35th Tony Awards

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1980–1981 season before May 14, 1981 are eligible. ;Original plays • Amadeus • The American Clock • The Beautiful Mariposa • Billy Bishop Goes to War • Division Street • Fifth of July • The Floating Light Bulb • Fools • Frankenstein • Heartland • Inacent Black • It Had to Be You • ''I Won't Dance'' • A Lesson from Aloes • A Life • Lolita • Louie and the Elephant • Lunch Hour • Mixed Couples • Of the Fields, Lately • Passionate Ladies • Passione • Piaf • Quick Change • Rose • Sort of an Adventure • The Suicide • The Survivor • ''To Grandmother's House We Go'' • Tricks of the Trade ;Original musicals • Banjo Dancing • Bring Back Birdie • Broadway Follies • Charlie and Algernon • Copperfield • Fearless Frank • 42nd Street • ''It's So Nice to Be Civilized'' • Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music • The Moony Shapiro Songbook • One Night Stand • Onward Victoria • Perfectly Frank • A Reel American Hero • ''Shakespeare's Cabaret'' • Sophisticated Ladies • Tintypes • Woman of the Year ;Play revivals • The Bacchae • Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens • The Father • John Gabriel Borkman • The Little Foxes • Macbeth • The Man Who Came to Dinner • The Philadelphia Story ;Musical revivals • Brigadoon • Camelot • Can-Can • ''The Five O'Clock Girl'' • The Music Man • The Pirates of Penzance ==The ceremony==