2004 Tony Awards results (58th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists all winners and nominees from the 58th Tony Awards, held on June 6, 2004. The 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Avenue Q.”

Best musical

• Avenue Q

• Caroline, or Change
• The Boy from Oz
• Wicked

Best play

• I Am My Own Wife

• Anna in the Tropics
• Frozen
• The Retreat from Moscow

Best book of a musical

• Jeff Whitty (Avenue Q)

• Tony Kushner (Caroline, or Change)
• Martin Sherman/Nick Enright (The Boy from Oz)
• Winnie Holzman (Wicked)

Best original score

• Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Avenue Q)

• Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner (Caroline, or Change)
• Boy George (Taboo)
• Stephen Schwartz (Wicked)

Best revival of a play

• Henry IV

• Jumpers
• King Lear
• A Raisin in the Sun

Best revival of a musical

• Assassins

• Big River
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Wonderful Town

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife)

• Simon Russell Beale (Jumpers)
• Kevin Kline (Henry IV)
• Frank Langella (Match)
• Christopher Plummer (King Lear)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Phylicia Rashad (A Raisin in the Sun)

• Eileen Atkins (The Retreat from Moscow)
• Tovah Feldshuh (Golda’s Balcony)
• Anne Heche (Twentieth Century)
• Swoosie Kurtz (Frozen)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Hugh Jackman (The Boy from Oz)

• Hunter Foster (Little Shop of Horrors)
• Alfred Molina (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Euan Morton (Taboo)
• John Tartaglia (Avenue Q)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Idina Menzel (Wicked)

• Stephanie D’Abruzzo (Avenue Q)
• Donna Murphy (Wonderful Town)
• Tonya Pinkins (Caroline, or Change)
• Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Brian F. O’Byrne (Frozen)

• Tom Aldredge (Twentieth Century)
• Ben Chaplin (The Retreat from Moscow)
• Aidan Gillen (The Caretaker)
• Omar Metwally (Sixteen Wounded)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Audra McDonald (A Raisin in the Sun)

• Essie Davis (Jumpers)
• Sanaa Lathan (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Margo Martindale (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Daphne Rubin-Vega (Anna in the Tropics)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Michael Cerveris (Assassins)

• John Cariani (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Raul Esparza (Taboo)
• Michael McElroy (Big River)
• Denis O’Hare (Assassins)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Anika Noni Rose (Caroline, or Change)

• Beth Fowler (The Boy from Oz)
• Isabel Keating (The Boy from Oz)
• Jennifer Westfeldt (Wonderful Town)
• Karen Ziemba (Never Gonna Dance)

Best scenic design

• Eugene Lee (Wicked)

• Robert Brill (Assassins)
• Ralph Funicello (Henry IV)
• Tom Pye (Fiddler on the Roof)

Best costume design

• Susan Hilferty (Wicked)

• Jess Goldstein (Henry IV)
• Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce (Taboo)
• Mark Thompson (Bombay Dreams)

Best lighting design

• Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (Assassins)

• Brian MacDevitt (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Brian MacDevitt (Henry IV)
• Kenneth Posner (Wicked)

Best direction of a play

• Jack O’Brien (Henry IV)

• Doug Hughes (Frozen)
• Moises Kaufman (I Am My Own Wife)
• David Leveaux (Jumpers)

Best direction of a musical

• Joe Mantello (Assassins)

• Kathleen Marshall (Wonderful Town)
• Jason Moore (Avenue Q)
• George C. Wolfe (Caroline, or Change)

Best choreography

• Kathleen Marshall (Wonderful Town)

• Wayne Cilento (Wicked)
• Jerry Mitchell (Never Gonna Dance)
• Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan (Bombay Dreams)

Best orchestrations

• Michael Starobin (Assassins)

• Paul Bogaev (Bombay Dreams)
• William David Brohn (Wicked)
• Larry Hochman (Fiddler on the Roof)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• James M. Nederlander

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