45th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1990–1991 season before May 2, 1991 are eligible.

;Original plays

• I Hate Hamlet
• La Bête
• Lost in Yonkers
• Lucifer's Child
• Monster in a Box
• Our Country's Good
• Shadowlands
• Six Degrees of Separation
• The Speed of Darkness
• Stand-Up Tragedy
• Taking Steps ;Original musicals
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
• Bugs Bunny on Broadway
• Miss Saigon
• Once on This Island
• The Secret Garden
• Shōgun: The Musical
• Those Were the Days
• The Will Rogers Follies ;Play revivals
• The Miser
• Mule Bone ;Musical revivals
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Oh, Kay!
• Peter Pan

The ceremony

Presenters: Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Tyne Daly, Whoopi Goldberg, Joel Grey, Steve Guttenberg, Audrey Hepburn, Raul Julia, Jackie Mason, Shirley MacLaine, James Naughton, Penn & Teller, Anthony Quinn, Lily Tomlin, Denzel Washington

Musicals represented:

• Miss Saigon ("The Heat is On in Saigon"/"Last Night of the World"/"I Still Believe"/"You Will Not Touch Him"/"The American Dream" - Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce. Company)
• Once on This Island ("The Human Heart"/"Mama Will Provide" - La Chanze, Lillias White, Company)
• The Secret Garden (Medley - Company)
• The Will Rogers Follies ("Will-A-Mania"/"Favorite Son" - Keith Carradine, Cady Huffman, Company)

Special Salute:

• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ("The Year of the Musical Actor"/"I Believe in You" - Robert Morse)
• Fiddler on the Roof ("If I Were a Rich Man" - Topol)
• Bye Bye Birdie ("Rosie" - Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking a live remote from [Seattle])
• My Fair Lady and Camelot medley performed by Julie Andrews ("Wouldn't It Be Loverly" "Camelot" "I Could Have Danced All Night")
• The Phantom of the Opera ("Music of the Night" - Michael Crawford)

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special Tony Awards

• Regional Theatre Award -- Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven, Connecticut
• Tony Honor—Father George Moore (Given Posthumously)

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 11 nominations: Miss Saigon and The Will Rogers Follies
• 8 nominations: Once on This Island
• 7 nominations: The Secret Garden
• 6 nominations: Our Country's Good
• 5 nominations: La Bête and Lost in Yonkers
• 4 nominations: Six Degrees of Separation
• 2 nominations: Fiddler on the Roof, Oh, Kay!, Peter Pan, Shadowlands, Shōgun: The Musical, The Speed of Darkness and Those Were the Days

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 6 wins: The Will Rogers Follies
• 4 wins: Lost in Yonkers
• 3 wins: Miss Saigon and The Secret Garden

References

References

1. (2 June 1991). "45th Tony Awards (1991) hosted by Julie Andrews and Jeremy Irons: wearing the AIDS Red Ribbon". CBC.
2. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-wWieD-pGIoC&pg=PA22 Ribbon: The Art of Adornment] p.22. Gibbs Smith, 2008