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#1 - The 13th Annual Tony Awards
S2:E14/12/1959
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#2 - The 14th Annual Tony Awards
S3:E14/24/1960
Celebrating the 1959-1960 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Best Man, The Miracle Worker, A Raisin In The Sun, The Tenth Man, and Toys In The Attic. Best musical nominees: Fiorello!, Gypsy, Once Upon A Mattress, The Sound Of Music, and Take Me Along.
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#3 - The 21st Annual Tony Awards
S5:E13/26/1967
Celebrating the 1966-1967 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Black Comedy, A Delicate Balance, The Homecoming, and The Killing Of Sister George. Best musical nominees: The Apple Tree, Cabaret, I Do! I Do!, and Walking Happy.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
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#4 - The 23rd Annual Tony Awards
S7:E14/20/1969
Celebrating the 1968-1969 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Great White Hope, Hadrian VII, Lovers, and The Man In The Glass Booth. Best musical nominees: 1776, Hair, Zorba, and Promises, Promises.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
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#5 - The 25th Annual Tony Awards
S9:E13/28/1971
Celebrating the 1970-1971 Broadway theatre season and a look back at the first 25 years of Tony history. Best play nominees: Home, The Philanthropist, Sleuth, and Story Theatre. Best musical nominees: Company, The Me Nobody Knows, and The Rothschilds.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
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#6 - The 26th Annual Tony Awards
S10:E14/23/1972
Celebrating the 1971-1972 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Old Times, The Prisoner Of Second Avenue, Sticks And Bones, and Vivat! Vivat Regina!. Best musical nominees: Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death, Follies, Grease, and Two Gentlemen Of Verona.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks

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#7 - The 27th Annual Tony Awards
S11:E13/25/1973
Celebrating the 1972-1973 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Butley, The Changing Room, The Sunshine Boys, and That Championship Season. Best musical nominees: A Little Night Music, Pippin, Sugar, and Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
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#8 - The 29th Annual Tony Awards
S13:E14/20/1975
Celebrating the 1974-1975 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Equus, The National Health, Seascape, Short Eyes, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/The Island, and Same Time, Next Year. Best musical nominees: The Lieutenant, Mack And Mabel, Shenandoah, and The Wiz.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
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#9 - The 31st Annual Tony Awards
S15:E16/5/1977
Celebrating the 1976-1977 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Otherwise Engaged, The Shadow Box, Streamers, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf. Best musical nominees: Annie, Happy End, I Love My Wife, and Side By Side By Sondheim.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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#10 - The 36th Annual Tony Awards
S20:E16/6/1982
Celebrating the 1981-1982 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Crimes Of The Heart, The Dresser, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, and "Master Harold" …And The Boys. Best musical nominees: Dreamgirls, Nine, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Pump Boys And Dinettes.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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#11 - The 39th Annual Tony Awards
S23:E16/2/1985
Celebrating the 1984-1985 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: As Is, Biloxi Blues, Hurlyburly, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Best musical nominees: Grind, Leader Of The Pack, Quilters, and Big River: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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#12 - The 53rd Annual Tony Awards
S37:E16/6/1999
Celebrating the 1998-1999 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Closer, The Lonesome West, Not About Nightingales, and Side Man. Best musical nominees: The Civil War, Fosse, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues, and Parade.
Director:Paul Miller
Writers:Thomas Meehan, Bruce Vilanch
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Writers:Thomas Meehan, Bruce Vilanch
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#13 - The 55th Annual Tony Awards
S39:E16/3/2001
Celebrating the 2000-2001 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: King Hedley II, The Invention Of Love, Proof, and The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife. Best musical nominees: A Class Act, The Full Monty, The Producers, and Jane Eyre: The Musical.
Director:Glenn Weiss
Writers:Thomas Meehan, Gary Smith
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Director:Glenn Weiss
Writers:Thomas Meehan, Gary Smith
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#14 - Broadway's Back!
S58:E29/26/2021
Celebrating the 2019-2020 Broadway theatre season. Presenting the final three awards of the evening: Best Play, Best Musical, and Best Revival.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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#15 - The Tony Awards: Act One
S59:E26/12/2022
Emmy Award winners Darren Criss and Julianne Hough have been named co-hosts of “The Tony Awards: Act One,” one hour of exclusive content streaming live, only on Paramount+, which will commence Sunday, June 12 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/4:00-5:00 PM, PT), prior to the live broadcast of the Tony Awards on CBS. Criss and Hough will kick off the evening celebrating the 2022 Tony Awards, bestowing multiple awards and introducing special performances throughout the exciting hour of programming.
Director:Unknown
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#16 - The Tony Awards: Act One
S61:E26/16/2024
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#17 - The Tony Awards: Act One
S62:E26/8/2025
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#18 - The 57th Annual Tony Awards
S41:E16/8/2003
Celebrating the 2002-2003 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Enchanted April, Take Me Out, Vincent In Brixton, and Say Goodnight, Gracie. Best musical nominees: Amour, Hairspray, Movin' Out, and A Year With Frog And Toad.
Director:Glenn Weiss
Writer:Jonathan Tolins
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Writer:Jonathan Tolins
4.0/10(2 votes)
#19 - The 37th Annual Tony Awards
S21:E16/5/1983
Celebrating the 1982-1983 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels Fall, Plenty, Torch Song Trilogy, and 'Night, Mother. Best musical nominees: Blues In The Night, Cats, Merlin, and My One And Only.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
5.0/10(2 votes)
#20 - The 34th Annual Tony Awards
S18:E16/8/1980
Celebrating the 1979-1980 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Bent, Children Of A Lesser God, Home, and Talley's Folly. Best musical nominees: Barnum, Evita, Sugar Babies, and A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
5.2/10(4 votes)
#21 - The 73rd Annual Tony Awards
S57:E16/9/2019
Celebrating the 2018-2019 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: The Ferryman, Choir Boy, What The Constitution Means To Me, Ink, and Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus. Best musical nominees: Beetlejuice, Hadestown, The Prom, Tootsie, and Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of The Temptations.
Director:Glenn Weiss
Writer:Dave Boone
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Writer:Dave Boone
5.3/10(3 votes)
#22 - The 35th Annual Tony Awards
S19:E16/7/1981
Celebrating the 1980-1981 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Amadeus, Fifth Of July, A Lesson From Aloes, and A Life. Best musical nominees: 42nd Street, Sophisticated Ladies, Tintypes, and Woman Of The Year.
Director:Clark Jones
Writer:Hildy Parks
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Writer:Hildy Parks
5.3/10(3 votes)
#23 - The 45th Annual Tony Awards
S29:E16/2/1991
Celebrating the 1990-1991 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Lost In Yonkers, Our Country's Good, Shadowlands, and Six Degrees Of Separation. Best musical nominees: Miss Saigon, Once On This Island, The Secret Garden, and The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue.
Director:Walter C. Miller
Writer:Thomas Meehan
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Director:Walter C. Miller
Writer:Thomas Meehan
5.3/10(3 votes)
#24 - The 48th Annual Tony Awards
S32:E16/12/1994
Celebrating the 1993-1994 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Angels In America: Perestroika, Broken Glass, The Kentucky Cycle, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Best musical nominees: Beauty And The Beast, Passion, A Grand Night For Singing, and Cyrano: The Musical.
Director:Walter C. Miller
Writers:Gary Smith, Buz Kohan
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Director:Walter C. Miller
Writers:Gary Smith, Buz Kohan
5.3/10(3 votes)
#25 - The 54th Annual Tony Awards
S38:E16/4/2000
Celebrating the 1999-2000 Broadway theatre season. Best play nominees: Copenhagen, Dirty Blonde, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, and True West. Best musical nominees: Contact, James Joyce's The Dead, The Wild Party, and Swing!.
Director:Paul Miller
Writers:Thomas Meehan, Bruce Vilanch
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Writers:Thomas Meehan, Bruce Vilanch

Worst Episodes Summary

"The 13th Annual Tony Awards" is the worst rated episode of "Tony Awards". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/12/1959. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The 14th Annual Tony Awards".