2001 Tony Awards results (55th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 55th Tony Awards, held on June 3, 2001. The 2001 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “The Producers.”

Best musical

• The Producers

• A Class Act
• The Full Monty
• Jane Eyre

Best play

• Proof by David Auburn

• The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
• King Hedley II
• The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch

Best book of a musical

• Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (The Producers)

• Linda Kline and Lonny Price (A Class Act)
• Terrence McNally (The Full Monty)
• John Caird (Jane Eyre)

Best original score

• Mel Brooks (The Producers)

• A Class Act
• The Full Monty
• Jane Eyre

Best revival of a play

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

• Betrayal
• Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Best revival of a musical

• 42nd Street

• Bells Are Ringing
• Follies
• The Rocky Horror Show

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Richard Easton (The Invention of Love)

• Sean Campion (Stones in His Pockets)
• Conleth Hill (Stones in His Pockets)
• Brian Stokes Mitchell (King Hedley II)
• Gary Sinise (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Mary-Louise Parker (Proof)

• Juliette Binoche (Betrayal)
• Linda Lavin (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife)
• Jean Smart (The Man Who Came to Dinner)
• Leslie Uggams (King Hedley II)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Nathan Lane (The Producers)

• Matthew Broderick (The Producers)
• Kevin Chamberlin (Seussical)
• Tom Hewitt (The Rocky Horror Show)
• Patrick Wilson (The Full Monty)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Christine Ebersole (42nd Street)

• Blythe Danner (Follies)
• Randy Graff (A Class Act)
• Faith Prince (Bells Are Ringing)
• Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Robert Sean Leonard (The Invention of Love)

• Charles Brown (King Hedley II)
• Larry Bryggman (Proof)
• Michael Hayden (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Ben Shenkman (Proof)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Viola Davis (King Hedley II)

• Johanna Day (Proof)
• Penny Fuller (The Dinner Party)
• Marthe Keller (Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Michele Lee (The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Gary Beach (The Producers)

• Roger Bart (The Producers)
• John Ellison Conlee (The Full Monty)
• Andre De Shields (The Full Monty)
• Brad Oscar (The Producers)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Cady Huffman (The Producers)

• Polly Bergen (Follies)
• Kathleen Freeman (The Full Monty)
• Kate Levering (42nd Street)
• Mary Testa (42nd Street)

Best scenic design

• Bob Crowley (The Invention of Love)

• Robin Wagner (The Producers)
• Heidi Ettinger (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
• Douglas W. Schmidt (42nd Street)

Best costume design

• William Ivey Long (The Producers)

• Theoni V. Aldredge (Follies)
• Roger Kirk (42nd Street)
• David C. Woolard (The Rocky Horror Show)

Best lighting design

• Peter Kaczorowski (The Producers)

• Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (Jane Eyre)
• Paul Gallo (42nd Street)
• Kenneth Posner (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Best direction of a play

• Daniel Sullivan (Proof)

• Marion McClinton (King Hedley II)
• Ian McElhinney (Stones in His Pockets)
• Jack O’Brien (The Invention of Love)
• Daniel Sullivan (Proof)

Best direction of a musical

• Susan Stroman (The Producers)

• Christopher Ashley (The Rocky Horror Show)
• Mark Bramble (42nd Street)
• Jack O’Brien (The Full Monty)

Best choreography

• Susan Stroman (The Producers)

• Jerry Mitchell (The Full Monty)
• Jim Moore, George Pinney & Jonathan Vanderkolff (Blast!)
• Randy Skinner (42nd Street)

Best orchestrations

• Doug Besterman (The Producers)

• Larry Hochman (A Class Act)
• Jonathan Tunick (Follies)
• Harold Wheeler (The Full Monty)

Special Theatrical Event

• Blast! — Produced by Cook Group Inc. and Star of Indiana

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Victory Gardens Theater

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Paul Gemignani

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• New Dramatists
• Betty Corwin and the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Theatre World

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