1950 Broadway Awards

Winners and nominees across Broadway and Off-Broadway award shows.

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1950 winners & nominees

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Awards	Category	Nominee	Show
Drama League Awards	Distinguished Performance Award	Grace George
New York Drama Critics Circle Awards	Best American Play	Carson McCullers	A Member of the Wedding1949-1950 season
New York Drama Critics Circle Awards	Best Foreign Play	T. S. Eliot	The Cocktail Party1949-1950 season
New York Drama Critics Circle Awards	Best Musical	Gian-Carlo Menotti	The Consul1949-1950 season
Outer Critics Circle Awards	Best Musical		The Consul1949-50 season
Outer Critics Circle Awards	Best Performances in Minor Roles	Daniel Reed	Come Back, Little Sheba1949-50 season
Outer Critics Circle Awards	Best Performances in Minor Roles	Sheila Guyse	Lost in the Stars1949-50 season
Outer Critics Circle Awards	Best Play		The Cocktail Party1949-50 season

Pulitzer Prize for Drama	The Pulitzer Prize for Drama	Richard Rodgers	South Pacific
Pulitzer Prize for Drama	The Pulitzer Prize for Drama	Oscar Hammerstein II	South Pacific

Pulitzer Prize for Drama	The Pulitzer Prize for Drama	Joshua Logan	South Pacific
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Charles Nolte, Charlton Heston	Design for a Stained Glass WindowSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Lydia Clarke	Detective StorySeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Rick Jason	Now I Lay Me Down to SleepSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Marcia Henderson	Peter PanSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Priscilla Gillette	ReginaSeason 1949–1950


Theatre World Awards	Performance	Grace Kelly	The FatherSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Don Hanmer	The ManSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Barbara Brady	The Velvet GloveSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Roger Price	Tickets, Please!Season 1949–1950

Theatre World Awards	Performance	Nancy Andrews	Touch and GoSeason 1949–1950
Theatre World Awards	Performance	Phil Arthur	With a Silk ThreadSeason 1949–1950
Tony Awards	Best Conductor and Musical Director	Maurice Abravanel	Regina
Tony Awards	Best Costume Design	Aline Bernstein	Regina

Tony Awards	Best Direction	Joshua Logan	South Pacific
Tony Awards	Best Musical	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan	South Pacificlyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. Produced by Leland Hayward, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan and Richard Rodgers.
Tony Awards	Best Musical	Leland Hayward	South Pacifics
Tony Awards	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan	South Pacific
Tony Awards	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Ezio Pinza, Ezio Pinza, Myron McCormick	South Pacific
Tony Awards	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Sidney Blackmer	Come Back, Little Sheba

Tony Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Juanita Hall	South Pacific
Tony Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Mary Martin	South Pacific


Tony Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Shirley Booth	Come Back, Little Sheba
Tony Awards	Best Play	T.S. Eliot, Gilbert Miller	The Cocktail PartyProduced by Gilbert Miller
Tony Awards	Best Scenic Design	Jo Mielziner	The Innocents
Tony Awards	Best Stage Technician	Joe Lynn	Miss Libertymaster propertyman
Tony Awards	Producer (Musical)	Richard Rodgers, Joshua Logan, Oscar Hammerstein II, Leland Hayward	South Pacific
Tony Awards	Special Tony Award	Brock Pemberton, Maurice Evans	founder of awards and its original chairman (posthumous).

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