1994 Tony Awards results (48th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the award recipients from the 48th Tony Awards ceremony, held in June 1994. The 1994 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Passion.”

Best Musical

• Passion

• A Grand Night for Singing
• Beauty and the Beast
• Cyrano: The Musical

Best Play

• Angels in America: Perestroika

• The Kentucky Cycle
• Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Best Book of a Musical

• Passion

• A Grand Night for Singing
• Beauty and the Beast
• Cyrano: The Musical

Best Original Score

• Passion

• Beauty and the Beast
• Cyrano: The Musical

Best Revival of a Musical

• Carousel

• Damn Yankees
• Grease
• She Loves Me

Best Revival of a Play

• An Inspector Calls

• Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• Medea
• Timon of Athens

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Stephen Spinella (Angels in America: Perestroika)

• Brian Bedford (Timon of Athens)
• Christopher Plummer (No Man’s Land)
• Sam Waterston (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Diana Rigg (Medea)

• Nancy Marchand (Black Comedy)
• Joan Rivers (Sally Marr… and Her Escorts)
• Anna Deavere Smith (Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Boyd Gaines (She Loves Me)

• Victor Garber (Damn Yankees)
• Terrence Mann (Beauty and the Beast)
• Jere Shea (Passion)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Donna Murphy (Passion)

• Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast)
• Dee Hoty (The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public)
• Judy Kuhn (She Loves Me)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Jeffrey Wright (Angels in America: Perestroika)

• Larry Bryggman (Picnic)
• David Marshall Grant (Angels in America: Perestroika)
• Gregory Itzin (The Kentucky Cycle)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Jane Adams (An Inspector Calls)

• Debra Monk (Picnic)
• Jeanne Paulsen (The Kentucky Cycle)
• Anne Pitoniak (Picnic)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Jarrod Emick (Damn Yankees)

• Tom Aldredge (Passion)
• Gary Beach (Beauty and the Beast)
• Jonathan Freeman (She Loves Me)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Audra McDonald (Carousel)

• Marcia Lewis (Grease)
• Sally Mayes (She Loves Me)
• Marin Mazzie (Passion)

Best Scenic Design

• Bob Crowley (Carousel)

• Peter J. Davison (Medea)
• Ian MacNeil (An Inspector Calls)
• Tony Walton (She Loves Me)

Best Costume Design

• Ann Hould-Ward (Beauty and the Beast)

• David Charles and Jane Greenwood (She Loves Me)
• Jane Greenwood (Passion)
• Yan Tax (Cyrano: The Musical)

Best Lighting Design

• Rick Fisher (An Inspector Calls)

• Beverly Emmons (Passion)
• Jules Fisher (Angels in America: Perestroika)
• Natasha Katz (Beauty and the Beast)

Best Direction of a Play

• Stephen Daldry (An Inspector Calls)

• Gerald Gutierrez (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
• Michael Langham (Timon of Athens)
• Joe Mantello (Angels in America: Perestroika)

Best Direction of a Musical

• Nicholas Hytner (Carousel)

• Scott Ellis (She Loves Me)
• James Lapine (Passion)
• Robert Jess Roth (Beauty and the Beast)

Best Choreography

• Sir Kenneth MacMillan (Carousel)

• Jeff Calhoun (Grease)
• Rob Marshall (Damn Yankees)
• Rob Marshall (She Loves Me)

Regional Theatre Tony Award

• McCarter Theatre

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

• Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre

• Seth Gelblum; Joan Lader
• Sally Ann Parsons

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