2012 Tony Awards Results (66th) – Winners & Nominees

The 66th Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 10, 2012. The Tony Award for Best Musical went to Once. Below is the complete list of winners and nominees featured on this page.

Best Musical

Winner:

• Once

Nominees:

• Leap of Faith
• Newsies
• Nice Work If You Can Get It

Best Play

Winner:

• Clybourne Park

Nominees:

• Other Desert Cities
• Peter and the Starcatcher
• Venus in Fur

Best Book of a Musical

Winner:

• Enda Walsh (Once)

Nominees:

• Douglas Carter Beane (Lysistrata Jones)
• Harvey Fierstein (Newsies)
• Joe DiPietro (Nice Work If You Can Get It)

Best Original Score

Winner:

• Alan Menken and Jack Feldman (Newsies)

Nominees:

• Frank Wildhorn and Don Black (Bonnie & Clyde)
• Grant Olding (One Man, Two Guvnors)
• Wayne Barker and Rick Elice (Peter and the Starcatcher)

Best Revival of a Play

Winner:

• Death of a Salesman

Nominees:

• Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
• Master Class
• Wit

Best Revival of a Musical

Winner:

• The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Nominees:

• Evita
• Follies
• Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

Winner:

• James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors)

Nominees:

• Philip Seymour Hoffman (Death of a Salesman)
• James Earl Jones (Gore Vidal’s The Best Man)
• Frank Langella (Man and Boy)
• John Lithgow (The Columnist)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

Winner:

• Nina Arianda (Venus in Fur)

Nominees:

• Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow)
• Stockard Channing (Other Desert Cities)
• Linda Lavin (The Lyons)
• Cynthia Nixon (Wit)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

Winner:

• Steve Kazee (Once)

Nominees:

• Danny Burstein (Follies)
• Jeremy Jordan (Newsies)
• Norm Lewis (Porgy and Bess)
• Ron Raines (Follies)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Winner:

• Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess)

Nominees:

• Jan Maxwell (Follies)
• Cristin Milioti (Once)
• Kelli O’Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It)
• Laura Osnes (Bonnie & Clyde)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

Winner:

• Christian Borle (Peter and the Starcatcher)

Nominees:

• Michael Cumpsty (End of the Rainbow)
• Tom Edden (One Man, Two Guvnors)
• Andrew Garfield (Death of a Salesman)
• Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

Winner:

• Judith Light (Other Desert Cities)

Nominees:

• Linda Emond (Death of a Salesman)
• Spencer Kayden (Don’t Dress for Dinner)
• Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher)
• Condola Rashad (Stick Fly)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

Winner:

• Michael McGrath (Nice Work If You Can Get It)

Nominees:

• Phillip Boykin (Porgy and Bess)
• Michael Cerveris (Evita)
• David Alan Grier (Porgy and Bess)
• Josh Young (Jesus Christ Superstar)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

Winner:

• Judy Kaye (Nice Work If You Can Get It)

Nominees:

• Elizabeth A. Davis (Once)
• Jayne Houdyshell (Follies)
• Jessie Mueller (On A Clear Day You Can See Forever)
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph (Ghost the Musical)

Best Scenic Design in a Play

Winner:

• Donyale Werle (Peter and the Starcatcher)

Nominees:

• John Lee Beatty (Other Desert Cities)
• Daniel Ostling (Clybourne Park)
• Mark Thompson (One Man, Two Guvnors)

Best Scenic Design in a Musical

Winner:

• Bob Crowley (Once)

Nominees:

• Rob Howell and Jon Driscoll (Ghost the Musical)
• Tobin Ost and Sven Ortel (Newsies)
• George Tsypin (Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark)

Best Costume Design in a Play

Winner:

• Paloma Young (Peter and the Starcatcher)

Nominees:

• William Ivey Long (Don’t Dress for Dinner)
• Paul Tazewell (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• Mark Thompson (One Man, Two Guvnors)

Best Costume Design in a Musical

Winner:

• Gregg Barnes (Follies)

Nominees:

• ESosa (Porgy and Bess)
• Eiko Ishioka (Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark)
• Martin Pakledinaz (Nice Work If You Can Get It)

Best Lighting Design in a Play

Winner:

• Jeff Croiter (Peter and the Starcatcher)

Nominees:

• Peter Kaczorowski (The Road to Mecca)
• Brian MacDevitt (Death of a Salesman)
• Kenneth Posner (Other Desert Cities)

Best Lighting Design in a Musical

Winner:

• Natasha Katz (Once)

Nominees:

• Christopher Akerlind (Porgy and Bess)
• Natasha Katz (Follies)
• Hugh Vanstone (Ghost the Musical)

Best Direction of a Play

Winner:

• Mike Nichols (Death of a Salesman)

Nominees:

• Nicholas Hytner (One Man, Two Guvnors)
• Pam MacKinnon (Clybourne Park)
• Roger Rees and Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher)

Best Direction of a Musical

Winner:

• John Tiffany (Once)

Nominees:

• Jeff Calhoun (Newsies)
• Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It)
• Diane Paulus (Porgy and Bess)

Best Choreography

Winner:

• Christopher Gattelli (Newsies)

Nominees:

• Rob Ashford (Evita)
• Steven Hoggett (Once)
• Kathleen Marshall (Nice Work If You Can Get It)

Best Orchestrations

Winner:

• Martin Lowe (Once)

Nominees:

• William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke (Porgy and Bess)
• Bill Elliott (Nice Work If You Can Get It)
• Danny Troob (Newsies)

Regional Theatre Tony Award

• Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.

Isabelle Stevenson Award

• Bernadette Peters

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

• Emanuel Azenberg

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

• Freddie Gershon
• Artie Siccardi
• TDF Open Doors

Special Tony Award

• Actors’ Equity Association and Hugh Jackman

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