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Browse Awards By Year for 1956
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| 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 | Richard Adler | 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 | Siobhan McKenna | 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 | Robert Whitehead | Bus Stop |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Produced by The Playwrights' Company |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Irene Mayer Selznick | The Chalk Garden |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Frances Goodrich | The Diary of Anne Frank Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Henry M. Margolis | Tiger at the Gates |
| 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 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 | Larry Bland | 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 | The Theatre Collection of the N.Y. Public Library | 0 Winner for its distinguished service to the theatre |
| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Carmen Capalbo | The Threepenny Opera
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| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Frances Goodrich | 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 | 0 | The Iceman Cometh 1955-56 season |
| 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 | 0 | The Diary of Anne Frank 1955-56 season |
| 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 | 0 | 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 | 0 | 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 | 0
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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 | 0
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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 | 0 | Cranks
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