2004 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS AND WINNERS
BEST MUSICAL
Avenue Q WINNER
Caroline, or Change
The Boy From Oz
Wicked
BEST PLAY
Anna in the Tropics
Author: Nilo Cruz
Producer: Roger Berlind, Daryl Roth, Ray Larsen, Robert G. Bartner, The McCarter Theatre
Center
Frozen
Author: Bryony Lavery
Producer: MCC Theater, Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, John G. Schultz, Hal
Newman, Zollo/Paleologos & Jeffrey Sine, Roy Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy & Beth Smith, Peggy
Hill, Thompson H. Rogers, Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert
I Am My Own Wife WINNER
Author: Doug Wright
Producer: Delphi Productions, Playwrights Horizons
The Retreat from Moscow
Author: William Nicholson
Producer: Susan Quint Gallin, Stuart Thompson, Ron Kastner, True Love Productions,
Mary Lu Roffe, Jam Theatricals
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Assassins WINNER
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Julia C. Levy
Big River
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Julia C. Levy,
Deaf West Theatre, Ed Waterstreet, Bill O'Brien, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum
Fiddler on the Roof
Producer: James L. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie
Comley, Harbor Entertainment, Terry Allen Kramer, Bob Boyett/Lawrence Horowitz, Clear
Channel Entertainment
Wonderful Town
Producer: Roger Berlind, Barry and Fran Weissler, Edwin W. Schloss, Allen Spivak,
Clear Channel Entertainment, Harvey Weinstein
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
A Raisin in the Sun
Producer: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh, Ruth Hendel, Jayne
Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia Stroum, Barbara Whitman
Henry IV WINNER
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, Andre Bishop, Bernard Gersten
Jumpers
Producer: Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Freddy DeMann,
Jean Doumanian, Stephanie McClelland, Arielle Tepper, The National Theatre of Great
Britain
King Lear
Producer: Lincoln Center Theater, Andr‚ Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Stratford Festival of
Canada
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A
MUSICAL
Hunter Foster in Little Shop of Horrors
Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz WINNER
Alfred Molina in Fiddler on the Roof
Euan Morton in Taboo
John Tartaglia in Avenue Q
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A
MUSICAL
Kristin Chenoweth for Wicked
Stephanie d'Abruzzo for Avenue Q
Idina Menzel for Wicked WINNER
Donna Murphy for Wonderful Town
Tonya Pinkins for Caroline, or Change
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A
MUSICAL
John Cariani in Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Cerveris in Assassins WINNER
Raul Esparza in Taboo
Michael McElroy in Big River
Denis O'Hare in Assassins
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A
MUSICAL
Beth Fowler in The Boy from Oz
Isabel Keating in The Boy from Oz
Anika Noni Rose in Caroline, or Change WINNER
Jennifer Westfeldt in Wonderful Town
Karen Ziemba in Never Gonna Dance
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Simon Russell Beale in Jumpers
Kevin Kline in Henry IV
Frank Langella in Match
Jefferson Mays in I Am My Own Wife WINNER
Christopher Plummer in King Lear
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN
A PLAY
Eileen Atkins in The Retreat from Moscow
Tovah Feldshuh in Golda's Balcony
Anne Heche in Twentieth Century
Swoosie Kurtz in Frozen
Phylicia Rashad in A Raisin in the Sun WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A
PLAY
Tom Aldredge in Twentieth Century
Ben Chaplin in The Retreat from Moscow
Aidan Gillen inThe Caretaker
Omar Metwally in Sixteen Wounded
Br¡an F. O'Byrne in Frozen WINNER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A
PLAY
Essie Davis, in Jumpers
Sanaa Lathan in A Raisin in the Sun
Margo Martindale in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Audra McDonald in A Raisin in the Sun #800000
Daphne Rubin-Vega in Anna in the Tropics
BEST DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Doug Hughes for Frozen
Moises Kaufman for I Am My Own Wife
David Leveaux for Jumpers
Jack O'Brien for Henry IV WINNER
BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Joe Mantello for Assassins WINNER
Jason Moore for Avenue Q
Kathleen Marshall for Wonderful Town
George C. Wolfe for Caroline, or Change
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Wayne Cilento for Wicked
Kathleen Marshall for Wonderful Town WINNER
Jerry Mitchell for Never Gonna Dance
Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan for Bombay Dreams
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Jeff Whitty for Avenue Q WINNER
Martin Sherman for The Boy from Oz
Winnie Holzman for Wicked
Tony Kushner for Caroline, or Change
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, for Avenue Q WINNER
Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner for Caroline, or Change
George O'Dowd for Taboo
Stephen Schwartz for Wicked
BEST SCENIC DESIGN
Robert Brill for Assassins
Ralph Funicello for Henry IV
Eugene Lee for Wicked WINNER
Tom Pye for Fiddler on the Roof
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jess Goldstein for Henry IV
Susan Hilferty for Wicked WINNER
Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce for Taboo
Mark Thompson forBombay Dreams
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer for Assassins WINNER
Brian MacDevitt for Fiddler on the Roof
Brian MacDevitt for Henry IV
Kenneth Posner for Wicked
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Paul Bogaev for Bombay Dreams
William David Brohn, for Wicked
Don Walker and Larry Hochman for Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Starobin for Assassin WINNER
REGIONAL THEATRE TONY AWARD
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
SPECIAL TONY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
IN THE THEATRE
James M. Nederlander