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Best Book of a Musical
Lee Hall
Lee Hall Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
Besides writing the book for Billy Elliot, The Musical, Hall also wrote the lyrics, earning him two Tony nominations this year.

Brian Yorkey
Brian Yorkey, for Next to Normal
Next to Normal marks Yorkey's first Tony nominations. He is also nominated for Best Score.

David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire, for Shrek The Musical
Lindsay-Abaire is the author of Rabbit Hole, for which he received a Best Play nomination. This year he is also nominated for Best Score for Shrek The Musical.

Hunter Bell
Hunter Bell, for [Title of Show]
Aside from writing the book for [Title of Show], Bell also played one of the lead roles (Hunter). This is his first Tony nomination.

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Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Elton JohnLee Hall
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Lee Hall, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
This is Sir Elton's third Tony nomination. He won in 2000 for Aida and was nominated in 1998 for The Lion King.

Besides writing the lyrics for Billy Elliot, The Musical, Hall also wrote the book, earning him two Tony nominations this year.

Tom KittBrian Yorkey
Music: Tom Kitt
Lyrics: Brian Yorkey Winner, for Next to Normal
This year marks Kitt's first Tony nominations. He is also nominated for Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal.

Next to Normal marks Yorkey's first Tony nominations. He is also nominated for Best Book of a Musical.

Dolly Parton
Music & Lyrics: Dolly Parton, for 9 to 5: The Musical
9 to 5: The Musical marks Parton's Broadway debut. She is an accomplished composer, singer, and actress who has won seven Grammy Awards. She appeared in the original movie Nine to Five.

Jeanine TesoriDavid Lindsay-Abaire
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire, for Shrek The Musical
Tesori is a three-time past Tony-nominee, for Caroline, or Change (2004), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), and Twelfth Night (1999).

Lindsay-Abaire is the author of Rabbit Hole, for which he received a Best Play nomination. This year he is also nominated for Best Score for Shrek The Musical.

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Best Direction of a Play
Phyllida Lloyd
Phyllida Lloyd, for Mary Stuart
Lloyd made her Broadway directorial debut in 2001 with Mamma Mia!. This is her first Tony nomination.

Bartlett Sher
Bartlett Sher, for Joe Turner's Come and Gone
This is Sher's forth Tony nomination. He won last year for his direction of South Pacific and was previously nominated for Awake and Sing! and The Light in the Piazza.

Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus Winner, for God of Carnage
Warchus has earned his forth and fifth Tony nominations this year. He is also nominated in the same category this season for The Norman Conquests.

Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus, for The Norman Conquests
Warchus has earned his forth and fifth Tony nominations this year. He is also nominated in the same category this season for God of Carnage.

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Best Direction of a Musical
Stephen Daldry
Stephen Daldry Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
This is Daldry's second Tony nomination. He won in 1995 for his direction of An Inspector Calls.

Michael Greif
Michael Greif, for Next to Normal
Greif is a two-time past Tony nominee. He was nominated for Grey Gardens in 2007 and Rent in 1996.

Kristin Hanggi
Kristin Hanggi, for Rock of Ages
This marks Hanggi's Broadway directorial debut and first Tony nomination.

Diane Paulus
Diane Paulus, for Hair
This marks Paulus' Broadway directorial debut and first Tony nomination.

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Best Choreography
Karole Armitage
Karole Armitage, for Hair
This is Armitage's first Tony nomination. Her past Broadway credits include Passing Strange.

Andy Blankenbuehler
Andy Blankenbuehler, for 9 to 5: The Musical
This is Blankenbuehler's second Tony nomination. He won last year for his choreography in In The Heights.

Peter Darling
Peter Darling Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
This marks Darling's Broadway choreography debut and first Tony nomination.

Randy Skinner
Randy Skinner, for Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Skinner is a two-time past Tony nominee, for 42nd Street and Ain't Broadway Grand.

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Best Orchestrations
Larry Blank
Larry Blank, for Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Blank was last nominated for a Tony in 2006 for orchestrations for The Drowsy Chaperone.

Martin Koch
Martin Koch Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
Koch is a past Tony nominee for Mamma Mia!.

Michael StarobinTom Kitt
Michael Starobin and Tom Kitt Winner, for Next to Normal
Starobin won a Tony in 2004 for Assassins. This is his second Tony nomination.

This year marks Kitt's first Tony nominations. He is also nominated for Best Score for Next to Normal.

Danny TroobJohn Clancy
Danny Troob and John Clancy, for Shrek The Musical
Troob was last nominated for a Tony in 2006 for The Pajama Game.

This is Clancy's first Tony nomination. He also worked on the orchestrations for the most recent Broadway revival of Grease.

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Best Scenic Design of a Play
Dale Ferguson
Dale Ferguson, for Exit the King
This marks Ferguson's Broadway design debut and first Tony nomination. He is also nominated this year for costume design for Exit the King.

Rob Howell, for The Norman Conquests
This is Howell's second Tony nomination. He was nominated last year for his costume designs for Boeing-Boeing.

Derek McLane
Derek McLane Winner, for 33 Variations
McLane was last nominated for a Tony in 2006 for The Pajama Game.

Michael Yeargan
Michael Yeargan, for Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Yeargan is a three-time past Tony winner, for South Pacific, Awake and Sing! and The Light in the Piazza.

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Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Robert Brill, for Guys and Dolls
This is Brill's second Tony nomination. He was previously nominated for Assassins in 2004.

Ian MacNeil
Ian MacNeil Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
This is MacNeil's second Tony nomination. He was previously nominated in 1994 for An Inspector Calls.

Scott Pask
Scott Pask, for Pal Joey
Pask was nominated last year for his scenic design for Les Liaisions Dangereuses and is a two-time past Tony winner for The Coast of Utopia and The Pillowman.

Mark Wendland, for Next to Normal
This is Wendland's first Tony nomination. Past Broadway scenic design credits include Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, and Death of a Salesman.

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Best Costume Design of a Play
Dale Ferguson
Dale Ferguson, for Exit the King
This marks Ferguson's Broadway design debut and first Tony nomination. He is also nominated this year for scenic design for Exit the King.

Jane Greenwood
Jane Greenwood, for Waiting for Godot
This is Greenwood's 17th Tony nomination. Past nominations have included Heartbreak House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Morning's at Seven, and A Delicate Balance.

Martin Pakledinaz
Martin Pakledinaz, for Blithe Spirit
This is Pakledinaz's seventh Tony nomination. He was nominated last year for Gypsy and previously won Tonys for Kiss Me, Kate and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Anthony Ward
Anthony Ward Winner, for Mary Stuart
Ward is a past Tony nominee for Macbeth, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gregory Gale
Gregory Gale, for Rock of Ages
This is Gale's second Tony nomination. He was nominated last year for his costume designs for Cyrano de Bergerac.

Nicky Gillibrand, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
This is Gillibrand's first Tony nomination. On Broadway, she also designed costumes for Jumpers in 2004.

Tim Hatley
Tim Hatley Winner, for Shrek The Musical
Hatley won a Tony in 2002 for his scenic design of Private Lives. He was also nominated in 2005 for his scenic design in Mony Python's Spamalot.

Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald, for Hair
This is McDonald's first Tony nomination. Other costume design credits on Broadway include Take Me Out and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.

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Best Lighting Design of a Play
David Hersey, for Equus
This is Hersey's eighth Tony nomination. He previously won for Evita (1980), Cats (1983), and Les Misérables (1987).

David Lander
David Lander, for 33 Variations
This is Lander's first Tony nomination. He also designing the lighting for this season's A Man for All Seasons.

Brian MacDevitt
Brian MacDevitt Winner, for Joe Turner's Come and Gone
MacDevitt is an eight-time past Tony nominee. He won for The Coast of Utopia, The Pillowman, and Into the Woods.

Hugh Vanstone, for Mary Stuart
Besides being a past Tony nominee for Monty Python's Spamalot, Vanstone also designed the lighting for this season's God of Carnage and Shrek The Musical.

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Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams
Kevin Adams, for Hair
Adams is a two-time past Tony winner, for The 39 Steps and Spring Awakening. He also designed the lighting for Next to Normal this season.

Kevin Adams
Kevin Adams, for Next to Normal
Adams is a two-time past Tony winner, for The 39 Steps and Spring Awakening. He also designed the lighting for Hair this season.

Howell Binkley
Howell Binkley, for West Side Story
This is Binkley's forth Tony nomination. He was previously nominated for In The Heights and Kiss of the Spider Woman, and won in 2006 for Jersey Boys.

Rick Fisher
Rick Fisher Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
Fisher won a Tony in 1995 for his lighting design of An Inspector Calls. This season he also designed the lighting for The Philanthropist.

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Best Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti
Paul Arditti, for Mary Stuart
This is the first year Arditti has been nominated for a Tony. He is also nominated for Billy Elliot, The Musical (Best Sound Design of a Musical).

Gregory Clarke
Gregory Clarke Winner, for Equus
First-time Tony nominee Clarke has also designed the sound for The Philanthropist and Journey's End on Broadway.

Russell Goldsmith
Russell Goldsmith, for Exit the King
This marks Goldsmith's Broadway design debut and first Tony nomination.

Scott Lehrer
Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg, for Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Lehrer won a Tony last year for his sound design of South Pacific. On Broadway he has previously designed the sound for Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, The Frogs, and The Caretaker.

This is Rothenberg's first Tony nomination. He also designed the sound for this season's Impressionism.

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Best Sound Design of a Musical
Acme Sound Partners
Acme Sound Partners, for Hair
Along with Hair, Acme Sound Partners has also designed the sound for Broadway's In The Heights and The Country Girl. The sound engineering partners are Tom Clark, Mark Menard, and Nevin Steinberg.

Paul Arditti
Paul Arditti Winner, for Billy Elliot, The Musical
This is the first year Arditti has been nominated for a Tony. He is also nominatd for Mary Stuart (Best Sound Design of a Play).

Peter Hylenski, for Rock of Ages
This is Hylenski's first Tony nomination. He also designed the sound for Shrek The Musical this season.

Brian Ronan, for Next to Normal
This is Ronan's first Tony nomination. His Broadway sound design credits include Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening, and Grey Gardens.

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