Tony Awards: 1950

Note: Until 1956, the winners were announced ahead of time; hence, all those listed in this node are winners.

BEST PLAY

The Cocktail Party

T.S. Eliot (playwright)
Gilbert Miller (producer)

BEST MUSICAL

South Pacific

Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (book)
Richard Rodgers (music)
Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
Leland Hayward, Oscar Hamerstein II, Joshua Logan, Richard Rodgers (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Sidney Blackmer – Come Back, Little Sheba

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Shirley Booth – Come Back, Little Sheba

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Ezio Pinza – South Pacific

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Mary Martin – South Pacific

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Myron McCormick – South Pacific

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Juanita Hall – South Pacific

BEST DIRECTOR

Joshua Logan – South Pacific

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Helen Tamiris – Touch and Go

BEST CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Maurice Abravanel – Regina

BEST SCORE

Richard Rodgers – South Pacific

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Oscar Hammerstein II & Joshua Logan – South Pacific

BEST PRODUCER OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Leland Hayward, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, & Richard Rodgers – South Pacific

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Jo Mielziner – The Innocents

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Aline Bernstein – Regina

BEST STAGE TECHNICAN

Joe Lynn (master propertyman) – Miss Liberty

SPECIAL AWARDS

Brock Pemberton, founder of the Tony Awards and its original chairman (posthumous)
Maurice Evans, for work he did in guiding the City Center Theatre Company through a highly successful season.
Philip Faversham, a volunteer worker of the American Theatre Wing's hospital program outside of New York

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