1987 / Actor (Musical)
Robert Lindsay, Me and My Girl
Roderick Cook, Oh Coward!
Terrence Mann, Les Misérables
Colm Wilkinson, Les Misérables
1987 / Actor (Play)
James Earl Jones, Fences
Philip Bosco, You Never Can Tell
Richard Kiley, All My Sons
Alan Rickman, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1987 / Actress (Musical)
Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl
Catherine Cox, Oh Coward!
Teresa Stratas, Rags
1987 / Actress (Play)
Linda Lavin, Broadway Bound
Lindsay Duncan, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Geraldine Page, Blithe Spirit
Amanda Plummer, Pygmalion
1987 / Actor (Featured Role – Musical)
Michael Maguire, Les Misérables
George S. Irving, Me and My Girl
Timothy Jerome, Me and My Girl
Robert Torti, Starlight Express
1987 / Actor (Featured Role – Play)
John Randolph, Broadway Bound
Frankie R. Faison, Fences
Jamey Sheridan, All My Sons
Courtney B. Vance, Fences
1987 / Actress (Featured Role – Musical)
Frances Ruffelle, Les Misérables
Jane Connell, Me and My Girl
Judy Kuhn, Les Misérables
Jane Summerhays, Me and My Girl
1987 / Actress (Featured Role – Play)
Mary Alice, Fences
Annette Bening, Coastal Disturbances
Phyllis Newman, Broadway Bound
Carole Shelley, Stepping Out
1987 / Book (Musical)
Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Me and My Girl by L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber, Stephen Fry, and Mike Ockrent
Rags by Joseph Stein
Smile by Howard Ashman
1987 / Choreographer
Gillian Gregory, Me and My Girl
Ron Field, Rags
Brian Macdonald, The Mikado
Arlene Philips, Starlight Express
1987 / Costume Designer
John Napier, Starlight Express
Bob Crowley, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Ann Curtis, Me and My Girl
Andreane Neofitou, Les Misérables
1987 / Director (Musical)
Trevor Nunn and John Caird, Les Misérables
Brian Macdonald, The Mikado
Trevor Nunn, Starlight Express
Mike Ockrent, Me and My Girl
1987 / Director (Play)
Lloyd Richards, Fences
Howard Davies, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Mbongeni Ngema, Asinamali!
Carole Rothman, Coastal Disturbances
1987 / Lighting Designer
David Hersey, Les Misérables
Martin Aronstein, Wild Honey
David Hersey, Starlight Express
Beverly Emmons and Chris Parry, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
1987 / Musical
Les Misérables . Produced by Cameron Mackintosh
Me and My Girl. Produced by Richard Armitage, Terry Allen Kramer, James M. Nederlander, Stage Promotions Limited & Co.
Rags. Produced by Lee Guber, Martin Heinfling, Marvin A. Krauss
Starlight Express. Produced by Martin Starger and Lord Grade
1987 / Original Musical Score
Les Misérables. Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Me and My Girl. Music by Noel Gay, lyrics by L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber
Rags. Music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Starlight Express. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
1987 / Play
Fences by August Wilson. Produced by Carole Shorenstein Hays and The Yale Repertory Theatre
Broadway Bound by Neil Simon. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg
Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe. Produced by Circle in the Square, Theodore Mann, and Paul Libin
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton. Produced by James M. Nederlander, The Shubert Organization, Inc., Jerome Minskoff, Elizabeth I. McCann, Stephen Graham, and Jonathan Farkas
1987 / Revival
All My Sons. Produced by Jay H. Fuchs, Steven Warnick, and Charles Patsos
The Front Page. Produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, Gregory Mosher, and Bernard Gersten
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Produced by The Shubert Organization, Three Knights, Ltd., and Robert Fox, Ltd.
Pygmalion. Produced by The Shubert Organization, Jerome Minskoff, and Duncan C. Weldon
1987 / Scenic Designer
John Napier, Les Misérables
Bob Crowley, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Martin Johns, Me and My Girl