Tony Awards: 1957

by JDWActor

Mon Mar 26 2001 at 18:15:46

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'Neill (playwright)
Leigh Connell, Theodore Mann, and José Quintero (producers)

Separate Tables

Terrance Rattigan (playwright)
The Producer's Theatre and Hecht-Lancaster (producers)

The Potting Shed

Graham Greene (playwright)
Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase (producers)

The Waltz of the Toreadors

Jean Anouilh (playwright)
Lucienne Hill (translator)
The Producers's Theatre/Robert Whitehead (producer)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics)
Frederick Lowe (music)
Herman Levin (producer)

Bells are Ringing

Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics)
Jule Styne(music)
The Theatre Guild (producer)

Candide

Lillian Hellman (book)
Leonard Bernstein (music)
Richard Wilbur (lyrics)
Ethel Linder Reiner in association with Lester Osterman, Jr. (producers)

The Most Happy Fella

Frank Loesser (book, music, and lyrics)
Kermit Bloomgarden and Lynn Loesser (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Frederic March – Long Day's Journey Into Night
Cyril Ritchard – A Visit to a Small Planet
Eric Portman – Separate Tables
Maurice Evans – The Apple Cart
Ralph Richardson – The Waltz of the Toreadors
Wilfred Hyde-White – The Reluctant Debutante

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Margaret Leighton – Separate Tables
Florence Eldridge – Long Day's Journey Into Night
Rosalind Russell – Auntie Mame
Sybil Thorndike – The Potting Shed

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
Fernando Lamas – Happy Hunting
Robert Weede – The Most Happy Fella

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Frank Conroy – The Potting Shed
Eddie Mayehoff – A Visit to a Small Planet]
Jason Robards, Jr. – Long Day's Journey Into Night
William Podmore – Separate Tables

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Peggy Cass – Auntie Mame
Anna Massey – The Reluctant Debutante
Beryl Measor – Separate Tables
Diana Van Der Vlis – The Happiest Millionaire
Mildred Natwick – The Waltz of the Toreadors
Phyllis Neilson-Terry – Separate Tables

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Sydney Chaplin – Bells are Ringing
Robert Coote – My Fair Lady
Stanley Hollaway – My Fair Lady

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Edith Adams – L'il Abner
Irra Petina – Candide
Jo Sullivan – The Most Happy Fella

Happy Hunting

BEST DIRECTOR

Moss Hart – My Fair Lady
Harold Clurman – The Waltz of the Toreadors
José Quintero – Long Day's Journey Into Night
Joseph Anthony – A Clearing in the Woods and The Most Happy Fella
Peter Glenville – Separate Tables

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Michael Kidd – L'il Abner
Dania Krupska – The Most Happy Fella
Hanya Holm – My Fair Lady
Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse – Bells are Ringing

BEST CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Franz Allers – My Fair Lady
Herbert Greene – The Most Happy Fella
Samuel Krachmalnick – Candide

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Oliver Smith – My Fair Lady, A Clearing in the Woods, Candide, Auntie Mame, Eugenia, and A Visit to a Small Planet
Ben Edwards – The Waltz of the Toreadors
Boris Aronson – A Hole in the Head and Small War on Murray Hill
George Jenkins – The Happiest Millionaire and Too Late the Phalarope
Donald Oenslager – Major Barbara

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Cecil Beaton – My Fair Lady and Little Glass Clock
Alvin Colt – L'il Abner and The Sleeping Prince
Dorothy Jenkins – Major Barbara and Too Late the Phalarope
Irene Sharaff – Candide, Happy Hunting, Shangri La, and Small War on Murray Hill

BEST STAGE TECHNICIAN

Howard McDonald (carpenter) (posthumous) – Major Barbara
Joseph Harbuck (carpenter) – Auntie Mame
Thomas Fitzgerald (sound man) – Long Day's Journey Into Night

SPECIAL AWARDS

American Shakespeare Festival – Stratford, Connecticut
Jean-Louis Barrault – French Repertory
Paul Shyre
Robert Russell Bennett
William Hammerstein

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Tony Awards: 1958

Tony Awards: 1956

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