2013 Tony Awards

Kinky Boots, with a score by Cindy Lauper, was the big winner at the 2013 Tony Awards Ceremony, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, were presented at Radio City Music Hall, New York, on June 9, taking out six awards including Best Musical.

Matilda The Musical, with it's score by Tim Minchin, and Best Musical Revival Pippin scored four awards each. 

The Tony Award Winners

Best musical - 
"Kinky Boots, The Musical"


Best revival of a musical - "Pippin"

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play - Cicely Tyson, "The Trip to Bountiful"

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical - Patina Miller, "Pippin"

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play - Tracy Letts, "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical - Billy Porter, "Kinky Boots"

Best play - "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" by Christopher Durang

Best revival of a play 
-
"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Best lighting design of a play - Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, "Lucky Guy"


Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical  - Andrea Martin, "Pippin"

Best scenic design of a play - John Lee Beatty, "The Nance"


Best scenic design of a musical - Rob Howell, "Matilda, The Musical"

Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the theatre
 - "Kinky Boots" Music and Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper

Best choreography - Jerry Mitchell, "Kinky Boots" (pictured right)

Best direction of a play - Pam MacKinnon, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Best direction of a musical - Diane Paulus, "Pippin"

Best book of a musical - “Matilda: The Musical”, Dennis Kelly

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play - Courtney B Vance, "Lucky Guy"

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play - Judith Light, "The Assembled Parties"


Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical - Gabriel Ebert, "Matilda, The Musical"

Best costume design of a play - Ann Roth, "The Nance"

Best costume design of a musical - William Ivey Long, "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella"

Best lighting design of a musical - Hugh Vanstone - "Matilda, The Musical"

Best sound design of a musical - John Shivers, "Kinky Boots"

Best sound design of a play - Leon Rothenberg, "The Nance"

Best orchestrations - Stephen Oremus, "Kinky Boots"

Awards and honors in non-competitive categories

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Bernard Gersten

Paul Libin

Ming Cho Lee

Regional Theatre Award

Huntington Theatre Company, Boston

Isabelle Stevenson Award

Larry Kramer

Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre

Career Transition for Dancers

William Craver

Peter Lawrence

The Lost Colony

The four actresses who created the title role of "Matilda, The Musical" on Broadway - Sophia
Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro

Awards Tally by Production

Musicals

Kinky Boots (6)

Matilda The Musical (4)

Pippin (4)


Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1)

Plays

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(3)


Lucky Guy (3)

Nance (2)

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (1)

The Assembled Parties (1)

The Trip to Bountiful (1)