2008 Tony Awards results (62nd) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 62nd Tony Awards, held on June 15, 2008. The 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “In The Heights.”

Best musical

Winner:

• In The Heights

Nominees:

• Cry-Baby
• Passing Strange
• Xanadu

Best play

Winner:

• August: Osage County

Nominees:

• Rock ‘n’ Roll
• The Seafarer
• The 39 Steps

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Stew (Passing Strange)

Nominees:

• Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan (Cry-Baby)
• Quiara Alegría Hudes (In The Heights)
• Douglas Carter Beane (Xanadu)

Best original score

Winner:

• Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights)

Nominees:

• David Javerbaum & Adam Schlesinger (Cry-Baby)
• Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Glenn Slater (The Little Mermaid)
• Stew and Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• Boeing-Boeing

Nominees:

• The Homecoming
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• Macbeth

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Nominees:

• Grease
• Gypsy
• Sunday in the Park with George

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Mark Rylance (Boeing-Boeing)

Nominees:

• Ben Daniels (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
• Laurence Fishburne (Thurgood)
• Rufus Sewell (Rock ‘n’ Roll)
• Patrick Stewart (Macbeth)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Deanna Dunagan (August: Osage County)

Nominees:

• Eve Best (The Homecoming)
• Deanna Dunagan (August: Osage County)
• Kate Fleetwood (Macbeth)
• S. Epatha Merkerson (Come Back, Little Sheba)
• Amy Morton (August: Osage County)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• Paulo Szot (South Pacific)

Nominees:

• Daniel Evans (Sunday in the Park with George)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights)
• Stew (Passing Strange)
• Tom Wopat (A Catered Affair)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Patti LuPone (Gypsy)

Nominees:

• Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific)
• Faith Prince (A Catered Affair)
• Jenna Russell (Sunday in the Park with George)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• Jim Norton (The Seafarer)

Nominees:

• Bobby Cannavale (Mauritius)
• Raúl Esparza (The Homecoming)
• Conleth Hill (The Seafarer)
• David Pittu (Is He Dead?)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Rondi Reed (August: Osage County)

Nominees:

• Sinead Cusack (Rock ‘n’ Roll)
• Mary McCormack (Boeing-Boeing)
• Laurie Metcalf (November)
• Martha Plimpton (Top Girls)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• Boyd Gaines (Gypsy)

Nominees:

• Daniel Breaker (Passing Strange)
• Danny Burstein (South Pacific)
• Robin De Jesús (In The Heights)
• Christopher Fitzgerald (Young Frankenstein)
• Boyd Gaines (Gypsy)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Laura Benanti (Gypsy)

Nominees:

• de’Adre Aziza (Passing Strange)
• Andrea Martin (Young Frankenstein)
• Olga Merediz (In The Heights)
• Loretta Ables Sayre (South Pacific)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• Todd Rosenthal (August: Osage County)

Nominees:

• Peter McKintosh (The 39 Steps)
• Scott Pask (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
• Anthony Ward (Macbeth)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• Michael Yeargan (South Pacific)

Nominees:

• David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network (Sunday in the Park with George)
• Anna Louizos (In The Heights)
• Robin Wagner (Young Frankenstein)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Katrina Lindsay (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

Nominees:

• Gregory Gale (Cyrano de Bergerac)
• Rob Howell (Boeing-Boeing)
• Peter McKintosh (The 39 Steps)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• Catherine Zuber (South Pacific)

Nominees:

• David Farley (Sunday in the Park with George)
• Martin Pakledinaz (Gypsy)
• Paul Tazewell (In The Heights)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Kevin Adams (The 39 Steps)

Nominees:

• Howard Harrison (Macbeth)
• Donald Holder (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
• Ann G. Wrightson (August: Osage County)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Donald Holder (South Pacific)

Nominees:

• Ken Billington (Sunday in the Park with George)
• Howell Binkley (In The Heights)
• Donald Holder (South Pacific)
• Natasha Katz (The Little Mermaid)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Anna D. Shapiro (August: Osage County)

Nominees:

• Maria Aitken (The 39 Steps)
• Conor McPherson (The Seafarer)
• Matthew Warchus (Boeing-Boeing)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Bartlett Sher (South Pacific)

Nominees:

• Sam Buntrock (Sunday in the Park with George)
• Thomas Kail (In The Heights)
• Arthur Laurents (Gypsy)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Andy Blankenbuehler (In The Heights)

Nominees:

• Rob Ashford (Cry-Baby)
• Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific)
• Dan Knechtges (Xanadu)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman (In The Heights)

Nominees:

• Jason Carr (Sunday in the Park with George)
• Stew & Heidi Rodewald (Passing Strange)
• Jonathan Tunick (A Catered Affair)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Stephen Sondheim

Special Tony Award

• Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981)

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