1978 Tony Award Winners - Browse by Year

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Category	Nominee	Show
Actor (Musical)	John Cullum	On the Twentieth Century
Actor (Musical)	Eddie Bracken	Hello, Dolly!
Actor (Musical)	Barry Nelson	The Act
Actor (Musical)	Gilbert Price	Timbuktoo!
Actor (Play)	Barnard Hughes	Da
Actor (Play)	Hume Cronyn	The Gin Game
Actor (Play)	Frank Langella	Dracula
Actor (Play)	Jason Robards	A Touch of the Poet
Actress (Musical)	Liza Minnelli	The Act
Actress (Musical)	Madeline Kahn	On the Twentieth Century
Actress (Musical)	Eartha Kitt	Timbuktoo!
Actress (Musical)	Frances Sternhagen	Angel
Actress (Play)	Jessica Tandy	The Gin Game
Actress (Play)	Anne Bancroft	Golda
Actress (Play)	Anita Gillette	Chapter Two
Actress (Play)	Estelle Parsons	Miss Margarida's Way
Book (Musical)	Betty Comden and Adolph Green	On the Twentieth Century
Book (Musical)	Christopher Durang	A History of the American Film
Book (Musical)	Elizabeth Swados	Runaways
Book (Musical)	Stephen Schwartz	Working
Choreographer	Bob Fosse	Dancin'
Choreographer	Arthur Faria	Ain't Misbehavin'
Choreographer	Ron Lewis	The Act
Choreographer	Elizabeth Swados	Runaways
Costume Designer	Edward Gorey	Dracula
Costume Designer	Halston	The Act
Costume Designer	Geoffrey Holder	Timbuktoo!
Costume Designer	Willa Kim	Dancin'
Director (Musical)	Richard Maltby, Jr.	Ain't Misbehavin'
Director (Musical)	Bob Fosse	Dancin'
Director (Musical)	Harold Prince	On the Twentieth Century
Director (Musical)	Elizabeth Swados	Runaways
Director (Play)	Melvin Bernhardt	Da
Director (Play)	Robert Moore	Deathtrap
Director (Play)	Mike Nichols	The Gin Game
Director (Play)	Dennis Rosa	Dracula
Featured Actor (Musical)	Rex Everhart	Working
Featured Actor (Musical)	Wayne Cilento	Dancin'
Featured Actor (Musical)	Kevin Kline	On the Twentieth Century
Featured Actor (Musical)	Steven Boockvor	Working
Featured Actor (Play)	Lester Rawlins	Da
Featured Actor (Play)	Morgan Freeman	The Mighty Gents
Featured Actor (Play)	Victor Garber	Deathtrap
Featured Actor (Play)	Cliff Gorman	Chapter Two
Featured Actress (Musical)	Nell Carter	Ain't Misbehavin'
Featured Actress (Musical)	Imogene Coca	On the Twentieth Century
Featured Actress (Musical)	Ann Reinking	Dancin'
Featured Actress (Musical)	Ain't Misbehavin'	Charlaine Woodard
Featured Actress (Play)	Ann Wedgeworth	Chapter Two
Featured Actress (Play)	Starletta DuPois	The Mighty Gents
Featured Actress (Play)	Swoosie Kurtz	Tartuffe
Featured Actress (Play)	Marian Seldes	Deathtrap
Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre	Irving Berlin	Lawrence Langner Award
Lighting Designer	Jules Fisher	Dancin'
Lighting Designer	Jules Fisher	Beatlemania
Lighting Designer	Tharon Musser	The Act
Lighting Designer	Ken Billington	Working
Musical		Ain't Misbehavin' Produced by Emanuel Azenberg, Dasha Epstein, The Shubert Organization, Jane Gaynor, and Ron Dante
Musical		Dancin' Produced by Jules Fisher, The Shubert Organization, and Columbia Pictures
Musical		On the Twentieth Century Produced by The Producers Circle 2, Inc. (Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, James Cresson, and Martin Richards), Joseph Harris, and Ira Bernstein
Musical		Runaways Produced by Joseph Papp
Play		Da By Hugh Leonard. Produced by Lester Osterman, Marilyn Strauss, and Marc Howard.
Play		Chapter Two By Neil Simon. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg.
Play		Deathtrap By Ira Levin. Produced by Alfred De Liagre, Jr., and Roger L. Stevens.
Play		The Gin Game By D.L. Coburn. Produced by The Shubert Organization, Hume Cronyn, and Mike Nichols.
Regional Theatre Award	The Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut
Revival (Musical)		Timbuktoo! Category name was Most Innovation Production of a Revival until 1980, Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by Luther Davis
Revival (Play)		Dracula Category name was Most Innovation Production of a Revival until 1980, Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by Jujamcyn Theaters, Elizabeth I. McCann, John Wulp, Victor Lurie, Nelle Nugent, and Max Weitzenhoffer
Revival (Play)		Tartuffe Category name was Most Innovation Production of a Revival until 1980, Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by Circle in the Square
Revival (Play)		A Touch of the Poet Category name was Most Innovation Production of a Revival until 1980, Best Reproduction until 1986, then Best Revival, split into Play/Musical categories in 1994; Produced by Elliot Martin
Scenic Designer	Robin Wagner	On the Twentieth Century
Scenic Designer	Zack Brown	The Importance of Being Earnest
Scenic Designer	Edward Gorey	Dracula
Scenic Designer	David Mitchell	Working
Score	Music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green	On the Twentieth Century
Score	Music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb	The Act
Score	Music and lyrics by Elizabeth Swados	Runaways
Score	Music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, Susan Birkenhead, Stephen Schwartz, and James Taylor	Working
Special Tony Awards	Charles Moss and Stan Dragoti	To the creators (of Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc.) of the I Love New York Broadway Show Tours and its sponsor, the New York State Department of Commerce. (Theatre Award '78)