57th Tony Awards

57th Tony Awards
Official poster for the 57th annual Tony Awards
Date	June 8, 2003
Location	Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Hosted by	Hugh Jackman
Television/Radio coverage
Network	CBS

The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast by CBS television. The event was hosted for the first time by Hugh Jackman.

The ceremony

The ceremony was broadcast on national prime time television on CBS for three hours, rather than two hours on CBS and one hour on PBS, as had been done for several years previously.^[1] The television ratings were 5.4, down slightly from the 2002 telecast of 5.9.^[2]

Presenters included: Benjamin Bratt, Toni Braxton, Matthew Broderick, Alan Cumming, Edie Falco, Joey Fatone, Laurence Fishburne, Sutton Foster, Danny Glover, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, John Leguizamo, John Lithgow, Julianna Margulies, Bebe Neuwirth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Perez, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Ann Reinking, John Spencer, Marisa Tomei, Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters. In addition, Jason Alexander and Martin Short, the stars of the national company of The Producers, presented an award from the stage of Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.^[3]

There were memorial tributes to cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, writer Peter Stone, and lyricist Adolph Green.

Shows that performed were:^[3]

New Musicals:

• Movin' Out - Billy Joel opened by performing "New York State of Mind" live from Times Square, leading to a medley of "River of Dreams", "Keep the Faith" and "Only the Good Die Young" performed by the company of Movin' Out on stage at Radio City Music Hall.
• Hairspray - Marissa Janet Winokur, Matthew Morrison, Kerry Butler, Harvey Fierstein, and Mary Bond Davis led the company with "You Can't Stop the Beat"
• A Year with Frog and Toad - Mark Linn-Baker and Jay Goede performed "Alone"

Revivals:

• Nine - Antonio Banderas performed "Guido's Song" with the company
• La bohème - The company (including all 10 members of the principal ensemble) performed a medley from the opera
• Gypsy - Bernadette Peters performed "Rose's Turn"
• Man of La Mancha - Brian Stokes Mitchell performed "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Awards and nominees

Winners are in bold

Source:New York Times^[4]

Best Play	Best Musical
Take Me Out – Richard Greenberg Enchanted April – Matthew Barber Say Goodnight, Gracie – Rupert Holmes Vincent in Brixton – Nicholas Wright	Hairspray Amour A Year with Frog and Toad Movin' Out
Best Revival of a Play	Best Revival of a Musical
Long Day's Journey into Night A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Dinner at Eight Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune	Nine Gypsy La bohème Man of La Mancha
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Brian Dennehy – Long Day's Journey into Night as James Tyrone, Sr. Brian Bedford – Tartuffe as Orgon Eddie Izzard – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Bri Paul Newman – Our Town as Stage Manager Stanley Tucci – Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune as Johnny	Vanessa Redgrave – Long Day's Journey into Night as Mary Tyrone Jayne Atkinson – Enchanted April as Lotty Wilton Victoria Hamilton – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Sheila Clare Higgins – Vincent in Brixton as Ursula Loyler Fiona Shaw – Medea as Medea
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Harvey Fierstein – Hairspray as Edna Turnblad Antonio Banderas – Nine as Guido Contini Malcolm Gets – Amour as Dusoleil Brian Stokes Mitchell – Man of La Mancha as Don Quixote/Cervantes John Selya – Movin' Out as Eddie	Marissa Jaret Winokur – Hairspray as Tracy Turnblad Melissa Errico – Amour as Isabella Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Man of La Mancha as Aldonza/Dulcinea Elizabeth Parkinson – Movin' Out as Brenda Bernadette Peters – Gypsy as Mama Rose
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Denis O'Hare – Take Me Out as Mason Marzak Thomas Jefferson Byrd – Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Toledo Philip Seymour Hoffman – Long Day's Journey into Night as Jamie Robert Sean Leonard – Long Day's Journey into Night as Edmund Daniel Sunjata – Take Me Out as Darren Lemming	Michele Pawk – Hollywood Arms as Louise Christine Ebersole – Dinner at Eight as Millicent Jordan Linda Emond – Life x 3 as Inez Kathryn Meisle – Tartuffe as Elmire Marian Seldes – Dinner at Eight as Carlotta Vance
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Dick Latessa – Hairspray as Wilbur Turnblad Michael Cavanaugh – Movin' Out as Various Characters John Dossett – Gypsy as Herbie Corey Reynolds – Hairspray as Seaweed J. Stubbs Keith Roberts – Movin' Out as Tony	Jane Krakowski – Nine as Carla Albanese Tammy Blanchard – Gypsy as Louise Mary Stuart Masterson – Nine as Luisa Contini Chita Rivera – Nine as Liliane La Fleur Ashley Tuttle – Movin' Out as Judy
Best Book of a Musical	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan – Hairspray Didier van Cauwelaert and Jeremy Sams – Amour Willie Reale – A Year with Frog and Toad David Henry Hwang – Flower Drum Song	Hairspray – Marc Shaiman (music) and Scott Wittman and Shaiman (lyrics) A Year with Frog and Toad – Robert Reale (music) and Willie Reale (lyrics) Amour – Michel Legrand (music) and Didier van Cauwelaert and Jeremy Sams (lyrics) Urban Cowboy – Various Composers^[I]
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Catherine Martin – La bohème John Lee Beatty – Dinner at Eight Santo Loquasto – Long Day's Journey into Night David Rockwell – Hairspray	William Ivey Long – Hairspray Gregg Barnes – Flower Drum Song Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie – La bohème Catherine Zuber – Dinner at Eight
Best Lighting Design	Best Orchestrations
Nigel Levings – La bohème Donald Holder – Movin' Out Brian MacDevitt – Nine Kenneth Posner – Hairspray	Billy Joel and Stuart Malina – Movin' Out Nicholas Kitsopoulos – La bohème Jonathan Tunick – Nine Harold Wheeler – Hairspray
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Joe Mantello – Take Me Out Laurence Boswell – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Robert Falls – Long Day's Journey Into Night Deborah Warner – Medea	Jack O'Brien – Hairspray David Leveaux – Nine Baz Luhrmann – La bohème Twyla Tharp – Movin' Out
Best Choreography
Twyla Tharp – Movin' Out Robert Longbottom – Flower Drum Song Jerry Mitchell – Hairspray Melinda Roy – Urban Cowboy

Special awards

Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

• The principal ensemble of La bohème, including Mimis Lisa Hopkins, Ekaterina Solovyeva and Wei Huang; Rodolfos David Miller, Jesús Garcia and Alfred Boe; Musettas Jessica Comeau and Chlöe Wright; and Marcellos Eugene Brancoveanu and Ben Davis
• Paul Huntley
• Johnson-Liff Casting Associates
• The Acting Company

Lifetime Achievement Tony Award

• Cy Feuer

Special Theatrical Event

• Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway

Regional Theatre Tony Award

• Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN)

Notes

^{^[I]} The thirty composers nominated for Urban Cowboy were Jeff Blumenkrantz, Bob Stillman, Jason Robert Brown, Danny Arena, Sara Light, Lauren Lucas, Jerry Silverstein, Martie Maguire, Wayland D. Holyfield, Bob Lee House, Carl L. Byrd, Pevin Byrd-Munoz, Luke Reed, Roger Brown, Jerry Chesnut, Marcus Hummon, Clint Black, James Hayden Nicholas, Tommy Conners, Skip Ewing, Charles Daniels, Tom Crain, Fred Edwards, Taz DiGregorio, Jim Marshall, Charlie Hayward, Wanda Mallette, Patti Ryan, Ronnie Dunn and Bob Morrison.

References

1. McKinley, Jesse.Broadway Enjoys Its Moment" The New York Times, June 9, 2003.
2. Simonson, Robert."Final Ratings for Tonys Down from 2002" playbill.com, June 10, 2003.
3. "2003 - 57th Annual Tony Awards". Tonyawards.com. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
4. The Winners" The New York Times, accessed April 28, 2011

External links

• Tony Awards Official Site