1959 Tony Award Winners - Browse by Year

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Category	Nominee	Show
Actor (Musical)	Richard Kiley	Redhead
Actor (Musical)	Larry Blyden	Flower Drum Song
Actor (Play)	Jason Robards, Jr.	The Disenchanted
Actor (Play)	Cedric Hardwicke	A Majority of One
Actor (Play)	Alfred Lunt	The Visit
Actor (Play)	Christopher Plummer	J.B.
Actor (Play)	Cyril Ritchard	The Pleasure of His Company
Actor (Play)	Robert Stephens	Epitaph for George Dillon
Actress (Musical)	Gwen Verdon	Redhead
Actress (Musical)	Miyoshi Umeki	Flower Drum Song
Actress (Play)	Gertrude Berg	A Majority of One
Actress (Play)	Claudette Colbert	The Marriage-Go-Round
Actress (Play)	Lynn Fontanne	The Visit
Actress (Play)	Kim Stanley	A Touch of the Poet
Actress (Play)	Maureen Stapleton	The Cold Wind and the Warm
Choreographer	Bob Fosse	Redhead
Choreographer	Agnes de Mille	Goldilocks
Choreographer	Carol Haney	Flower Drum Song
Choreographer	Onna White	Whoop-Up
Conductor and Musical Director	Salvatore Dell'Isola	Flower Drum Song
Conductor and Musical Director	Jay Blackston	Redhead
Conductor and Musical Director	Lehman Engel	Goldilocks
Conductor and Musical Director	Gershon Kingsley	La Plume de Ma Tante
Costume Designer	Rouben Ter-Arutunian	Redhead
Costume Designer	Castillo	Goldilocks
Costume Designer	Dorothy Jenkins	The World of Suzie Wong
Costume Designer	Oliver Messel	Rashomon
Costume Designer	Irene Sharaff	Flower Drum Song
Director	Elia Kazan	J.B.
Director	Peter Brook	The Visit
Director	Robert Dhery	La Plume de Ma Tante
Director	William Gaskill	Epitaph for George Dillon
Director	Peter Glenville	Rashomon
Director	Cyril Richard	The Pleasure of His Company
Director	Dore Schary	A Majority of One
Featured Actor (Musical)	Russell Nype	Goldilocks
Featured Actor (Musical)	Leonard Stone	Redhead
Featured Actor (Play)	Charlie Ruggles	The Pleasure of His Company
Featured Actor (Play)	Marc Connelly	Tall Story
Featured Actor (Play)	George Grizzard	The Disenchanted
Featured Actor (Play)	Walter Matthau	Once More, With Feeling
Featured Actor (Play)	Robert Morse	Say, Darling
Featured Actor (Play)	George Scott	Comes a Day
Featured Actress (Musical)	Pat Stanley	Goldilocks
Featured Actress (Musical)	Julienne Marie	Whoop-Up
Featured Actress (Play)	Julie Newmar	The Marriage-Go-Round
Featured Actress (Play)	Maureen Delany	God and Kate Murphy
Featured Actress (Play)	Dolores Hart	The Pleasure of His Company
Featured Actress (Play)	Nan Martin	J.B.
Featured Actress (Play)	Bertrice Reading	Requiem for a Nun
Musical		Redhead by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon, and David Shaw, music by Albert Hague, lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Produced by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr.
Musical		Flower Drum Song Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers. Produced by Joseph Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers
Musical		La Plume de Ma Tante Written, devised, and directed by Robert Dhery, music by Gerard Calvi, English lyrics by Ross Parker. David Merrick and Joseph Kipness, present the Jack Hylton Production
Play		J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. Produced by Alfred de Liagre, Jr.
Play		A Touch of the Poet by Eugene O'Neill. Produced by The Producers Theatre, Robert Whitehead, and Roger L. Stevens
Play		Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton. Produced by David Merrick and Joshua Logan
Play		The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg and Harvey Breit. Produced by William Darrid and Eleanor Saidenberg
Play		The Visit by Friedrich Duerrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency. Produced by the Producers Theatre
Scenic Designer	Donald Oenslager	A Majority of One
Scenic Designer	Boris Aronson	J.B.
Scenic Designer	Ballou	The Legend of Lizzie
Scenic Designer	Ben Edwards	Jane Eyre
Scenic Designer	Oliver Messel	Rashomon
Scenic Designer	Teo Otto	The Visit
Special Tony Awards	John Gielgud	for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man.
Special Tony Awards	Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse	for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.
Special Tony Awards	Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante	(Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Robert Dhery, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec), for contribution to the theatre.
Stage Technician	Sam Knapp	The Music Man
Stage Technician	Thomas Fitzgerald	Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
Stage Technician	Edward Flynn	The Most Happy Fella - City Center Revival