• Source: 54th Tony Awards

      • The 54th Annual Tony Awards was an event held at Radio City Music Hall on June 4, 2000, and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS. It was hosted, for the third time since 1997, by Rosie O'Donnell, with special guest Nathan Lane.


      Eligibility


      Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1999–2000 season, before May 2, 2000, were eligible.


      Ceremony


      The opening number was "A Tony Opening", performed by Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Jesse L. Martin, and Megan Mullally.
      Production numbers from musicals included Contact, Boyd Gaines and the Girl in the Yellow Dress, Deborah Yates; Kiss Me, Kate, "Too Darn Hot"; Jesus Christ Superstar, "Superstar" and "Gethsemane"; The Music Man, Craig Bierko in "Seventy-Six Trombones" ; The Wild Party, medley from Mandy Patinkin, Eartha Kitt and Toni Collette; Swing!, medley from company and Ann Hampton Callaway and Laura Benanti; and James Joyce's The Dead, "Parnell's Plight."
      Ten awards were presented prior to the main ceremony and were broadcast on Public Television in a show titled "The First 10 Awards: Tonys 2000." The show had interviews and showed clips from the season's productions, and presented the awards: Direction (Play and Musical), Choreography, Original Score, Book of a Musical, Costume Design, Scenic Design, Orchestration, Lighting Design and Regional Theater. Michael Blakemore is the only director to win Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play and Best Director of a Musical in the same year. He won this year for Copenhagen (play) and Kiss Me, Kate (musical).
      The television ratings for this broadcast were 7.2, down from the 1999 Tony Award broadcast of 7.9. In prior years in which O'Donnell hosted, the program had ratings of 11.2 (1997) and 10.3 (1998).


      Contact controversy


      The winner of the award for Best Musical, Contact, raised controversy about what constitutes a musical, as it is a dance musical with no singing and minimal dialogue; and instead of original music, it uses pre-recorded music and songs. As a result of the controversy, a new category was created for the Tony Awards: Best Special Theatrical Event.


      Winners and nominees


      Winners are in bold


      Special awards


      Regional Theatre Award

      The Utah Shakespearean Festival
      Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award

      T. Edward Hambleton
      Special Tony Award For a Live Theatrical Presentation

      Dame Edna: The Royal Tour
      Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

      Eileen Heckart
      Sylvia Herscher
      City Center Encores!


      = Multiple nominations and awards

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      See also


      Drama Desk Awards
      2000 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
      Obie Award
      New York Drama Critics' Circle
      Theatre World Award
      Lucille Lortel Awards


      References




      External links


      Official Site Tony Awards

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