Tony Awards: 1958@Everything2.com

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Sunrise at Campobello

Dore Schary (playwright)
Lawrence Langner, Theresa Helburn, Armina Marshall, Dore Schary (producers)

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne (playwright)
David Merrick (producer)

Romanoff and Juliet

Peter Ustinov (playwright)
David Merrick (producer)

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

William Inge (playwright)
Saint-Subber and Elia Kazan (producers)

The Rope Dancers

Morton Wishengrad (playwright)
The Playwrights Company and Gilbert Miller (producers)

Time Remembered

Jean Anouilh (playwright)
Patricia Moyes (translator)
The Playwrights Company in association with Milton Sperling (producers)

Two for the Seesaw

William Gibson (playwright)
Fred Coe (producer)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

The Music Man

Franlin Lacey (book)
Meredith Wilson (book, music, and lyrics)
Kermit Bloomgarden and Herbert Greene, in association with Frank Productions (producers)

Jamaica

E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy (book)
Harold Arlen (music)
E.Y. Harburg (lyrics)
David Merrick (producer)

New Girl in Town

George Abbot (book)
Bob Merrill (music and lyrics)
Robert Griffiths and Harold S. Prince (producers)

Oh, Captain!

Al Morgan and José Ferrer (book)
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (music and lyrics)
Howard Merrill and Theatre Corporation of America (producers)

West Side Story

Arthur Laurents (book)
Leonard Bernstein (music)
Stephen Sondheim (lyrics)
Richard Griffiths and Harold S. Prince (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Ralph Bellamy – Sunrise at Campobello
Anthony Perkins – Look Homeward, Angel
Emlyn Williams – A Boy Growing Up
Hugh Griffith – Look Homeward, Angel
Lawrence Olivier – The Entertainer
Peter Ustinov – Romanoff and Juliet
Richard Burton – Time Remembered

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Helen Hayes – Time Remembered
Eugenie Leontovitch – The Cave Dwellers
Jo Van Fleet – Look Homeward, Angel
Mary Ure – Look Back in Anger
Siobhan McKenna – The Rope Dancers
Wendy Hiller – A Moon for the Misbegotten

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Thelma Ritter – New Girl in Town
Gwen Verdon – New Girl in Town
Beatrice Lillie – Ziegfeld Follies
Lena Horne – Jamaica

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Henry Jones – Sunrise at Campobello
George Ralph – The Entertainer
Pat Hingle – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Sig Arno – Time Remembered
Theodore Bikel – The Rope Dancers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Anne Bancroft – Two for the Seasaw
Brenda de Banzie – The Entertainer
Eileen Heckart – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Joan Blondell – The Rope Dancers
Mary Fickett – Sunrise at Campobello

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

David Burns – The Music Man
Cameron Prud'homme – New Girl in Town
Iggie Wolfington – The Music Man
Ossie Davis – Jamaica

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Barbara Cook – The Music Man
Carol Lawrence – West Side Story
Jacquelyn McKeever – Oh, Captain!
Josephine Premice – Jamaica
Susan Johnson – Oh, Captain!

BEST DIRECTOR

Vincent J. Donehue – Sunrise at Campobello
Arthur Penn – Two for the Seesaw
Elia Kazan – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
George Roy Hill – Look Homeward, Angel
Morton Da Costa – The Music Man
Peter Hall – The Rope Dancers

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

BEST CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Herbert Greene – The Music Man
Max Goberman – West Side Story

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Oliver Smith – West Side Story, Brigadoon, Carousel, Jamaica, Nude and Violin, and Time Remembered
Ben Edwards – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Boris Aronson – Orpheus Descending, A Hole in the Head, and The Rope Dancers
Jo Mielziner – Look Homeward Angel, Miss Lonelyhearts, The Square Root of Wonderful, Oh, Captain!, and The Day the Money Stopped
Peter Larkin – Compulsion, Good as Gold, Miss Isobel, and Blue Denim

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Motley – The First Gentleman, Look Back in Anger, Look Homeward, Angel, Shinbone Alley, and The Country Wife
Irene Sharaff – West Side Story
Lucinda Ballard – Orpheus Descending
Miles White – Jamaica, Time Remembered, and Oh, Captain!

BEST STAGE TECHNICIAN

Harry Romar – Time Remembered
Sammy Knapp – The Music Man

SPECIAL AWARDS

Circle in the Square
Esther Hawley - American Theatre Wing secretary, for counsel and courtesy well above the call of duty, in every department including hospitality services and community plays.
Mrs. Martin Beck – For 15 years of untiring dedication to the American Theatre Wing, which she served as treasury, secretary, and chairman of the board of directors.
New York Shakespeare Festival – For presenting free performances in Central Park and the Hecksher Theatre.
Phoenix Theatre
Esther Hawley

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