The Tony Awards 2012 Winners
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Complete List of Winners and Nominees:

Best Play

  • Clybourne Park     Author: Bruce Norris
  • Other Desert Cities   Author: Jon Robin Baitz
  • Peter and the Starcatcher   Author: Rick Elice 
  • Venus in Fur   Author: David Ives

Best Musical

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

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    Best Book of a Musical

    • Lysistrata Jones:    Douglas Carter Beane
    • Newsies:   Harvey Fierstein
    • Nice Work If You Can Get It:   Joe DiPietro
    • Once:   Enda Walsh

    Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

    • Bonnie & Clyde  Music:  Frank Wildhorn   Lyrics:  Don Black
    • Newsies   Music:   Alan Menken   Lyrics:   Jack Feldman
    • One Man, Two Guvnors  Music & Lyrics: Grant Olding
    • Peter and the Starcatcher   Music:   Wayne Barker   Lyrics:  Rick Elice

     

    Best Revival of a Play

    • Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
    • Gore Vidal's The Best Man
    • Master Class
    • Wit

     

    Best Revival of a Musical

    • Evita
    • Follies
    • The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Jesus Christ Superstar

     

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

    • James Corden    One Man, Two Guvnors
    • Philip Seymour Hoffman   Arthur Miller's 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 an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

    • Nina Arianda   Venus in Fur
    • Tracie Bennett   End of the Rainbow
    • Stockard Channing   Other Desert Cities
    • Linda Lavin   The Lyons
    • Cynthia Nixon   Wit

     

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

    • Danny Burstein  Follies
    • Jeremy Jordan   Newsies
    • Steve Kazee   Once
    • Norm Lewis   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Ron Raines   Follies

     

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

    • Jan Maxwell   Follies
    • Audra McDonald   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Cristin Milioti   Once
    • Kelli O'Hara   Nice Work If You Can Get It
    • Laura Osnes   Bonnie & Clyde

     

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

    • Christian Borle   Peter and the Starcatcher
    • Michael Cumpsty   End of the Rainbow
    • Tom Edden   One Man, Two Guvnors
    • Andrew Garfield   Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
    • Jeremy Shamos   Clybourne Park

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

    • Linda Emond   Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
    • Spencer Kayden   Don't Dress for Dinner
    • Celia Keenan-Bolger   Peter and the Starcatcher
    • Judith Light   Other Desert Cities
    • Condola Rashad   Stick Fly

     

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

    • Phillip Boykin   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Michael Cerveris   Evita
    • David Alan Grier   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Michael McGrath   Nice Work If You Can Get It
    • Josh Young   Jesus Christ Superstar

     

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

    • Elizabeth A. Davis    Once
    • Jayne Houdyshell   Follies
    • Judy Kaye    Nice Work If You Can Get It
    • Jessie Mueller   On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
    • Da'Vine Joy Randolph   Ghost the Musical

     

    Best Direction of a Play

    • Nicholas Hytner   One Man, Two Guvnors
    • Pam MacKinnon    Clybourne Park
    • Mike Nichols   Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
    • Roger Rees and Alex Timbers    Peter and the Starcatcher

     

    Best Direction of a Musical

    • Jeff Calhoun   Newsies
    • Kathleen Marshall   Nice Work If You Can Get It
    • Diane Paulus   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • John Tiffany  Once

     

    Best Choreography

    • Rob Ashford   Evita
    • Christopher Gattelli   Newsies
    • Steven Hoggett   Once
    • Kathleen Marshall   Nice Work If You Can Get It

     

    Best Orchestrations

    • William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Bill Elliott   Nice Work If You Can Get It
    • Martin Lowe   Once
    • Danny Troob   Newsies

     

    Best Scenic Design of a Play

    • John Lee Beatty   Other Desert Cities
    • Daniel Ostling   Clybourne Park
    • Mark Thompson   One Man, Two Guvnors
    • Donyale Werle   Peter and the Starcatcher

     

    Best Scenic Design of a Musical

    • Bob Crowley   Once
    • 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 of a Play

    • William Ivey Long   Don't Dress for Dinner
    • Paul Tazewell   A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Mark Thompson   One Man, Two Guvnors
    • Paloma Young   Peter and the Starcatcher

     

    Best Costume Design of a Musical

    • Gregg Barnes   Follies
    • ESosa   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Eiko Ishioka   Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
    • Martin Pakledinaz   Nice Work If You Can Get It

     

    Best Lighting Design of a Play

    • Jeff Croiter   Peter and the Starcatcher
    • Peter Kaczorowski   The Road to Mecca
    • Brian MacDevitt   Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
    • Kenneth Posner   Other Desert Cities

     

    Best Lighting Design of a Musical

    • Christopher Akerlind   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Natasha Katz   Follies
    • Natasha Katz   Once
    • Hugh Vanstone   Ghost the Musical

     

    Best Sound Design of a Play

    • Paul Arditti   One Man, Two Guvnors
    • Scott Lehrer   Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
    • Gareth Owen   End of the Rainbow
    • Darron L West   Peter and the Starcatcher
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    Best Sound Design of a Musical

    • Acme Sound Partners   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
    • Clive Goodwin   Once
    • Kai Harada   Follies
    • Brian Ronan   Nice Work If You Can Get It

     

    Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

    • Emanuel Azenberg

    Regional Theatre Award

    • The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.

    Isabelle Stevenson Award

    • Bernadette Peters

    Special Tony Award

    • Actors' Equity Association   Hugh Jackman

    Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre

    • Freddie Gershon
    • Artie Siccardi
    • TDF Open Doors

    Broadway shows contributed $11.2 billion to the New York City economy during the 2010-2011 season, the Broadway League announced early June 2012 right before the coveted Tony Awards Ceremony airing live on Sunday June 10, 2012. The organization arrived at that figure by measuring the economic impact of spending in three areas: Broadway production companies mounting and running shows ($2.2 billion); theater operators maintaining and renovating venues ($22.3 million); and ancillary purchases by theater-loving tourists ($9 billion).

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    The money that was directly spent in those brackets was then re-spent in further rounds, said the League, noting that the Great White Way supports 86,000 jobs and directs $550 million in taxes to New York.  The $11.2 billion marks a nine percent jump from the 2008 – 2009 season, where $10 billion was funneled into New York.  Meanwhile, Broadway is hitting record numbers at the box office, generating $1.14 billion in the 2011-2012 season, which wrapped in May at the cutoff point for Tony Awards eligibility. Much of the increase is attributed to the growing proliferation of premium-priced tickets for in-demand shows.  In addition to perennial top-earners such as Wicked and The Lion King, season totals saw a boost with the stellar grosses of The Book of Mormon and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Hit limited engagements also were major contributors, chief among them Hugh Jackman's song-and-dance revue, Back on Broadway, and the Mike Nichols-directed Death of Salesman revival, which ended its run end of May, 2012 by breaking the house record at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for the eighth time.