65th Tony Awards Stevenson Award is awarded to Eve Ensler, founder of V-Day. The Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre is given to animal trainer William Berloni, The Drama Book Shop (West 40th Street in Manhattan), and Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts. The Special Tony Award is given to Handspring Puppet Company, "for creating lifelike horses (manipulated by three actor-puppeteers)". The Regional Theatre Tony Award is presented to Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, Illinois). Source: Tony Awards "The Book of Mormon" received 14 nominations, the most of any production, and won nine, including Best Musical; "The Scottsboro Boys" received 12
5th Helpmann Awards 5th Helpmann Awards The 5th Annual Helpmann Awards for live performance in Australia were held on 8 August 2005 at the Lyric Theatre in Sydney. "The Sapphires" by Tony Briggs, produced by Melbourne Theatre Company, was named Best Play and Best New Australian Work. The Australian production of Broadway musical "The Producers" received five awards including Best Musical. State Opera of South Australia's season of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" received ten awards including Best Opera and Best Special Event. In the following tables, winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface. The nominees are those which are listed below the winner