16th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1961–1962 season before March 30, 1962 are eligible.

;Original plays

• The Aspern Papers
• Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole
• A Call on Kuprin
• The Captains and the Kings
• The Caretaker
• The Complaisant Lover
• A Cook for Mr. General
• Daughter of Silence
• Do You Know the Milky Way?
• The Egg
• Everybody Loves Opal
• A Far Country
• First Love
• The Garden of Sweets
• Gideon
• A Gift of Time
• Great Day in the Morning
• Isle of Children
• Look, We've Come Through
• A Man for All Seasons
• Mandingo
• The Night of the Iguana
• A Passage to India
• Purlie Victorious
• Romulus
• Ross
• General Seeger
• A Shot in the Dark
• Something About a Soldier
• Sunday in New York
• Take Her, She's Mine
• Write Me a Murder ;Original musicals
• All American
• The Billy Barnes People
• Carnival!
• Donnybrook!
• A Family Affair
• From the Second City
• The Gay Life
• The Happiest Girl in the World
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale
• Kean
• Kwamina
• Let It Ride
• Milk and Honey
• New Faces of 1962
• No Strings
• Sail Away
• Subways Are for Sleeping
• The Young Abe Lincoln ;Play revivals
• Giants, Sons of Giants
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Romeo and Juliet
• Saint Joan

The ceremony

Presenters: Judith Anderson, Art Carney, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Olivia de Havilland, Albert Dekker, Anita Gillette, Hermione Gingold, Robert Goulet, Helen Hayes, Celeste Holm, Sally Ann Howes, Ron Husman, Hal March, Helen Menken, Geraldine Page, Hugh O'Brian, Elaine Perry, Tom Poston and Jason Robards. The performer was Mimi Benzell. Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 9 nominations: No Strings
• 8 nominations: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• 7 nominations: Carnival!
• 5 nominations: Milk and Honey
• 4 nominations: The Gay Life, Gideon, A Man for All Seasons and Ross
• 3 nominations: The Caretaker, The Night of the Iguana, Kwamina and Subways Are for Sleeping
• 2 nominations: All American, From the Second City, Great Day in the Morning, Kean, A Passage to India and Sail Away

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 7 wins: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• 4 wins: A Man for All Seasons
• 3 wins: No Strings
• 2 wins: Carnival!

References

References

1. [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/ceremonies/200909161253133270703.html "Ceremony 1962"] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-01-21 tonyawards.com, accessed May 29, 2016)