1956 Tony Award Winners - Browse by Year

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Category	Nominee	Show
Actor (Musical)	Ray Walston	Damn Yankees
Actor (Musical)	Stephen Douglass	Damn Yankees
Actor (Musical)	William Johnson	Pipe Dream
Actor (Play)	Paul Muni	Inherit the Wind
Actor (Play)	Ben Gazzara	A Hatful of Rain
Actor (Play)	Boris Karloff	The Lark
Actor (Play)	Michael Redgrave	Tiger at the Gates
Actor (Play)	Edward G. Robinson	Middle of the Night
Actress (Musical)	Gwen Verdon	Damn Yankees
Actress (Musical)	Carol Channing	The Vamp
Actress (Musical)	Nancy Walker	Phoenix '55
Actress (Play)	Julie Harris	The Lark
Actress (Play)	Barbara Bel Geddes	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Actress (Play)	Gladys Cooper	The Chalk Garden
Actress (Play)	Ruth Gordon	The Matchmaker
Actress (Play)	Siobhan McKenna	The Chalk Garden
Actress (Play)	Susan Strasberg	The Diary of Anne Frank
Choreographer	Bob Fosse	Damn Yankees
Choreographer	Robert Alton	The Vamp
Choreographer	Boris Runanin	Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream
Choreographer	Anna Sokolow	Red Roses for Me
Conductor and Musical Director	Hal Hastings	Damn Yankees
Conductor and Musical Director	Salvatore Dell'Isola	Pipe Dream
Conductor and Musical Director	Milton Rosenstock	The Vamp
Costume Designer	Alvin Colt	Pipe Dream
Costume Designer	Mainbocher	The Great Sebastians
Costume Designer	Alvin Colt	The Lark / Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream
Costume Designer	Helene Pons	The Diary of Anne Frank / Heavenly Twins / A View from the Bridge
Director	Tyrone Guthrie	The Matchmaker
Director	Joseph Anthony	The Lark
Director	Harold Clurman	Bus Stop / Pipe Dream / Tiger at the Gates
Director	Tyrone Guthrie	The Matchmaker / Six Characters in Search of an Author / Tamburlaine the Great
Director	Garson Kanin	The Diary of Anne Frank
Director	Elia Kazan	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Director	Albert Marre	The Chalk Garden
Director	Herman Shumlin	Inherit the Wind
Featured Actor (Musical)	Russ Brown	Damn Yankees
Featured Actor (Musical)	Mike Kellin	Pipe Dream
Featured Actor (Musical)	Will Mahoney	City Center's Finian's Rainbow
Featured Actor (Musical)	Scott Merrill	The Threepenny Opera
Featured Actor (Play)	Ed Begley	Inherit the Wind
Featured Actor (Play)	Anthony Franciosa	A Hatful of Rain
Featured Actor (Play)	Andy Griffith	Not Time for Sergeants
Featured Actor (Play)	Anthony Quayle	Tamburlaine the Great
Featured Actor (Play)	Fritz Weaver	The Chalk Garden
Featured Actress (Musical)	Lotte Lenya	The Threepenny Opera
Featured Actress (Musical)	Rae Allen	Damn Yankees
Featured Actress (Musical)	Pat Carroll	Catch a Star
Featured Actress (Musical)	Judy Tyler	Pipe Dream
Featured Actress (Play)	Una Merkel	The Ponder Heart
Featured Actress (Play)	Diane Cilento	Tiger at the Gates
Featured Actress (Play)	Anne Jackson	Middle of the Night
Featured Actress (Play)	Elaine Stritch	Bus Stop
Musical		Damn Yankees by George Abbot and Douglass Wallop. Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, and Harold S. Prince in association with Albert B. Taylor.
Musical		Pipe Dream Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers. Produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Play		The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden.
Play		Bus Stop by William Inge. Produced by Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens.
Play		Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. Produced by The Playwrights' Company,
Play		Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Christopher Fry. Produced by Robert L. Joseph, The Playwrights' Company, and Henry M. Margolis.
Play		The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold. Produced by Irene Mayer Selznick.
Scenic Designer	Peter Larkin	Inherit the Wind / No Time for Sergeants
Scenic Designer	Boris Aronson	The Diary of Anne Frank / Bus Stop / Once Upon a Tailor / A View from the Bridge
Scenic Designer	Ben Edwards	The Ponder Heart / Someone Waiting / The Honeys
Scenic Designer	Jo Mielziner	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Lark / Middle of the Night / Pipe Dream
Scenic Designer	Raymond Sovey	The Great Sebastians
Special Tony Awards	City Center
Special Tony Awards	Fourth Street Chekov Theatre
Special Tony Awards	The Shakespearewrights
Special Tony Awards	The Threepenny Opera	distinguished Off-Broadway production; Carmen Capalbo, Stanley Chase, producers.
Special Tony Awards	The Theatre Collection of the N.Y. Public Library	on it's twenty-fifth anniversary, for its distinguished service to the theatre. George Freedley, founder and curator, accepted.
Stage Technician	Harry Green	electrician and sound man, (Middle of the Night / Damn Yankees)
Stage Technician	Larry Bland	Middle of the Night / The Ponder Heart / Porgy and Bess