1976 Tony Award Winners - Browse by Year

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Category	Nominee	Show
Actor (Musical)	George Rose	My Fair Lady
Actor (Musical)	Mako	Pacific Overtures
Actor (Musical)	Jerry Orbach	Chicago
Actor (Musical)	Ian Richardson	My Fair Lady
Actor (Play)	John Wood	Travesties
Actor (Play)	Moses Gunn	The Poison Tree
Actor (Play)	George C. Scott	Death of a Salesman
Actor (Play)	Donald Sinden	Habeas Corpus
Actress (Musical)	Donna McKechnie	A Chorus Line
Actress (Musical)	Vivian Reed	Bubbling Brown Sugar
Actress (Musical)	Chita Rivera	Chicago
Actress (Musical)	Gwen Verdon	Chicago
Actress (Play)	Irene Worth	Sweet Bird of Youth
Actress (Play)	Tovah Feldshuh	Yentl
Actress (Play)	Rosemary Harris	The Royal Family
Actress (Play)	Lynn Redgrave	Mrs. Warren's Profession
Book (Musical)	James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante	A Chorus Line
Book (Musical)	Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse	Chicago
Book (Musical)	John Weidman	Pacific Overtures
Book (Musical)	Alfred Uhry	The Robber Bridegroom
Choreographer	Michael Bennett and Bob Avian	A Chorus Line
Choreographer	Patricia Birch	Pacific Overtures
Choreographer	Bob Fosse	Chicago
Choreographer	Billy Wilson	Bubbling Brown Sugar
Costume Designer	Florence Klotz	Pacific Overtures
Costume Designer	Theoni V. Aldredge	A Chorus Line
Costume Designer	Ann Roth	The Royal Family
Costume Designer	Patricia Zipprodt	Chicago
Director (Musical)	Michael Bennett	A Chorus Line
Director (Musical)	Bob Fosse	Chicago
Director (Musical)	Bill Gile	Very Good Eddie
Director (Musical)	Harold Prince	Pacific Overtures
Director (Play)	Ellis Rabb	The Royal Family
Director (Play)	Arvin Brown	Ah, Wilderness!
Director (Play)	Marshall W. Mason	Knock Knock
Director (Play)	Peter Wood	Travesties
Featured Actor (Musical)	Sammy Williams	A Chorus Line
Featured Actor (Musical)	Robert LuPone	A Chorus Line
Featured Actor (Musical)	Charles Repole	Very Good Eddie
Featured Actor (Musical)	Isao Sato	Pacific Overtures
Featured Actor (Play)	Edward Herrmann	Mrs. Warren's Profession
Featured Actor (Play)	Barry Bostwick	They Knew What They Wanted
Featured Actor (Play)	Gabriel Dell	Lamppost Reunion
Featured Actor (Play)	Daniel Seltzer	Knock Knock
Featured Actress (Musical)	Carole Bishop	A Chorus Line
Featured Actress (Musical)	Priscilla Lopez	A Chorus Line
Featured Actress (Musical)	Patti LuPone	The Robber Bridegroom
Featured Actress (Musical)	Virginia Seidel	Very Good Eddie
Featured Actress (Play)	Shirley Knight	Kennedy's Children
Featured Actress (Play)	Mary Beth Hurt	Trelawney of the 'Wells'
Featured Actress (Play)	Lois Nettleton	They Knew What They Wanted
Featured Actress (Play)	Meryl Streep	27 Wagons Full of Cotton
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre	George Abbott	Lawrence Langner Award
Lighting Designer	Tharon Musser	A Chorus Line
Lighting Designer	Ian Calderon	Trelawney of the 'Wells'
Lighting Designer	Jules Fisher	Chicago
Lighting Designer	Tharon Musser	Pacific Overtures
Musical		A Chorus Line Produced by Joseph Papp, New York Shakespeare Festival
Musical		Bubbling Brown Sugar Produced by J. Lloyd Grant, Richard Bell, Robert M. Cooper, and Ashton Springer in association with Moe Septee, Inc.
Musical		Chicago Produced by Robert Fryer and James Cresson
Musical		Pacific Overtures Produced by Harold Prince in association with Ruth Mitchell
Play		Travesties By Tom Stoppard. Produced by David Merrick, Doris Cole Abrahams, and Burry Fredrik in association with S. Spencer Davids and Eddie Kulukundis.
Play		The First Breeze of Summer By Leslie Lee. Produced by Negro Ensemble Co., Inc.
Play		Knock Knock By Jules Feiffer. Produced by Harry Rigby and Terry Allen Kramer.
Play		Lamppost Reunion By Louis La Russo II. Produced by Joe Garofalo.
Regional Theatre Award	The Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.	This award takes note of the company's balanced program of distinguished revivals and a broad spectrum of new works and American premieres of important foreign plays.
Scenic Designer	Boris Aronson	Pacific Overtures
Scenic Designer	Ben Edwards	A Matter of Gravity
Scenic Designer	David Mitchell	Trelawney of the 'Wells'
Scenic Designer	Tony Walton	Chicago
Score	Music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban	A Chorus Line
Score	Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb	Chicago
Score	Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim	Pacific Overtures
Score	Music and lyrics by Scott Joplin	Treemonisha
Special Tony Awards	Mathilde Pincus	For outstanding service to the Broadway musical theatre
Special Tony Awards	Thomas H. Fitzgerald	To the gifted lighting technician of countless Broadway shows and many Tony telecasts. (Posthumous)
Special Tony Awards	Circle in the Square	For twenty-five continuous years of quality productions
Special Tony Awards	Richard Burton