The 2013 Tony Award Winners
This year’s 2013 Tony Award Winners are:
Best Play: “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”
Best Musical: “Kinky Boots.”
Best Book of a Musical: “Matilda the Musical.”
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: “Kinky Boots.”
Best Revival of a Play: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Best Revival of a Musical: “Pippin.”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Tracy Letts, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Best Performance by an Actress in Leading Role in a Play: Cicely Tyson, “The Trip to Bountiful.”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Billy Porter, “Kinky Boots.”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Patina Miller, “Pippin.”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Courtney B. Vance, “Lucky Guy.”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Judith Light, “The Assembled Parties.”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Gabriel Ebert, “Matilda the Musical.”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical:Andrea Martin, “Pippin.”
Best Direction of a Play: Pam MacKinnon, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Best Direction of a Musical: Diane Paulus, “Pippin”
Best Choreography: Jerry Mitchell, “Kinky Boots”
Best Orchestrations: Stephen Oremus, “Kinky Boots”
Best Scenic Design of a Play: John Lee Beatty, “The Nance”
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rob Howell, “Matilda the Musical”
Best Costume Design of a Play: Ann Roth, “The Nance”
Best Costume Design of a Musical: William Ivey Long, “Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella”
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, “Lucky Guy”
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Hugh Vanstone, “Matilda the Musical”
Best Sound Design of a Play: Leon Rothenberg, “The Nance”
Best Sound Design of a Musical: John Shivers, “Kinky Boots”
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Bernard Gersten, Paul Libin, Ming Cho Lee
Regional Theatre Award: Huntington Theatre Company
Isabelle Stevenson Award: Larry Kramer
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: Career Transition For Dancers, William Craver, Peter Lawrence, “The Lost Colony” and the four actresses who created the title role of “Matilda The Musical” on Broadway — Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro
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