Tony Awards: 1975 (thing)

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by JDWActor

Thu Jan 26 2006 at 1:56:58

All winners are listed in boldfaced type.

BEST DRAMATIC PLAY

Equus

Peter Shaffer (playwright)
Kermit Bloomgarden and Doris Cole Abrahams (producers)

Same Time, Next Year

Bernard Slade (playwright)
Morton Gottlieb (producer)

Seascape

Edward Albee (playwright)
Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, and Clinton Wilder (producers)

Short Eyes

Miguel Pinero (playwright)
New York Shakespeare Festival – Joseph Papp (producer)

Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island

Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona (playwrights)
Hillard Elkins, Lester Osterman Productions, Bernard Delfont, and Michael White (producers)

The National Health

Peter Nichols (playwright)
Circle in the Square, Ltd. (producer)

BEST MUSICAL PLAY

The Wiz

William F. Brown (book)
Charlie Smalls (music and lyrics)
Ken Harper (producer)

Mack and Mabel

Michael Stewart (book)
Jerry Herman (music and lyrics)
David Merrick (producer)

The Lieutenant

Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman, and Chuck Strand (book, music, and lyrics)
Joseph Kutrzeba and Spofford Beadle (producers)

Shenandoah

James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell, and Philip Rose (book)
Gary Geld (music)
Peter Udell (lyrics)
Philip Rose, and Gloria and Louis K. Sher (producers)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

John Kani – Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island
Winston Ntshona – Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island
James Dale – Scapino
Peter Firth – Equus
Henry Fonda – Clarence Darrow
Ben Gazzara – Hughie and Duet
John Wood – Sherlock Holmes

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Ellen Burstyn – Same Time, Next Year
Elizabeth Ashley – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Diana Rigg – The Misanthrope
Maggie Smith – Private Lives
Liv Ullmann – A Doll’s House

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Frank Langella – Seascape
Larry Blyden – Absurd Person Singular
Leonard Frey – The National Health
Philip Locke – Sherlock Holmes
George Rose – My Fat Friend
Dick Anthony Williams – Black Picture Show

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PLAY

Rita Moreno – The Ritz
Linda Miller – Black Picture Show
Geraldine Page – Absurd Person Singular
Carole Shelley – Absurd Person Singular]
Elizabeth Spriggs – London Assurance
Frances Sternhagen – Equus

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Ted Ross – The Wiz
Tom Aldredge – Where’s Charley?
John Bottoms – Dance With Me
Douglas Henning – The Magic Show
Gilbert Price – The Night That Made America Famous
Richard B. Shull – Goodtime Charley

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL PLAY

Dee Dee Bridgewater – The Wiz
Susan Browning – Goodtime Charley
Zan Charisse – Gypsy
Taina Elg – Where’s Charley?
Kelly Garrett – The Night That Made America Famous
Donna Theodore – Shenandoah

BEST DIRECTOR OF A DRAMATIC PLAY

John Dexter – Equus
Arvin Brown – The National Health
Frank Dunlop – Scapino
Ronald Eyre – London Assurance
Athol Fugard – Sizwe Banzi is Dead and The Island
Gene Saks – Same Time, Next Year

BES DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL PLAY

Geoffrey Holder – The Wiz
Gower Champion – Mack and Mabel
Grover Dale – The Magic Show
Arthur Laurents – Gypsy

BEST CHOREOGRAPHER

George Faison – The Wiz
Gower Champion – Mack and Mabel
Donald McKayle– Doctor Jazz
Margo Sappington – Where’s Charley?
Robert Tucker – Shenandoah
Joel Zwick – Dance With Me

BEST SCORE

Charlie Smalls (music and lyrics) – The Wiz
Alan Lloyd (music and lyrics) – Letter for Queen Victoria
Gary Geld (music) and Peter Udell (lyrics) – Shenandoah
Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman, and Chuck Strand (music and lyrics) – The Lieutenant

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell, and Philip Rose – Shenandoah
Michael Stewart – Mack and Mabel
Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman, and Chuck Strand – The Lieutenant
William F. Brown – The Wiz

BEST SCENIC DESIGNER

Carl Toms – Sherlock Holmes
Scott Johnson – Dance With Me
Tanya Moiseiwitsch – The Misanthrope
William Ritman – God’s Favorite
Rouben Ter-Arutunian – Goodtime Charley
Robert Wagner – Mack and Mabel

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

Geoffrey Holder – The Wiz
Arthur Boccia – Where’s Charley?
Raoul Penè Du Bois – Doctor Jazz
Willa Kim – Goodtime Charley
Tanya Moiseiwitsch – The Misanthrope
Patricia Zipprodt – Mack and Mabel

BEST LIGHTING DESIGNER

Neil Peter Jampolis – Sherlock Holmes
Chip Monk – The Rocky Horror Show
Abe Feder – Goodtime Charley
Andy Phillips – Equus
Thomas Skelton – All God’s Chillun
James Tilton – Seascape

THEATRE AWARD ’75

Al Hirschfeld for 50 years of theatrical cartoons.

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