38th Tony Awards

38th Tony Awards
Date	June 3, 1984
Location	Gershwin Theatre, New York City, New York
Host	Julie Andrews and Robert Preston
Television/Radio coverage
Network	CBS

The 38th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 3, 1984 at the Gershwin Theatre and broadcast by CBS television. Hosts were Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.^[1]

The ceremony

Presenters and performers:^[2] Carol Channing, Marilyn Cooper, Nancy Dussault, Robert Goulet, Robert Guillaume, Beth Howland, Larry Kert, Michele Lee, Dorothy Loudon, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Mary Tyler Moore, Anita Morris, Bernadette Peters, Anthony Quinn, Tony Randall, Tony Roberts, Chita Rivera, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Raquel Welch

Musicals represented:^[2]

• Baby ("I Want It All" - Liz Callaway, Catherine Cox and Beth Fowler)
• La Cage aux Folles ("We Are What We Are" - Company/"I Am What I Am" - George Hearn)
• The Tap Dance Kid ("Fabulous Feet" - Hinton Battle, Company)
• The Rink ("Wallflower" - Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli)
• Sunday in the Park with George ("Sunday" - Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Company)

There was a special salute to the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim.^[1] The Finale was a medley of Jerry Herman songs, including "Milk and Honey' and "Shalom" (Robert Goulet), "Before the Parade Passes By" (Carol Channing), "It Only Takes a Moment" (Nancy Dussault), "Hello, Dolly!" (chorus plus Channing), "If He Walked Into My Life" (Leslie Uggams) and "Mame" (Dorothy Loudon); a Mack & Mabel medley with Robert Preston ("I Won't Send Roses") and Bernadette Peters ("Time Heals Everything"); and a La Cage aux Folles segment with Gene Barry, the Cagelles, and George Hearn, ("I Am What I Am").^[1] The first Brooks Atkinson Award for lifetime contribution to the theater was given to Al Hirschfeld.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Winners in bold

Best Play	Best Musical
The Real Thing – Tom Stoppard Glengarry Glen Ross – David Mamet Noises Off – Michael Frayn Play Memory – Joanna Glass	La Cage aux Folles Baby Sunday in the Park with George The Tap Dance Kid
Best Revival	Best Book of a Musical
Death of a Salesman American Buffalo Heartbreak House A Moon for the Misbegotten	Harvey Fierstein – La Cage aux Folles Sybille Pearson – Baby James Lapine – Sunday in the Park with George Charles Blackwell – The Tap Dance Kid
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Jeremy Irons – The Real Thing as Henry Calvin Levels – Open Admissions as Calvin Jefferson Rex Harrison – Heartbreak House as Captain Shotover Ian McKellen – Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare as Performer	Glenn Close – The Real Thing as Annie Rosemary Harris – Heartbreak House as Hesione Hushabye Linda Hunt – End of the World as Audrey Wood Kate Nelligan – A Moon for the Misbegotten as Josie Hogan
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
George Hearn – La Cage aux Folles as Albin Gene Barry – La Cage aux Folles as Georges Ron Moody – Oliver! as Fagin Mandy Patinkin – Sunday in the Park with George as George	Chita Rivera – The Rink as Anna Rhetta Hughes – Amen Corner as Sister Margaret Alexander Liza Minnelli – The Rink as Angel Bernadette Peters – Sunday in the Park with George as Dot/Marie
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Joe Mantegna – Glengarry Glen Ross as Richard Roma Philip Bosco – Heartbreak House as Boss Mangan Robert Prosky – Glengarry Glen Ross as Shelly Levene Douglas Seale – Noises Off as Selsdon Mowbray	Christine Baranski – The Real Thing as Charlotte Jo Henderson – Play Memory as Ruth MacMillan Dana Ivey – Heartbreak House as Lady Utterword Deborah Rush – Noises Off as Brooke Ashton
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Hinton Battle – The Tap Dance Kid as Dipsey Stephen Geoffreys – The Human Comedy as Homer Todd Graff – Baby as Danny Samuel E. Wright – The Tap Dance Kid as William	Lila Kedrova – Zorba as Madame Hortense Martine Allard – The Tap Dance Kid as Emma Liz Callaway – Baby as Lizzie Fields Dana Ivey – Sunday in the Park with George as Yvonne/Naomi Eisen
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Best Choreography
La Cage aux Folles – Jerry Herman (music and lyrics) Baby – David Shire (music) and Richard Maltby, Jr. (lyrics) The Rink – John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics) Sunday in the Park with George – Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics)	Danny Daniels – The Tap Dance Kid Wayne Cilento – Baby Graciela Daniele – The Rink Scott Salmon – La Cage aux Folles
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Mike Nichols – The Real Thing Michael Blakemore – Noises Off David Leveaux – A Moon for the Misbegotten Gregory Mosher – Glengarry Glen Ross	Arthur Laurents – La Cage aux Folles James Lapine – Sunday in the Park with George Richard Maltby, Jr. – Baby Vivian Matalon – The Tap Dance Kid
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Tony Straiges – Sunday in the Park with George Clarke Dunham – End of the World Peter Larkin – The Rink Tony Walton – The Real Thing	Theoni V. Aldredge – La Cage aux Folles Jane Greenwood – Heartbreak House Anthea Sylbert – The Real Thing Patricia Zipprodt and Ann Hould-Ward – Sunday in the Park with George
Best Lighting Design
Richard Nelson – Sunday in the Park with George Ken Billington – End of the World Jules Fisher – La Cage aux Folles Marc B. Weiss – A Moon for the Misbegotten

Special awards

• To director Peter Brook and producer Alexander H. Cohen for La tragédie de Carmen, for outstanding achievement in musical theatre^[4]
• Peter Feller, a master craftsman who has devoted forty years to theatre stagecraft and magic
• A Chorus Line producer Joseph Papp was presented with a special Gold Tony Award in honor of becoming Broadway's longest-running musical^[4]
• Al Hirschfeld, Brooks Atkinson Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Regional Theatre Award

• Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California

References

1. Gans, Andrew.playbill.com article, July 1, 2005, "Diva Talk: A Backwards Glance—the 1984 Tonys PLUS Ripley, Menzel and Jones" playbill.com, July 1, 2005
2. "1984 - 38th Annual Tony Awards" tonyawards.com, accessed April 30, 2011
3. O'Connor, John J. "The 38th Tony Awards" The New York Times, June 5, 1984, p. C17
4. Freedman, Samuel G. " 'Real Thing' And 'La Cage' Dominate The Tony Awards", The New York Times, June 4, 1984, p.C11

External links

• Tony Awards official site