1958 Tony Awards results (12th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 12th Tony Awards, held on April 13, 1958. The 1958 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “The Music Man.”

Best Musical

• The Music Man

• West Side Story
• New Girl in Town
• Oh, Captain!
• Jamaica

Best Play

• Sunrise at Campobello

• The Rope Dancers
• Two for the Seesaw
• Time Remembered
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• Look Back in Anger
• Look Homeward, Angel
• Romanoff and Juliet

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Ralph Bellamy (Sunrise at Campobello)

• Richard Burton (Time Remembered)
• Hugh Griffith (Look Homeward, Angel)
• Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer)
• Anthony Perkins (Look Homeward, Angel)
• Peter Ustinov (Romanoff and Juliet)
• Emlyn Williams (A Boy Growing Up)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Helen Hayes (Time Remembered)

• Wendy Hiller (Time Remembered)
• Eugenie Leontovich (The Cave Dwellers)
• Siobhán McKenna (The Rope Dancers)
• Mary Ure (Look Back in Anger)
• Jo Van Fleet (Look Homeward, Angel)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Robert Preston (The Music Man)

• Ricardo Montalbán (Jamaica)
• Eddie Foy, Jr. (Rumple)
• Tony Randall (Oh, Captain!)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Thelma Ritter, Gwen Verdon (New Girl in Town)

• Lena Horne (Jamaica)
• Beatrice Lillie (Ziegfeld Follies)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Henry Jones (Sunrise at Campobello)

• Sig Arno (Time Remembered)
• Theodore Bikel (The Rope Dancers)
• Pat Hingle (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)
• George Relph (The Entertainer)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Anne Bancroft (Two for the Seesaw)

• Brenda de Banzie (The Entertainer)
• Joan Blondell (The Rope Dancers)
• Mary Fickett (Sunrise at Campobello)
• Eileen Heckart (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• David Burns (The Music Man)

• Ossie Davis (Jamaica)
• Cameron Prud’homme (New Girl in Town)
• Iggie Wolfington (The Music Man)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Barbara Cook (The Music Man)

• Susan Johnson (Oh, Captain!)
• Carol Lawrence (West Side Story)
• Jacquelyn McKeever (Oh, Captain!)
• Josephine Premice (Jamaica)

Best Scenic Design (Musical)

• Oliver Smith (West Side Story)

• Boris Aronson (Orpheus Descending; The Rope Dancers)
• Ben Edwards (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)
• Jo Mielziner (Look Homeward, Angel; The Square Root of Wonderful; Oh, Captain!; The Day the Money Stopped)
• Oliver Smith (Brigadoon; Carousel; Jamaica; The Nude with Violin; Time Remembered; West Side Story)
• Peter Larkin (Blue Denim; Compulsion; Good as Gold; Miss Isobel)

Best Costume Design (Play)

• Motley (Look Back in Anger; Look Homeward, Angel; Shinbone Alley; The Country Wife; The First Gentleman)

• Lucinda Ballard (Orpheus Descending)
• Irene Sharaff (West Side Story)
• Miles White (Jamaica; Time Remembered; Oh, Captain!)

Stage Technician Award

• Harry Romar (Time Remembered)

• Sammy Knapp (The Music Man)

Best Direction of a Play

• Vincent J. Donehue (Sunrise at Campobello)

• Morton DaCosta (The Music Man)
• Peter Hall (The Rope Dancers)
• George Roy Hill (Look Homeward, Angel)
• Elia Kazan (The Dark at the Top of the Stairs)
• Arthur Penn (Two for the Seesaw)

Best Direction of a Musical

• Herbert Greene (The Music Man)

• Max Goberman (West Side Story)

Best Choreography

• Jerome Robbins (West Side Story)

• Bob Fosse (New Girl in Town)
• Onna White (The Music Man)

Special Tony Award

• New York Shakespeare Festival
• Mrs. Martin Beck

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