45th Tony Awards


The 45th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS from the Minskoff Theatre on June 2, 1991. The hosts were Julie Andrews and Jeremy Irons.

The ceremony

Presenters: Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Tyne Daly, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Steve Guttenberg, Audrey Hepburn, Raul Julia, Jackie Mason, Shirley MacLaine, James Naughton, Penn & Teller, Anthony Quinn, Lily Tomlin, Denzel Washington
Musicals represented:
Special Salute:
Winners are in bold
Best PlayBest Musical

  • The Will Rogers Follies
  • * Miss Saigon
  • * Once on This Island
  • * The Secret Garden
    • Best RevivalBest Book of a Musical
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • * The Miser
  • * Peter Pan
  • Marsha Norman – The Secret Garden
  • * Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg – Miss Saigon
  • * Lynn Ahrens – Once on This Island
  • * Peter Stone – The Will Rogers Follies
    • Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a PlayBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
  • Nigel Hawthorne – Shadowlands as C.S. Lewis
  • * Peter Frechette – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. Ralph Clark
  • * Tom McGowan – La Bête as Valere
  • * Courtney B. Vance – Six Degrees of Separation as Paul
  • Mercedes Ruehl – Lost in Yonkers as Bella Kurnitz
  • * Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation as Ouisa Kittredge
  • * Julie Harris – Lucifer's Child as Karen Blixen
  • * Cherry Jones – Our Country's Good as Liz Morden/Reverend Johnson
    • Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a MusicalBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
  • Jonathan Pryce – Miss Saigon as The Engineer
  • * Keith Carradine – The Will Rogers Follies as Will Rogers
  • * Paul Hipp – Buddy as Buddy Holly
  • * Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye
  • Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon as Kim
  • * June Angela – ' as Lady Mariko
  • * Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies as Betty Blake
  • * Cathy Rigby – Peter Pan as Peter Pan
    • Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a PlayBest Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
  • Kevin Spacey – Lost in Yonkers as "Uncle" Louie
  • * Adam Arkin – I Hate Hamlet as Gary Peter Lefkowitz
  • * Dylan Baker – La Bête as Prince County
  • * Stephen Lang – The Speed of Darkness as Lou
  • Irene Worth – Lost in Yonkers as Grandma Kurnitz
  • * Amelia Campbell – Our Country's Good as Various Characters
  • * Kathryn Erbe – The Speed of Darkness as Mary
  • * J. Smith-Cameron – Our Country's Good as 2nd Lieut. William Faddy
    • Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a MusicalBest Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
  • Hinton Battle – Miss Saigon as John
  • * Bruce Adler – Those Were the Days as Various Characters
  • * Gregg Burge – Oh, Kay! as Billy Lyes
  • * Willy Falk – Miss Saigon as Chris
  • Daisy Eagan – The Secret Garden as Mary Lennox
  • * Alison Fraser – The Secret Garden as Martha Sowerby
  • * Cady Huffman – The Will Rogers Follies as Ziegfeld's Favorite
  • * LaChanze – Once on This Island as Ti Moune
    • Best Original Score Written for the TheatreBest Choreography
  • The Will Rogers Follies – Cy Coleman and Betty Comden and Adolph Green
  • * Miss Saigon – Claude-Michel Schönberg and Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil
  • * Once on This Island – Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
  • * The Secret Garden – Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman
  • Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies
  • * Bob Avian – Miss Saigon
  • * Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island
  • * Dan Siretta – Oh, Kay!
    • Best Direction of a PlayBest Direction of a Musical
  • Jerry Zaks – Six Degrees of Separation
  • * Richard Jones – La Bête
  • * Mark Lamos – Our Country's Good
  • * Gene Saks – Lost in Yonkers
  • Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies
  • * Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island
  • * Nicholas Hytner – Miss Saigon
  • * Eleanor Reissa – Those Were the Days
    • Best Scenic DesignBest Costume Design
  • Heidi Landesman – The Secret Garden
  • * Richard Hudson – La Bête
  • * John Napier – Miss Saigon
  • * Tony Walton – The Will Rogers Follies
  • Willa Kim – The Will Rogers Follies
  • * Theoni V. Aldredge – The Secret Garden
  • * Judy Dearing – Once on This Island
  • * Patricia Zipprodt – '
    • Best Lighting Design-
  • Jules Fisher – The Will Rogers Follies
  • * David Hersey – Miss Saigon
  • * Allen Lee Hughes – Once on This Island
  • * Jennifer Tipton – La Bête
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    Special Tony Awards

  • Regional Theatre Award -- Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Tony Honor—Father George Moore

    Multiple nominations and awards

    • These productions had multiple nominations:
    The following productions received multiple awards.