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Tony Awards 1988

The 42nd Tony Awards · Held June 5, 1988 · 15 categories · everything in 1988

Best Play

Winner M. Butterfly · David Henry Hwang
Nominee A Walk in the Woods · Lee Blessing
Nominee Joe Turner's Come and Gone · August Wilson
Nominee Speed-the-Plow · David Mamet

Best Musical

Best Actor in a Play

Winner Ron Silver · Speed-the-Plow
Nominee Robert Prosky · A Walk in the Woods
Nominee Derek Jacobi
Nominee John Lithgow · M. Butterfly

Best Actress in a Play

Winner Joan Allen
Nominee Blythe Danner · A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominee Frances McDormand · A Streetcar Named Desire
Nominee Glenda Jackson

Best Actor in a Musical

Winner Michael Crawford · The Phantom of the Opera
Nominee David Carroll
Nominee Howard McGillin
Nominee Scott Bakula · Romance/Romance

Best Actress in a Musical

Best Book of a Musical

Winner Into the Woods · James Lapine
Nominee Romance/Romance
Nominee The Gospel at Colonus · Lee Breuer
Nominee The Phantom of the Opera · Richard Stilgoe, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Best Choreography

Winner Anything Goes · Michael Smuin
Nominee Into the Woods · Lar Lubovitch
Nominee Sarafina! · Mbongeni Ngema
Nominee The Phantom of the Opera · Gillian Lynne

Best Direction of a Musical

Winner The Phantom of the Opera · Harold Prince
Nominee Anything Goes · Jerry Zaks
Nominee Into the Woods · James Lapine
Nominee Sarafina! · Mbongeni Ngema

Best Direction of a Play

Winner M. Butterfly · John Dexter
Nominee Breaking the Code · Clifford Williams
Nominee Joe Turner's Come and Gone · Lloyd Richards
Nominee Speed-the-Plow · Gregory Mosher

Best Featured Actor in a Musical

Winner Bill McCutcheon · Anything Goes
Nominee Anthony Heald · Anything Goes
Nominee Werner Klemperer · Cabaret
Nominee Robert Westenberg · Into the Woods

Best Featured Actor in a Play

Winner BD Wong · M. Butterfly
Nominee Delroy Lindo · Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Nominee Lou Liberatore
Nominee Michael Gough

Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Winner Judy Kaye · The Phantom of the Opera
Nominee Regina Resnik · Cabaret
Nominee Alyson Reed · Cabaret
Nominee Leleti Khumalo · Sarafina!

Best Featured Actress in a Play

Winner L. Scott Caldwell · Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Nominee Kimberly Scott · Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Nominee Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Nominee Kate Nelligan
Nominee Kimberleigh Aarn

Best Original Score

Winner Into the Woods · Stephen Sondheim
Nominee Romance/Romance · Barry Harman, Keith Herrmann
Nominee Sarafina! · Hugh Masekela, Mbongeni Ngema
Nominee The Phantom of the Opera · Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe