1999 Tony Awards results (53rd) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the award recipients from the 53rd Tony Awards ceremony, held on June 6, 1999. The 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Fosse.”

Best musical

• Fosse

• The Civil War
• It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues
• Parade

Best play

• Side Man

• Closer
• The Lonesome West
• Not About Nightingales

Best book of a musical

• Alfred Uhry (Parade)

• Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman (It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues)
• Pam Gems (Marlene)
• Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie (Footloose)

Best original score

• Parade — music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

• Footloose — music & lyrics by Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar, Kenny Loggins and Jim Steinman
• The Civil War — music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Jack Murphy
• Twelfth Night — music by Jeanine Tesori

Best revival of a play

• Death of a Salesman

• Electra
• The Iceman Cometh
• Twelfth Night

Best revival of a musical

• Annie Get Your Gun

• Little Me
• You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Peter Pan

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Brian Dennehy (Death of a Salesman)

• Brían F. O’Byrne (The Lonesome West)
• Corin Redgrave (Not About Nightingales)
• Kevin Spacey (The Iceman Cometh)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Judi Dench (Amy’s View)

• Stockard Channing (The Lion in Winter)
• Marian Seldes (Ring Round the Moon)
• Zoë Wanamaker (Electra)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Martin Short (Little Me)

• Brent Carver (Parade)
• Adam Cooper (Swan Lake)
• Tom Wopat (Annie Get Your Gun)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Bernadette Peters (Annie Get Your Gun)

• Carolee Carmello (Parade)
• Dee Hoty (Footloose)
• Sian Phillips (Marlene)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Frank Wood (Side Man)

• Kevin Anderson (Death of a Salesman)
• Finbar Lynch (Not About Nightingales)
• Howard Witt (Death of a Salesman)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Elizabeth Franz (Death of a Salesman)

• Claire Bloom (Electra)
• Samantha Bond (Amy’s View)
• Dawn Bradfield (The Lonesome West)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Roger Bart (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)

• Desmond Richardson (Fosse)
• Ron Taylor (It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues)
• Scott Wise (Fosse)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Kristin Chenoweth (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)

• Gretha Boston (It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues)
• Valarie Pettiford (Fosse)
• Mary Testa (On the Town)

Best scenic design

• Richard Hoover (Not About Nightingales)

• Bob Crowley (The Iceman Cometh)
• Bob Crowley (Twelfth Night)
• Ricardo Hernandez (Parade)

Best costume design

• Lez Brotherston (Swan Lake)

• Santo Loquasto (Fosse)
• John David Ridge (Ring Round the Moon)
• Catherine Zuber (Twelfth Night)

Best lighting design

• Andrew Bridge (Fosse)

• Mark Henderson (The Iceman Cometh)
• Natasha Katz (Twelfth Night)
• Chris Parry (Not About Nightingales)

Best direction of a play

• Robert Falls (Death of a Salesman)

• Howard Davies (The Iceman Cometh)
• Garry Hynes (The Lonesome West)
• Trevor Nunn (Not About Nightingales)

Best direction of a musical

• Matthew Bourne (Swan Lake)

• Richard Maltby Jr. & Ann Reinking (Fosse)
• Michael Mayer (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown)
• Harold Prince (Parade)

Best choreography

• Matthew Bourne (Swan Lake)

• Patricia Birch (Parade)
• Rob Marshall (Little Me)
• A. C. Ciulla (Footloose)

Best orchestrations

• Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman (Fosse)

• David Cullen (Swan Lake)
• Don Sebesky (Parade)
• Harold Wheeler (Little Me)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Crossroads Theatre Company

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Uta Hagen
• Arthur Miller
• Isabelle Stevenson

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• Gemze De Lappe
• Alyce Gilbert
• Neil Mazzella
• Seymour “Red” Press

Special Tony Award

• Fool Moon by James B. Freydberg, Jeffrey Ash and Dori Berinstein of CTM Productions

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