1991 Tony Awards results (45th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the award recipients from the 45th Tony Awards ceremony, held on June 2, 1991. The 1991 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “The Will Rogers Follies.”

Best musical

• The Will Rogers Follies

• Miss Saigon
• The Secret Garden
• Once on This Island

Best play

• Lost in Yonkers

• Our Country’s Good
• Shadowlands
• Six Degrees of Separation

Best book of a musical

• The Secret Garden

• Miss Saigon
• Once on This Island
• The Will Rogers Follies

Best original score

• The Will Rogers Follies

• Miss Saigon
• Once on This Island
• The Secret Garden

Best revival

• Fiddler on the Roof

• The Miser
• Peter Pan

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Nigel Hawthorne（Shadowlands）

• Peter Frechette（Our Country’s Good）
• Tom McGowan（La Bête）
• Courtney B. Vance（Six Degrees of Separation）

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Mercedes Ruehl（Lost in Yonkers）

• Stockard Channing（Six Degrees of Separation）
• Julie Harris（Lucifer’s Child）
• Cherry Jones（Our Country’s Good）

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Jonathan Pryce（Miss Saigon）

• Keith Carradine（The Will Rogers Follies）
• Paul Hipp（Buddy）
• Topol（Fiddler on the Roof）

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Lea Salonga（Miss Saigon）

• June Angela（Shōgun: The Musical）
• Dee Hoty（The Will Rogers Follies）
• Cathy Rigby（Peter Pan）

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Kevin Spacey（Lost in Yonkers）

• Adam Arkin（I Hate Hamlet）
• Dylan Baker（La Bête）
• Stephen Lang（The Speed of Darkness）

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Irene Worth（Lost in Yonkers）

• Amelia Campbell（Our Country’s Good）
• Kathryn Erbe（The Speed of Darkness）
• J. Smith-Cameron（Our Country’s Good）

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Hinton Battle（Miss Saigon）

• Bruce Adler（Those Were the Days）
• Gregg Burge（Oh, Kay!）
• Willy Falk（Miss Saigon）

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Daisy Eagan（The Secret Garden）

• Alison Fraser（The Secret Garden）
• Cady Huffman（The Will Rogers Follies）
• LaChanze（Once on This Island）

Best scenic design

• Heidi Landesman（The Secret Garden）

• Richard Hudson（La Bête）
• John Napier（Miss Saigon）
• Tony Walton（The Will Rogers Follies）

Best costume design

• Willa Kim（The Will Rogers Follies）

• Theoni V. Aldredge（The Secret Garden）
• Judy Dearing（Once on This Island）
• Patricia Zipprodt（Shōgun: The Musical）

Best lighting design

• Jules Fisher（The Will Rogers Follies）

• David Hersey（Miss Saigon）
• Allen Lee Hughes（Once on This Island）
• Jennifer Tipton（La Bête）

Best direction of a play

• Jerry Zaks（Six Degrees of Separation）

• Richard Jones（La Bête）
• Mark Lamos（Our Country’s Good）
• Gene Saks（Lost in Yonkers）

Best direction of a musical

• Tommy Tune（The Will Rogers Follies）

• Graciela Daniele（Once on This Island）
• Nicholas Hytner（Miss Saigon）
• Eleanor Reissa（Those Were the Days）

Best choreography

• Tommy Tune（The Will Rogers Follies）

• Bob Avian（Miss Saigon）
• Graciela Daniele（Once on This Island）
• Dan Siretta（Oh, Kay!）

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Yale Repertory Theatre
• New Haven, Connecticut

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• Father George Moore (posthumous)

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