1980 Tony Awards results (34th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 34th Tony Awards, held on June 8, 1980. The 1980 Tony Award for Best Musical went to Evita.

Best musical

• Evita

• A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
• Barnum
• Sugar Babies

Best play

• Children of a Lesser God

• Bent
• Home
• Talley’s Folly

Best book of a musical

• Tim Rice (Evita)

• Dick Vosburgh (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)
• Mark Bramble (Barnum)
• Ralph G. Allen, Harry Rigby (Sugar Babies)

Best original score

• Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice (Evita)

• Frank Lazarus, Dick Vosburgh (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)
• Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart (Barnum)
• Arthur Malvin (Sugar Babies)

Best revival

• Morning’s at Seven

• Major Barbara
• Peter Pan
• West Side Story

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• John Rubinstein (Children of a Lesser God)

• Charles Brown (Home)
• Gerald Hiken (Strider)
• Judd Hirsch (Talley’s Folly)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Phyllis Frelich (Children of a Lesser God)

• Blythe Danner (Betrayal)
• Maggie Smith (Night and Day)
• Anne Twomey (Nuts)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Jim Dale (Barnum)

• Gregory Hines (Comin’ Uptown)
• Mickey Rooney (Sugar Babies)
• Giorgio Tozzi (The Most Happy Fella)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Patti LuPone (Evita)

• Christine Andreas (Oklahoma!)
• Sandy Duncan (Peter Pan)
• Ann Miller (Sugar Babies)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• David Rounds (Morning’s at Seven)

• David Dukes (Bent)
• George Hearn (Watch on the Rhine)
• Earle Hyman (The Lady from Dubuque)
• Joseph Maher (Night and Day)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Dinah Manoff (I Ought to Be in Pictures)

• Maureen Anderman (The Lady from Dubuque)
• Pamela Burrell (Strider)
• Lois de Banzie (Morning’s at Seven)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Mandy Patinkin (Evita)

• David Garrison (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)
• Harry Groener (Oklahoma!)
• Bob Gunton (Evita)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Priscilla Lopez (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)

• Debbie Allen (West Side Story)
• Glenn Close (Barnum)
• Josie de Guzman (West Side Story)

Best scenic design

• David Mitchell (Barnum)
• John Lee Beatty (Talley’s Folly)

• Timothy O’Brien, Tazeena Firth (Evita)
• Tony Walton (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)

Best costume design in a play

• Theoni V. Aldredge (Barnum)

• Pierre Balmain (Happy New Year)
• Timothy O’Brien, Tazeena Firth (Evita)
• Raoul Pene Du Bois (Sugar Babies)

Best lighting design in a play

• David Hersey (Evita)

• Beverly Emmons (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)
• Craig Miller (Barnum)
• Dennis Parichy (Talley’s Folly)

Best direction of a play

• Vivian Matalon (Morning’s at Seven)

• Gordon Davidson (Children of a Lesser God)
• Peter Hall (Betrayal)
• Marshall W. Mason (Talley’s Folly)

Best direction of a musical

• Harold Prince (Evita)

• Ernest Flatt, Rudy Tronto (Sugar Babies)
• Joe Layton (Barnum)
• Tommy Tune (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)

Best choreography

• Tommy Tune, Thommie Walsh (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine)

• Ernest Flatt (Sugar Babies)
• Larry Fuller (Evita)
• Joe Layton (Barnum)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Helen Hayes

劇場賞

• Richard Fitzgerald

Special Tony Award

• Mary Tyler Moore
• Goodspeed Opera House

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