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2007 Tony Award Winners

A list of winners of 2007 Tony Awards (denoted with a *), with links to the original New York Times reviews. BEST MUSICAL Curtains Grey Gardens Mary Poppins * Spring Awakening BEST PLAY Frost/Nixon * The Coast of Utopia The Little Dog Laughed Radio Golf BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY Inherit the Wind * Journey's End Talk Radio Translations BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL 110 in the Shade A Chorus Line * Company The Apple Tree BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY Boyd Gaines, Journey's End * Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon Brian F. O'Byrne, The Coast of Utopia Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten Swoosie Kurtz, Heartbreak House Angela Lansbury, Deuce Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking * Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Michael Cerveris, LoveMusik Raúl Esparza, Company Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening Gavin Lee...

‘Spring Awakening’ and ‘Coast of Utopia’ Rack Up Tony Awards

The 61st annual Tony Awards last night showed a particular fondness for the 19th century with “Spring Awakening,” about sexually frustrated German teenagers from that era, winning the bulk of the early musical awards while “The Coast of Utopia,” Tom Stoppard’s epic period trilogy about Russian intellectuals, set a record for the most awards won by a play in Tony history. “Coast,” an eight-and-a-half-hour epic, produced by Lincoln Center Theater, won best play, best director, best featured actor and actress, and several design awards. “Spring Awakening” won best book, score, direction and choreography and best featured actor in a musical. And in the night’s highest-profile nail-biter, Julie White of “The Little Dog Laughed” won best leading actress in a play, beating out acting legends like Vanessa Redgrave (“The Year of Magical Thinking”) and Angela Lansbury (“Deuce”), as well as the actresses Swoosie Kurtz (“Heartbreak House”) and Eve Best (“A Moon for the Misbegotten”) whose performa...