2007 Tony Awards results (61st) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 61st Tony Awards, held on June 10, 2007. The 2007 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Spring Awakening.”

Best musical

Winner:

• Spring Awakening

Nominees:

• Curtains
• Grey Gardens
• Mary Poppins

Best play

Winner:

• The Coast of Utopia

Nominees:

• Frost/Nixon
• The Little Dog Laughed
• Radio Golf

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Steven Sater (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• Rupert Holmes & Peter Stone (Curtains)
• Doug Wright (Grey Gardens)
• Heather Hach (Legally Blonde The Musical)

Best original score

Winner:

• Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• John Kander, Fred Ebb & Rupert Holmes (Curtains)
• Scott Frankel and Michael Korie (Grey Gardens)
• Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde The Musical)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• Journey’s End

Nominees:

• Inherit the Wind
• Talk Radio
• Translations

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• Company

Nominees:

• The Apple Tree
• A Chorus Line
• 110 in the Shade

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)

Nominees:

• Boyd Gaines (Journey’s End)
• Brían F. O’Byrne (The Coast of Utopia)
• Christopher Plummer (Inherit the Wind)
• Liev Schreiber (Talk Radio)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Julie White (The Little Dog Laughed)

Nominees:

• Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
• Angela Lansbury (Deuce)
• Vanessa Redgrave (The Year of Magical Thinking)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• David Hyde Pierce (Curtains)

Nominees:

• Michael Cerveris (LoveMusik)
• Raúl Esparza (Company)
• Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening)
• Gavin Lee (Mary Poppins)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Christine Ebersole (Grey Gardens)

Nominees:

• Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde The Musical)
• Audra McDonald (110 in the Shade)
• Donna Murphy (LoveMusik)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• Billy Crudup (The Coast of Utopia)

Nominees:

• Anthony Chisholm (Radio Golf)
• Ethan Hawke (The Coast of Utopia)
• John Earl Jelks (Radio Golf)
• Stark Sands (Journey’s End)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Jennifer Ehle (The Coast of Utopia)

Nominees:

• Xanthe Elbrick (Coram Boy)
• Dana Ivey (Butley)
• Jan Maxwell (Coram Boy)
• Martha Plimpton (The Coast of Utopia)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• John Gallagher, Jr. (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• Brooks Ashmanskas (Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me)
• Christian Borle (Legally Blonde The Musical)
• John Cullum (110 in the Shade)
• David Pittu (LoveMusik)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Mary Louise Wilson (Grey Gardens)

Nominees:

• Charlotte d’Amboise (A Chorus Line)
• Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins)
• Orfeh (Legally Blonde The Musical)
• Karen Ziemba (Curtains)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• Bob Crowley & Scott Pask (The Coast of Utopia)

Nominees:

• Jonathan Fensom (Journey’s End)
• David Gallo (Radio Golf)
• Ti Green and Melly Still (Coram Boy)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• Bob Crowley (Mary Poppins)

Nominees:

• Christine Jones (Spring Awakening)
• Anna Louizos (High Fidelity)
• Allen Moyer (Grey Gardens)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Catherine Zuber (The Coast of Utopia)

Nominees:

• Ti Green and Melly Still (Coram Boy)
• Jane Greenwood (Heartbreak House)
• Santo Loquasto (Inherit the Wind)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• William Ivey Long (Grey Gardens)

Nominees:

• Gregg Barnes (Legally Blonde The Musical)
• Bob Crowley (Mary Poppins)
• Susan Hilferty (Spring Awakening)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Brian MacDevitt, Kenneth Posner, and Natasha Katz (The Coast of Utopia)

Nominees:

• Paule Constable (Coram Boy)
• Brian MacDevitt (Inherit the Wind)
• Jason Taylor (Journey’s End)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Kevin Adams (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• Christopher Akerlind (110 in the Shade)
• Howard Harrison (Mary Poppins)
• Peter Kaczorowski (Grey Gardens)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Jack O’Brien (The Coast of Utopia)

Nominees:

• Michael Grandage (Frost/Nixon)
• David Grindley (Journey’s End)
• Melly Still (Coram Boy)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• John Doyle (Company)
• Scott Ellis (Curtains)
• Michael Greif (Grey Gardens)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Bill T. Jones (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• Rob Ashford (Curtains)
• Matthew Bourne and Stephen Mear (Mary Poppins)
• Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde The Musical)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening)

Nominees:

• Bruce Coughlin (Grey Gardens)
• Jonathan Tunick (LoveMusik)
• Jonathan Tunick (110 in the Shade)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Alliance Theatre
• Atlanta, GA

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

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

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