58th Tony Awards

58th Tony Awards
Official poster for the 58th annual Tony Awards
Date	June 6, 2004
Location	Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York
Hosted by	Hugh Jackman
Television/Radio coverage
Network	CBS

The 58th Annual Tony Awards were held June 6, 2004 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS television. Hugh Jackman was the host.

The Awards telecast won the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, and Jackman won the Primetime Emmy Awards for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.^[1][2]

The ceremony

Hugh Jackman performed the opening number, "One Night Only" with the "Dynamites" from Hairspray, the "Radio" from Caroline, or Change, and the "Urchins" from Little Shop of Horrors, along with members of the casts of Avenue Q, The Boy from Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Wonderful Town, and Wicked, and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.^[3] Tony Bennett performed "Lullaby of Broadway" and Mary J. Blige sang "What I Did for Love" from the Tony Awards Songbook.^[4]

Presenters were: Carol Channing, Sean Combs, Taye Diggs, Edie Falco, Jimmy Fallon, Harvey Fierstein, Victor Garber, Joel Grey, Ethan Hawke, Anne Heche, Billy Joel, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Jane Krakowski, Peter Krause, Swoosie Kurtz, LL Cool J, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Rob Marshall, Anne Meara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Dame Helen Mirren, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Paquin, Bernadette Peters, Phylicia Rashad, Chita Rivera, John Rubenstein, Carole Bayer Sager, Martin Short, Patrick Stewart, Jerry Stiller, Sigourney Weaver, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Renée Zellweger.

Shows that performed were:^[3]

New Musicals

• Avenue Q - The company performed "It Sucks to Be Me"
• The Boy from Oz - Hugh Jackman and members of the company performed "Not the Boy Next Door", with a special appearance by Sarah Jessica Parker
• Caroline, or Change - Tonya Pinkins performed "Lot's Wife"
• Wicked - Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and members of the company performed "Defying Gravity"

Revivals

• Assassins - Members of the company performed "Everybody's Got the Right"
• Fiddler on the Roof - Alfred Molina and company performed "Tradition"/"Bottle Dance"
• Wonderful Town - Donna Murphy and members of the company performed "Swing!"

Winners and nominations

Winners are in bold

Best Play	Best Musical
I Am My Own Wife – Doug Wright Anna in the Tropics – Nilo Cruz Frozen – Bryony Lavery The Retreat from Moscow – William Nicholson	Avenue Q The Boy from Oz Caroline, or Change Wicked
Best Revival of a Play	Best Revival of a Musical
Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2) Jumpers King Lear A Raisin in the Sun	Assassins Big River Fiddler on the Roof Wonderful Town
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Jefferson Mays – I Am My Own Wife as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf Kevin Kline – Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2) as Sir John Falstaff Simon Russell Beale – Jumpers as George Christopher Plummer – King Lear as King Lear Frank Langella – Match as Tobi	Phylicia Rashad – A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger Swoosie Kurtz – Frozen as Nancy Tovah Feldshuh – Golda's Balcony as Golda Meir Eileen Atkins – The Retreat from Moscow as Alice Anne Heche – Twentieth Century as Lily Garland/Mildred Plotka
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Hugh Jackman – The Boy from Oz as Peter Allen John Tartaglia – Avenue Q as Princeton/Rod Alfred Molina – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye Hunter Foster – Little Shop of Horrors as Seymour Euan Morton – Taboo as George	Idina Menzel – Wicked as Elphaba Stephanie D'Abruzzo – Avenue Q as Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut Tonya Pinkins – Caroline, or Change as Caroline Thibodeaux Kristin Chenoweth – Wicked as Glinda Donna Murphy – Wonderful Town as Ruth Sherwood
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Brian F. O'Byrne – Frozen as Ralph Aidan Gillen – The Caretaker as Mick Ben Chaplin – The Retreat from Moscow as Jamie Omar Metwally – Sixteen Wounded as Mahmoud Tom Aldredge – Twentieth Century as Matthew Clark	Audra McDonald – A Raisin in the Sun as Ruth Younger Daphne Rubin-Vega – Anna in the Tropics as Conchita Margo Martindale – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Mama Essie Davis – Jumpers as Dotty Sanaa Lathan – A Raisin in the Sun as Beneatha Younger
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Michael Cerveris – Assassins as John Wilkes Booth Denis O'Hare – Assassins as Charles Guiteau Michael McElroy – Big River as Jim John Cariani – Fiddler on the Roof as Motel the Tailor Raul Esparza – Taboo as Philip Salon	Anika Noni Rose – Caroline, or Change as Emmie Thibodeaux Beth Fowler – The Boy from Oz as Marion Woolnough Isabel Keating – The Boy from Oz as Judy Garland Karen Ziemba – Never Gonna Dance as Mabel Pritt Jennifer Westfeldt – Wonderful Town as Eileen Sherwood
Best Book of a Musical	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Jeff Whitty – Avenue Q Martin Sherman and Nick Enright – The Boy from Oz Tony Kushner – Caroline, or Change Winnie Holzman – Wicked	Avenue Q – Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (music and lyrics) Caroline, or Change – Jeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics) Taboo – Boy George (music and lyrics) Wicked – Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics)
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Eugene Lee – Wicked Robert Brill – Assassins Tom Pye – Fiddler on the Roof Ralph Funicello – Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2)	Susan Hilferty – Wicked Mark Thompson – Bombay Dreams Jess Goldstein – Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2) Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce – Taboo
Best Lighting Design	Best Orchestrations
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer – Assassins Brian MacDevitt – Fiddler on the Roof Brian MacDevitt – Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2) Kenneth Posner – Wicked	Michael Starobin – Assassins Paul Bogaev – Bombay Dreams Larry Hochman – Fiddler on the Roof William David Brohn – Wicked
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Jack O'Brien – Henry IV (a combination of Part 1 and Part 2) Doug Hughes – Frozen Moises Kaufman – I Am My Own Wife David Leveaux – Jumpers	Joe Mantello – Assassins Jason Moore – Avenue Q George C. Wolfe – Caroline, or Change Kathleen Marshall – Wonderful Town
Best Choreography
Kathleen Marshall – Wonderful Town Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan – Bombay Dreams Jerry Mitchell – Never Gonna Dance Wayne Cilento – Wicked

Special awards

• Regional Theatre Award Winner - Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
• Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Winner - James M. Nederlander
• Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Winner
  • The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River
  • Nancy Coyne
  • Frances & Harry Edelstein and Vincent Sardi, Jr.
  • Martha Swope

References

1. Gans, Andrew and Hernandez, Ernio. "Tony Host Jackman Nabs an Emmy; Danner, Newman and Alexander Win, Too" playbill.com, September 19, 2005
2. "Neil Patrick Harris in Encore of Emmy Winning Gig as Tony Awards Host" goldderby.com
3. Gans, Andrew. "DIVA TALK: A Terrific Tonys, Chatting with Broadway Bares' Moccia Plus Forbidden News" playbill.com, June 11, 2004
4. Gans, Andrew. 2004 Tony Presenters Are a Diverse Group; Musical Numbers Announced" playbill.com, May 26, 2004

External links

• 2004 Tony Awards