Tony Awards: 1959

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

J.B.

Archibald MacLeish (playwright)
Alfred de Liagre, Jr. (producer)

A Touch of the Poet

Eugene O’Neill (playwright)
The Producers Theatre, Robert Whitehead, Robert L. Stevens (producers)

Epitaph for George Dillon

John Osborne and Anthony Creighton (playwrights)
David Merrick and Joshua Logan (producers)

The Disenchanted

Budd Schulberg and Harvey Breit (playwrights)
William Darrid and Eleanor Saidenberg (producers)

The Visit

Frederich Durrenmatt (playwright)
Maurice Valency (adaptation)
The Producers Theatre (producer)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Redhead

Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon, David Shaw (book)
Albert Hague (music)
Dorothy Fields (lyrics)
Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr (producers)

Flower Drum Song

Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields (book)
Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics)
Richard Rodgers (music)
Joseph Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers (producers)

La Plume de Ma Tante

Robert Dhery (book)
Gerard Calvi (music)
Ross Parker (English lyrics)
David Merrick and Joseph Kipness present the Jack Hylton Production

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Jason Robards, Jr. – The Disenchanted
Alfred Lunt – The Visit
Cedric Hardwicke – A Majority of One
Christopher Plummer – J.B.
Cyril Ritchard – The Pleasure of His Company
Robert Stephens – Epitaph for George Dillon

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Gertrude Berg – A Majority of One
Claudette Colbert – The Marriage-Go-Round
Kim Stanley – A Touch of the Poet
Lynn Fontanne – The Visit
Maureen Stapleton – The Cold Wind and the Warm

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Richard Kiley – Redhead
Larry Blyden – Flower Drum Song

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Gwen Verdon – Redhead
Miyoshi Umeki – Flower Drum Song

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Charlie Ruggles – The Pleasure of His Company
George Grizzard – The Disenchanted
George C. Scott – Comes a Day
Marc Connelly – Tall Story
Robert Morse – Say, Darling
Walter Matthau – Once More, With Feeling

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Julie Newmar – The Marriage-Go-Round
Beatrice Redding – Requiem for a Nun
Dolores Hart – The Pleasure of His Company
Maureen Delany – God and Kate Murphy
Nan Martin – J.B.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Russell Nype – Goldilocks
Leonard Stone – Redhead

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Pat Stanley – Goldilocks
Julienne Marie – Whoop-Up

BEST DIRECTOR

Elia Kazan – J.B.
Cyril Richard – The Pleasure of His Company
Dore Schary – A Majority of One
Peter Brook – The Visit
Peter Glenville – Rashoman
Robert Dhery – La Plume de Ma Tante
William Gaskell – Epitaph for George Dillon

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Bob Fosse – Redhead
Agnes de Mille – Goldilocks
Carol Haney – Flower Drum Song
Onna White – Whoop-Up

CONDUCTOR & MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Salvatore Del’Ilsola – Flower Drum Song
Gershon Kingsley – La Plume de Ma Tante
Jay Blackston – Redhead
Lehman Engel – Goldilocks

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Donald Oenslager – A Majority of One
Ballou – The Legend of Lizzie
Ben Edwards – Jane Eyre
Boris Aronson – J.B.
Oliver Messel – Rashoman
Teo Otto – The Visit

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Rouben Ter-Arutunian – Redhead
Castillo – Goldilocks
Dorothy Jenkins – The World of Suzie Wong
Irene Sharaff – Flower Drum Song
Oliver Messel – Rashoman

BEST STAGE TECHNICIAN

Sam Knap – The Music Man
Edward Flynn – The Most Happy Fella
Thomas Fitzgerald – Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?

SPECIAL AWARDS

Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse – For a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.
John Gielgud – For contributions to the theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man.
Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Robert Dhery, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec), for contribution to the theatre.

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