58th Tony Awards


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.

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. Tony Bennett performed "Lullaby of Broadway" and Mary J. Blige sang "What I Did for Love" from the Tony Awards Songbook.
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:
New Musicals
Revivals
Winners are in bold
Best PlayBest Musical

  • Avenue Q
  • * The Boy from Oz
  • * Caroline, or Change
  • * Wicked
    • Best Revival of a PlayBest Revival of a Musical
  • Henry IV
  • * 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 PlayBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
  • Jefferson Mays – I Am My Own Wife as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
  • * Kevin Kline – Henry IV 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 MusicalBest 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 PlayBest 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 MusicalBest 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 MusicalBest Original Score 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
  • * Caroline, or Change – Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner
  • * Taboo – Boy George
  • * Wicked – Stephen Schwartz
    • Best Scenic DesignBest Costume Design
  • Eugene Lee – Wicked
  • * Robert Brill – Assassins
  • * Tom Pye – Fiddler on the Roof
  • * Ralph Funicello – Henry IV
  • Susan Hilferty – Wicked
  • * Mark Thompson – Bombay Dreams
  • * Jess Goldstein – Henry IV
  • * Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce – Taboo
    • Best Lighting DesignBest Orchestrations
  • Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer – Assassins
  • * Brian MacDevitt – Fiddler on the Roof
  • * Brian MacDevitt – Henry IV
  • * Kenneth Posner – Wicked
  • Michael Starobin – Assassins
  • * Paul Bogaev – Bombay Dreams
  • * Larry Hochman – Fiddler on the Roof
  • * William David Brohn – Wicked
    • Best Direction of a PlayBest Direction of a Musical
  • Jack O'Brien – Henry IV
  • * 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''
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    Special awards

    Source: Playbill
    These productions had multiple nominations:
    • 10 nominations: Wicked
    • 7 nominations: Assassins
    • 6 nominations: Avenue Q, Caroline, or Change, Fiddler on the Roof and Henry IV
    • 5 nominations: The Boy from Oz and Wonderful Town
    • 4 nominations: Frozen, Jumpers, A Raisin in the Sun and Taboo
    • 3 nominations: Bombay Dreams, I Am My Own Wife and The Retreat from Moscow
    • 2 nominations: Anna in the Tropics, Big River, King Lear, Never Gonna Dance and Twentieth Century
    The following productions received multiple awards.
    • 5 wins: Assassins
    • 3 wins: Avenue Q and Wicked
    • 2 wins: Henry IV, I Am My Own Wife and A Raisin in the Sun