2010 Tony Awards results (64th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 64th Tony Awards, held on June 12, 2010. The 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Memphis.”

Best musical

Winner:

• Memphis

Nominees:

• American Idiot
• Fela!
• Million Dollar Quartet

Best play

Winner:

• Red

Nominees:

• In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
• Next Fall
• Time Stands Still

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Joe DiPietro (Memphis)

Nominees:

• Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture)
• Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones (Fela!)
• Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux (Million Dollar Quartet)

Best original score

Winner:

• David Bryan and Joe DiPietro (Memphis)

Nominees:

• Andrew Lippa (The Addams Family)
• Adam Cork and Lucy Prebble (Enron)
• Branford Marsalis (Fences)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• Fences

Nominees:

• Lend Me a Tenor
• The Royal Family
• A View from the Bridge

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• La Cage aux Folles

Nominees:

• Finian’s Rainbow
• A Little Night Music
• Ragtime

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Denzel Washington (Fences)

Nominees:

• Jude Law (Hamlet)
• Alfred Molina (Red)
• Liev Schreiber (A View from the Bridge)
• Christopher Walken (A Behanding in Spokane)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Viola Davis (Fences)

Nominees:

• Valerie Harper (Looped)
• Linda Lavin (Collected Stories)
• Laura Linney (Time Stands Still)
• Jan Maxwell (The Royal Family)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• Douglas Hodge (La Cage aux Folles)

Nominees:

• Kelsey Grammer (La Cage aux Folles)
• Sean Hayes (Promises, Promises)
• Chad Kimball (Memphis)
• Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Catherine Zeta-Jones (A Little Night Music)

Nominees:

• Kate Baldwin (Finian’s Rainbow)
• Montego Glover (Memphis)
• Christiane Noll (Ragtime)
• Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• Eddie Redmayne (Red)

Nominees:

• David Alan Grier (Race)
• Stephen McKinley Henderson (Fences)
• Jon Michael Hill (Superior Donuts)
• Stephen Kunken (Enron)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Scarlett Johansson (A View from the Bridge)

Nominees:

• Maria Dizzia (In the Next Room)
• Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family)
• Jessica Hecht (A View from the Bridge)
• Jan Maxwell (Lend Me a Tenor)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• Levi Kreis (Million Dollar Quartet)

Nominees:

• Kevin Chamberlin (The Addams Family)
• Robin De Jesús (La Cage aux Folles)
• Christopher Fitzgerald (Finian’s Rainbow)
• Bobby Steggert (Ragtime)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Katie Finneran (Promises, Promises)

Nominees:

• Barbara Cook (Sondheim on Sondheim)
• Angela Lansbury (A Little Night Music)
• Karine Plantadit (Come Fly Away)
• Lillias White (Fela!)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• Christopher Oram (Red)

Nominees:

• John Lee Beatty (The Royal Family)
• Alexander Dodge (Present Laughter)
• Santo Loquasto (Fences)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• Christine Jones (American Idiot)

Nominees:

• Marina Draghici (Fela!)
• Derek McLane (Ragtime)
• Tim Shortall (La Cage aux Folles)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Catherine Zuber (The Royal Family)

Nominees:

• Martin Pakledinaz (Lend Me a Tenor)
• Constanza Romero (Fences)
• David Zinn (In the Next Room)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• Marina Draghici (Fela!)

Nominees:

• Paul Tazewell (Memphis)
• Matthew Wright (La Cage aux Folles)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Neil Austin (Red)

Nominees:

• Neil Austin (Hamlet)
• Mark Henderson (Enron)
• Brian MacDevitt (Fences)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Kevin Adams (American Idiot)

Nominees:

• Donald Holder (Ragtime)
• Nick Richings (La Cage aux Folles)
• Robert Wierzel (Fela!)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Michael Grandage (Red)

Nominees:

• Sheryl Kaller (Next Fall)
• Kenny Leon (Fences)
• Gregory Mosher (A View from the Bridge)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Terry Johnson (La Cage aux Folles)

Nominees:

• Christopher Ashley (Memphis)
• Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Ragtime)
• Bill T. Jones (Fela!)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Bill T. Jones (Fela!)

Nominees:

• Rob Ashford (Promises, Promises)
• Lynne Page (La Cage aux Folles)
• Twyla Tharp (Come Fly Away)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Daryl Waters and David Bryan (Memphis)

Nominees:

• Jason Carr (La Cage aux Folles)
• Aaron Johnson (Fela!)
• Jonathan Tunick (Promises, Promises)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, CT

Isabelle Stevenson award

• David Hyde Pierce

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Alan Ayckbourn and Marian Seldes

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York; B. H. Barry; Midtown North & South New York City Police Precincts; Tom Viola

Special Tony Award

• Not presented in 2010
• Not presented in 2010

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