2003 Tony Awards results (57th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists all winners and nominees from the 57th Tony Awards, held on June 8, 2003. The 2003 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Hairspray.”

Best musical

• Hairspray

• Amour
• Movin’ Out
• A Year with Frog and Toad

Best play

• Take Me Out

• Enchanted April
• Say Goodnight, Gracie
• Vincent in Brixton

Best book of a musical

• Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan (Hairspray)

• Didier van Cauwelaert & Jeremy Sams (Amour)
• Willie Reale (A Year with Frog and Toad)
• David Henry Hwang (Flower Drum Song)
• Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan (Hairspray)

Best original score

• Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (Hairspray)

• Robert Reale & Willie Reale (A Year with Frog and Toad)
• Michel Legrand; English lyrics by Didier van Cauwelaert & Jeremy Sams (Amour)
• Various (Urban Cowboy The Musical)

Best revival of a play

• Long Day’s Journey into Night

• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Dinner at Eight
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Best revival of a musical

• Nine

• Gypsy
• La Boheme
• Man of La Mancha

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Brian Dennehy (Long Day’s Journey into Night)

• Brian Bedford (Tartuffe)
• Eddie Izzard (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)
• Paul Newman (Our Town)
• Stanley Tucci (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Vanessa Redgrave (Long Day’s Journey into Night)

• Jayne Atkinson (Enchanted April)
• Victoria Hamilton (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)
• Clare Higgins (Vincent in Brixton)
• Fiona Shaw (Medea)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray)

• Antonio Banderas (Nine)
• Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray)
• Malcolm Gets (Amour)
• Brian Stokes Mitchell (Man of La Mancha)
• John Selya (Movin’ Out)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Marissa Jaret Winokur (Hairspray)

• Melissa Errico (Amour)
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Man of La Mancha)
• Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin’ Out)
• Bernadette Peters (Gypsy)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Denis O’Hare (Take Me Out)

• Thomas Jefferson Byrd (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Long Day’s Journey into Night)
• Robert Sean Leonard (Long Day’s Journey into Night)
• Daniel Sunjata (Take Me Out)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Michele Pawk (Hollywood Arms)

• Christine Ebersole (Dinner at Eight)
• Linda Emond (Life (x) 3)
• Kathryn Meisle (Tartuffe)
• Marian Seldes (Dinner at Eight)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Dick Latessa (Hairspray)

• Michael Cavanaugh (Movin’ Out)
• John Dossett (Gypsy)
• Corey Reynolds (Hairspray)
• Keith Roberts (Movin’ Out)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Jane Krakowski (Nine)

• Tammy Blanchard (Gypsy)
• Mary Stuart Masterson (Nine)
• Chita Rivera (Nine)
• Ashley Tuttle (Movin’ Out)

Best scenic design

• Catherine Martin (La Boheme)

• John Lee Beatty (Dinner at Eight)
• Santo Loquasto (Long Day’s Journey into Night)
• David Rockwell (Hairspray)

Best costume design

• William Ivey Long (Hairspray)

• Gregg Barnes (Flower Drum Song)
• William Ivey Long (Hairspray)
• Catherine Martin & Angus Strathie (La Boheme)
• Catherine Zuber (Dinner at Eight)

Best lighting design

• Nigel Levings (La Boheme)

• Donald Holder (Movin’ Out)
• Brian MacDevitt (Nine)
• Kenneth Posner (Hairspray)

Best direction of a play

• Joe Mantello (Take Me Out)

• Laurence Boswell (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg)
• Robert Falls (Long Day’s Journey into Night)
• Deborah Warner (Medea)

Best direction of a musical

• Jack O’Brien (Hairspray)

• David Leveaux (Nine)
• Baz Luhrmann (La Boheme)
• Twyla Tharp (Movin’ Out)

Best choreography

• Twyla Tharp (Movin’ Out)

• Robert Longbottom (Flower Drum Song)
• Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray)
• Melinda Roy (Urban Cowboy)

Best orchestrations

• Billy Joel & Stuart Malina (Movin’ Out)

• Nicholas Kitsopoulos (La Boheme)
• Jonathan Tunick (Nine)
• Harold Wheeler (Hairspray)

Special Theatrical Event

• Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway;Bill Maher
• The Play What I Wrote
• Prune Danish

Regional theatre Tony Award

• The Children’s Theatre Company

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Cy Feuer

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• The principal ensemble of La Boheme
• Paul Huntley, Johnson-Liff Casting Associates, The Acting Company

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