53rd Tony Awards

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Gershwin Theatre on June 6, 1999. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television.^[1] The show did not have a formal host.

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Best Play	Best Musical
Side Man – Warren Leight Closer – Patrick Marber The Lonesome West – Martin McDonagh Not About Nightingales – Tennessee Williams	Fosse The Civil War It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues Parade
Best Revival of a Play	Best Revival of a Musical
Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller Electra – Sophocles The Iceman Cometh – Eugene O'Neill Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare	Annie Get Your Gun Little Me Peter Pan You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
*Brian Dennehy – Death of a SalesmanasWilly Loman* Brían F. O'Byrne – The Lonesome West as Valene Connor Corin Redgrave – Not About Nightingales as Bert "Boss" Whalen Kevin Spacey – The Iceman Cometh as Theodore Hickman	*Judi Dench – Amy's View* as Esme Allen** Stockard Channing – The Lion in Winter as Eleanor of Aquitaine Marian Seldes – Ring Round the Moon as Madame Desmermortes Zoë Wanamaker – Electra as Electra
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
*Martin Short – Little Me* as Noble Eggleston and Various Characters** Brent Carver – ParadeasLeo Frank Adam Cooper – Swan Lake as The Swan Tom Wopat – Annie Get Your GunasFrank Butler	*Bernadette Peters – Annie Get Your GunasAnnie Oakley* Carolee Carmello – Parade as Lucille Frank Dee Hoty – Footloose as Vi Moore Siân Phillips – MarleneasMarlene Dietrich
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
*Frank Wood – Side Man* as Gene** Kevin Anderson – Death of a Salesman as Biff Finbar Lynch – Not About Nightingales as Jim Allison Howard Witt – Death of a Salesman as Charley	*Elizabeth Franz – Death of a Salesman* as Linda** Claire Bloom – Electra as Clytemnestra Samantha Bond – Amy's View as Amy Thomas Dawn Bradfield – The Lonesome West as Girleen Kelleher
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
*Roger Bart – You're a Good Man, Charlie BrownasSnoopy* Desmond Richardson – Fosse as Various Characters Ron Taylor – It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues as Various Characters Scott Wise – Fosse as Various Characters	*Kristin Chenoweth – You're a Good Man, Charlie BrownasSally Brown* Gretha Boston – It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues as Various Characters Valarie Pettiford – Fosse as Various Characters Mary Testa – On the Town as Madame Maude P. Dilly
Best Book of a Musical	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Alfred Uhry – Parade Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman – It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues Pam Gems – Marlene Dean Pitchford and Walter Bobbie – Footloose	Parade – Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) Footloose – Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics), Kenny Loggins, Eric Carmen, Sammy Hagar and Jim Steinman (music and lyrics) The Civil War – Frank Wildhorn (music) and Jack Murphy (lyrics) Twelfth Night – Jeanine Tesori (music)
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Richard Hoover – Not About Nightingales Bob Crowley – The Iceman Cometh Bob Crowley – Twelfth Night Ricardo Hernandez – Parade	Lez Brotherston – Swan Lake Santo Loquasto – Fosse John David Ridge – Ring Round the Moon Catherine Zuber – Twelfth Night
Best Lighting Design	Best Orchestrations
Andrew Bridge – Fosse Mark Henderson – The Iceman Cometh Natasha Katz – Twelfth Night Chris Parry – Not About Nightingales	Ralph Burns and Douglas Besterman – Fosse David Cullen – Swan Lake Don Sebesky – Parade Harold Wheeler – Little Me
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Robert Falls – Death of a Salesman Howard Davies – The Iceman Cometh Garry Hynes – The Lonesome West Trevor Nunn – Not About Nightingales	Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake Richard Maltby, Jr. and Ann Reinking – Fosse Michael Mayer – You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Harold Prince – Parade
Best Choreography
Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake Patricia Birch – Parade Rob Marshall – Little Me A. C. Ciulla – Footloose

53rd Tony Awards

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