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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 | Harold S. Prince | Damn Yankees |
| 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 | The Playwrights' Company | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Enid Bagnold |
The Chalk Garden Produced by Irene Mayer Selznick. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Kermit Bloomgarden | The Diary of Anne Frank |
| 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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| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Albert Hackett |
Diary of Anne Frank
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| Drama Desk Awards | Best Direction | Jose Quintero |
The Iceman Cometh 1955-56 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Best Performance | Pernell Roberts |
Macbeth 1955-56 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Best Performance | Janine Manatis |
Village Wooing 1955-56 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Best Production |
The Iceman Cometh 1955-56 season |
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| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Frances Goodrich |
The Diary of Anne Frank 1955-1956 Season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Jean Giraudoux |
Tiger at the Gates 1955-1956 Season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | Frederick Loewe |
My Fair Lady 1955-1956 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Drama Performance | Anthony Franciosa |
A Hatful of Rain 1955-56 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Play |
The Diary of Anne Frank 1955-56 season |
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| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | Alice Pearce |
Fallen Angels 1955-56 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | Peter Larkin |
No Time for Sergeants 1955-56 season |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actor | Jason Robards, Jr. |
The Iceman Cometh
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actor | George Voskovec |
Uncle Vanya
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actress | Julie Bovasso |
The Maids
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best All-Around Production |
Uncle Vanya
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Director | Jose Quintero |
The Iceman Cometh
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New Musical |
The Threepenny Opera
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New Play | Lionel Abel |
Absalom, Absalom
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Gerald Hiken |
The Cherry Orchard
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Gerald Hiken |
Uncle Vanya
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Peggy McCay |
Uncle Vanya
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actor) | Roberts Blossom |
A Village Wooing
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actor) | Addison Powell |
The Iceman Cometh
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actor) | Alan Ansara |
The Private Life of the Master Race
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Frances Sternhagen |
The Admirable Bashville
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Nancy Wickwire |
The Cherry Orchard
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Distinguished Performance (Actress) | Shirlee Emmons |
The Mother of Us All
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Special Citation | Phoenix Theatre |
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Anthony Franciosa |
A Hatful of Rain Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | David Hedison |
A Month in the Country Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Dick Davalos |
A View From the Bridge Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Laurence Harvey |
Island of Goats Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Earle Hyman |
Mister Johnson Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | John Michael King |
My Fair Lady Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Andy Griffith |
No Time for Sergeants Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Fritz Weaver |
The Chalk Garden Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Susan Strasberg |
The Diary of Anne Frank Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Susan Johnson |
The Most Happy Fella Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Sarah Marshall |
The Ponder Heart Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Diane Cilento |
Tiger at the Gates Season 1955–1956 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jayne Mansfield |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Season 1955–1956 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | David Wayne |
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Paul Scofield |
The Power and the Glory
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Peter Ustinov |
Romanoff and Juliet
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | John Osborne |
Look Back In Anger
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Peggy Ashcroft |
The Chalk Garden
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical |
Cranks
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