61st Tony Awards
The 61st Annual Tony Award ceremony was held on June 10, 2007, at Radio City Music Hall, with CBS television broadcasting live. The cut-off date for eligibility was May 9, meaning that to be qualified for the 2006–2007 season, shows must have opened before or on this date.
Jane Krakowski and Taye Diggs announced the nominations on May 15, 2007.
This Tony Awards telecast won an Emmy Award, Outstanding Special Class Program, at the 59th Creative Arts Emmy Awards presented on September 8, 2007. Glenn Weiss, the director of the awards show, received a Directors Guild of America Awards nomination, Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety. Spring Awakening, won 8 awards including Best Musical, the most of the night.
Eligibility
Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2006–07 season before May 10, 2007, are eligible.;Original plays
- The Coast of Utopia
- Coram Boy
- Deuce
- Frost/Nixon
- The Little Dog Laughed
- Losing Louis
- Radio Golf
- The Vertical Hour
- The Year of Magical Thinking
- Curtains
- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
- Grey Gardens
- High Fidelity
- Legally Blonde
- LoveMusik
- Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
- Mary Poppins
- The Pirate Queen
- Spring Awakening
- The Times They Are a-Changin'
- Butley
- Heartbreak House
- Inherit the Wind
- Journey's End
- A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Prelude to a Kiss
- Talk Radio
- Translations
- The Apple Tree
- A Chorus Line
- Company
- Les Misérables
- ''110 in the Shade''
The ceremony
Presenters
- Jane Alexander
- Christina Applegate
- Zach Braff
- Harry Connick Jr.
- Claire Danes
- Jeff Daniels
- Brian Dennehy
- Taye Diggs
- Harvey Fierstein
- Carla Gugino
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Marcia Gay Harden
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Anne Heche
- Marg Helgenberger
- Christian Hoff
- Felicity Huffman
- Mark Indelicato
- Eddie Izzard
- John Kander
- Jane Krakowski
- Angela Lansbury
- Robert Sean Leonard
- John Mahoney
- Audra McDonald
- Idina Menzel
- Bebe Neuwirth
- Cynthia Nixon
- Donny Osmond
- Bernadette Peters
- David Hyde Pierce
- Christopher Plummer
- Daniel Reichard
- Anika Noni Rose
- Liev Schreiber
- Kevin Spacey
- J. Robert Spencer
- Tommy Tune
- John Turturro
- Usher
- Ben Vereen
- Vanessa L. Williams
- Patrick Wilson
- Rainn Wilson
- John Lloyd Young
Performances
The following musicals or performers performed:
- 110 in the Shade – Audra McDonald and John Cullum
- Grey Gardens – Christine Ebersole
- Spring Awakening * – Company
- Curtains – Company
- Mary Poppins – Company
- Company – Raul Esparza
- "American Idol" winner and replacement star Fantasia Barrino performed a song from The Color Purple in honor of Regional Theater Tony Winner Alliance Theater in Atlanta, GA, where the show premiered.
Winners and nominees
- Winners are in bold.
| Best Play | Best Musical |
| |
| Best Revival of a Play | Best Revival of a Musical |
| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play | Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical | Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
| Best Book of a Musical | Best Original Score Written for the Theatre |
| Best Scenic Design of a Play | Best Scenic Design of a Musical |
| Best Costume Design of a Play | Best Costume Design of a Musical |
| Best Lighting Design of a Play | Best Lighting Design of a Musical |
| Best Direction of a Play | Best Direction of a Musical |
| Best Choreography | Best Orchestrations |