| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- Amadeus – Peter Shaffer
- A Lesson from Aloes – Athol Fugard
- A Life – Hugh Leonard
- Fifth of July – Lanford Wilson
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- 42nd Street
- Sophisticated Ladies
- Tintypes
- Woman of the Year
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| Best Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Brigadoon
- Camelot
- The Little Foxes
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- Peter Stone – Woman of the Year
- Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble – 42nd Street
- Monty Norman and Julian More – The Moony Shapiro Songbook
- Mary Kyte – Tintypes
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Ian McKellen – Amadeus as Antonio Salieri
- Tim Curry – Amadeus as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Roy Dotrice – A Life as Drumm
- Jack Weston – The Floating Light Bulb as Jerry Wexler
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- Jane Lapotaire – Piaf as Edith Piaf
- Glenda Jackson – Rose as Rose
- Eva Le Gallienne – To Grandmother's House We Go as Grandie
- Elizabeth Taylor – The Little Foxes as Regina Giddens
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Kevin Kline – The Pirates of Penzance as The Pirate King
- Gregory Hines – Sophisticated Ladies as Performer
- George Rose – The Pirates of Penzance as Major-General
- Martin Vidnovic – Brigadoon as Tommy Albright
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- Lauren Bacall – Woman of the Year as Tess Harding
- Meg Bussert – Brigadoon as Fiona MacLaren
- Chita Rivera – Bring Back Birdie as Rosie Alvarez
- Linda Ronstadt – The Pirates of Penzance as Mabel
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- Brian Backer – The Floating Light Bulb as Paul Pollack
- Tom Aldredge – The Little Foxes as Horace Giddens
- Adam Redfield – A Life as Desmond
- Shepperd Strudwick – To Grandmother's House We Go as Jared
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- Swoosie Kurtz – Fifth of July as Gwen Landis
- Maureen Stapleton – The Little Foxes as Birdie Hubbard
- Jessica Tandy – Rose as Mother
- Zoë Wanamaker – Piaf as Toine
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Hinton Battle – Sophisticated Ladies as Various Characters
- Tony Azito – The Pirates of Penzance as Sergeant of Police
- Lee Roy Reams – 42nd Street as Billy Lawlor
- Paxton Whitehead – Camelot as King Pellinore
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- Marilyn Cooper – Woman of the Year as Jan Donovan
- Phyllis Hyman – Sophisticated Ladies as Various Characters
- Wanda Richert – 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer
- Lynne Thigpen – Tintypes as Sussanah
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- Woman of the Year – John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics)
- Charlie and Algernon – Charles Strouse (music) and David Rogers (lyrics)
- Copperfield – Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (music and lyrics)
- Shakespeare's Cabaret – Lance Mulcahy (music)
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- Gower Champion – 42nd Street
- Graciela Daniele – The Pirates of Penzance
- Henry LeTang, Donald McKayle, and Michael Smuin – Sophisticated Ladies
- Roland Petit – Can-Can
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Peter Hall – Amadeus
- Peter Coe – A Life
- Marshall W. Mason – Fifth of July
- Austin Pendleton – The Little Foxes
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- Wilford Leach – The Pirates of Penzance
- Gower Champion – 42nd Street
- Robert Moore – Woman of the Year
- Michael Smuin – Sophisticated Ladies
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- John Bury – Amadeus
- John Lee Beatty – Fifth of July
- Santo Loquasto – The Suicide
- David Mitchell – Can-Can
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- Willa Kim – Sophisticated Ladies
- Theoni V. Aldredge – 42nd Street
- John Bury – Amadeus
- Franca Squarciapino – Can-Can
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| Best Lighting Design |
- John Bury – Amadeus
- Tharon Musser – 42nd Street
- Dennis Parichy – Fifth of July
- Jennifer Tipton – Sophisticated Ladies
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