34th Tony Awards

The 34th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS television on June 8, 1980, from the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The hosts were Mary Tyler Moore and Jason Robards. The theme was "understudies"; each of the hosts and presenters had been understudies and offered anecdotes of that beginning.

The ceremony
Presenters: Eve Arden, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Faye Dunaway, Mia Farrow, James Earl Jones, Elia Kazan, Richard Kiley, James MacArthur, Nancy Marchand, Dudley Moore, Anthony Perkins, Gilda Radner, Lynn Redgrave, Tony Roberts, Jessica Tandy, Cicely Tyson, Dick Van Dyke.

Musicals represented:
 * A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine ("Doin' the Production Code" - Company)
 * Barnum ("Come Follow the Band"/"There is a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute" - Jim Dale and Company)
 * Evita ("A New Argentina" - Patti LuPone and Company)
 * Oklahoma! ("People Will Say We're In Love" - Joel Higgins and Christine Andreas)
 * Peter Pan ("I'm Flying" - Sandy Duncan and children)
 * Sugar Babies ("A McHugh Medley" - Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney)
 * West Side Story ("America" - Debbie Allen and Company)

Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold

Special awards

 * Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre — Helen Hayes
 * Regional Theatre Award Winner - Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky
 * Mary Tyler Moore, Whose Life Is It Anyway?.

Multiple nominations and awards
These productions had multiple nominations:


 * 11 nominations: Evita
 * 10 nominations: Barnum
 * 9 nominations: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
 * 8 nominations: Sugar Babies
 * 5 nominations: Talley's Folly
 * 4 nominations: Children of a Lesser God and Morning's at Seven
 * 3 nominations: West Side Story
 * 2 nominations: Bent, Betrayal, Home, The Lady from Dubuque, Night and Day, Oklahoma!, Peter Pan and Strider

The following productions received multiple awards.


 * 7 wins: Evita
 * 3 wins: Barnum, Children of a Lesser God and Morning's at Seven
 * 2 wins: A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine