Tony Awards: 1956

by JDWActor

Mon Mar 26 2001 at 10:07:16

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST PLAY

The Diary of Anne Frank

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett (playwrights)
Kermit Bloomgarden (producer)

Bus Stop

Willian Inge (playwright)
Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens (producers)

Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams (playwright)
The Playwrights’ Company (producer)

The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold (playwright)
Irene Mayer Selznick (producer)

BEST MUSICAL

Damn Yankees

George Abbott and Douglas Wallop (book and lyrics)
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (music)
Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, Harold S. Prince in association with Albert B. Taylor (producers)

Pipe Dream

Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics)
Richard Rodgers (music)
Rodgers and Hammerstein (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Paul Muni – Inherit the Wind
Ben Gazzara – A Hatful of Rain
Boris Karloff – The Lark
Edward G. Robinson – Middle of the Night
Michael Redgrave – Tiger at the Gates

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Julie Harris – The Lark
Barbara Bel Geddes - Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Gladys Cooper – The Chalk Garden
Ruth Gordon – The Matchmaker
Siobhan McKenna – The Chalk Garden
Susan Strasberg – The Diary of Anne Frank

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Ray Walston – Damn Yankees
Stephen Douglass – Damn Yankees
William Johnson – Pipe Dream

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Ed Begley – Inherit the Wind
Andy Griffith - No Time For Sargeants
Anthony Franciosa – A Hatful of Rain
Anthony Quayle – Tamburlaine the Great
Fritz Weaver – The Chalk Garden

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Una Merkel – The Ponder Heart
Anne Jackson – Middle of the Night
Diane Cilento – Tiger at the Gates
Elaine Stritch – Bus Stop

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Russ Brown – Damn Yankees
Mike Kellin – Pipe Dream
Scott Merrill – The Threepenny Opera
Will Mahoney – City Center’s Finian’s Rainbow

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Lotte Lenya – The Threepenny Opera
Judy Tyler – Pipe Dreams
Pat Carroll – Catch a Star

BEST DIRECTOR

Tyrone Guthrie – The Matchmaker, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Tamburlaine the Great
Albert Marre – The Chalk Garden
Elia Kazan – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Garson Kanin – The Diary of Anne Frank
Harold Clurman – Bus Stop, Pipe Dream, and Tiger at the Gates
Herman Shumlin – Inherit the Wind
Joseph Anthony – The Lark

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Bob Fosse – Damn Yankees
Anna Sokolow – Red Roses for Me
Boris Runanin – Phoenix ’55 and Pipe Dream
Robert Alton – The Vamp

BEST CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Hal Hastings – Damn Yankees
Milton Rosenstock – The Vamp
Salvatore Dell’Isola – Pipe Dream

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Peter Larkin – No Time For Sargeants and Inherit the Wind
Ben Edwards – The Ponder Heart, Someone Waiting and The Honeys
Boris Aronson – The Diary of Anne Frank, Bus Stop, Once Upon a Tailor, and A View From the Bridge
Jo Mielziner – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lark, Middle of the Night, Pipe Dream
Raymond Sovey – The Great Sebastians

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Alvin Colt – Pipe Dream, The Lark, and Phoenix ’55
Helene Pons – The Diary of Anne Frank, Heavenly Twins, A View From the Bridge
Mainbocher – The Great Sebastians

BEST STAGE TECHNICIAN

Harry Green (electrician and sound man) – Middle of the Night and Damn Yankees
Larry Blans (carpenter) – Middle of the Night, The Ponder Heart, and Porgy and Bess

SPECIAL AWARDS

City Center
Fourth Street Chekov Theatre
The Shakespearewrights
The Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library, on it’s 25th Anniversary, for it’s distinguished service to the theatre.
The Threepenny Opera, distinguished Off-Broadway production; Carmen Capalbo, Stanley Chase, producers.
The Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library on it's twenty-fifth anniversary, for its distinguished service to the theatre. George Freedley, founder and curator, accepted.

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