1982 Tony Awards results (36th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 36th Tony Awards, held on June 6, 1982. The 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical went to Nine.

Best musical

• Nine

• Dreamgirls
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Pump Boys and Dinettes

Best play

• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

• The Dresser
• ‘Master Harold’…and the Boys

Best book of a musical

• Tom Eyen (Dreamgirls)

• Tim Rice (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
• Arthur Kopit (Nine)
• Joel Siegel and Martin Charnin (The First)

Best original score

• Maury Yeston (Nine)

• Henry Krieger (music), Tom Eyen (lyrics) (Dreamgirls)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber (music), Tim Rice (lyrics) (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
• Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along)

Best revival

• Othello

• A Taste of Honey
• Medea
• My Fair Lady

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Roger Rees (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)

• Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
• Milo O’Shea (Mass Appeal)
• Christopher Plummer (Othello)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Zoe Caldwell (Medea)

• Katharine Hepburn (The West Side Waltz)
• Geraldine Page (Agnes of God)
• Amanda Plummer (A Taste of Honey)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Ben Harney (Dreamgirls)

• Herschel Bernardi (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Victor Garber (Little Me)
• Raul Julia (Nine)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls)

• Lisa Mordente (Marlowe)
• Mary Gordon Murray (Little Me)
• Sheryl Lee Ralph (Dreamgirls)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Zakes Mokae (‘Master Harold’…and the Boys)

• Richard Kavanaugh (The Hothouse)
• Edward Petherbridge (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
• David Threlfall (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God)

• Judith Anderson (Medea)
• Mia Dillon (Crimes of the Heart)
• Mary Beth Hurt (Crimes of the Heart)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Cleavant Derricks (Dreamgirls)

• Obba Babatunde (Dreamgirls)
• David Alan Grier (The First)
• Bill Hutton (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Liliane Montevecchi (Nine)

• Karen Akers (Nine)
• Laurie Beechman (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
• Anita Morris (Nine)

Best scenic design in a play

• John Napier, Dermot Hayes (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)

• Ben Edwards (Medea)
• Lawrence Miller (Nine)
• Robin Wagner (Dreamgirls)

Best costume design in a play

• William Ivey Long (Nine)

• Theoni V. Aldredge (Dreamgirls)
• Jane Greenwood (Medea)
• John Napier (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)

Best lighting design in a play

• Tharon Musser (Dreamgirls)

• Martin Aronstein (Medea)
• David Hersey (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)
• Marcia Madeira (Nine)

Best direction of a play

• Trevor Nunn, John Caird (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby)

• Melvin Bernhardt (Crimes of the Heart)
• Geraldine Fitzgerald (Mass Appeal)
• Athol Fugard (‘Master Harold’…and the Boys)

Best direction of a musical

• Tommy Tune (Nine)

• Michael Bennett (Dreamgirls)
• Martin Charnin (The First)
• Tony Tanner (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)

Best choreography

• Michael Bennett, Michael Peters (Dreamgirls)

• Peter Gennaro (Little Me)
• Tony Tanner (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
• Tommy Tune (Nine)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Special Tony Award

• The Actors’ Fund of America

劇場賞

• Warner Communications
• Radio City Music Hall

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