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Browse Awards By Year for 1956
| Note: Award winners will appear on a | RED BACKGROUND |
| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Bob Fosse |
Damn Yankees
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Boris Runanin |
Phoenix '55
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Boris Runanin | Pipe Dream |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Anna Sokolow |
Red Roses for Me
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Robert Alton |
The Vamp
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Hal Hastings |
Damn Yankees
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Salvatore Dell'Isola |
Pipe Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Milton Rosenstock |
The Vamp
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Helene Pons | A View from the Bridge |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Helene Pons | Heavenly Twins |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Alvin Colt | Phoenix '55 |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Alvin Colt |
Pipe Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Helene Pons |
The Diary of Anne Frank
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Mainbocher |
The Great Sebastians
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Alvin Colt | The Lark |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Tyrone Guthrie |
Tamburlaine the Great
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Harold Clurman |
Bus Stop
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Elia Kazan |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Herman Shumlin |
Inherit the Wind
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Harold Clurman | Pipe Dream |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Albert Marre |
The Chalk Garden
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Garson Kanin |
The Diary of Anne Frank
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Joseph Anthony |
The Lark
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Tyrone Guthrie |
The Matchmaker
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction | Harold Clurman | Tiger at the Gates |
| Tony Awards | Best Musical | George Abbott |
Damn Yankees
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Richard Rodgers |
Pipe Dream Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.Produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Anthony Franciosa |
A Hatful of Rain
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Ed Begley |
Inherit the Wind Production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Andy Griffith |
No Time for Sergeants
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Anthony Quayle |
Tamburlaine the Great
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Fritz Weaver |
The Chalk Garden Production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Ray Walston |
Damn Yankees Production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Will Mahoney |
Finian's Rainbow
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | William Johnson |
Pipe Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Scott Merrill |
The Threepenny Opera
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Ben Gazzara |
A Hatful of Rain
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Paul Muni |
Inherit the Wind Production took place previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Edward G. Robinson |
Middle of the Night
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Boris Karloff |
The Lark
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Michael Redgrave |
Tiger at the Gates
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Pat Carroll |
Catch a Star
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Rae Allen |
Damn Yankees
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Judy Tyler |
Pipe Dream
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Lotte Lenya |
The Threepenny Opera
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Elaine Stritch |
Bus Stop
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Anne Jackson |
Middle of the Night
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Una Merkel |
The Ponder Heart
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Diane Cilento |
Tiger at the Gates
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gwen Verdon |
Damn Yankees
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Nancy Walker |
Phoenix '55
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Carol Channing |
The Vamp
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Barbara Bel Geddes |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Gladys Cooper |
The Chalk Garden
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Susan Strasberg |
The Diary of Anne Frank
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Julie Harris |
The Lark
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Ruth Gordon |
The Matchmaker
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | William Inge |
Bus Stop Produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Tennessee Williams |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Produced by The Playwrights' Company |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Enid Bagnold |
The Chalk Garden Produced by Irene Mayer Selznick. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Frances Goodrich |
The Diary of Anne Frank Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Jean Giraudoux |
Tiger at the Gates Adapted by Christopher Fry. Produced by Robert L. Joseph, The Playwrights' Company, and Henry M. Margolis. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Christopher Fry | Tiger at the Gates |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Ben Edwards |
Someone Waiting
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson | A View from the Bridge |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson | Bus Stop |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Jo Mielziner |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Peter Larkin |
Inherit the Wind
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Jo Mielziner |
Middle of the Night
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Peter Larkin | No Time for Sergeants |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson | Once Upon a Tailor |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson |
The Diary of Anne Frank
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Raymond Sovey |
The Great Sebastians
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Ben Edwards |
The Honeys
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Jo Mielziner | The Lark |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Ben Edwards |
The Ponder Heart
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Larry Bland |
The Ponder Heart
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Harry Green |
Damn Yankees
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Harry Green |
Middle of the Night
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Larry Bland |
Porgy and Bess
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| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | City Center |
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| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Carmen Capalbo |
The Threepenny Opera
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