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Browse Awards By Year for 1972
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| Awards | Category | Nominee | Show |
| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Melvin Van Peebles | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Jim Jacobs | Grease
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Follies | James Goldman
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Mel Shapiro | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | John Guare | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Michael Bennet | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Patricia Birch | Grease
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| Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Jean Erdman | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Florence Klotz | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Carrie F. Robbins | Grease
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Randy Barcelo | Jesus Christ Superstar
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| Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Burt Shevelove | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Gilbert Moses | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Harold Prince | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Mel Shapiro | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Peter Hall | Old Times
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Jeff Bleckner | Sticks and Bones
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Mike Nichols | The Prisoner of Second Avenue
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| Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Gordon Davidson | The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Martin Aronstein | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Tharon Musser | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | Jules Fisher | Jesus Christ Superstar
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| Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design | John Bury | Old Times
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Emanuel Azenberg | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Harold Prince | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Kenneth Waissman | Grease
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| Tony Awards | Best Musical | Joseph Papp | Two Gentleman of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Stephen Sondheim | Follies production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Melvin Van Peebles | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Jesus Christ Superstar production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | John Guare | Two Gentlemen of Verona Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Joe Silver | Lenny
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Vincent Gardenia | The Prisoner of Second Avenue
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Lee Richardson | Vivat! Vivat Regina!
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Phil Silvers | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Laurence Guittard | A Little Night Music
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Gene Nelson | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Timothy Myers | Grease
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Ben Vereen | Jesus Christ Superstar
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Raul Julia | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Cliff Gorman | Lenny
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Tom Aldredge | Sticks and Bones
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Jason Robards | The Country Girl
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Donald Pleasence | Wise Child
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Beatrice Winde | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Adrienne Barbeau | Grease
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Linda Hopkins | Inner City
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical | Bernadette Peters | On The Town
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Cara Duff-MacCormick | Moonchildren
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Elizabeth Wilson | Sticks and Bones
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Mercedes McCambridge | The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Frances Sternhagen | The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Mildred Natwick | 70, Girls
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Alexis Smith | Follies
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical | Jonelle Allen | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Colleen Dewhurst | All Over
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Rosemary Harris | Old Times
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Sada Thompson | Twigs
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| Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Eileen Atkins | Vivat! Vivat Regina!
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Harold Pinter | Old Times Production took place the previous year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | David Rabe | Sticks and Bones
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | Neil Simon | The Prisoner of Second Avenue production took place the 1972 year. |
| Tony Awards | Best Play | Arthur Cantor | Vivat! Vivat Regina!
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| Tony Awards | Best Play | David Merrick | Vivat! Vivat! Regina!
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Kert Lundell | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
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| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Boris Aronson | Follies production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Robin Wagner | Jesus Christ Superstar producer, production took place the previous year |
| Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | John Bury | Old Times
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| Tony Awards | Special Tony Award | Richard Rodgers | 0 |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Book | Melvin Van Pebbles | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Composer | Andre Lloyd Webber | Jesus Christ Superstar 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Costume Design | Carrie F. Robbins | Grease 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Costume Design | Carrie F. Robbins | The Beggar's Opera 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | Gilbert Moses | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Director | Dan Sullivan | Suggs 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Lyricist | Micki Grant | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | J.E. Franklin | Black Girl 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Michael Weller | Moonchildren 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | David Wiltse | Suggs 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Jason Miller | That Championship Season 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Richard Wesley | The Black Terror 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Playwright | Philip Dean Hayes | The Sty of the Blind Pig 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Most Promising Set Design | Video Free America | Kaddish 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book | Mel Shapiro | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Patricia Birch | Grease 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Jean Erdman | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Willa Kim | The Screens 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Theoni V. Aldredge | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Andrei Serban | Medea 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Peter Hall | Old Times 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Mel Shapiro | Older People 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Jeff Bleckner | Sticks and Bones 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | A.J. Antoon | That Championship Season 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director | Mel Shapiro | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | John Guare | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Galt MacDermot | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | George S. Irving | An Evening With Richard Nixon 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Ron Faber | And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Ruby Dee | Boesman and Lena 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Micki Grant | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Linda Hopkins | Inner City 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Marilyn Chris | Kaddish 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Brock Peters | Lost in the Stars 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Lester Rawlins | Nightride 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Rosemary Harris | Old Times 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Tom Aldredge | Sticks and Bones 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Robert Morse | Sugar 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | William Athertow | Suggs 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Kain | That Black Terror 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Paul Sorvino | That Championship Season 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Julie Bovasso | The Screens 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Sada Thompson | Twigs 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Jonelle Allen | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Performance | Eileen Atkins | Vivat! Vivat Regina! 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Playwright | J.E. Gaines | Don't Let It Go to Your Head 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Kert Lundell | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | Sticks and Bones 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Santo Loquasto | That Championship Season 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Robert U. Taylor | The Beggar's Opera 1971-72 season |
| Drama Desk Awards | Vernon Rice Award | Chelsea Theatre Center | 0 1971-72 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Harold Pinter | Old Times 1971-1972 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Foreign Play | Jean Genet | The Screens 1971-1972 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Musical | John Guare | Two Gentlemen of Verona 1971-1972 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | David Rabe | Sticks and Bones 1971-1972 season |
| New York Drama Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | Jason Miller | That Championship Season 1971-1972 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | Brock Peters | Lost in the Stars 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actor | Robert Morse | Sugar 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Marilyn Chris | Kaddish 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Rosemary Harris | Old Times 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Actress | Sada Thompson | Twigs 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | 0 | Sticks and Bones 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Best Play | 0 | That Championship Season 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | John Gassner Playwrighting Award | Jason Miller | That Championship Season 1971-72 season |
| Outer Critics Circle Awards | Special Awards | Equity Library Theatre | 0 1971-72 season |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Best Theatre Piece | The Open Theatre | The Mutation Show
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Citations | Charles Stanley | 0 Actor,Dancer,Costume Designer |
| Village Voice Obie Awards | Citations | Meredith Monk | Vessel
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Tom Sydorick | 20th Century
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Michael Smith | Country Music
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | John Braswell | The Only Jealousy of Emer
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Direction | Mel Shaprio | Two Gentlemen of Verona
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Music and Lyrics | Micki Grant | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Ron Faber | And They Put Handcuffs on Flowers
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Alex Bradford | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Marilyn Chris | Kaddish
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Salome Bey | Love Me, Love My Children
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Elizabeth Wilson | Stick and Bones
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Kathleen Widdoes | The Beggar's Opera
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Marilyn Sokol | The Begger's Opera
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Maurice Blanc | The Celebrations: Joos/Guns/Movies/The Abyss
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Danny Sewell | The Homecoming
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Performance | Ed Zang | The Reliquary of Mr. and Mrs. Potterfield
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| Village Voice Obie Awards | Visual Effects | Video Free America | Kaddish
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| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Beatrice Winde | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Adrienne Barbeau | Grease Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Ben Vereen | Jesus Christ Superstar Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Cara Duff-MacCormick | Moonchildren Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jess Richards | On The Town Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Richard Backus | Promenade, All! Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Elaine Joyce | Sugar Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | William Atherton | Suggs Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Robert Foxworth | The Crucible Season 1971–1972 |
| Theatre World Awards | Performance | Jonelle Allen | Two Gentlemen of Verona Season 1971–1972 |
| Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Claire Bloom | 0
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Costume Design | Willa Kim | Screens
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Kert F. Lundell | Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death
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| Henry Hewes Awards | Scenic Design | Robert U. Taylor | Beggar's Opera
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Actor | Laurence Olivier | Long Day's Journey Into Night
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Comedy | Charles Wood | Veterans
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Best Play | Tom Stoppard | Jumpers
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright | Wilson John Haire | Within Two Shadows
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Lebedev Special Award | Peter Daubeny | 0 Impresario and organizer of the annual World Theatre Season, Aldwych Theatre 1967-1973 |
| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress | Rachel Roberts | Alpha Beta
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| Evening Standard Theatre Awards | Ned Sherrin Award for Best Musical | 0 | Applause
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