The Best Episodes of Tony Awards

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   #1 - The 10th Annual Tony Awards

   S1:E14/1/1956

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   #2 - The 38th Annual Tony Awards

   S22:E16/3/1984

   Celebrating the 1983-1984 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Glengarry Glen Ross, Noises Off, Play Memory, and The Real Thing. Best musical nominees: Baby, La Cage Aux Folles, Sunday In The Park With George, and The Tap Dance Kid.

   Director:Clark Jones

   Writer:Hildy Parks

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   #3 - The 42th Annual Tony Awards

   S26:E16/5/1988

   Celebrating the 1987-1988 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Speed-the-Plow, A Walk In The Woods, Joe Turner's Come And Gone, and M. Butterfly. Best musical nominees: Into The Woods, The Phantom Of The Opera, Sarafina!, and Romance/Romance.

   Director:Walter C. Miller

   Writer:Jeffrey Lane

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   #4 - The 68th Annual Tony Awards

   S52:E16/8/2014

   Celebrating the 2013-2014 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Act One, All The Way, Casa Valentina, Mothers And Sons, and Outside Mullingar. Best musical nominees: A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder, Aladdin, After Midnight, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

   Director:Glenn Weiss

   Writer:Dave Boone

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   #5 - The 75th Tony Awards

   S59:E16/12/2022

   Season 75th of Tony Awards premiered on June 12, 2022.

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   #6 - The 76th Annual Tony Awards

   S60:E16/11/2023

   The 76th celebration honors the incredible artistry of the 2022-2023 season. For the first time, the Tony Awards is presented at the historic United Palace.

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   #7 - The 77th Annual Tony Awards

   S61:E16/16/2024

   Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose hosts "The 77th Annual Tony Awards" from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York.

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   #8 - The 78th Annual Tony Awards

   S62:E16/8/2025

   The 78th Tony Awards will be held on June 8, 2025, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2024–25 season. The ceremony will be held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The ceremony will be hosted by Cynthia Erivo.

   Director:Glenn Weiss

   Writer:Dave Boone

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   #9 - The 22nd Annual Tony Awards

   S6:E14/21/1968

   Celebrating the 1967-1968 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, Plaza Suite, The Price, and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. Best musical nominees: Hallelujah, Baby!, The Happy Time, Illya Darling, and How Now, Dow Jones.

   Director:Stan Harris

   Writer:Hildy Parks

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    #10 - The 59th Annual Tony Awards

    S43:E16/5/2005

    Celebrating the 2004-2005 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Doubt, Democracy, Gem Of The Ocean, and The Pillowman. Best musical nominees: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Light In The Piazza, and Monty Python's Spamalot.

    Director:Glenn Weiss

    Writer:Dave Boone

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    #11 - The 65th Annual Tony Awards

    S49:E16/12/2011

    Celebrating the 2010-2011 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Good People, Jerusalem, The Motherfucker With The Hat, and War Horse. Best musical nominees: The Book Of Mormon, Catch Me If You Can, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sister Act.

    Director:Glenn Weiss

    Writer:Dave Boone

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    #12 - The 70th Annual Tony Awards

    S54:E16/12/2016

    Celebrating the 2015-2016 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Eclipsed, The Father, The Humans, and King Charles III. Best musical nominees: Bright Star, Hamilton, Waitress, School Of Rock: The Musical, and Shuffle Along Or The Making Of The Musical Sensation Of 1921 And All That Followed.

    Director:Glenn Weiss

    Writer:Dave Boone

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    #13 - The 30th Annual Tony Awards

    S14:E14/18/1976

    Celebrating the 1975-1976 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The First Breeze of Summer, Knock Knock, Lamppost Reunion, and Travesties. Best musical nominees: Bubbling Brown Sugar, Chicago, A Chorus Line, and Pacific Overtures.

    Director:Clark Jones

    Writer:Hildy Parks

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    #14 - The 33rd Annual Tony Awards

    S17:E16/3/1979

    Celebrating the 1978-1979 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bedroom Farce, The Elephant Man, Wings, and Whose Life Is It Anyway?. Best musical nominees: Ballroom, The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, They're Playing Our Song, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.

    Director:Clark Jones

    Writer:Hildy Parks

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    #15 - The 40th Annual Tony Awards

    S24:E16/1/1986

    Celebrating the 1985-1986 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Benefactors, Blood Knot, The House Of Blue Leaves, and I'm Not Rappaport. Best musical nominees: Big Deal, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Tango Argentino, and Song And Dance.

    Director:Clark Jones

    Writer:Hildy Parks

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    #16 - The 41th Annual Tony Awards

    S25:E16/7/1987

    Celebrating the 1986-1987 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Broadway Bound, Coastal Disturbances, Fences, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Best musical nominees: Les Misérables, Rags, Starlight Express, and Me And My Girl.

    Director:Walter C. Miller

    Writer:Jeffrey Lane

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    #17 - The 46th Annual Tony Awards

    S30:E15/31/1992

    Celebrating the 1991-1992 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Dancing At Lughnasa, Four Baboons Adoring The Sun, Two Shakespearean Actors, and Two Trains Running. Best musical nominees: Crazy For You, Falsettos, Five Guys Named Moe, and Jelly's Last Jam.

    Director:Walter C. Miller

    Writer:Peter Stone

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    #18 - The 47th Annual Tony Awards

    S31:E16/6/1993

    Celebrating the 1992-1993 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Sisters Rosensweig, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, The Song Of Jacob Zulu, and Angels In America: Millennium Approaches. Best musical nominees: Blood Brothers, The Goodbye Girl, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, and The Who's Tommy.

    Director:Walter C. Miller

    Writer:Buz Kohan

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    #19 - The 50th Annual Tony Awards

    S34:E16/2/1996

    Celebrating the 1995-1996 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Buried Child, Master Class, Racing Demon, and Seven Guitars. Best musical nominees: Chronicle Of A Death Foretold, Rent, Swinging On A Star, and Bring In 'Da Noise/Bring In 'Da Funk.

    Director:Walter C. Miller

    Writers:Thomas Meehan, Gary Smith, Bruce Vilanch

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    #20 - The 61st Annual Tony Awards

    S45:E16/10/2007

    Celebrating the 2006-2007 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Frost/Nixon, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, and The Coast Of Utopia (Part I: Voyage/Part II: Shipwreck/Part III: Salvage). Best musical nominees: Curtains, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, and Spring Awakening.

    Director:Glenn Weiss

    Writer:Dave Boone

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    #21 - The 74th Annual Tony Awards

    S58:E19/26/2021

    Celebrating the 2019-2020 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Inheritance, The Sound Inside, Slave Play, Grand Horizons, and the double bill Sea Wall/A Life. Best musical nominees: Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Pill, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.

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    #22 - The 32nd Annual Tony Awards

    S16:E16/4/1978

    Celebrating the 1977-1978 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Da, Chapter Two, Deathtrap, and The Gin Game. Best musical nominees: Ain't Misbehavin', Dancin', On The Twentieth Century, and Runaways.

    Director:Clark Jones

    Writer:Hildy Parks

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    #23 - The 44th Annual Tony Awards

    S28:E16/3/1990

    Celebrating the 1989-1990 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Grapes Of Wrath, Prelude To A Kiss, The Piano Lesson, and Lettice And Lovage. Best musical nominees: Aspects Of Love, City Of Angels, Grand Hotel, and Meet Me In St. Louis.

    Director:Walter C. Miller

    Writer:Peter Stone

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    #24 - The 49th Annual Tony Awards

    S33:E16/4/1995

    Celebrating the 1994-1995 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Arcadia, Having Our Say, Indiscretions, and Love! Valour! Compassion!. Best musical nominees: Sunset Boulevard and Smokey Joe's Cafe.

    Director:Walter C. Miller

    Writers:Thomas Meehan, Gary Smith

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    #25 - The 56th Annual Tony Awards

    S40:E16/2/2002

    Celebrating the 2001-2002 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Fortune's Fool, Metamorphoses, Topdog/Underdog, and The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?. Best musical nominees: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sweet Smell of Success, Mamma Mia!, and Urinetown — The Musical.

    Director:Glenn Weiss

    Writer:Buz Kohan

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    Writer:Buz Kohan