2014 Tony Awards results (68th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners and nominees of the 68th Tony Awards, held on June 8, 2014. The 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”

Best musical

Winner:

• A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder

Nominees:

• After Midnight
• Aladdin
• Beautiful – The Carole King Musical

Best play

Winner:

• All The Way

Nominees:

• Act One
• Casa Valentina
• Mothers and Sons
• Outside Mullingar

Best book of a musical

Winner:

• Robert L. Freedman (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)

Nominees:

• Chad Beguelin (Aladdin)
• Douglas McGrath (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical)
• Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway)

Best original score

Winner:

• Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County)

Nominees:

• Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Chad Beguelin (Aladdin)
• Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
• Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (If/Then)

Best revival of a play

Winner:

• A Raisin in the Sun

Nominees:

• The Cripple of Inishmaan
• The Glass Menagerie
• Twelfth Night

Best revival of a musical

Winner:

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Nominees:

• Les Misérables
• Violet

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

Winner:

• Bryan Cranston (All The Way)

Nominees:

• Samuel Barnett (Twelfth Night)
• Chris O’Dowd (Of Mice and Men)
• Mark Rylance (Richard III)
• Tony Shalhoub (Act One)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

Winner:

• Audra McDonald (Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill)

Nominees:

• Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons)
• LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Cherry Jones (The Glass Menagerie)
• Estelle Parsons (The Velocity of Autumn)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

Winner:

• Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Nominees:

• Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables)
• Andy Karl (Rocky)
• Jefferson Mays (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
• Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

Winner:

• Jessie Mueller (Beautiful)

Nominees:

• Mary Bridget Davies (A Night with Janis Joplin)
• Sutton Foster (Violet)
• Idina Menzel (If/Then)
• Kelli O’Hara (The Bridges of Madison County)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

Winner:

• Mark Rylance (Twelfth Night)

Nominees:

• Reed Birney (Casa Valentina)
• Paul Chahidi (Twelfth Night)
• Stephen Fry (Twelfth Night)
• Brian J. Smith (The Glass Menagerie)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

Winner:

• Sophie Okonedo (A Raisin in the Sun)

Nominees:

• Sarah Greene (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
• Celia Keenan-Bolger (The Glass Menagerie)
• Anika Noni Rose (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Mare Winningham (Casa Valentina)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

Winner:

• James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin)

Nominees:

• Danny Burstein (Cabaret)
• Nick Cordero (Bullets Over Broadway)
• Joshua Henry (Violet)
• Jarrod Spector (Beautiful)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

Winner:

• Lena Hall (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Nominees:

• Linda Emond (Cabaret)
• Anika Larsen (Beautiful)
• Adriane Lenox (After Midnight)
• Lauren Worsham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)

Best scenic design in a play

Winner:

• Beowulf Boritt (Act One)

Nominees:

• Bob Crowley (The Glass Menagerie)
• Es Devlin (Machinal)
• Christopher Oram (The Cripple of Inishmaan)

Best scenic design in a musical

Winner:

• Christopher Barreca (Rocky)

Nominees:

• Julian Crouch (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Alexander Dodge (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)
• Santo Loquasto (Bullets Over Broadway)

Best costume design in a play

Winner:

• Jenny Tiramani (Twelfth Night)

Nominees:

• Jane Greenwood (Act One)
• Michael Krass (Machinal)
• Rita Ryack (Casa Valentina)

Best costume design in a musical

Winner:

• Linda Cho (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)

Nominees:

• William Ivey Long (Bullets Over Broadway)
• Arianne Phillips (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Isabel Toledo (After Midnight)

Best lighting design in a play

Winner:

• Natasha Katz (The Glass Menagerie)

Nominees:

• Paule Constable (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
• Jane Cox (Machinal)
• Japhy Weideman (Of Mice and Men)

Best lighting design in a musical

Winner:

• Kevin Adams (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

Nominees:

• Christopher Akerlind (Rocky)
• Howell Binkley (After Midnight)
• Donald Holder (The Bridges of Madison County)

Best direction of a play

Winner:

• Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun)

Nominees:

• Tim Carroll (Twelfth Night)
• Michael Grandage (The Cripple of Inishmaan)
• John Tiffany (The Glass Menagerie)

Best direction of a musical

Winner:

• Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)

Nominees:

• Warren Carlyle (After Midnight)
• Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
• Leigh Silverman (Violet)

Best choreography

Winner:

• Warren Carlyle (After Midnight)

Nominees:

• Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine (Rocky)
• Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin)
• Susan Stroman (Bullets Over Broadway)

Best orchestrations

Winner:

• Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County)

Nominees:

• Doug Besterman (Bullets Over Broadway)
• Steve Sidwell (Beautiful – The Carole King Musical)
• Jonathan Tunick (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Signature Theatre, New York, NY

Isabelle Stevenson award

• Rosie O’Donnell

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Jane Greenwood

Tony honors for excellence in theatre

• Joseph P. Benincasa
• Joan Marcus
• Charlotte Wilcox

Special Tony Award

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