12th Tony Awards

The ceremony

Winners and nominees

Production

• Sunrise at Campobello by Dore Schary. Produced by Lawrence Langner, Theresa Helburn, Armina Marshall and Dore Schary.
• The Rope Dancers by Morton Wishengrad. Produced by the Playwrights Company and Gilbert Miller.
• Two for the Seesaw by William Gibson. Produced by Fred Coe.
• Time Remembered by Jean Anouilh. English version by Patricia Moyes. Produced by the Playwrights Company, in association with Milton Sperling.
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge. Produced by Saint-Subber and Elia Kazan.
• Look Back in Anger by John Osborne. Produced by David Merrick.
• Look Homeward, Angel by Ketti Frings. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and Theatre 200, Inc.
• Romanoff and Juliet by Peter Ustinov. Produced by David Merrick.

• The Music Man. Book by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson. Produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and Herbert Greene, in association with Frank Productions.
• West Side Story. Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Produced by Robert Griffiths and Harold S. Prince.
• New Girl in Town. Book by George Abbott, music and lyrics by Bob Merrill. Produced by Robert Griffiths and Harold S. Prince.
• Oh, Captain! Book by Al Morgan and José Ferrer, music and lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. Produced by Howard Merrill and Theatre Corporation of America.
• Jamaica. Book by E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E. Y. Harburg. Produced by David Merrick

  Performance

• Ralph Bellamy
• Richard Burton
• Hugh Griffith
• Laurence Olivier
• Anthony Perkins
• Peter Ustinov
• Emlyn Williams

• Helen Hayes
• Wendy Hiller
• Eugenie Leontovich
• Siobhán McKenna
• Mary Ure
• Jo Van Fleet

• Robert Preston
• Ricardo Montalbán
• Eddie Foy, Jr.
• Tony Randall

• Thelma Ritter
• Gwen Verdon
• Lena Horne
• Beatrice Lillie

• Henry Jones
• Sig Arno
• Theodore Bikel
• Pat Hingle
• George Relph

• Anne Bancroft
• Brenda De Banzie
• Joan Blondell
• Mary Fickett
• Eileen Heckart

• David Burns
• Ossie Davis
• Cameron Prud'Homme
• Iggie Wolfington

• Barbara Cook
• Susan Johnson
• Carol Lawrence
• Jacquelyn McKeever
• Josephine Premice

  Craft

• Vincent J. Donehue
• Morton DaCosta
• Peter Hall
• George Roy Hill
• Elia Kazan
• Arthur Penn

• Jerome Robbins
• Bob Fosse
• Onna White

• Oliver Smith
• Boris Aronson
• Ben Edwards
• Jo Mielziner
• Oliver Smith
• Peter Larkin

• Motley
• Lucinda Ballard
• Motley
• Irene Sharaff
• Miles White

• Herbert Greene
• Max Goberman

• Harry Romar
• Sammy Knapp

  Special awards

• New York Shakespeare Festival, for presenting free performances in Central Park and the Hecksher Theater
• Mrs. Louise Beck, for fifteen years of untiring dedication to the American Theatre Wing, which she served as treasurer, secretary and chairman of the board of directors.
• Circle in the Square, Phoenix Theatre, Esther Hawley

  Multiple nominations and awards

• 9 nominations: The Music Man
• 7 nominations: Jamaica, Look Homeward, Angel and Time Remembered
• 6 nominations: Oh, Captain!, The Rope Dancers and West Side Story
• 5 nominations: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, New Girl in Town and Sunrise at Campobello
• 3 nominations: The Entertainer, Look Back in Anger and Two for The Seesaw
• 2 nominations: Orpheus Descending and Romanoff and Juliet

• 6 wins: The Music Man
• 4 wins: Sunrise at Campobello
• 2 wins: New Girl in Town, Time Remembered and West Side Story