57th Tony Awards

The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast by CBS television. The event was hosted for the first time by Australian actor Hugh Jackman.

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2002–03 season before May 7, 2003 are eligible.
;Original plays

;Original musicals

;Play revivals

;Musical revivals

The ceremony was broadcast on national prime time television on CBS for three hours, rather than two hours on CBS and one hour on PBS, as had been done for several years previously. The television ratings were 5.4, down slightly from the 2002 telecast of 5.9. During the ceremony, at the end of their acceptance speech for Hairspray, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman kissed each other, making them the first public same-sex kiss at an awards show, predating Britney Spears and Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Presenters included: Benjamin Bratt, Toni Braxton, Matthew Broderick, Alan Cumming, Edie Falco, Joey Fatone, Laurence Fishburne, Sutton Foster, Danny Glover, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, John Leguizamo, John Lithgow, Julianna Margulies, Bebe Neuwirth, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Perez, Lynn Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Ann Reinking, John Spencer, Marisa Tomei, Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters. In addition, Jason Alexander and Martin Short, the stars of the national company of The Producers, presented an award from the stage of Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.
There were memorial tributes to cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, writer Peter Stone, and lyricist Adolph Green.
Shows that performed were:
New Musicals:

Movin' Out - Billy Joel opened by performing "New York State of Mind" live from Times Square, leading to a medley of "River of Dreams", "Keeping the Faith" and "Only the Good Die Young" performed by the company of Movin' Out on stage at Radio City Music Hall.
Hairspray - Marissa Jaret Winokur, Matthew Morrison, Kerry Butler, Harvey Fierstein, and Mary Bond Davis led the company with "You Can't Stop the Beat"
A Year with Frog and Toad - Mark Linn-Baker and Jay Goede performed "Alone"

Revivals:

Nine - Antonio Banderas performed "Guido's Song" with the company
La bohème - The company performed a medley from the opera
Gypsy - Bernadette Peters performed "Rose's Turn"
Man of La Mancha - Brian Stokes Mitchell performed "The Impossible Dream " with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Awards and nominees

Winners are in bold
Source:''The New York Times''

;Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre

The principal ensemble of La bohème, including Lisa Hopkins, Ekaterina Solovyeva and Wei Huang ; David Miller, Jesús Garcia and Alfie Boe ; Jessica Comeau and Chlöe Wright ; and Eugene Brancoveanu and Ben Davis
Paul Huntley
Johnson-Liff Casting Associates
The Acting Company

;Lifetime Achievement Tony Award

;Special Theatrical Event

;Regional Theatre Tony Award

These productions had multiple nominations:

13 nominations: ''Hairspray
10 nominations: Movin' Out
8 nominations: Nine
7 nominations: La bohème and Long Day's Journey into Night
5 nominations: Amour and Dinner at Eight
4 nominations: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Gypsy and Take Me Out
3 nominations: Flower Drum Song, Man of La Mancha and A Year with Frog and Toad
2 nominations: Enchanted April, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Medea, Tartuffe, Urban Cowboy and Vincent in Brixton

The following productions received multiple awards.