37th Tony Awards

37th Tony Awards
Date	June 5, 1983
Location	Gershwin Theatre, New York City, New York
Host	Richard Burton, Lena Horne, and Jack Lemmon
Television/Radio coverage
Network	CBS

The 37th Annual Tony Awards was held at the Gershwin Theatre on June 5, 1983 and broadcast by CBS television. Hosts were Richard Burton, Lena Horne, and Jack Lemmon.

The ceremony

Presenters included George Abbott, Diahann Carroll, David Cassidy, James Coco, Cleavant Derricks, Colleen Dewhurst, Sergio Franchi, Bonnie Franklin, Peter Michael Goetz, Mark Hamill, Cheryl Hartley, Florence Lacey, Frank Langella, Court Miller, Liliane Montevecchi, Jerry Orbach, Jay Patterson, John Rubinstein, and Pamela Sousa.^[1]

The Special Salute was a medley of George Gershwin songs. At the end of the ceremony the Uris Theatre was renamed the Gershwin Theatre.^[2] Songs included: "The Real American Folk Song" sung by Diahann Carroll, "Stairway to Paradise" sung by Ben Vereen, "Somebody Loves Me" sung by Jack Lemmon and Ginger Rogers, "Lady Be Good" sung by Hal Linden and Ginger Rogers, "Someone to Watch Over Me" sung by Melissa Manchester, "How Long Has This Been Going On?" sung by Bonnie Franklin, "Vodka" sung by Dorothy Loudon, "I've Got Rhythm" sung by Michele Lee and "There's a Boat dat's Leavin' Soon For New York" sung by Robert Guillaume.^[1]

Musicals represented:^[1]

• Cats, "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" - Company/"Memory" - Betty Buckley
• Merlin, "It's About Magic" - Doug Henning, Company
• My One and Only, "Kicking the Clouds Away" - Tommy Tune, Company

Winners and nominees

Source: BroadwayWorld^[3]

Winners are in bold

Best Play	Best Musical
Torch Song Trilogy – Harvey Fierstein Angels Fall – Lanford Wilson 'night, Mother – Marsha Norman Plenty – David Hare	Cats Blues in the Night Merlin My One and Only
Best Revival	Best Book of a Musical
On Your Toes All's Well That Ends Well A View from the Bridge The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial	T.S. Eliot – Cats Betty Comden and Adolph Green – A Doll's Life Richard Levinson and William Link – Merlin Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer – My One and Only
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Harvey Fierstein – Torch Song Trilogy as Arnold Beckoff Jeffrey DeMunn – K2 as Taylor Edward Herrmann – Plenty as Raymond Brock Tony Lo Bianco – A View from the Bridge as Eddie	Jessica Tandy – Foxfire as Annie Nations Kathy Bates – 'night, Mother as Jessie Cates Kate Nelligan – Plenty as Susan Traherne Anne Pitoniak – 'night, Mother as Thelma Cates
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Tommy Tune – My One and Only as Cpt. Billy Buck Chandler Al Green – Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God as Performer George Hearn – A Doll's Life as Various Characters Michael V. Smartt – Porgy and Bess as Porgy	Natalia Makarova – On Your Toes as Vera Barnova Lonette McKee – Show Boat as Julie LaVerne Chita Rivera – Merlin as The Queen Twiggy – My One and Only as Edith Herbert
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Matthew Broderick – Brighton Beach Memoirs as Eugene Jerome Željko Ivanek – Brighton Beach Memoirs as Stanley Jerome George N. Martin – Plenty as Leonard Darwin Stephen Moore – All's Well That Ends Well as Captain Parolles	Judith Ivey – Steaming as Josie Elizabeth Franz – Brighton Beach Memoirs as Kate Jerome Roxanne Hart – Passion as Kate Margaret Tyzack – All's Well That Ends Well as The Countess of Rossillion
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Charles "Honi" Coles – My One and Only as Mr. Magix Harry Groener – Cats as Munkustrap Stephen Hanan – Cats as Various Characters Lara Teeter – On Your Toes as Junior	Betty Buckley – Cats as Grizabella Christine Andreas – On Your Toes as Frankie Frayne Karla Burns – Show Boat as Queenie Denny Dillon – My One and Only as Mickey
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Best Choreography
Cats – Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and T.S. Eliot (lyrics) A Doll's Life – Larry Grossman (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) Merlin – Elmer Bernstein (music) and Don Black (lyrics) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn (music) and Johnny Mercer, Kasha and Hirschhorn (lyrics)	Thommie Walsh and Tommy Tune – My One and Only George Faison – Porgy and Bess Gillian Lynne – Cats Donald Saddler – On Your Toes
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Gene Saks – Brighton Beach Memoirs Marshall W. Mason – Angels Fall Tom Moore – 'night, Mother Trevor Nunn – All's Well That Ends Well	Trevor Nunn – Cats Michael Kahn – Show Boat Ivan Reitman – Merlin Tommy Tune and Thommie Walsh – My One and Only
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Ming Cho Lee – K2 John Gunter – All's Well That Ends Well David Mitchell – Foxfire John Napier – Cats	John Napier – Cats Lindy Hemming – All's Well That Ends Well Rita Ryack – My One and Only Patricia Zipprodt – Alice in Wonderland
Best Lighting Design
David Hersey – Cats Ken Billington – Foxfire Robert & Beverly Bryan – All's Well That Ends Well Allen Lee Hughes – K2

Special awards

• Regional Theatre Award - Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association

References

1. "1983 - 37th Annual Tony Awards" tonyawards.com, accessed April 30, 2011
2. Lawson, Carol." 'Cats' And 'Torch Song Trilogy' Win Top Tonys" New York Times (abstract), June 6, 1983, p. C11
3. "1983 Tony Award Winners" broadwayworld.com, accessed April 30, 2011 Archived July 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

• Official Site