Tony Awards: 1978@Everything2.com

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All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Hugh Leonard (playwright)
Lester Osterman, Marilyn Strauss, and Marc Howard (producers)

Chapter Two

Neil Simon (playwright)
Emanuel Azenberg (producer)

Deathtrap

Ira Levin (playwright)
Alfred De Liagre, Jr., and Roger L. Stevens (producers)

The Gin Game

D.L. Coburn (playwright)
The Shubert Organization, Hume Cronyn, and Mike Nichols (producers)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Ain't Misbehavin'

(book)
Fats Waller (music and lyrics)
Emanuel Azenberg, Dasha Epstein, The Shubert Organization, Jane Gaynor, and Ron Dante (producers)

Dancin'

(book)
(music)
(lyrics)
Produced by Jules Fisher, The Shubert Organization, and Columbia Pictures (producers)

On the Twentieth Century

Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book)
Cy Coleman (music)
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics)
The Producers Circle 2, Inc. (Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, James Cresson, and Martin Richards), Joseph Harris, and Ira Bernstein (producers)

Runaways

Elizabeth Swados (book, music and lyrics)
Joseph Papp (producer)

MOST INNOVATIVE PRODUCTION OF A REVIVAL

Dracula

Jujamcyn Theaters, Elizabeth I. McCann, John Wulp, Victor Lurie, Nelle Nugent, and Max Weitzenhoffer (producers)

Tartuffe

Circle in the Square (producer)

Timbuktu!

Luther Davis (producer)

A Touch of the Poet

Elliot Martin (producer)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Jessica Tandy – The Gin Game
Anne Bancroft – Golda
Anita Gillette – Chapter Two
Estelle Parsons – Miss Margarida's Way

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

John Cullum – On the Twentieth Century
Eddie Bracken – Hello, Dolly!
Barry Nelson – The Act
Gilbert Price – Timbuktu!

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Liza Minnelli – The Act
Ann Reinking – On the Twentieth Century
Eartha Kitt – Timbuktu!
Frances Sternhagen – Angel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Lester Rawlins – Da
Morgan Freeman – The Mighty Gents
Victor Garber– Deathtrap
Cliff Gorman – Chapter Two

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Ann Wedgeworth – Chapter Two
Stella DuPois – The Mighty Gents
Swoozie Kurtz – Tartuffe
Marian Seldes – Deathtrap

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Kevin Kline – On the Twentieth Century
Steven Boockvor – Working
Wayne Cilento – Dancin'
Rex Everhart – Working

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Nell Carter – Ain't Misbehavin'
Imogene Coca – On the Twentieth Century
Ann Reinking – Dancin'
Charlain Woodard – Ain't Misbehavin'

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Melvin Bernhardt – Da
Robert Moore – Deathtrap
Mike Nichols – The Gin Game
Dennis Rosa – Dracula

BES DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Richard Maltby, Jr. – Ain't Misbehavin'
Bob Fosse – Dancin'
Harold Prince – On the Twentieth Century
Elizabeth Swados – Runaways

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Bob Fosse – Dancin'
Arthur Faria – Ain't Misbehavin'
Ron Lewis – The Act
Elizabeth Swados – Runaways

BEST SCORE

Cy Coleman (music) and Betty Comden & Adolph Green (lyrics) – On the Twentieth Century
John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics) – The Act
Elizabeth Swados (music and lyrics) – Runaways
Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor ( music and lyrics) – Working

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

Betty Comden and Adolph Green – On the Twentieth Century
Christopher Durang – A History of the American Film
Elizabeth Swados – Runaways
Stephen Schwartz – Working

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Robin Wagner – On the Twentieth Century
Zack Brown – The Importance of Being Earnest
Edward Gorey – Dracula
David Mitchell – Working

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Edward Gorey – Dracula
Halston – The Act
Geoffrey Holder– Timbuktu!
Willa Kim – Dancin'

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jules Fisher – Dancin'
Jules Fisher – Beatlemania
Ken Billington – Working
Tharon Musser – The Act

REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD

The Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut

LAWRENCE LANGNER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE AMERICAN THEATRE

Irving Berlin.

THEATRE AWARD '78

To the creators, Charles Moss and Stan Dragoti (of Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc.) of the I Love New York Broadway Show Tours and its sponsor, theNew York State Department of Commerce.

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