45th Tony Awards

{{Infobox award

| name = 45th Tony Awards

| image = 45th Tony Awards poster.jpg

| caption = Official poster for the 45th annual Tony Awards

| date = June 2, 1991

| location = Minskoff Theatre, New York City, New York

| host = Julie Andrews
Jeremy Irons

| network = CBS

| previous = 44th

| main = Tony Awards

| next = 46th

}}

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.

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1990–1991 season before May 2, 1991 are eligible.

;Original plays

;Original musicals

;Play revivals

The Miser
Mule Bone

;Musical revivals

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:

Miss Saigon ("The Heat is On in Saigon"/"Last Night of the World"/"I Still Believe"/"You Will Not Touch Him"/"The American Dream" - Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce. Company)
Once on This Island ("The Human Heart"/"Mama Will Provide" - La Chanze, Lillias White, Company)
The Secret Garden (Medley - Company)
The Will Rogers Follies ("Will-A-Mania"/"Favorite Son" - Keith Carradine, Cady Huffman, Company)

Special Salute:

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ("The Year of the Musical Actor"/"I Believe in You" - Robert Morse)
Fiddler on the Roof ("If I Were a Rich Man" - Topol)
Bye Bye Birdie ("Rosie" - Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking [a live remote from Seattle])
My Fair Lady and Camelot medley performed by Julie Andrews ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly" "Camelot" "I Could Have Danced All Night")
The Phantom of the Opera ("Music of the Night" - Michael Crawford)

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" \| Best Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" \| Best Musical
class=wikitable width="95%"
valign="top" \| Lost in Yonkers – Neil Simon Our Country's Good – Timberlake Wertenbaker Shadowlands – William Nicholson Six Degrees of Separation – John Guare \| valign="top" \| *The Will Rogers Follies* Miss Saigon Once on This Island The Secret Garden
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Revival ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Book of a Musical
valign="top" \| *Fiddler on the Roof* The Miser Peter Pan \| valign="top" \| 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
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
valign="top" \| *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 \| valign="top" \| *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
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
valign="top" \| *Jonathan Pryce – Miss Saigon* as The Engineer** Keith Carradine – The Will Rogers Follies as Will Rogers Paul Hipp – Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story as Buddy Holly Topol – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye \| valign="top" \| *Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon* as Kim** June Angela – Shōgun: The Musical as Lady Mariko Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies as Betty Blake Cathy Rigby – Peter Pan as Peter Pan
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
valign="top" \| *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 \| valign="top" \| *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
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
valign="top" \| *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 \| valign="top" \| *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
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Choreography
valign="top" \| The Will Rogers Follies – Cy Coleman (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) Miss Saigon – Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil (lyrics) Once on This Island – Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) The Secret Garden – Lucy Simon (music) and Marsha Norman (lyrics) \| valign="top" \| Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies Bob Avian – Miss Saigon Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island Dan Siretta – Oh, Kay!
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Direction of a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Direction of a Musical
valign="top" \| Jerry Zaks – Six Degrees of Separation Richard Jones – La Bête Mark Lamos – Our Country's Good Gene Saks – Lost in Yonkers \| valign="top" \| Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island Nicholas Hytner – Miss Saigon Eleanor Reissa – Those Were the Days
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Scenic Design ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Costume Design
valign="top" \| Heidi Landesman – The Secret Garden Richard Hudson – La Bête John Napier – Miss Saigon Tony Walton – The Will Rogers Follies \| valign="top" \| Willa Kim – The Will Rogers Follies Theoni V. Aldredge – The Secret Garden Judy Dearing – Once on This Island Patricia Zipprodt – Shōgun: The Musical
colspan="2" style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Lighting Design
colspan="2" valign="top" \| Jules Fisher – The Will Rogers Follies David Hersey – Miss Saigon Allen Lee Hughes – Once on This Island Jennifer Tipton – La Bête