Tony Award 2015

Tony Award 2015
Moderators 2015: Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming
date	June 7, 2015
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 Award in 2015 ( 69th Annual Tony Awards ) took place on 7. June 2015 in the Radio City Music Hall in New York City and was hosted live from the transmitter CBS transmitted. The awards went to plays and musicals from the 2014/15 season that opened on Broadway until April 23, 2015. The nominations were announced on April 28, 2015. The ceremony was moderated by Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming . The categories Best Sound Design and Best Sound Design (Musical) , introduced in 2008, were no longer awarded because they were abolished in the course of rule changes after the award ceremony in 2014 . However, exceptional achievements in this area can still be honored as part of the Special Tony Award .

Winners and nominees

Plays

Most of the Tonys	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (5 Tonys)
Most of the nominations	Wolf Hall Parts One & Two (8 nominations)

category	Award winners	Play	Nominations
Best play		The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Disgraced Hand to God Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Best revival of a play		Skylight	The Elephant Man This is Our Youth You Can't Take It With You
Best Actor	Alex Sharp	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (as Christopher Boone)	Steven Boyer for Hand to God Bradley Cooper for The Elephant Man Ben Miles for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Bill Nighy for Skylight
Best main actress	Helen Mirren	The Audience (as Queen Elizabeth II)	Geneva Carr for Hand to God Elisabeth Moss for The Heidi Chronicles Carey Mulligan for Skylight Ruth Wilson for Constellations
Best supporting actor	Richard McCabe	The audience	Matthew Beard for Skylight K. Todd Freeman for Airline Highway Alessandro Nivola for The Elephant Man Nathaniel Parker for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Micah Stock for It's Only a Play
The best supporting actress	Annaleigh Ashford	You can't take it with you	Patricia Clarkson for The Elephant Man Lydia Leonard for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Sarah Stiles for Hand to God Julie White for Airline Highway
Best theater direction	Marianne Elliott	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Stephen Daldry for Skylight Scott Ellis for You Can't Take It with You Jeremy Herrin for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Moritz von Stuelpnagel for Hand to God
Best stage design	Bunny Christie and Finn Ross	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Bob Crowley for Skylight Christopher Oram for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two David Rockwell for You Can't Take It with You
Best costumes	Christopher Oram	Wolf Hall Parts One & Two	Bob Crowley for The Audience Jane Greenwood for You Can't Take It with You David Zinn for Airline Highway
Best lighting design	Paule Constable	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Paule Constable and David Plater for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Natasha Katz for Skylight Japhy Weideman for Airline Highway
Tony Honors for Excellence in Theater	Arnold Abramson Adrian Bryan-Brown Gene O'Donovan
Special Tony Award	John Cameron Mitchell Tommy Tune
Isabelle Stevenson Award	Stephen Schwartz
Regional Theater Tony Award	Cleveland Play House , Cleveland

Musicals

Most of the Tonys	Fun Home (5 Tonys)
Most of the nominations	An American in Paris and Fun Home (12 nominations each)

category	Award winners	musical	Nominations
Best musical		Fun home	An American in Paris Something Rotten! The Visit
Best musical libretto	Lisa Kron	Fun home	Craig Lucas for An American in Paris Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrel for Something Rotten! Terrence McNally for The Visit
Best original music from a musical or a play	Music: Jeanine Tesori , text: Lisa Kron	Fun home	Music and Text: Sting for The Last Ship Text and Music: Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick for Something Rotten! Music: John Kander , lyrics: Fred Ebb for The Visit
Best revival of a musical		The King and I	On the Town On the Twentieth Century
Best Actor	Michael Cerveris	Fun home	Robert Fairchild for An American in Paris Brian d'Arcy James for Something Rotten! Ken Watanabe for The King and I Tony Yazbeck for On the Town
Best main actress	Kelli O'Hara	The King and I	Kristin Chenoweth for On the Twentieth Century Leanne Cope for An American in Paris Beth Malone for Fun Home Chita Rivera for The Visit
Best supporting actor	Christian Borle	Something Rotten!	Andy Karl for On the Twentieth Century Brad Oscar for Something Rotten! Brandon Uranowitz for An American in Paris Max von Essen for An American in Paris
The best supporting actress	Ruthie Ann Miles	The King and I	Victoria Clark for Gigi Judy Kuhn for Fun Home Sydney Lucas for Fun Home Emily Skeggs for Fun Home
Best musical director	Sam Gold	Fun home	Casey Nicholaw for Something Rotten! John Rando for On the Town Bartlett Sher for The King and I Christopher Wheeldon for An American in Paris
Best choreography	Christopher Wheeldon	An American in Paris	Joshua Bergasse for On the Town Christopher Gattelli for The King and I Scott Graham , Steven Hoggett and Frantic Assembly for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Casey Nicholaw for Something Rotten!
Best orchestration	Christopher Austin , Don Sebesky and Bill Elliott	An American in Paris	John Clancy for Fun Home Larry Hochman for Something Rotten! Rob Mathes for The Last Ship
Best stage design	Bob Crowley	An American in Paris	David Rockwell for On the Twentieth Century Michael Yeargan for The King and I David Zinn for Fun Home
Best costumes	Catherine Zuber	The King and I	Gregg Barnes for Something Rotten! Bob Crowley for An American in Paris William Ivey Long for On the Twentieth Century
Best lighting design	Natasha Katz	An American in Paris	Donald Holder for The King and I Ben Stanton for Fun Home Japhy Weideman for The Visit

Web links

Tony Awards website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philippe Bowgen: Tony Awards Administration Committee Eliminates Sound Design Categories. playbill.com, June 11, 2014, accessed May 1, 2016 .