Tony Awards: 1961@Everything2.com

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Beckett

Jean Anouilh (playwright)
Lucienne Hill (translator)
David Merrick (producer)

All The Way Home

Tad Mosel (playwright)
Fred Coe in association with Arthur Cantor (producer)

The Devil's Advocate

Dore Schary (playwright and producer)

The Hostage

Brendan Behan (playwright)
S. Field and Caroline Burke Swann (producers)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Bye Bye Birdie

Michael Stewart (book)
Charles Strouse (music)
Lee Adams (lyrics)
Edward Padula in assocation with L. Slade Brown (producer)

Do Re Mi

Garson Kanin (book)
Jule Styne (music)
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics)
David Merrick (producer)

Irma La Duce

Alexandre Breffort (book and lyrics)
Marguerite Monnot (music)
Julian Moore, David Heneker, Monty Norman (English book and lyrics)
David Merrick in association with Donald Albery and H.M. Tennant (producer)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Joan Plowright – A Taste of Honey
Barbara Baxley – Period of Adjustment
Barbara Bel Geddes – Mary, Mary
Tallulah Bankhead – Midgie Purvis

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Richard Burton – Camelot
Maurice Evans – Tenderloin
Phil Silvers – Do Re Mi

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Elizabeth Seal – Irma La Duce
Carol Channing – Show Girl
Julie Andrews – Camelot
Nancy Walker – Do Re Mi

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Martin Gable – Big Fish, Little Fish
Eduardo Ciannelli – The Devil's Advocate
George Grizzard – Big Fish, Little Fish
Philip Bosco – The Rape of the Belt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Colleen Dewhurst – All the Way Home
Eileen Heckart – Invitation to a March
Rosemary Murphy – Period of Adjustment
Teresa Hughes – The Devil's Advocate

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Dick Van Dyke – Bye, Bye Birdie
Clive Revill – Irma La Duce
Dick Gautier – Bye, Bye Birdie
Ron Husmann – Tenderloin

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Tammy Grimes – The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Chita Rivera – Bye, Bye Birdie
Nancy Dussault – Do Re Mi

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Sir John Gielgud – Big Fish, Little Fish
Arthur Penn – All the Way Home
Joan Littlewood – The Hostage
Joseph Anthony – Rhinoceros

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Gower Champion – Bye Bye Birdie
Garson Kanin – Do Re Mi
Peter Brook – Irma La Duce

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Gower Champion – Bye, Bye Birdie
Onna White – Irma La Duce

CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Franz Allers – Camelot
Elliot Lawrence – Bye, Bye Birdie
Pembrode Davenport – 13 Daughters
Stanley Lebowsky – Irma La Duce

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER FOR A DRAMATIC PLAY

Oliver Smith – Becket
David Hays – All the Way Home
Jo Mielziner – The Devil's Advocate
Roger Furse – Duel of Angels
Rouben Ter-Arutunian – Advise and Consent

BEST SCENIC DESIGNERFOR A MUSICAL PLAY

Oliver Smith – Camelot
George Jenkins – 13 Daughters
Robert Randolph – Bye, Bye Birdie

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER FOR A DRAMATIC PLAY

Motley – Becket
Raymond Sovey – All the Way Home
Theoni V. Aldredge – The Devil's Advocate

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER FOR A MUSICAL PLAY

Adrian and Tony Duquette – Camelot
Cecil Beaton – Tenderloin
Rolf Gerard – Irma La Duce

STAGE TECHNICIAN

Teddy Van Bemmel – Becket

SPECIAL AWARDS

David Merrick – In recognition of a fabulous production record over the past seven years.
The Theatre Guild – For organizing the first repertory to go abroad for the State Department.

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