The 42nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 1988, at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS, hosted by Angela Lansbury.

The Ceremony

Musicals represented were:^[1]

• A Chorus Line, "Music and the Mirror" - Donna McKechnie
• Anything Goes, "Anything Goes" - Patti LuPone and Company
• Dreamgirls, "One Night Only"/"Dreamgirls" - Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine and Terry Burrell;
• Into the Woods, "Into the Woods"/"Children Will Listen" - Phylicia Rashad and Company;
• The Phantom of the Opera, Last verse of "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of The Night" - Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford;
• Romance/Romance, "I'll Always Remember the Song"/"It's Not Too Late" - Scott Bakula, Alison Fraser and Company
• Sarafina!, "Sarafina!" - Company

Plays represented were:^[1]M. Butterfly, Scene with John Lithgow and BD Wong; Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Scene with Mel Winkler, Ed Hall and Delroy Lindo; A Walk in the Woods, Scene with Sam Waterston and Robert Prosky; and Speed-the-Plow, Scene with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver.

A tribute to the late Michael Bennett was performed by Donna McKechnie of the original Chorus Line and the three original Dreamgirls, Terry Burrell, Loretta Devine and Sheryl Lee Ralph.^[2]

At these Tony Awards, the longest-running musical on Broadway, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera, competed for awards and received the season's Best Musical award.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special awards

Regional Theatre Tony Award

• South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA

Special Awards

• Brooklyn Academy of Music

See also

• Drama Desk Awards
• 1988 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
• Obie Award
• New York Drama Critics' Circle
• Theatre World Award
• Lucille Lortel Awards

References

External links

• Tony Awards Official Site