1976 Tony Award Winners

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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
1976	Best Book of a Musical	Alfred Uhry	The Robber Bridegroom
1976	Best Book of a Musical	John Weidman	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Book of a Musical	Bob Fosse	Chicago
1976	Best Book of a Musical	Fred Ebb	Chicago
1976	Best Book of a Musical	Nelle Nugent	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Book of a Musical	James Kirkwood	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Choreography	Bob Avian	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Choreography	Billy Wilson	Bubbling Brown Sugar
1976	Best Choreography	Bob Fosse	Chicago
1976	Best Choreography	Patricia Birch	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Choreography	Michael Bennet	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Costume Design	Florence Klotz	Pacific Overtures	Award winner
1976	Best Costume Design	Theoni V. Aldredge	A Chorus Line
1976	Best Costume Design	Ann Roth	The Royal Family
1976	Best Costume Design	Patricia Zipprodt	Chicago
1976	Best Direction of a Musical	Peter Wood	Travesties
1976	Best Direction of a Musical	Michael Bennett	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Direction of a Musical	Bob Fosse	Chicago
1976	Best Direction of a Musical	Bill Gile	Very Good Eddie
1976	Best Lighting Design	Tharon Musser	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Lighting Design	Ian Calderon	Trelawny of the "Wells"
1976	Best Lighting Design	Jules Fisher	Chicago
1976	Best Lighting Design	Tharon Musser	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Musical	Moe Septee	Bubbling Brown Sugar
1976	Best Musical	Ruth Mitchell	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Musical	Harold Prince	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Musical	James Cresson	Chicago producer, production took place the previous year
1976	Best Musical	Robert Fryer	Chicago producer, production took place the previous year
1976	Best Musical	Robert M. Cooper	Bubbling Brown Sugar
1976	Best Musical	Richard Bell	Bubbling Brown Sugar
1976	Best Musical	J. Lloyd Grant	Bubbling Brown Sugar
1976	Best Musical	Joseph Papp	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Marvin Hamlisch	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	John Kander	Chicago
1976	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Fred Ebb	Chicago
1976	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Stephen Sondheim	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Scott Joplin	Treemonisha production took place the previous year
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Robert LuPone	A Chorus Line
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Sammy Williams	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Charles Repole	Very Good Eddie
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical	Isao Sato	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Barry Bostwick	They Knew What They Wanted
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Edward Herrmann	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Gabriel Dell	Lamppost Reunion
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Daniel Seltzer	Knock Knock
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	George Rose	My Fair Lady
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Mako	Pacific Overtures
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Jerry Orbach	Chicago
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Ian Richardson	My Fair Lady
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Donald Sinden	Habeas Corpus
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	George C. Scott	Death of a Salesman
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Moses Gunn	The Poison Tree
1976	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	John Wood	Travesties	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Virginia Seidel	Very Good Eddie
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Patti LuPone	The Robber Bridegroom
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Priscilla Lopez	A Chorus Line
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Carole Bishop	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Meryl Streep	27 Wagons Full of Cotton
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Shirley Knight	Kennedy's Children	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Mary Beth Hurt	Trelawny of the "Wells"
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Lois Nettleton	They Knew What They Wanted
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Donna McKechnie	A Chorus Line	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Vivian Reed	Bubbling Brown Sugar
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Chita Rivera	Chicago
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Gwen Verdon	Chicago
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	The Royal Family
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Irene Worth	Sweet Bird of Youth	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Tovah Feldshuh	Yentl
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lynn Redgrave	Mrs. Warren's Profession
1976	Best Play	Terry Allen Kramer	Knock Knock
1976	Best Play	Tom Stoppard	Travesties producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1976	Best Play	David Merrick	Travesties producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1976	Best Play	Doris Cole Abrahams	Travesties producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1976	Best Play	Joe Garofalo	Lamppost Reunion production took place the previous year
1976	Best Play	Louis La Russo	Lamppost Reunion producer, production took place the previous year
1976	Best Play	Harry Rigby	Knock Knock
1976	Best Play	Jules Feiffer	Knock Knock
1976	Best Play	Negro Ensemble	The First Breeze of Summer producer, production took place the previous year
1976	Best Play	Leslie Lee	The First Breeze of Summer producer, production took place the previous year
1976	Best Play	Eddie Kulukundis	Travesties producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1976	Best Play	S. Spencer Davids	Travesties producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1976	Best Play	Burry Fredrik	Travesties producer, production took place the previous year	Award winner
1976	Best Scenic Design	Boris Aronson	Pacific Overtures	Award winner
1976	Best Scenic Design	Tony Walton	Chicago production took place the previous year
1976	Best Scenic Design	David Mitchell	Trelawny of the "Wells"
1976	Best Scenic Design	Ben Edwards	A Matter of Gravity
1976	Special Tony Award	Richard Burton	0 awarded posthumously
1976	Special Tony Award	Thomas H. Fitzgerald	0 the gifted lighting technician of countless Broadway shows and many Tony telecasts	Award winner
1976	Special Tony Award	Mathilde Pincus	0 outstanding service to the Broadway musical theatre	Award winner

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