Tony Award 2006

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Tony Award 2006

date June 11, 2006
Loan location Radio City Music Hall , NYC
Country United States
Awarded by American Theater Wing and The Broadway League
First awarded 1947
website www.tonyawards.com
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The awarding of the Tony Awards 2006 took place on 11. June 2006 in the Radio City Music Hall in New York City instead. It was the 60th Annual American Theater Wing's Tony Awards . In the year of the award, plays / musicals from the previous season are always awarded, in this case from 2005/2006.

Winners and nominees

Plays

Most of the Tonys The History Boys (6 Tonys)
Most of the nominations Awake and Sing! (8 nominations)
category Award winners Play Nominations
Best play Writer: Alan Bennett
Producers: Boyett Ostar Productions , Roger Berlind , Debra Black , Eric Falkenstein , Roy Furman , Jam Theatricals , Stephanie P. McClelland , Judith Resnick , Scott Rudin , Jon Avnet / Ralph Guild , Dede Harris / Mort Swinsky , The National Theater of Great Britain
The History Boys The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire
Shining City by Conor McPherson
Best revival of a play Awake and Sing! The Constant Wife
Seascape
Faith Healer
Best Actor Richard Griffiths The History Boys Ralph Fiennes for Faith Healer
Željko Ivanek for The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Oliver Platt for Shining City
David Wilmot for The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Best main actress Cynthia Nixon Rabbit Hole Kate Burton for The Constant Wife
Judy Kaye for Souvenir
Lisa Kron for Well
Lynn Redgrave for The Constant Wife
Best supporting actor Ian McDiarmid Faith Healer Samuel Barnett for The History Boys
Domhnall Gleeson for The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Mark Ruffalo for Awake and Sing!
Pablo Schreiber for Awake and Sing!
The best supporting actress Frances de la Tour The History Boys Tyne Daly for Rabbit Hole
Jayne Houdyshell for Well
Alison Pill for The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Zoë Wanamaker for Awake and Sing!
Best theater direction Nicholas Hytner The History Boys Wilson Milam for The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Bartlett Sher for Awake and Sing!
Daniel Sullivan for Rabbit Hole
Best stage design Bob Crowley The History Boys John Lee Beatty for Rabbit Hole
Santo Loquasto for Three Days of Rain
Michael Yeargan for Awake and Sing!
Best costumes Catherine Zuber Awake and Sing! Michael Krass for The Constant Wife
Santo Loquasto for A Touch of the Poet
Catherine Zuber for Seascape
Best lighting design Mark Henderson The History Boys Christopher Akerlind for Awake and Sing!
Paul Gallo for Three Days of Rain
Mark Henderson for Faith Healer
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theater BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop
Forbidden Broadway and Gerard Alessandrini
Samuel Liff
Ellen Stewart
Special Tony Award Harold Prince (life's work)
Sarah Jones
Regional Theater Tony Award Intiman Theater

Musicals

Most Tonys (musical) The Drowsy Chaperone (5 Tonys)
Most nominations (musical) The Drowsy Chaperone (13 nominations)
category Award winners musical Nominations
Best musical Jersey boys The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer
Best musical libretto Bob Martin and Don McKellar The Drowsy Chaperone Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy for The Wedding Singer
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice for Jersey Boys
Marsha Norman for The Color Purple
Best original music Music & Text: Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison The Drowsy Chaperone Music & Text: Brenda Russell , Stephen Bray and Allee Willis for The Color Purple
Music & Text: Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin for The Wedding Singer
Music & Text: Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Zippel for The Woman in White
Best revival of a musical The Pajama Game Sweeney Todd
The Threepenny Opera
Best Actor John Lloyd Young Jersey boys Michael Cerveris for Sweeney Todd
Harry Connick for The Pajama Game
Stephen Lynch for The Wedding Singer
Bob Martin for The Drowsy Chaperone
Best main actress LaChanze The Color Purple Sutton Foster for The Drowsy Chaperone
Patti LuPone for Sweeney Todd
Kelli O'Hara for The Pajama Game
Chita Rivera for Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life
Best supporting actor Christian Hoff Jersey boys Danny Burstein for The Drowsy Chaperone
Jim Dale for The Threepenny Opera
Brandon Victor Dixon for The Color Purple
Manoel Felciano for Sweeney Todd
The best supporting actress Beth Leavel The Drowsy Chaperone Carolee Carmello for Lestat
Felicia P. Fields for The Color Purple
Megan Lawrence for The Pajama Game
Elisabeth Withers-Mendes for The Color Purple
Best musical director John Doyle Sweeney Todd Kathleen Marshall for The Pajama Game
Des McAnuff for Jersey Boys
Casey Nicholaw for The Drowsy Chaperone
Best choreography Kathleen Marshall The Pajama Game Rob Ashford for The Wedding Singer
Donald Byrd for The Color Purple
Casey Nicholaw for The Drowsy Chaperone
Best orchestration Sarah Travis Sweeney Todd Larry Blank for The Drowsy Chaperone
Dick Lieb and Danny Troob for The Pajama Game
Steve Orich for Jersey Boys
Best stage design David Gallo The Drowsy Chaperone John Lee Beatty for The Color Purple
Derek McLane for The Pajama Game
Klara Zieglerova for Jersey Boys
Best costumes Gregg Barnes The Drowsy Chaperone Susan Hilferty for Lestat
Martin Pakledinaz for The Pajama Game
Paul Tazewell for The Color Purple
Best lighting design Howell Binkley Jersey boys Ken Billington and Brian Monahan for The Drowsy Chaperone
Natasha Katz for Tarzan
Brian MacDevitt for The Color Purple