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Browse Awards By Year for 1961
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| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Gower Champion | Bye Bye Birdie Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Onna White | Irma La Douce
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Pembrode Davenport | 13 Daughters
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Elliot Lawrence | Bye Bye Birdie
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| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Franz Allers | Camelot Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Conductor and Musical Director | Stanley Lebowsky | Irma La Douce
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Tony Duquette | Camelot Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Rolf Gerard | Irma La Douce
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Cecil Beaton | Tenderloin
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | Raymond Sovey | All the Way Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | Motley | Becket
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | Theoni V. Aldredge | The Devil's Advocate
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Gower Champion | Bye Bye Birdie Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Garson Kanin | Do Re Mi
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Peter Brook | Irma La Douce
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Arthur Penn | All the Way Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Sir John Gielgud | Big Fish, Little Fish
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Joseph Anthony | Rhinoceros
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Joan Littlewood | The Hostage
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Charles Strouse | Bye Bye Birdie
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jules Styne | Do Re Mi
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Marguerite Monnot | Irma La Douce Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Martin Gable | Big Fish, Little Fish
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Eduardo Ciannelli | The Devil's Advocate
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Dick Van Dyke | Bye Bye Birdie Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Richard Burton | Camelot Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Phil Silvers | Do Re Mi
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Clive Revill | Irma La Douce
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Maurice Evans | Tenderloin
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Anthony Quinn | Becket
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Hume Cronyn | Big Fish, Little Fish
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Zero Mostel | Rhinoceros
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Sam Levene | The Devil's Advocate
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Chita Rivera | Bye Bye Birdie
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Nancy Dussault | Do Re Mi
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Tammy Grimes | The Unsinkable Molly Brown Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Colleen Dewhurst | All the Way Home Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Eileen Heckart | Invitation to a March
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Rosemary Murphy | Period of Adjustment
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Tresa Hughes | The Devil's Advocate
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Philip Bosco | The Rape of the Belt
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Julie Andrews | Camelot
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Nancy Walker | Do Re Mi
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Elizabeth Seal | Irma La Douce Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Carol Channing | Show Girl
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Joan Plowright | A Taste of Honey Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Barbara Bel Geddes | Mary, Mary
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Tallulah Bankhead | Midgie Purvis
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Barbara Baxley | Period of Adjustment
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Fred Coe | All the Way Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Jean Anouilh | Becket Translated by Lucienne Hill. Produced by David Merrick. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Dore Schary | The Devil's Advocate
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Brendan Behan | The Hostage Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | George Jenkins | 13 Daughters
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Robert Randolph | Bye Bye Birdie
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Oliver Smith | Camelot Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Rouben Ter-Arutunian | Advise and Consent
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | David Hays | All the Way Home
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Oliver Smith | Becket
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Roger Furse | Duel of Angels
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Jo Mielziner | The Devil's Advocate
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| Tony Awards | Best Stage Technician | Teddy Van Bemmel | Becket
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| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | The Theatre Guild | 0 Winner for organizing the first repertory to go abroad for the State Department. |
| Pulitzer Prize for Drama | The Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Tad Mosel | All The Way Home
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| Drama Desk Awards | Citation of Excellence | Richard Barr | 0 Theatre '61 Productions |
| Drama Desk Awards | Citation of Excellence | Joan Hackett | Call Me By My Rightful Name 1960-61 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Citation of Excellence | Boris Tumarin | Montserrat 1960-61 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Citation of Excellence | Tom Jones | The Fantasticks 1960-61 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Citation of Excellence | Theodore J. Flicker | The Premise 1960-61 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best American Play | Tad Mosel | All the Way Home 1960-1961 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Shelagh Delaney | A Taste of Honey 1960-1961 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | Bob Merrill | Carnival! 1960-1961 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Ensemble Acting | 0 | Big Fish, Little Fish 1960-61 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical Performance | Don Tompkins | Wildcat 1960-61 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Creative Contribution of the Season | Gower Champion | 0 1960-61 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Creative Contribution of the Season | 0 | Carnival 1960-61 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Creative Contribution of the Season | 0 | Rhinoceros 1960-61 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Oliver Smith | Camelot 1960-61 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Citation | American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy | 0 1960-61 season |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actor | Khigh Dhiegh | In The Jungle Of Cities
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Actress | Anne Meacham | Hedda Gabler
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Director | Gerald A. Freedman | The Taming Of The Shrew
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Music | Teiji Ito | In the Jungle of Cities
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Music | Teiji Ito | Three Modern Japanese Plays
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best New American Play | Jean Genet | The Blacks
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Off-Off Broadway Production | Theodore Flicker | The Premise
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Production | David Ross | Hedda Gabler
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Citations | Bernard Frechtman | The Blacks Translation |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Joan Hackett | Call Me By My Rightful Name
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Lester Rawlins | Hedda Gabler
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Gerry Jedd | She Stoops to Conquer
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Godfrey M. Cambridge | The Blacks
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Surya Kumari | The King of the Darn Chamber
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | James Coco | The Moon in the Yellow River
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joan Hackett | Call Me By My Rightful Name Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Robert Goulet | Camelot Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | June Harding | Cry of the Raindrop Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Nancy Dussault | Do Re Mi Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Dennis Cooney | Every Other Evil Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Sandy Dennis | Face of a Hero Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | James MacArthur | Invitation to a March Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ron Husmann | Tenderloin Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Bruce Yarnell | The Happiest Girl in the World Season 1960–1961 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Joyce Bulifant | Whisper to Me Season 1960–1961 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Hume Cronyn | 0
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Christopher Plummer | Becket
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Jean Anouilh | Beckett
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Henry Livings | Stop it Whoever You Are
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Gwyn Thomas | The Keep
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Vanessa Redgrave | The Lady from the Sea
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical | 0 | Beyond the Fringe
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