| 57th Tony Awards | |
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 Official poster for the 57th annual Tony Awards | |
| Date | June 8, 2003 |
| Location | Radio City Music Hall,New York City, New York |
| Hosted by | Hugh Jackman |
| Most wins | Hairspray (8) |
| Most nominations | Hairspray (13) |
| Website | tonyawards |
| Television/radio coverage | |
| Network | CBS |
| Viewership | 7.8 million[1] |
| Produced by | Ricky Kirshner Gary Smith |
| Directed by | Glenn Weiss |
The57th Annual Tony Awards was held atRadio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast byCBS television. The event was hosted for the first time by Australian actorHugh Jackman.
Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2002–03 season before May 7, 2003 are eligible.
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The ceremony was broadcast on national prime time television on CBS for three hours, rather than two hours on CBS and one hour on PBS, as had been done for several years previously.[2] The television ratings were 5.4, down slightly from the 2002 telecast of 5.9.[3] During the ceremony, at the end of their acceptance speech forHairspray,Marc Shaiman andScott Wittman kissed each other, making them the first public same-sex kiss at an awards show, predatingBritney Spears andMadonna at theMTV Video Music Awards.
Presenters included:Benjamin Bratt,Toni Braxton,Matthew Broderick,Alan Cumming,Edie Falco,Joey Fatone,Laurence Fishburne,Sutton Foster,Danny Glover,Melanie Griffith,Frank Langella,John Leguizamo,John Lithgow,Julianna Margulies,Bebe Neuwirth,Sarah Jessica Parker,Rosie Perez,Lynn Redgrave,Vanessa Redgrave,Christopher Reeve,Ann Reinking,John Spencer,Marisa Tomei,Mike Wallace andBarbara Walters. In addition,Jason Alexander andMartin Short, the stars of the national company ofThe Producers, presented an award from the stage ofPantages Theatre inLos Angeles.[4]
There were memorial tributes to cartoonistAl Hirschfeld, writerPeter Stone, and lyricistAdolph Green.
Shows that performed were:[4]
New Musicals:
Revivals:
Winners are in bold
Source:The New York Times[5]
These productions had multiple nominations:
| The following productions received multiple awards.
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^[I]The thirty composers nominated forUrban Cowboy wereJeff Blumenkrantz,Bob Stillman,Jason Robert Brown, Danny Arena, Sara Light,Lauren Lucas, Jerry Silverstein,Martie Maguire, Wayland D. Holyfield, Bob Lee House, Carl L. Byrd, Pevin Byrd-Munoz, Luke Reed, Roger Brown,Jerry Chesnut,Marcus Hummon,Clint Black, James Hayden Nicholas, Tommy Conners,Skip Ewing, Charles Daniels, Tom Crain, Fred Edwards, Taz DiGregorio, Jim Marshall,Charlie Hayward, Wanda Mallette, Patti Ryan,Ronnie Dunn and Bob Morrison.