12th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1957 season before February 28, 1958 are eligible.

;Original plays

• Blue Denim
• A Boy Growing Up
• The Cave Dwellers
• The Chairs
• Cloud 7
• Compulsion
• Copper and Brass
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• The Day the Money Stopped
• The Egghead
• The Entertainer
• Fair Game
• The First Gentleman
• The Genius and the Goddess
• Good as Gold
• The Greatest Man Alive
• Hide and Seek
• I Knock at the Door
• The Infernal Machine
• Interlock
• The Lesson
• Look Back in Anger
• Look Homeward, Angel
• Maybe Tuesday
• Miss Isobel
• Miss Lonelyhearts
• Monique
• A Moon for the Misbegotten
• Nature's Way
• Nude With Violin
• Orpheus Descending
• Romanoff and Juliet
• The Rope Dancers
• A Shadow of My Enemy
• The Sin of Pat Muldoon
• The Square Root of Wonderful
• Summer of the 17th Doll
• Sunrise at Campobello
• Time Remembered
• Two for the Seesaw
• Under Milk Wood
• Winesburg, Ohio ;Original musicals
• The Body Beautiful
• Jamaica
• Livin' The Life
• Mask and Gown
• The Music Man
• New Girl in Town
• Oh, Captain!
• Portofino
• Rumple
• Shinbone Alley
• Simply Heavenly
• West Side Story ;Play revivals
• The Country Wife
• The Duchess of Malfi
• Hotel Paradiso
• Makropoulos Secret
• Mary Stuart
• Present Laughter ;Musical revivals
• Brigadoon
• Carousel
• Ziegfeld Follies

The ceremony

Presenters: Sydney Chaplin, Greer Garson, Judy Holliday, Celeste Holm, Nancy Kelly, Mary Martin, Elsa Maxwell, Laurence Olivier, Tyrone Power, Martha Scott, Phil Silvers, Walter Slezak. Performers were Mindy Carson and Bill Hayes. Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

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. (Presented by Elaine Perry, daughter of Antoinette Perry.)
• Circle in the Square, Phoenix Theatre, Esther Hawley

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 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

The following productions received multiple awards.

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

References

References

1. [[Sam Zolotow. Zolotow, Sam]]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', "The Music Man Wins Five of 18 Tony Awards", April 14, 1958, p.21
2. [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/ceremonies/200909161253133173265.html "Ceremonies 1958"] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-01-21 tonyawards.com, accessed May 28, 2016)