The 2010 Tony Award winners announced

The 64th Tony Awards winners were presented this evening (13 Jun 2010) at a ceremony hosted by Sean Hayes at Radio City Music Hall.

The biggest winner of this year's Tony Awards is John Logan's Red, which received six awards, including Best Play, followed by the musical rock musical Memphis, which received four awards including Best musical.

The awards for Best actors/actresses saw movie stars walking away with many of the awards: Catherine Zeta-Jones; Denzel Washington and Scarlett Johansson.

Ragtime saw the evenings biggest disappointment, having been nominated in seven categories, the musical walked away empty handed.

Total Nominations won by Production:
6 wins for Red
4 wins for Memphis
3 wins for Fences
3 wins for Fela
3 wins for La Cage aux Folles
2 wins for American Idiot
1 win for A View fro the Bridge
1 win for Promises, Promises
1 win for Million Dollar Quartet
1 win for The Royal Family
1 win for A Little Night Music

2010 Tony Award winners by category are
Winners are in red font

Best Play:

• In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play: Sarah Ruhl
• Next Fall: Geoffrey Nauffts
• Red: John Logan
• Time Stands Still: Donald Margulies

Best Musical:

• American Idiot
• Fela!
• Memphis
• Million Dollar Quartet

Best Book of a Musical:

• Everyday Rapture: Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott
• Fela!: Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones
• Memphis: Joe DiPietro
• Million Dollar Quartet: Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics)
Written for the Theatre:

• The Addams Family:
  Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa
  
• Enron:
  Music: Adam Cork
  Lyrics: Lucy Prebble
  
• Fences:
  Music: Branford Marsalis
  
• Memphis:
  Music: David Bryan
  Lyrics: Joe DiPietro & David Bryan

Best Revival of a Play:

• Fences
• Lend Me a Tenor
• The Royal Family
• A View from the Bridge

Best Revival of a Musical:

• Finian's Rainbow
• La Cage aux Folles
• A Little Night Music
• Ragtime

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Jude Law; Hamlet
• Alfred Molina; Red
• Liev Schreiber; A View from the Bridge
• Christopher Walken; A Behanding in Spokane
• Denzel Washington; Fences

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play:

• Viola Davis; Fences
• Valerie Harper; Looped
• Linda Lavin; Collected Stories
• Laura Linney; Time Stands Still
• Jan Maxwell; The Royal Family

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical:

• Kelsey Grammer; La Cage aux Folles
• Sean Hayes; Promises, Promises
• Douglas Hodge; La Cage aux Folles
• Chad Kimball; Memphis
• Sahr Ngaujah; Fela!

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical :

• Kate Baldwin: Finian's Rainbow
• Montego Glover: Memphis
• Christiane Noll: Ragtime
• Sherie Rene Scott: Everyday Rapture
• Catherine Zeta-Jones: A Little Night Music

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play:

• David Alan Grier: Race
• Stephen McKinley Henderson: Fences
• Jon Michael Hill: Superior Donuts
• Stephen Kunken: Enron
• Eddie Redmayne: Red

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play :

• Maria Dizzia: In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
• Rosemary Harris: The Royal Family
• Jessica Hecht: A View from the Bridge
• Scarlett Johansson: A View from the Bridge
• Jan Maxwell: Lend Me a Tenor

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical:

• Kevin Chamberlin: The Addams Family
• Robin De Jesús: La Cage aux Folles
• Christopher Fitzgerald: Finian's Rainbow
• Levi Kreis: Million Dollar Quartet
• Bobby Steggert: Ragtime

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical:

• Barbara Cook: Sondheim on Sondheim
• Katie Finneran: Promises, Promises
• Angela Lansbury: A Little Night Music
• Karine Plantadit: Come Fly Away
• Lillias White: Fela!

Best Scenic Design of a Play:

• John Lee Beatty: The Royal Family
• Alexander Dodge: Present Laughter
• Santo Loquasto: Fence
• Christopher Oram: Red

Best Scenic Design of a Musical:

• Marina Draghici: Fela!
• Christine Jones: American Idiot
• Derek McLane: Ragtime
• Tim Shortall: La Cage aux Folles

Best Costume Design of a Play:

• Martin Pakledinaz: Lend Me a Tenor
• Constanza Romero: Fences
• David Zinn: In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
• Catherine Zuber; The Royal Family

Best Costume Design of a Musical:

• Marina Draghici: Fela!
• **Santo Loquasto: Ragtime - Note this nomonation was withdrawn)
• Paul Tazewell: Memphis
• Matthew Wright: La Cage aux Folles

Best Lighting Design of a Play:

• Neil Austin: Hamlet
• Neil Austin: Red
• Mark Henderson: Enron
• Brian MacDevitt: Fences

Best Lighting Design of a Musical:

• Kevin Adams: American Idiot
• Donald Holder: Ragtime
• Nick Richings: La Cage aux Folles
• Robert Wierzel: Fela!

Best Sound Design of a Play:

• Acme Sound Partners: Fences
• Adam Cork: Enron
• Adam Cork: Red
• Scott Lehrer; A View from the Bridge

Best Sound Design of a Musical:

• Jonathan Deans: La Cage aux Folles
• Robert Kaplowitz: Fela!
• Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen: A Little Night Music
• Dan Moses Schreier; Sondheim on Sondheim

Best Direction of a Play:

• Michael Grandage: Red
• Sheryl Kaller: Next Fall
• Kenny Leon: Fences
• Gregory Mosher: A View from the Bridge

Best Direction of a Musical:

• Christopher Ashley: Memphis
• Marcia Milgrom Dodge: Ragtime
• Terry Johnson: La Cage aux Folles
• Bill T. Jones: Fela!

Best Choreography :

• Rob Ashford: Promises, Promises
• Bill T. Jones: Fela!
• Lynne Page: La Cage aux Folles
• Twyla Tharp: Come Fly Away

Best Orchestrations:

• Jason Carr: La Cage aux Folles
• Aaron Johnson: Fela!
• Jonathan Tunick: Promises, Promises
• Daryl Waters & David Bryan: Memphis

Winners of the four non-competitive Tony Awards categories were presented to:

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Alan Ayckbourn
Marian Seldes

The Regional Theatre Tony Award
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut

Isabelle Stevenson Award
David Hyde Pierce

Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
B.H. Barry
Tom Viola

Total Nominations v Tony Awards winners: by Production:

Fela! - 11 nominations - won 3
La Cage aux Folles - 11 nominations - won 3
Fences - 10 nominations - won 3
Memphis - 8 nominations - won 4
Ragtime - 7 nominations - won 0
A View from the Bridge - 6 nominations - won 1
The Royal Family - 5 nominations - won 1
Enron - 4 nominations - won 0
A Little Night Music - 4 nominations - won 1
Promises, Promises - 4 nominations - won 1
American Idiot - 3 nominations - won 2
Finian's Rainbow - 3 nominations - won 0
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play - 3 nominations - won 0
Lend Me a Tenor - 3 nominations - won 0
Million Dollar Quartet - 3 nominations - won 1
The Addams Family - 2 nominations - won 0
Come Fly Away - 2 nominations - won 0
Everyday Rapture - 2 nominations - won 0
Hamlet - 2 nominations - won 0
Next Fall - 2 nominations - won 0
Sondheim on Sondheim - 2 nominations - won 0
Time Stands Still - 2 nomination - won 0
A Behanding in Spokane - 1 nomination - won 0
Collected Stories - 1 nomination - won 0
Looped - 1 nomination - won 0
Present Laughter - 1 nomination - won 0
Race - 1 nomination - won 0
Superior Donuts - 1 nomination - won 0