56th Tony Awards

The 56th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 2, 2002 and broadcast by CBS. "The First Ten" awards ceremony was telecast on PBS television. The event was co-hosted by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines.

With her win as a producer of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Whoopi Goldberg became the 10th person to become an EGOT winner.

The ceremony
The show opened with a tribute to Richard Rodgers, featuring a medley of his songs performed by Marvin Hamlisch, Harry Connick Jr., Michele Lee, Mos Def, Lea Salonga, Peter Gallagher, John Raitt, Bernadette Peters, Gregory Hines, and the company of Oklahoma! A Broadway/New York song medley was performed by Bernadette Peters and Gregory Hines.

Presentations from nominated musicals:


 * Into the Woods: "Children Will Listen", "Ever After" and "Into the Woods" - Vanessa Williams, John McMartin, Company
 * Mamma Mia!: "I Have a Dream", "Money, Money, Money", "Mamma Mia", "Chiquitita" and "Dancing Queen" - Louise Pitre, Judy Kaye, Karen Mason, Tina Maddigan, Company
 * Thoroughly Modern Millie: "Forget About the Boy"/"Thoroughly Modern Millie" - Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan, Casey Nicholaw, Noah Racey, Company
 * Sweet Smell of Success: "Dirt" - John Lithgow, Company
 * Urinetown: "Run, Freedom, Run" - Hunter Foster, Spencer Kayden, Jeff McCarthy, Company
 * Oklahoma!: "The Farmer and the Cowman" - Company

The First Ten awards were presented prior to the full ceremony and broadcast on PBS. The awards presented were: Best Direction of a Play, Direction of a Musical, Book of a Musical, Original Score, Choreography, Costume Design, Lighting Design and Scenic Design. There were also interviews and "rehearsal and performance clips from the nominated shows."

The broadcast won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program; the director was Glenn Weiss.

Eligibility
Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2001–02 season before May 2, 2002 are eligible.


 * Original plays
 * An Almost Holy Picture
 * Fortune’s Fool
 * 45 Seconds from Broadway
 * The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
 * The Graduate
 * If you ever leave me...I'm going with you!
 * Metamorphoses
 * The Mystery of Charles Dickens
 * QED
 * The Smell of the Kill
 * Topdog/Underdog


 * Original musicals
 * By Jeeves
 * Mamma Mia!
 * One Mo' Time
 * Sweet Smell of Success
 * Thoroughly Modern Millie
 * Thou Shalt Not
 * Urinetown


 * Play revivals
 * A Christmas Carol
 * The Crucible
 * The Dance of Death
 * The Elephant Man
 * Hedda Gabler
 * Major Barbara
 * The Man Who Had All the Luck
 * Morning's at Seven
 * Noises Off
 * Private Lives
 * A Thousand Clowns
 * The Women


 * Musical revivals
 * Into the Woods
 * Oklahoma!

Winners and nominees
Winners are in bold

Special awards
Source: TheaterMania


 * Regional Theatre Tony Award
 * Williamstown Theatre Festival
 * Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
 * Robert Whitehead
 * Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
 * Julie Harris

Multiple nominations and awards
These productions had multiple nominations:


 * 11 nominations: Thoroughly Modern Millie
 * 10 nominations: Into the Woods and Urinetown
 * 9 nominations: Morning's at Seven
 * 7 nominations: Oklahoma! and Sweet Smell of Success
 * 6 nominations: The Crucible and Private Lives
 * 5 nominations: Mamma Mia!
 * 3 nominations: Fortune's Fool and Metamorphoses
 * 2 nominations: The Elephant Man, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, Noises Off, Thou Shalt Not and Topdog/Underdog

The following productions received multiple awards.


 * 6 wins: Thoroughly Modern Millie
 * 3 wins: Private Lives and Urinetown
 * 2 wins: Fortune's Fool and Into the Woods