23rd Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1968–1969 season before March 19, 1969 are eligible.

;Original plays

• The American Dream
• Blueprints: Projections and Perspectives
• Box
• But, Seriously...
• A Cry of Players
• The Cuban Thing
• The Death of Bessie Smith
• Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
• The Dozens
• The Exercise
• Fire!
• The Flip Side
• Forty Carats
• Gianni Schicchi
• The Goodbye People
• The Great White Hope
• Hadrian the Seventh
• Happy Days
• Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce
• The House of Atreus
• In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Jimmy Shine
• Krapp's Last Tape
• Leda Had a Little Swan
• Lovers
• Lovers and Other Strangers
• The Man in the Glass Booth
• Mike Downstairs
• Morning, Noon and Night
• The Mother Lover
• The Only Game in Town
• Play It Again, Sam
• Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
• Red, White and Maddox
• Rockefeller and the Red Indians
• The Seven Descents of Myrtle
• Soldiers
• The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson
• The Tale of Kasane
• The Three Musketeers
• The Venetian Twins
• The Watering Place
• A Way of Life
• We Bombed in New Haven
• Woman Is My Idea
• The Wrong Way Light Bulb
• Zelda
• The Zoo Story ;Original musicals
• Canterbury Tales
• Celebration
• Come Summer
• Dear World
• The Fig Leaves Are Falling
• George M!
• Hair
• Her First Roman
• I'm Solomon
• Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968
• Maggie Flynn
• The Megilla of Itzik Manger
• Noël Coward's Sweet Potato
• Promises, Promises
• 1776
• Zorba ;Play revivals
• Arturo Ui
• Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
• The Cocktail Party
• The Critic
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• George Dandin
• Hamlet
• King Lear
• The Misanthrope
• On The Harmfulness of Tobacco
• Tartuffe
• Tyger! Tyger! and other burnings

The ceremony

Presenters: Lauren Bacall, Pearl Bailey, Harry Belafonte, Richard Benjamin, Godfrey Cambridge, Betty Comden, Patty Duke, Adolph Green, Dustin Hoffman, Angela Lansbury, Jack Lemmon, Ethel Merman, Arthur Miller, Robert Morse, Zero Mostel, Paula Prentiss, Robert Preston, Vanessa Redgrave, Leslie Uggams, Gwen Verdon, Shelley Winters.

Musicals represented:

• Zorba ("Life Is" - Lorraine Serabian and Company)
• Promises, Promises ("She Likes Basketball"/"Turkey Lurkey Time" - Jerry Orbach, Donna McKechnie and Company)
• 1776 ("Momma, Look Sharp" - Scott Jarvis, William Duell, B.J. Slater)
• Hair ("Three-Five-Zero-Zero"/Let The Sun Shine In" - Company)

Scenes from plays were presented for the first time. Plays represented were:

• Lovers (Scene with Art Carney and Anna Mannahan)
• The Great White Hope (Scene with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander)

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special awards

• The National Theatre Company of Great Britain (accepted by artistic director Sir Laurence Olivier)
• The Negro Ensemble Company
• Rex Harrison
• Leonard Bernstein
• Carol Burnett

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 8 nominations: Promises, Promises and Zorba
• 6 nominations: 1776
• 5 nominations: Hadrian the Seventh
• 4 nominations: Canterbury Tales
• 3 nominations: Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, The Great White Hope, Lovers, The Man in the Glass Booth and Play It Again Sam
• 2 nominations: Dear World, George M!, Hair and Morning, Noon and Night

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 3 wins: The Great White Hope and 1776
• 2 wins: Promises, Promises

References

References

1. "Australia Dancing — Sainthill, Loudon (1919–1969)".