He didn't know he was a Tony Award winner yet and she didn't know she'd lost Tony number four. Left to right, Brian Stokes Mitchell, his wife Allyson Tucker and Audra McDonald.
The 2000 Tony Awards, awarded June 4, honored Copenhagen and Contact as the best of Broadway with Michael Blakemore taking home both director prizes (the first time in Tony history), Mitchell and Headley winning the top acting awards and Susan Stroman nabbing best choreography for Contact.