1959 Tony Award Winners

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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
1959	Best Choreography	Onna White	Whoop-Up
1959	Best Choreography	Carol Haney	Flower Drum Song
1959	Best Choreography	Agnes de Mille	Goldilocks
1959	Best Choreography	Bob Fosse	Redhead	Award winner
1959	Best Conductor and Musical Director	Gershon Kingsley	La Plume de Ma Tante
1959	Best Conductor and Musical Director	Lehman Engel	Goldilocks
1959	Best Conductor and Musical Director	Jay Blackston	Redhead
1959	Best Conductor and Musical Director	Salvatore Dell'Isola	Flower Drum Song	Award winner
1959	Best Costume Design	Rouben Ter-Arutunian	Redhead	Award winner
1959	Best Costume Design	Castillo	Goldilocks
1959	Best Costume Design	Dorothy Jenkins	The World of Suzie Wong
1959	Best Costume Design	Oliver Messel	Rashomon
1959	Best Costume Design	Irene Sharaff	Flower Drum Song Production took place the previous year.
1959	Best Direction	William Gaskill	Epitaph for George Dillon
1959	Best Direction	Elia Kazan	J.B. Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1959	Best Direction	Peter Brook	The Visit
1959	Best Direction	Robert Dhery	La Plume de Ma Tante Production took place the previous year.
1959	Best Direction	Peter Glenville	Rashomon
1959	Best Direction	Dore Schary	A Majority of One
1959	Best Direction	Cyril Richard	The Pleasure of His Company
1959	Best Musical	Gerard Calvi	La Plume de Ma Tante
1959	Best Musical	Richard Rodgers	Flower Drum Song
1959	Best Musical	Dorothy Fields	Redhead	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Walter Matthau	Once More, With Feeling
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	George Grizzard	The Disenchanted
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Marc Connelly	Tall Story
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Charlie Ruggles	The Pleasure of His Company	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	Robert Morse	Say, Darling
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play	George Scott	Comes a Day
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Larry Blyden	Flower Drum Song
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Richard Kiley	Redhead	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Russell Nype	Goldilocks	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical	Leonard Stone	Redhead
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Cedric Hardwicke	A Majority of One
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jason Robards, Jr.	The Disenchanted	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Alfred Lunt	The Visit
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Christopher Plummer	J. B.
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Cyril Ritchard	The Pleasure of His Company
1959	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Robert Stephens	Epitaph for George Dillon
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Pat Stanley	Goldilocks Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical	Julienne Marie	Whoop-Up
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Bertrice Reading	Requiem for a Nun
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Nan Martin	J. B.
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Dolores Hart	The Pleasure of His Company
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Maureen Delany	God and Kate Murphy
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play	Julie Newmar	The Marriage-Go-Round	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Miyoshi Umeki	Flower Drum Song
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical	Gwen Verdon	Redhead	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lynn Fontanne	The Visit
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Gertrude Berg	A Majority of One	Award winner
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Claudette Colbert	The Marriage-Go-Round Production took place the previous year.
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kim Stanley	A Touch of the Poet
1959	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Maureen Stapleton	The Cold Wind and the Warm
1959	Best Play	Archibald MacLeish	J.B.	Award winner
1959	Best Play	Friedrich Duerrenmatt	The Visit
1959	Best Play	Budd Schulberg	The Disenchanted
1959	Best Play	John Osborne	Epitaph for George Dillon
1959	Best Play	Eugene O'Neill	A Touch of the Poet
1959	Best Scenic Design	Donald Oenslager	A Majority of One	Award winner
1959	Best Scenic Design	Boris Aronson	J.B.
1959	Best Scenic Design	Ballou	The Legend of Lizzie
1959	Best Scenic Design	Ben Edwards	Jane Eyre
1959	Best Scenic Design	Oliver Messel	Rashomon
1959	Best Scenic Design	Teo Otto	The Visit
1959	Best Stage Technician	Sam Knapp	The Music Man	Award winner
1959	Best Stage Technician	Thomas Fitzgerald	Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
1959	Best Stage Technician	Edward Flynn	The Most Happy Fella
1959	Best Stage Technician	Edward Flynn	The Most Happy Fella
1959	Special Tony Award	John Gielgud	0 Winner for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man.	Award winner
1959	Special Tony Award	Russell Crouse	0 Winner for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.	Award winner
1959	Special Tony Award	Howard Lindsay	0 Winner for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.	Award winner
1959	Special Tony Award	0	La Plume de Ma Tante	Award winner

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