Tony Award Winners 2008
The 62nd annual Tony Awards show aired on the CBS network on June 15, 2008, to recognize achievement in live American theater.
Fast Facts
- Network: CBS
- Aired: Sunday, June 15, 2008 8/7c
- Run time: Three hours
- Held at Radio City Music Hall
- Included live theater performances
- Host: Whoopi Goldberg
- Included hits from The Lion King and Rent
Top Contenders
August: Osage County, a drama about a dysfunctional family from Oklahoma, won the New York Drama Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
In The Heights story revolves around the Upper Manhattan hispanic community and was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards.
Passing Strange, an autobiographical story of a young man (Stew) who is searching for his artistic identity, won the New York Drama Critics Award.
Nominations
In The Heights has the greatest number of nominations with thirteen and is followed by South Pacific and Sunday in the Park with George, with eleven and nine nominations respectively. Close contenders are August: Osage County, Gypsy and Passing Strange, each with seven nominations.
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