38th Tony Awards
The 38th Annual Tony Awards were held on June 3, 1984, at the Gershwin Theatre and broadcast by CBS television. Hosts were Julie Andrews and Robert Preston.
Eligibility
Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1983–1984 season before May 7, 1984 are eligible.;Original plays
- Beethoven's Tenth
- Brothers
- Edmund Kean
- End of the World
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- The Golden Age
- The Guys in the Truck
- Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare
- Noises Off
- Open Admissions
- Play Memory
- The [Real Thing (play)|The Real Thing]
- A Woman of Independent Means
- Amen Corner
- Baby
- Doonesbury
- The [Human Comedy (musical)|The Human Comedy]
- La Cage aux Folles
- Marilyn: [An American Fable]
- Peg
- The Rink
- Sunday in the Park with George
- The [Tap Dance Kid]
- American Buffalo
- Awake and Sing!
- The Corn Is Green
- Death of a Salesman
- The Glass Menagerie
- Heartbreak House
- A Moon for the Misbegotten
The ceremony
Presenters and performers: Carol Channing, Marilyn Cooper, Nancy Dussault, Robert Goulet, Robert Guillaume, Dustin Hoffman, Beth Howland, Larry Kert, Michele Lee, Dorothy Loudon, Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Mary Tyler Moore, Anita Morris, Bernadette Peters, Anthony Quinn, Tony Randall, Tony Roberts, Chita Rivera, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Raquel WelchMusicals represented:
There was a special salute to the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim. The Finale was a medley of Jerry Herman songs, including "Milk and Honey' and "Shalom", "Before the Parade Passes By", "It Only Takes a Moment", "Hello, Dolly!", "If He Walked Into My Life" and "Mame" ; a Mack & Mabel medley with Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters ; and a La Cage aux Folles segment with Gene Barry, the Cagelles, and George Hearn,. The first Brooks Atkinson Award for lifetime contribution to the theater was given to Al Hirschfeld.
Winners and nominees
''Winners in bold''Special awards
- To director Peter Brook and producer Alexander H. Cohen for La tragédie de Carmen, for outstanding achievement in musical theatre
- Peter Feller, a master craftsman who has devoted forty years to theatre stagecraft and magic
- A Chorus Line producer Joseph Papp was presented with a special Gold Tony Award in honor of becoming Broadway's longest-running musical
- Al Hirschfeld, Brooks Atkinson Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Multiple nominations and awards
These productions had multiple nominations:- 10 nominations: ''Sunday in the Park with George
- 9 nominations: La Cage aux Folles
- 7 nominations: Baby, The Real Thing and The Tap Dance Kid
- 6 nominations: Heartbreak House
- 5 nominations: The Rink
- 4 nominations: Glengarry Glen Ross, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Noises Off
- 3 nominations: End of the World
- 2 nominations: Play Memory
- 6 wins: La Cage aux Folles
- 5 wins: The Real Thing
- 2 wins: Sunday in the Park with George and The Tap Dance Kid''