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The 52nd Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 7, 1998, at Radio City Music Hall and was broadcast by CBS television. A documentaries segment was telecast on PBS television. The ceremony was hosted by Rosie O'Donnell , who hosted a total of three times (1997, 1998, and 2000).
The Tony Award for Best Play (formally, an Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award given to the best new (non-musical) play on Broadway, as determined by Tony Award voters. There was no award in the Tonys' first year. The award goes to the authors and the producers of the play.
1998 Patrick Marber: 1998: Clybourne Park: 2010 Bruce Norris: 2012: 2011: Nominated for four Tony Awards, winning one. The Coast of Utopia: 2002 Tom Stoppard: 2007: Nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning seven. The Cocktail Party: 1949 T. S. Eliot: 1950: Won one Tony Award for which it was nominated. Collaborators: 2012 John Hodge: 2012 ...
The Lion King won six 1998 Tony Awards including best musical and best director, a win that put Taymor — who also designed The Lion King's costumes and co-designed its masks — in the history ...
Chapter Two (play) Children of a Lesser God (play) A Christmas Carol (2017 play) Clybourne Park; The Coast of Utopia; The Cocktail Party; Copenhagen (play) The Crucible; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)
[6] It led the 1998 Tony Awards with thirteen Tony Award nominations, but Disney's The Lion King won as Best Musical. The musical won awards for Best Featured Actress (McDonald), Original Score, Book, and Orchestrations. According to The New York Times, "The chief competition for The Lion King was Ragtime, a lavish musical."
The musical premiered on Broadway in December 1998 and won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Original Score (out of nine nominations) and six Drama Desk Awards. After closing on Broadway in February 1999, the show has had a US national tour and a few professional productions in the US and UK.
The book by Matthew López (author of the Tony-winning play “The Inheritance”) and Amber Ruffin updates the tale with sensitivity, but the complexity that's achieved owes everything to the ...