Jason Alexander and Martin Short, the stars of the national company of The Producers, presented an award from the stage of Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.
The show included a memorial tribute to cartoonist Al Hirschfeld, and remembrances of bookwriter Peter Stone and librettist/lyricist Adolph Green who had passed away during the season.
There were performances by the company of Def Poetry Jam of "I Wanna Hear a Poem" at Radio City and "I Write America" live from Times Square. In addition to those non-musical performances, Hamish McColl and Sean Foley performed an excerpt from The Play What I Wrote.
The results of a poll on tonyawards.com were announced, in which the public selected Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman as their favorite Best Play of all time.
