1987 Tony Awards results (41st) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners of the 41st Tony Awards held on June 7, 1987. The Tony Award for Best Musical in 1987 went to Les Misérables.

Best musical

• Les Misérables

• Me and My Girl
• Rags
• Starlight Express

Best play

• Fences

• Broadway Bound
• Coastal Disturbances
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Best book of a musical

• Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg (Les Misérables)

• L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber, Stephen Fry, Mike Ockrent (Me and My Girl)
• Joseph Stein (Rags)
• Howard Ashman (Smile)

Best original score

• Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil (Les Misérables)

• Noel Gay, L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber (Me and My Girl)
• Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz (Rags)
• Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe (Starlight Express)

Best revival

• All My Sons

• The Front Page
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
• Pygmalion

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• James Earl Jones (Fences)

• Philip Bosco (You Never Can Tell)
• Richard Kiley (All My Sons)
• Alan Rickman (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Linda Lavin (Broadway Bound)

• Lindsay Duncan (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
• Geraldine Page (Blithe Spirit)
• Amanda Plummer (Pygmalion)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Robert Lindsay (Me and My Girl)

• Roderick Cook (Oh, Coward!)
• Terrence Mann (Les Misérables)
• Colm Wilkinson (Les Misérables)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Maryann Plunkett (Me and My Girl)

• Catherine Cox (Oh, Coward!)
• Teresa Stratas (Rags)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• John Randolph (Broadway Bound)

• Frankie R. Faison (Fences)
• Jamey Sheridan (All My Sons)
• Courtney B. Vance (Fences)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Mary Alice (Fences)

• Annette Bening (Coastal Disturbances)
• Phyllis Newman (Broadway Bound)
• Carole Shelley (Stepping Out)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Michael Maguire (Les Misérables)

• George S. Irving (Me and My Girl)
• Timothy Jerome (Me and My Girl)
• Robert Torti (Starlight Express)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Frances Ruffelle (Les Misérables)

• Jane Connell (Me and My Girl)
• Judy Kuhn (Les Misérables)
• Jane Summerhays (Me and My Girl)

Best scenic design in a play

• Bob Crowley (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

• John Lee Beatty (Burn This)
• Tony Walton (The Front Page)
• William Dudley (Coastal Disturbances)

Best costume design in a musical

• John Napier (Starlight Express)

• Ann Curtis (Me and My Girl)
• Andreane Neofitou (Les Misérables)
• William Ivey Long (Smile)

Best lighting design in a musical

• David Hersey (Les Misérables)

• David Hersey (Starlight Express)
• Andrew Bridge (Me and My Girl)
• Mark Stanley (Rags)

Best direction of a play

• Lloyd Richards (Fences)

• Howard Davies (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
• Mbongeni Ngema (Asinamali!)
• Carole Rothman (Coastal Disturbances)

Best direction of a musical

• Trevor Nunn, John Caird (Les Misérables)

• Brian Macdonald (The Mikado)
• Trevor Nunn (Starlight Express)
• Mike Ockrent (Me and My Girl)

Best choreography

• Gillian Gregory (Me and My Girl)

• Ron Field (Rags)
• Brian Macdonald (The Mikado)
• Arlene Philips (Starlight Express)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• San Francisco Mime Troupe

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• George Abbott
• Jackie Mason

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