Tony Awards 2013: Winners List

The 2013 Tony Awards took place last night. The feel-good musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, strutted away with a leading six 2013 Tony Awards, including best musical, best original score and best leading man.

The Broadway revival of Pippin picked up several awards, including Best Actress for Patina Miller (pictured right) who created the role of Deloris Van Cartier is the West End production of Sister Act. The Broadway transfer of Matilda The Musical picked up four awards.

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play
WINNER: Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Other nominees: Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy; Nathan Lane, The Nance; David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Tom Sturridge, Orphans

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play
WINNER: Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Other nominees: Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place; Amy Morton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Holland Taylor, ANN

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical
WINNER: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots

Other nominees: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical; Santino Fontana, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella; Rob McClure, Chaplin; Stark Sands, Kinky Boots

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical
WINNER: Patina Miller, Pippin

Other nominees: Stephanie J. Block, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Carolee Carmello, Scandalous; Valisia LeKae, Motown: The Musical; Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best revival of a play
WINNER: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Other nominees: Golden Boy; Orphans; The Trip to Bountiful

Best play
WINNER: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Other nominees: The Assembled Parties; Lucky Guy; The Testament of Mary

Best musical
WINNER: Kinky Boots

Other nominees: Bring It On: The Musical; A Christmas Story, The Musical; Matilda The Musical

Best revival of a musical
WINNER: Pippin

Other nominees: Annie; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play
WINNER: Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy

Other nominees: Danny Burstein, Golden Boy; Richard Kind, The Big Knife; Billy Magnussen,Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play
WINNER: Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Other nominees: Carrie Coon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Shalita Grant, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Judith Ivey, The Heiress; Condola Rashad, The Trip to Bountiful

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical
WINNER: Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical

Other nominees: Charl Brown, Motown: The Musical; Keith Carradine, Hands on a Hardbody; Will Chase, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Terrence Mann, Pippin

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical
WINNER: Andrea Martin, Pippin

Other nominees: Annaleigh Ashford, Kinky Boots; Victoria Clark, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella; Keala Settle, Hands on a Hardbody; Lauren Ward, Matilda The Musical

Best direction of a play
WINNER: Pam MacKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Other nominees: Nicholas Martin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Bartlett Sher, Golden Boy; George C. Wolfe, Lucky Guy

Best direction of a musical
WINNER: Diane Paulus, Pippin

Other nominees: Scott Ellis, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots; Matthew Warchus, Matilda The Musical

Best book of a musical
WINNER: Matilda The Musical, Dennis Kelly

Other nominees: A Christmas Story, The Musical, Joseph Robinette; Kinky Boots, Harvey Fierstein ; Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, Douglas Carter Beane

Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the theatre
WINNER: Kinky Boots, music & lyrics: Cyndi Lauper

Other nominees: A Christmas Story, The Musical, music and Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul; Hands on a Hardbody, music: Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green; Lyrics: Amanda Green; Matilda The Musical, music & lyrics: Tim Minchin

Best scenic design of a play
WINNER: John Lee Beatty, The Nance

Other nominees: Santo Loquasto, The Assembled Parties; David Rockwell, Lucky Guy; Michael Yeargan, Golden Boy

Best scenic design of a musical
WINNER: Rob Howell, Matilda: The Musical

Other nominees: Anna Louizos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Scott Pask, Pippin; David Rockwell, Kinky Boots

Best costume design of a play
WINNER: Ann Roth, The Nance

Other nominees: Soutra Gilmour, Cyrano de Bergerac; Albert Wolsky, The Heiress; Catherine Zuber, Golden Boy

Best costume design of a musical
WINNER: William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Other nominees: Gregg Barnes, Kinky Boots; Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical; Dominique Lemieux, Pippin

Best lighting design of a play
WINNER: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy

Other nominees: Donald Holder, Golden Boy; Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary; Japhy Weideman, The Nance

Best lighting design of a musical
WINNER: Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical

Other nominees: Kenneth Posner, Kinky Boots; Kenneth Posner, Pippin; Kenneth Posner, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best sound design of a play
WINNER: Leon Rothenberg, The Nance

Other nominees: John Gromada, The Trip to Bountiful; Mel Mercier, The Testament of Mary; Peter John Still and Marc Salzberg, Golden Boy

Best sound design of a musical
WINNER: John Shivers, Kinky Boots

Other nominees: Jonathan Deans & Garth Helm, Pippin; Peter Hylenski, Motown: The Musical; Nevin Steinberg, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best choreography
WINNER: Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots

Other nominees: Andy Blankenbuehler, Bring It On: The Musical; Peter Darling, Matilda The Musical; Chet Walker, Pippin

Best orchestrations
WINNER: Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots

Other nominees: Chris Nightingale, Matilda The Musical; Ethan Popp & Bryan Crook, Motown: The Musical; Danny Troob, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the TheatreBernard Gersten
Paul Libin
Ming Cho Lee

Regional Theatre Award
Huntington Theatre Company, Boston

Isabelle Stevenson Award
Larry Kramer

Tony Honor for Excellence in the TheatreCareer Transition For Dancers
William Craver
Peter Lawrence
The Lost Colony
The four actresses who created the title role of Matilda The Musical on Broadway — Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro.

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