Tony Awards: 1965

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRMATIC PLAY

The Subject Was Roses

Frank Gilroy (playwright)
Edgar Lansbury (producer)

Luv

Murray Schisgal (playwright)
Claire Nichtern (producer)

The Odd Couple

Neil Simon (playwright)
Saint-Subber (producer)

Tiny Alice

Edward Albee (playwright)
Richard Burr and Clinton Wilder, Theatre 1965 (producers)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

Fiddler on the Roof

Joseph Stein (book)
Jerry Bock (music)
Sheldon Harnick (lyrics)

Harold Prince

Golden Boy

Clifford Odets and William Gibson (book)
Charles Strouse (music)
Lee Adams (lyrics)
Hillard Elkins (producer)

Half a Sixpence

Beverly Cross (book)
David Heneker (music and lyrics)
Alan Hodgdon, Steven Productions, and Harold Fielding (producers)

Oh, What a Lovely War

Joan Littlewood for Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton, members of the cast (book, music, lyrics)
David Merrick and Gerry Raffles (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Irene Worth – Tiny Alice
Bea Richards – The Amen Corner
Diana Sands – The Owl and the Pussycat
Marjorie Rhodes – All in Good Time

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Zero Mostel – Fiddler on the Roof
Cyril Ritchard – The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd
Sammy Davis – Golden Boy
Tommy Steele – Half a Sixpence

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Liza Minelli – Flora, the Red Menace
Elizabeth Allen – Do I Hear a Waltz?
Inga Swenson – Baker Street
Nancy Dussault – Bajour

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Jack Albertson – The Subject Was Roses
Clarence Williams III – Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Martin Sheen – The Subject Was Roses
Murray Hamilton – Absence of a Cello

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Alice Ghostley – The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Alexandra Berlin – All in Good Time
Carolyn Daniels – Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Rae Allen – Traveller Without Luggage

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Victor Spinetti – Oh, What a Lovely War
Jack Cassidy – Fade Out – Fade In
James Grout – Half a Sixpence
Jerry Orbach – Guys and Dolls

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Maria Karnilova – Fiddler on the Roof
Barbara Windsor – Oh, What a Lovely War
Carrie Nye – Half a Sixpence
Luba Lisa – I Had a Ball

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Mike Nichols – Luv and The Odd Couple
Alan Schneider – Tiny Alice
Ulu Grosbard – The Subject Was Roses
William Ball – Tartuffe

BEST DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Jerome Robbins – Fiddler on the Roof
Anthony Newly – The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
Gene Saks – Half a Sixpence
Joan Littlewood – Oh, What a Lovely War

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

Jerome Robbins – Fiddler on the Roof
Donald McKayle – Golden Boy
Onna White – Half a Sixpence
Peter Gennaro – Bajour

BEST AUTHOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Neil Simon – The Odd Couple
Edward Albee – Tiny Alice
Frank Gilroy – The Subject Was Roses
Murray Schisgal – Luv

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Joseph Stein – Fiddler on the Roof
Beverly Cross – Half a Sixpence
Jerome Coopersmith – Baker Street
Sidney Michaels – Ben Franklin in Paris

BEST COMPOSER AND LYRICIST

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick – Fiddler on the Roof
David Heneker – Half a Sixpence
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newly – The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim – Do I Hear a Waltz?

BEST PRODUCER OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

Claire Nichtern – Luv
Hume Cronyn, Allen-Hodgdon Inc, Stevens Productions Inc, Bonfils-Seawell Enterprises – Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
Robert Whitehead – Tartuffe
Richard Burr and Clinton Wilder, Theatre 1965 – Tiny Alice

BEST PRODUCER OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Harold Prince – Fiddler on the Roof
Allen-Hodgdon Inc, Stevens Productions Inc, and Harold Fielding – Half a Sixpence
David Merrick – The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
Hillard Elkins – Golden Boy

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Oliver Smith – Baker Street], Luv, and The Odd Couple
Beni Montressor – Do I Hear a Waltz?
Boris Aronson – Fiddler on the Roof and Incident at Vichy
Sean Kenny – The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Patricia Zipprodt – Fiddler on the Roof
Freddy Wittop – The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
Jane Greenwood – Tartuffe
Motley – Baker Street

SPECIAL AWARDS

Gilbert Miller – For having produced 88 plays and musicals and for his perseverence which has helped to keep New York theatre alive.
Oliver Smith

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