Jun 7, 2009
"Billy Elliot" was given the most nominations for the 63rd annual Tony Awards. The musical about a coal miner's son who wants to be a dancer had 15 nominations. The show won ten Tony Awards including Best Musical.
The three actors who play Billy Elliot were nominated together and won for the Best Actor in a Musical award.
"Next To Normal" scored eleven nominations, while the revival of "Hair" and "Shrek the Musical" both received eight nominations.
The 63rd Tony Awards were hosted by Neil Patrick Harris.
2009 Tony Award Winners
| Tony Award: Best Musical | |
| Billy Elliot The Musical | |
| Other Nominees: Next To Normal; Rock Of Ages; Shrek the Musical | |
| Tony Award: Best Play | |
| God Of Carnage | |
| Other Nominees: Dividing The Estate; Reasons To Be Pretty; 33 Variations | |
| Tony Award: Best Book of a Musical | |
| Billy Elliot The Musical | |
| Lee Hall | |
| Other Nominees: Next To Normal; Shrek The Musical; Title Of Show | |
| Tony Award: Best Original Score | |
| Next To Normal | |
| Tom Kitt; Brian Yorkey | |
| Other Nominees: Billy Elliot The Musical; 9 To 5 The Musical; Shrek The Musical | |
| Tony Award: Best Revival of a Musical | |
| Hair | |
| Other Nominees: Guys And Dolls; Pal Joey; West Side Story | |
| Tony Award: Best Revival of a Play | |
| The Noman Conquests | |
| Other Nominees: Joe Turner's Come And Gone; Mary Stuart; Waiting For Godot | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actor in a Musical | |
| David Alvarez (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Trent Kowalik; Kiril Kulish | |
| Other Nominees: Gavin Creel (Hair); Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek The Musical); Constantine Maroulis (Rock Of Ages); J Robert Spencer (Next To Normal) | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actor in a Play | |
| Geoffrey Rush (Exit The King) | |
| Other Nominees: Jeff Daniels (God Of Carnage); Raul Esparza (Speed-the-Plow); James Gandolfini (God Of Carnage); Thomas Sadoski (Reasons To Be Pretty) | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actress in a Musical | |
| Alice Ripley (Next To Normal) | |
| Other Nominees: Stockard Channing (Pal Joey); Sutton Foster (Shrek The Musical); Allison Janney (9 To 5); Josefina Scaglione (West Side Story) | |
| Tony Award: Best Leading Actress in a Play | |
| Marcia Gay Harden (God Of Carnage) | |
| Other Nominees: Hope Davis (God Of Carnage); Jane Fonda (33 Variations); Janet McTeer (Mary Stuart); Harriet Walter (Mary Stuart) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actor in a Musical | |
| Gregory Jbara (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: David Bologna (Billy Elliot); Marc Kudisch (9 To 5); Christopher Sieber (Shrek The Musical); Will Swenson (Hair) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actor in a Play | |
| Roger Robinson (Joe Turner's Come And Gone) | |
| Other Nominees: John Glover (Waiting For Godot); Zach Grenier (33 Variations); Stephen Mangan (The Norman Conquests); Paul Ritter (The Norman Conquests) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actress in a Musical | |
| Karen Olivo (West Side Story) | |
| Other Nominees: Jennifer Damiano (Next To Normal); Haydn Gwynne (Billy Elliot); Martha Plimpton (Pal Joey); Carole Shelley (Billy Elliot) | |
| Tony Award: Best Featured Actress in a Play | |
| Angela Lansbury (Blithe Spirit) | |
| Other Nominees: Hallie Foote (Dividing the Estate); Jessica Hynes (The Norman Conquests); Marin Ireland (Reasons To Be Pretty); Amanda Root (The Normal Conquests) | |
| Tony Award: Best Direction of a Musical | |
| Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: Michael Greif (Next To Normal); Kristin Hanggi (Rock Of Ages); Diane Paulus (Hair) | |
| Tony Award: Best Direction of a Play | |
| Matthew Warchus (God Of Carnage) | |
| Other Nominees: Phyllida Lloyd (Mary Stuart); Bartlett Sher (Joe Turner's Come And Gone); Matthew Warchus (The Norman Conquests) | |
| Tony Award: Best Choreography | |
| Peter Darling (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: Hair; 9 To 5; White Christmas | |
| Tony Award: Best Orchestrations | |
| Martin Koch (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| and Michael Strobin & Tom Kitt for Next To Normal | |
| Other Nominees: White Christmas; Shrek The Musical | |
| Tony Award: Best Scenic Design of a Musical | |
| Ian MacNeil (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: Guys And Dolls; Pal Joey; Next To Normal | |
| Tony Award: Best Scenic Design of a Play | |
| Derek McLane (33 Variations) | |
| Other Nominees: Exit The King; The Norman Conquests; Joe Turner's Come And Gone | |
| Tony Award: Best Costume Design of a Musical | |
| Tim Hatley (Shrek The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: Rock Of Ages; Billy Elliot; Hair | |
| Tony Award: Best Costume Design of a Play | |
| Anthony Ward (Mary Stuart) | |
| Other Nominees: Exit The King; Waiting For Godot; Blithe Spirit | |
| Tony Award: Best Special Theatrical Event | |
| Liza's At The Palace | |
| Other Nominees: Slava's Snowshow; Soul Of Shaolin; You're Welcome America | |
| Tony Award: Best Lighting Design of a Musical | |
| Rick Fisher (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: Hair; Next To Normal; West Side Story | |
| Tony Award: Best Lighting Design of a Play | |
| Brian MacDevitt (Joe Turner's Come And Gone) | |
| Other Nominees: Equus; 33 Variations; Mary Stuart | |
| Tony Award: Best Sound Design of a Musical | |
| Paul Arditti (Billy Elliot The Musical) | |
| Other Nominees: Hair; Rock Of Ages; Next To Normal | |
| Tony Award: Best Sound Design of a Play | |
| Gregory Clarke (Equus) | |
| Other Nominees: Mary Stuart; Exit The King; Joe Turner's Come And Gone | |
| Special Tony Award: Lifetime Achievement | |
| Jerry Herman | |
| Tony Award: Isabelle Stevenson Award | |
| Phyllis Newman | |
| Tony Award: Regional Theatre | |
| Signature Theatre - Arlington VA | |
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