Tony Awards: 1971

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Sleuth

Anthony Shaffer (playwright)
Helen Bonfils, Morton Gottlieb, Michael White (producers)

Home

David Storey (playwright)
Alexander H. Cohen (producer)

The Philanthropist

Christopher Hampton (playwright)
David Merrick (producer)

Story Theatre

Paul Sills (playwright)
Zev Bufman (producer)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Company

The Me Nobody Knows

Robert H. Livingston and Herb Schapiro (book)
Gary William Friedman (music)
Will Holt (lyrics)
Jeff Britton (producer)

The Rothschilds

Sherman Yellen (book)
Jerry Bock (music)
Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)
Lester Osterman and Hillard Elkins (producer)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Brian Bedford – The School for Wives
John Gielgud – Home
Alec McGowen – The Philanthropist
Ralph Richardson – Home

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Maureen Stapleton – The Gingerbread Lady
Estelle Parsons – And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
Diana Rigg – Abelard and Heloise
Marian Seldes – Father’s Day

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Hal Linden – The Rothschilds
David Burns – Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
Larry Kert – Company
Bobby Van – No, No Nanette

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Helen Gallagher – No, No Nanette
Susan Browning – Company
Sandy Duncan – The Boy Friend
Elaine Stritch – Company

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Paul Sand – Story Theatre
Ronald Radd – Abelard and Heloise
Dennis Pickering – Conduct Unbecoming
Ed Zimmermanm – The Philanthropist

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Rae Allen – And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
Lili Darvas – Les Blancs
Joan Van Ark – The School for Wives
Mona Washbourne – Home

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Keene Curtis – The Rothschilds
Charles Kimbrough – Company
Walter Willison – Two by Two

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Patsy Kelly – No, No Nanette
Barbara Barrie – Company
Pamela Myers – Company

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Peter Brook – A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Lindsay Anderson – Home
Stephen Porter – The School for Wives
Clifford Williams – Sleuth

BES DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Harold Prince – Company
Michael Kidd – The Rothschilds
Robert H. Livingston – The Me Nobody Knows
Burt Shevelove – No, No Nanette

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Donald Saddler – No, No Nanette
Michael Bennett – Company
Michael Kidd – The Rothschilds

BEST SCORE

Stephen Sondheim – Company
Jerry Bock – The Rothschilds
Garry William Friedman – The Me Nobody Knows

BEST LYRICS

Stephen Sondheim – Company
Sheldon Harnick – The Rothschilds
Will Holt – The Me Nobody Knows

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

George Furth – Company
Robert H. Livingston and Herb Schapiro – The Me Nobody Knows
Sherman Yellen – The Rothschilds

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Boris Aronson – Company
John Bury – The Rothschilds
Sally Jacobs – A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Jo Mielziner – Father’s Day

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Raoul Penè Du Bois – No, No Nanette
Jane Greenwood – Hay Fever and Les Blancs
Freddy Wittop – Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

R.H. Poindexter – Story Theatre
Robert Ornbo – Company
William Ritman – Sleuth

SPECIAL AWARDS

Elliot Norton, drama critic, for distinguished theatrical commentary.
Ingram Ash, president of Blaine-Thompson Advertising, for decades of devoted service to the theatre.
Playbill, for chronicling Broadway through the years.
Roger L. Stevens

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