Tony Awards 1963

Actor (Dramatic) Winner – Arthur Hill (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Nominees: Charles Boyer (Lord Pengo)
Paul Ford (Never Too Late)
Bert Lahr (The Beauty Part)

Actor (Musical) Winner – Zero Mostel (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Nominees: Sid Caesar (Little Me)
Anthony Newley (Stop the World – I Want to Get Off)
Clive Revill (Oliver!)

Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic) Winner – Alan Arkin (Enter Laughing)
Nominees: Barry Gordon (A Thousand Clowns)
Paul Rogers (Photo Finish)
Frank Silvera (The Lady of the Carnellias)

Actor, Supporting or Featured (Musical) Winner – David Burns (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Nominees: Jack Gilford (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
David Jones (Oliver!)
Swen Swenson (Little Me)

Actress (Dramatic) Winner – Uta Hagen (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Nominees: Hermione Baddeley (The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore)
Margaret Leighton (Tchin-Tchin)
Claudia McNeil (Tiger Tiger Burning Bright)

Actress (Musical) Winner – Vivien Leigh (Tovarich)
Nominees: Georgia Brown (Oliver!)
Nanette Fabray (Mr. President)
Sally Ann Howes (Brigadoon)

Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic) Winner – Sandy Dennis (A Thousand Clowns)
Nominees: Melinda Dillon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Alice Ghostley (The Beauty Part)
Zohra Lampert (Mother Courage and Her Children)

Actress, Supporting or Featured (Musical) Winner – Anna Quayle (Stop the World – I Want to Get Off)
Nominees: Ruth Kobart (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Virginia Martin (Little Me)
Louise Troy (Tovarich)

Author (Musical) Winner – Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Nominees: Lionel Bart (Oliver!)
Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (Stop the World – I Want to Get Off)
Neil Simon (Little Me)

Choreographer Winner – Bob Fosse (Little Me)
Nominees: Carol Haney (Bravo Giovanni)

Composer and Lyricist Winner – Lionel Bart (Oliver!)
Nominees: Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (Stop the World – I Want to Get Off)
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (Little Me)
Milton Schafer and Ronny Graham (Bravo Giovanni)

Conductor and Musical Director Winner – Donald Pippin (Oliver!)
Nominees: Jay Blackton (Mr. President)
Anton Coppola (Bravo Giovanni)
Julius Rudel (Brigadoon)

Costume Designer Winner – Anthony Powell (The School for Scandal)
Nominees: Marcel Escoffier (The Lady of the Camellias)
Robert Fletcher (Little Me)
Motley (Mother Courage and Her Children)

Director (Dramatic) Winner – Alan Schneider (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Nominees: George Abbott (Never Too Late)
John Gielgud (The School for Scandal)
Peter Glenville (Tchin-Tchin)

Director (Musical) Winner – George Abbott (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Nominees: Peter Coe (Oliver!)
John Fearnley (Brigadoon)
Cy Feuer and Bob Fosse (Little Me)

Musical Winner – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart, music and lyrics byStephen Sondheim. Produced by Harold Prince
Nominees: Little Me. Book by Neil Simon, music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. Produced by Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin
Oliver! Book, music, and lyrics by Lionel Bart. Produced by David Merrick and Donald Albery
Stop the World – I Want to Get off. Book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Produced by David Merrick in association with Bernard Delfont

Play Winner – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. Produced by Theatre 1963, Richard Barr, and Clinton Wilder
Nominees: A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner. Produced by Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, adapted by Eric Bentley. Produced byCheryl Crawford and Jerome Robbins
Tchin-Tchin by Sidney Michaels. Produced byDavid Merrick

Producer (Dramatic) Winner – Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder, Theatre 1963 (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Nominees: The Actors Studio Theatre (Strange Interlude)
Cheryl Crawford and Jerome Robbins (Mother Courage and Her Children)
Paul Vroom, Buff Cobb, and Burry Fredrik (Too True To Be Good)

Producer (Musical) Winner – Harold Prince (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Nominees: Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin (Little Me)
David Merrick and Donald Albery (Oliver!)

Scenic Designer Winner – Sean Kenny (Oliver!)
Nominees: Will Steven Armstrong (Tchin-Tchin)
Anthony Powell (The School for Scandal)
Franco Zeffirelli (The Lady of the Carnelias)

Special Awards Winners – W. McNeil Lowry, on behalf of the Ford Foundation for his and their distinguished support of the American Theatre.
Irving Berlin, for his distinguished contribution to the musical theatre for these many years.
Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, for Beyond the Fringe, for their brilliance which has shattered all the old concepts of comedy.

Stage Technician Winner – Solly Pernick (Mr. President)
Nominees: Milton Smith (Beyond the Fringe)

👤 📅1 January 2009
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