for Private Lives
Richard Eyre for The Crucible
Daniel Sullivan for Morning's at Seven
Mary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
James Lapine for Into the Woods
Michael Mayer for Thoroughly Modern Millie
Trevor Nunn for Oklahoma!
John Rando Urinetown

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
John Guare for Sweet Smell of Success
Greg Kotis for Urinetown
Catherine Johnson for Mamma Mia
Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan for Thoroughly Modern Millie

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Harry Connick, Jr. for Thou Shalt Not
Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia for Sweet Smell of Success
Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis for Urinetown
Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan for Thoroughly Modern Millie

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Frank Langella in Fortune's Fool
William Biff McGuire in Morning's at Seven
Brian Murray in The Crucible
Sam Robards in The Man Who Had All the Luck
Stephen Tobolowsky in Morning's at Seven

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Kate Burton in The Elephant Man
Katie Finneran in Noises Off
Elizabeth Franz in Morning's at Seven
Estelle Parsons in Morning's at Seven
Frances Sternhagen Morning's at Seven

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Brian d'Arcy James in Sweet Smell of Success
Norbert Leo Butz in Thou Shalt Not
Gregg Edelman in Into the Woods
Shuler Hensley in Oklahoma!
Marc Kudisch in Thoroughly Modern Millie

BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Laura Benanti in Into the Woods
Harriet Harris in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Spencer Kayden in Urinetown
Judy Kaye in Mamma Mia!
Andrea Martin in Oklahoma!

BEST SCENIC DESIGN
John Lee Beatty for Morning's at Sevens
Tim Hatley for Private Lives
Daniel Ostling for Metamorphoses
Douglas W. Schmid for Into the Woods

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beaven for Private Lives
Jane Greenwood for Morning's at Seven
Susan Hilferty for Into the Woods
Martin Pakledinaz for Thoroughly Modern Millie

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Paul Gallo for The Crucible
David Hersey for Oklahoma!
Natasha Katz for Sweet Smell of Success
Brian MacDevitt for Into the Woods

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Rob Ashford for Thoroughly Modern Millie
John Carrafa Into the Woods
John Carrafa Urinetown
Susan Stroman Oklahoma!

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Martin Koch for Mamma Mia!
Douglas Besterman and Ralph Burns for Thoroughly Modern Millie
Bruce Coughlin for Urinetown
William David Brohn for Sweet Smell of Success

SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends
Barbara Cook: Mostly Sondheim
Sexaholix....A Love Story

SPECIAL TONY AWARDS
Robert Whitehead, producer
Julie Harris, actress
Williamstown Theatre Festival