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20th Tony Awards

1966 theatrical awards ceremony

1966 theatrical awards ceremony

FieldValue
name20th Tony Awards
dateJune 16, 1966
locationRainbow Room, Rockefeller Center
hostGeorge Abbott and Ginger Rogers
networkCBS Radio
previous19th
mainTony Awards
next21st

The 20th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast on June 16, 1966, from the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center on radio station WCBS. This was the first afternoon Tony Awards ceremony. The Masters of Ceremonies were George Abbott and Ginger Rogers. The ceremony was sponsored by the League of New York Theatres in conjunction with the American Theatre Wing, which had previously solely arranged the ceremony.

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1965–1966 season before May 26, 1966 are eligible.

;Original plays

  • The Best Laid Plans
  • Cactus Flower
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • The Condemned of Altona
  • The Devils
  • Entertaining Mr Sloane
  • First One Asleep, Whistle
  • Generation
  • The Great Indoors
  • Happily Never After
  • Hostile Witness
  • The Impossible Years
  • Inadmissible Evidence
  • The Lion in Winter
  • Malcolm
  • Marat/Sade
  • Mark Twain Tonight!
  • Mating Dance
  • Me and Thee
  • Minor Miracle
  • Mrs. Dally
  • Nathan Weinstein, Mystic, Connecticut
  • Philadelphia, Here I Come!
  • The Playroom
  • Postmark Zero
  • The Right Honourable Gentleman
  • The Royal Hunt of the Sun
  • Slapstick Tragedy
  • 3 Bags Full
  • UTBU
  • A Very Rich Woman
  • Wait Until Dark
  • The Wayward Stork
  • Where's Daddy?
  • Xmas in Las Vegas ;Original musicals
  • Anya
  • Drat! The Cat!
  • It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman
  • La Grosse Valise
  • Mame
  • Man of La Mancha
  • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
  • Pickwick
  • Pousse-Café
  • Skyscraper
  • Sweet Charity
  • A Time for Singing
  • Wait a Minim!
  • The Yearling
  • The Zulu and the Zayda ;Play revivals
  • The Country Wife
  • Danton's Death
  • Ivanov
  • You Can't Take It with You

The ceremony

Presenters: Lauren Bacall, Herschel Bernardi, Sandy Dennis, Henry Fonda, Phil Ford, Mimi Hines, Ray Milland, Barry Nelson, Mike Nichols, Thelma Oliver, April Olrich, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Simon

Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Best PlayBest MusicalBest Performance by a Leading Actor in a PlayBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a PlayBest Performance by a Leading Actor in a MusicalBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a MusicalBest Performance by a Supporting or Featured Actor in a PlayBest Performance by a Supporting or Featured Actress in a PlayBest Performance by a Supporting or Featured Actor in a MusicalBest Performance by a Supporting or Featured Actress in a MusicalBest Direction of a PlayBest Direction of a MusicalBest Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the TheatreBest ChoreographyBest Scenic DesignBest Costume Design

Special awards

Helen Menken (posthumous), for a lifetime of devotion and dedicated service to the Broadway theatre.

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

  • 9 nominations: Sweet Charity
  • 8 nominations: Mame
  • 7 nominations: Man of La Mancha
  • 5 nominations: Marat/Sade, Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Skyscraper
  • 3 nominations: It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Pickwick
  • 2 nominations: Cactus Flower, Inadmissible Evidence, The Lion in Winter, The Right Honourable Gentleman and Slapstick Tragedy

The following productions received multiple awards.

  • 5 wins: Man of La Mancha
  • 4 wins: Marat/Sade
  • 3 wins: Mame

References

References

  1. [[Sam Zolotow. Zolotow, Sam]]. ''[[the New York Times]]'', "5 Tonys Awards to 'LaMancha'", June 17, 1966, p.37
  2. "Australia Dancing — Sainthill, Loudon (1919–1969)".
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