2005 Tony Awards results (59th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists all winners and nominees from the 59th Tony Awards, held on June 5, 2005. The 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”

Best musical

Winner:

• Monty Python’s Spamalot

Nominees:

• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• The Light in the Piazza
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Best play

Winner:

• Doubt

Nominees:

• Democracy
• Gem of the Ocean
• The Pillowman

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Rachel Sheinkin (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Nominees:

• Jeffrey Lane (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Craig Lucas (The Light in the Piazza)
• Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Spamalot)

Best original score

Winner:

• Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza)

Nominees:

• David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• John Du Prez and Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• William Finn (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• Glengarry Glen Ross

Nominees:

• On Golden Pond
• Twelve Angry Men
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• La Cage aux Folles

Nominees:

• Pacific Overtures
• Sweet Charity

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Bill Irwin (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Nominees:

• Billy Crudup (The Pillowman)
• Brian F. O’Byrne (Doubt)
• James Earl Jones (On Golden Pond)
• Philip Bosco (Twelve Angry Men)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Cherry Jones (Doubt)

Nominees:

• Phylicia Rashad (Gem of the Ocean)
• Mary-Louise Parker (Reckless)
• Laura Linney (Sight Unseen)
• Kathleen Turner (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)

Nominees:

• John Lithgow (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Gary Beach (La Cage aux Folles)
• Hank Azaria (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• Tim Curry (Monty Python’s Spamalot)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza)

Nominees:

• Erin Dilly (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
• Sherie Rene Scott (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Sutton Foster (Little Women)
• Christina Applegate (Sweet Charity)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• Liev Schreiber (Glengarry Glen Ross)

Nominees:

• Alan Alda (Glengarry Glen Ross)
• Gordon Clapp (Glengarry Glen Ross)
• Michael Stuhlbarg (The Pillowman)
• David Harbour (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Adriane Lenox (Doubt)

Nominees:

• Heather Goldenhersh (Doubt)
• Dana Ivey (The Rivals)
• Amy Ryan (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Mireille Enos (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Nominees:

• Marc Kudisch (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
• Matthew Morrison (The Light in the Piazza)
• Michael McGrath (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• Christopher Sieber (Monty Python’s Spamalot)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Sara Ramirez (Monty Python’s Spamalot)

Nominees:

• Jan Maxwell (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
• Joanna Gleason (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Kelli O’Hara (The Light in the Piazza)
• Celia Keenan-Bolger (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• Scott Pask (The Pillowman)

Nominees:

• John Lee Beatty (Doubt)
• David Gallo (Gem of the Ocean)
• Santo Loquasto (Glengarry Glen Ross)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• Michael Yeargan (The Light in the Piazza)

Nominees:

• Anthony Ward (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
• Tim Hatley (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• Rumi Matsui (Pacific Overtures)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Jess Goldstein (The Rivals)

Nominees:

• Constanza Romero (Gem of the Ocean)
• William Ivey Long (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Jane Greenwood (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• Catherine Zuber (The Light in the Piazza)

Nominees:

• William Ivey Long (La Cage aux Folles)
• Tim Hatley (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• Junko Koshino (Pacific Overtures)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Brian MacDevitt (The Pillowman)

Nominees:

• Pat Collins (Doubt)
• Donald Holder (Gem of the Ocean)
• Donald Holder (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Christopher Akerlind (The Light in the Piazza)

Nominees:

• Mark Henderson (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
• Kenneth Posner (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Hugh Vanstone (Monty Python’s Spamalot)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Doug Hughes (Doubt)

Nominees:

• Joe Mantello (Glengarry Glen Ross)
• John Crowley (The Pillowman)
• Scott Ellis (Twelve Angry Men)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Mike Nichols (Monty Python’s Spamalot)

Nominees:

• Jack O’Brien (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Bartlett Sher (The Light in the Piazza)
• James Lapine (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Jerry Mitchell (La Cage aux Folles)

Nominees:

• Jerry Mitchell (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• Wayne Cilento (Sweet Charity)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Ted Sperling, Adam Guettel and Bruce Coughlin (The Light in the Piazza)

Nominees:

• Harold Wheeler (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
• Larry Hochman (Monty Python’s Spamalot)
• Jonathan Tunick (Pacific Overtures)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Theatre de la Jeune Lune

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Edward Albee

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• Peter Neufeld
• Theatre Communications Group

Special Tony Award

• Billy Crystal
• Dame Edna
• Mario Cantone
• Whoopi

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