The 58th Annual Tony Awards were held June 6, 2004 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast on CBS television. Hugh Jackman was the host.

The Awards telecast won the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special, and Jackman won the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.^[2][3]

Wicked had the most nominations of the ceremony with 10, winning 3 of them, tying with Avenue Q, which won Best Musical, while the revival of Assassins won the most awards of the night with 5, including Best Revival of a Musical.

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 2003–04 season before May 6, 2004 are eligible.

Hugh Jackman performed the opening number, "One Night Only" with the "Dynamites" from Hairspray, the "Radio" from Caroline, or Change, and the "Urchins" from Little Shop of Horrors, along with members of the casts of Avenue Q, The Boy from Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Wonderful Town, and Wicked, and the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.^[4] Tony Bennett performed "Lullaby of Broadway" and Mary J. Blige sang "What I Did for Love" from the Tony Awards Songbook.^[5]

Presenters were: Carol Channing, Sean Combs, Taye Diggs, Edie Falco, Jimmy Fallon, Harvey Fierstein, Victor Garber, Joel Grey, Ethan Hawke, Anne Heche, Billy Joel, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Jane Krakowski, Peter Krause, Swoosie Kurtz, LL Cool J, Nathan Lane, Laura Linney, John Lithgow, Rob Marshall, Anne Meara, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Dame Helen Mirren, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Paquin, Bernadette Peters, Phylicia Rashad, Chita Rivera, John Rubenstein, Carole Bayer Sager, Martin Short, Patrick Stewart, Jerry Stiller, Sigourney Weaver, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Renée Zellweger.

Shows that performed were:^[4]

New Musicals

• Avenue Q - The company performed "It Sucks to Be Me"
• The Boy from Oz - Hugh Jackman and members of the company performed "Not the Boy Next Door", with a special appearance by Sarah Jessica Parker
• Caroline, or Change - Tonya Pinkins performed "Lot's Wife"
• Wicked - Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and members of the company performed "Defying Gravity"

Revivals

• Assassins - Members of the company performed "Everybody's Got the Right"
• Fiddler on the Roof - Alfred Molina and company performed "Tradition"/"Bottle Dance"
• Wonderful Town - Donna Murphy and members of the company performed "Swing!"

Winners are in bold

Source: Playbill^[6]

• Regional Theatre Tony Award Winner - Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
• Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Winner - James M. Nederlander
• Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre Winners
  • The cast of the 2003 Broadway production of Big River
  • Nancy Coyne
  • Frances & Harry Edelstein and Vincent Sardi, Jr.
  • Martha Swope

• Drama Desk Awards
• 2004 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for West End theatre productions
• Obie Award
• New York Drama Critics' Circle
• Theatre World Award
• Lucille Lortel Awards