1983 Tony Awards results (37th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 37th Tony Awards, held on June 5, 1983. The 1983 Tony Award for Best Musical went to Cats.

Best musical

• Cats

• Blues in the Night
• Merlin
• My One and Only

Best play

• Torch Song Trilogy

• Angels Fall
• ‘Night, Mother
• Plenty

Best book of a musical

• T. S. Eliot (Cats)

• Betty Comden, Adolph Green (A Doll’s Life)
• Richard Levinson, William Link (Merlin)
• Peter Stone, Timothy S. Mayer (My One and Only)

Best original score

• Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot (Cats)

• Larry Grossman, Betty Comden, Adolph Green (A Doll’s Life)
• Elmer Bernstein, Don Black (Merlin)
• Gene de Paul, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn; lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

Best revival

• On Your Toes

• All’s Well That Ends Well
• A View From the Bridge
• The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy)

• Jeffrey DeMunn (K2)
• Edward Herrmann (Plenty)
• Tony Lo Bianco (A View from the Bridge)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Jessica Tandy (Foxfire)

• Kathy Bates (‘Night, Mother)
• Kate Nelligan (Plenty)
• Anne Pitoniak (‘Night, Mother)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Tommy Tune (My One and Only)

• Al Green (Your Arm’s Too Short to Box with God)
• George Hearn (A Doll’s Life)
• Michael V. Smartt (Porgy and Bess)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Natalia Makarova (On Your Toes)

• Lonette McKee (Show Boat)
• Chita Rivera (Merlin)
• Twiggy (My One and Only)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Matthew Broderick (Brighton Beach Memoirs)

• Zeljko Ivanek (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
• George N. Martin (Plenty)
• Stephen Moore (All’s Well That Ends Well)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Judith Ivey (Steaming)

• Elizabeth Franz (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
• Roxanne Hart (Passion)
• Margaret Tyzack (All’s Well That Ends Well)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Charles Honi Coles (My One and Only)

• Harry Groener (Cats)
• Stephen Hanan (Cats)
• Lara Teeter (On Your Toes)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Betty Buckley (Cats)

• Christine Andreas (On Your Toes)
• Karla Burns (Show Boat)
• Denny Dillon (My One and Only)

Best scenic design in a play

• Ming Cho Lee (K2)

• John Gunter (All’s Well That Ends Well)
• David Mitchell (Foxfire)
• John Napier (Cats)

Best costume design in a play

• John Napier (Cats)

• Lindy Hemming (All’s Well That Ends Well)
• Rita Ryack (My One and Only)
• Patricia Zipprodt (Alice in Wonderland)

Best lighting design in a play

• David Hersey (Cats)

• Ken Billington (Foxfire)
• Robert Bryan (All’s Well That Ends Well)
• Allen Lee Hughes (K2)

Best direction of a play

• Gene Saks (Brighton Beach Memoirs)

• Marshall W. Mason (Angels Fall)
• Tom Moore (‘Night, Mother)
• Trevor Nunn (All’s Well That Ends Well)

Best direction of a musical

• Trevor Nunn (Cats)

• Michael Kahn (Show Boat)
• Ivan Reitman (Merlin)
• Tommy Tune, Thommie Walsh (My One and Only)

Best choreography

• Tommy Tune, Thommie Walsh (My One and Only)

• George Faison (Porgy and Bess)
• Gillian Lynne (Cats)
• Donald Saddler (On Your Toes)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association

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