56th Tony Awards

{{Infobox award

| name = 56th Tony Awards

| image = 56th Tony Awards poster.jpg

| caption = Official poster for the 56th annual Tony Awards

| date = June 2, 2002

| location = Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York

| host = Bernadette Peters
Gregory Hines

| most_wins = Thoroughly Modern Millie (6)

| most_nominations = Thoroughly Modern Millie (11)

| network = CBS

| ratings = 7.9 million{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/reference/tony-awards-ratings-history/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416044230/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/reference/tony-awards-ratings-history/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 16, 2017|title=Tony Awards Ratings History|last=Porter|first=Rick|work=TV by the Numbers|date=June 13, 2010|access-date=April 14, 2017}}

| producer = Ricky Kirshner
Gary Smith

| director = Glenn Weiss

| previous = 55th

| main = Tony Awards

| next = 57th

| website = {{URL|tonyawards.com}}

}}

The 56th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 2, 2002 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was co-hosted by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines.Gans, Andrew.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/69767-Tony-News-Musical-Numbers-and-Likely-Presenters-for-the-June-2-Broadcast "Tony News: Musical Numbers and Likely Presenters for the June 2 Broadcast"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021011026/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/69767-Tony-News-Musical-Numbers-and-Likely-Presenters-for-the-June-2-Broadcast |date=2012-10-21 }} playbill.com, May 23, 2002

With her win as a producer of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Whoopi Goldberg became the 10th person to become an EGOT winner.

The ceremony

The show opened with a tribute to Richard Rodgers, featuring a medley of his songs performed by Marvin Hamlisch, Harry Connick Jr., Michele Lee, Mos Def, Lea Salonga, Peter Gallagher, John Raitt, Bernadette Peters, Gregory Hines, and the company of Oklahoma! A Broadway/New York song medley was performed by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines.[http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/ceremonies/200909161253135333375.html "Year by Year 2002"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101054517/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/ceremonies/200909161253135333375.html |date=2011-01-01 }} tonyawards.com, accessed April 28, 2011

Presentations from nominated musicals:

Into the Woods: "Children Will Listen", "Ever After" and "Into the Woods" - Vanessa Williams, John McMartin, Company
Mamma Mia!: "I Have a Dream", "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", "Chiquitita" and "Dancing Queen" - Louise Pitre, Judy Kaye, Karen Mason, Tina Maddigan, Company
Thoroughly Modern Millie: "Forget About the Boy"/"Thoroughly Modern Millie" - Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan, Casey Nicholaw, Noah Racey, Company
Sweet Smell of Success: "Dirt" - John Lithgow, Company
Urinetown: "Run, Freedom, Run" - Hunter Foster, Spencer Kayden, Jeff McCarthy, Company
Oklahoma!: "The Farmer and the Cowman" - Company

The First Ten awards were presented prior to the full ceremony and broadcast on PBS. The awards presented were: Best Direction of a Play, Direction of a Musical, Book of a Musical, Original Score, Choreography, Costume Design, Lighting Design and Scenic Design. There were also interviews and "rehearsal and performance clips from the nominated shows."Gans, Andrew.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/68145-Together-Again-PBS-and-CBS-Will-Televise-Tony-2002-Awards "Together Again: PBS and CBS Will Televise Tony 2002 Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021011055/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/68145-Together-Again-PBS-and-CBS-Will-Televise-Tony-2002-Awards |date=2012-10-21 }} playbill.com, March 7, 2002

The broadcast won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program; the director was Glenn Weiss.Gans, Andrew.[http://www./news/article/81747-2002-Tony-Awards-Telecast-Wins-an-Emmy "2002 Tony Awards Telecast Wins an Emmy"] playbill.com, September 22, 2003

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2001–02 season before May 2, 2002 are eligible.

;Original plays

An Almost Holy Picture
Fortune’s Fool
45 Seconds from Broadway
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
The Graduate
If you ever leave me...I'm going with you!
Metamorphoses
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
QED
The Smell of the Kill
Topdog/Underdog

;Original musicals

;Play revivals

;Musical revivals

Into the Woods
Oklahoma!

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

class=wikitable width="95%"
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" \| Best Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" \| Best Musical
valign="top" \| The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Edward Albee Fortune's Fool – Mike Poulton Metamorphoses – Mary Zimmerman Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks \| valign="top" \| *Thoroughly Modern Millie* Mamma Mia! Sweet Smell of Success Urinetown
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Revival of a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Revival of a Musical
valign="top" \| *Private Lives* The Crucible Morning's at Seven Noises Off \| valign="top" \| *Into the Woods* Oklahoma!
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" \| *Alan Bates – Fortune's Fool* as Vassily Semyonitch Kuzovkin** Billy Crudup – The Elephant Man as John Merrick Liam Neeson – The Crucible as John Proctor Alan Rickman – Private Lives as Elyot Chase Jeffrey Wright – Topdog/Underdog as Lincoln \| valign="top" \| *Lindsay Duncan – Private Lives* as Amanda Prynne** Kate Burton – Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler Laura Linney – The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor Helen Mirren – The Dance of Death as Alice Mercedes Ruehl – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? as Stevie
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" \| *John Lithgow – Sweet Smell of Success* as J.J. Hunsecker** Gavin Creel – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Jimmy Smith John McMartin – Into the Woods as Narrator/Mysterious Man Patrick Wilson – Oklahoma! as Curly John Cullum – Urinetown as Caldwell B. Cladwell \| valign="top" \| *Sutton Foster – Thoroughly Modern Millie* as Millie Dillmount** Louise Pitre – Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan Vanessa L. Williams – Into the Woods as The Witch Nancy Opel – Urinetown as Penelope Pennywise Jennifer Laura Thompson – Urinetown as Hope Cladwell
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" \| *Frank Langella – Fortune's Fool* as Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov** Brian Murray – The Crucible as Deputy-Governor Danforth William Biff McGuire – Morning's at Seven as Theodore Swanson Sam Robards – The Man Who Had All the Luck as Gustav Eberson Stephen Tobolowsky – Morning's at Seven as Homer Bolton \| valign="top" \| *Katie Finneran – Noises Off* as Brooke Ashton** Kate Burton – The Elephant Man as Pinhead/Mrs. Kendal Elizabeth Franz – Morning's at Seven as Aaronetta Gibbs Estelle Parsons – Morning's at Seven as Cora Swanson Frances Sternhagen – Morning's at Seven as Ida Bolton
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" \| *Shuler Hensley – Oklahoma!* as Jud Fry** Gregg Edelman – Into the Woods as The Wolf / Cinderella's Prince Brian d'Arcy James – Sweet Smell of Success as Sidney Falco Marc Kudisch – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Trevor Graydon Norbert Leo Butz – Thou Shalt Not as Camille Raquin \| valign="top" \| *Harriet Sansom Harris – Thoroughly Modern Millie* as Ms. Meers** Andrea Martin – Oklahoma! as Aunt Eller Judy Kaye – Mamma Mia! as Rosie Mulligan Laura Benanti – Into the Woods as Cinderella Spencer Kayden – Urinetown as Little Sally
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Book of a Musical ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
valign="top" \| Greg Kotis – Urinetown Catherine Johnson – Mamma Mia! John Guare – Sweet Smell of Success Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan – Thoroughly Modern Millie \| valign="top" \| Urinetown – Mark Hollmann (music and lyrics) and Greg Kotis (lyrics) Sweet Smell of Success – Marvin Hamlisch (music) and Craig Carnelia (lyrics) Thoroughly Modern Millie – Jeanine Tesori (music) and Dick Scanlan (lyrics) Thou Shalt Not – Harry Connick, Jr. (music and lyrics)
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Scenic Design ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Costume Design
valign="top" \| Tim Hatley – Private Lives Daniel Ostling – Metamorphoses Douglas W. Schmidt – Into the Woods John Lee Beatty – Morning's at Seven \| valign="top" \| Martin Pakledinaz – Thoroughly Modern Millie Jenny Beavan – Private Lives Susan Hilferty – Into the Woods Jane Greenwood – Morning's at Seven
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Lighting Design ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Orchestrations
valign="top" \| Brian MacDevitt – Into the Woods David Hersey – Oklahoma! Natasha Katz – Sweet Smell of Success Paul Gallo – The Crucible \| valign="top" \| Doug Besterman and Ralph Burns– Thoroughly Modern Millie Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Martin Koch – Mamma Mia! William David Brohn – Sweet Smell of Success Bruce Coughlin – Urinetown
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Direction of a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Direction of a Musical
valign="top" \| Mary Zimmerman – Metamorphoses Howard Davies – Private Lives Richard Eyre – The Crucible Daniel Sullivan – Morning's at Seven \| valign="top" \| John Rando – Urinetown James Lapine – Into the Woods Michael Mayer – Thoroughly Modern Millie Trevor Nunn – Oklahoma!
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Choreography ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Special Theatrical Event
valign="top" \| Rob Ashford – Thoroughly Modern Millie John Carrafa – Urinetown John Carrafa – Into the Woods Susan Stroman – Oklahoma! \| valign="top" \| *Elaine Stritch at Liberty* Bea Arthur on Broadway Barbara Cook in Mostly Sondheim Sexaholix.. A Love Story

class=wikitable width="95%"

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" | Best Play

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" | Best Musical

valign="top" |

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Edward Albee
Fortune's Fool – Mike Poulton
Metamorphoses – Mary Zimmerman
Topdog/Underdog – Suzan-Lori Parks

| valign="top" |

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Revival of a Play

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Revival of a Musical

valign="top" |

| valign="top" |

Into the Woods
Oklahoma!

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" |

Alan Bates – Fortune's Fool as Vassily Semyonitch Kuzovkin
Billy Crudup – The Elephant Man as John Merrick
Liam Neeson – The Crucible as John Proctor
Alan Rickman – Private Lives as Elyot Chase
Jeffrey Wright – Topdog/Underdog as Lincoln

| valign="top" |

Lindsay Duncan – Private Lives as Amanda Prynne
Kate Burton – Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
Laura Linney – The Crucible as Elizabeth Proctor
Helen Mirren – The Dance of Death as Alice
Mercedes Ruehl – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? as Stevie

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" |

John Lithgow – Sweet Smell of Success as J.J. Hunsecker
Gavin Creel – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Jimmy Smith
John McMartin – Into the Woods as Narrator/Mysterious Man
Patrick Wilson – Oklahoma! as Curly
John Cullum – Urinetown as Caldwell B. Cladwell

| valign="top" |

Sutton Foster – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Millie Dillmount
Louise Pitre – Mamma Mia! as Donna Sheridan
Vanessa L. Williams – Into the Woods as The Witch
Nancy Opel – Urinetown as Penelope Pennywise
Jennifer Laura Thompson – Urinetown as Hope Cladwell

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" |

Frank Langella – Fortune's Fool as Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov
Brian Murray – The Crucible as Deputy-Governor Danforth
William Biff McGuire – Morning's at Seven as Theodore Swanson
Sam Robards – The Man Who Had All the Luck as Gustav Eberson
Stephen Tobolowsky – Morning's at Seven as Homer Bolton

| valign="top" |

Katie Finneran – Noises Off as Brooke Ashton
Kate Burton – The Elephant Man as Pinhead/Mrs. Kendal
Elizabeth Franz – Morning's at Seven as Aaronetta Gibbs
Estelle Parsons – Morning's at Seven as Cora Swanson
Frances Sternhagen – Morning's at Seven as Ida Bolton

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" |

Shuler Hensley – Oklahoma! as Jud Fry
Gregg Edelman – Into the Woods as The Wolf / Cinderella's Prince
Brian d'Arcy James – Sweet Smell of Success as Sidney Falco
Marc Kudisch – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Trevor Graydon
Norbert Leo Butz – Thou Shalt Not as Camille Raquin

| valign="top" |

Harriet Sansom Harris – Thoroughly Modern Millie as Ms. Meers
Andrea Martin – Oklahoma! as Aunt Eller
Judy Kaye – Mamma Mia! as Rosie Mulligan
Laura Benanti – Into the Woods as Cinderella
Spencer Kayden – Urinetown as Little Sally

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Book of a Musical

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

valign="top" |

Greg Kotis – Urinetown
Catherine Johnson – Mamma Mia!
John Guare – Sweet Smell of Success
Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan – Thoroughly Modern Millie

| valign="top" |

Urinetown – Mark Hollmann (music and lyrics) and Greg Kotis (lyrics)
Sweet Smell of Success – Marvin Hamlisch (music) and Craig Carnelia (lyrics)
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Jeanine Tesori (music) and Dick Scanlan (lyrics)
Thou Shalt Not – Harry Connick, Jr. (music and lyrics)

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Scenic Design

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Costume Design

valign="top" |

Tim Hatley – Private Lives
Daniel Ostling – Metamorphoses
Douglas W. Schmidt – Into the Woods
John Lee Beatty – Morning's at Seven

| valign="top" |

Martin Pakledinaz – Thoroughly Modern Millie
Jenny Beavan – Private Lives
Susan Hilferty – Into the Woods
Jane Greenwood – Morning's at Seven

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Lighting Design

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Orchestrations

valign="top" |

| valign="top" |

Doug Besterman and Ralph Burns– Thoroughly Modern Millie
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Martin Koch – Mamma Mia!
William David Brohn – Sweet Smell of Success
Bruce Coughlin – Urinetown

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Direction of a Play

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Direction of a Musical

valign="top" |

| valign="top" |

John Rando – Urinetown
James Lapine – Into the Woods
Michael Mayer – Thoroughly Modern Millie
Trevor Nunn – Oklahoma!

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Choreography

! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Special Theatrical Event

valign="top" |

Rob Ashford – Thoroughly Modern Millie
John Carrafa – Urinetown
John Carrafa – Into the Woods
Susan Stroman – Oklahoma!

| valign="top" |

Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Bea Arthur on Broadway
Barbara Cook in Mostly Sondheim
Sexaholix.. A Love Story

Special awards

Source: TheaterManiaPortantiere, Michael. [https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/jennifer-jason-leigh-and-steven-weber-announce-ton_2135.html "Jennifer Jason Leigh and Steven Weber Announce Tony Nominees at Sardi's"] theatermania.com, May 6, 2002