1959 Tony Awards results (13th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 13th Tony Awards, held on April 12, 1959. The 1959 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Redhead.”

Best Musical

• Redhead

• Flower Drum Song

Best Play

• J.B.

• Epitaph for George Dillon
• The Disenchanted
• The Visit

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Jason Robards, Jr. (The Disenchanted)

• Cedric Hardwicke (A Majority of One)
• Alfred Lunt (The Visit)
• Christopher Plummer (J.B.)
• Cyril Ritchard (The Marriage-Go-Round)
• Robert Stephens (Epitaph for George Dillon)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Gertrude Berg (A Majority of One)

• Claudette Colbert (The Marriage-Go-Round)
• Lynn Fontanne (The Visit)
• Kim Stanley (A Touch of the Poet)
• Maureen Stapleton (A Cold Wind and the Warm)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Richard Kiley (Redhead)

• Larry Blyden (Flower Drum Song)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Gwen Verdon (Redhead)

• Miyoshi Umeki (Flower Drum Song)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Charlie Ruggles (The Pleasure of His Company)

• Marc Connelly (Tall Story)
• George Grizzard (The Disenchanted)
• Walter Matthau (Once More, with Feeling!)
• Robert Morse (Say, Darling)
• George C. Scott (Comes a Day)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Julie Newmar (The Marriage-Go-Round)

• Maureen Delany (God and Kate Murphy)
• Dolores Hart (The Pleasure of His Company)
• Nan Martin (J.B.)
• Bertice Reading (Requiem for a Nun)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Russell Nype (Goldilocks)

• Leonard Stone (Redhead)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Pat Stanley (Goldilocks)

• Julienne Marie (Whoop-Up)

Best Scenic Design (Play)

• Donald Oenslager (A Majority of One)

• Boris Aronson (J.B.)
• Ballou (Lizzie Borden)
• Ben Edwards (Jane Eyre)
• Oliver Messel (Rashomon)
• Teo Otto (The Visit)

Best Costume Design (Musical)

• Rouben Ter-Arutunian (Redhead)

• Castillo (Goldilocks)
• Dorothy Jenkins (The World of Suzie Wong)
• Oliver Messel (Rashomon)
• Irene Sharaff (Flower Drum Song)

Stage Technician Award

• Sam Knapp (The Music Man)

• Thomas Fitzgerald
• Edward Flynn (The Most Happy Fella)

Best Direction of a Play

• Elia Kazan (J.B.)

• Peter Brook (The Visit)
• Robert Dhéry (La Plume de Ma Tante)
• William Gaskill (Epitaph for George Dillon)
• Peter Glenville (Rashomon)
• Cyril Ritchard (The Marriage-Go-Round)
• Dore Schary (A Majority of One)

Best Direction of a Musical

• Salvatore Dell’Isola (Flower Drum Song)

• Jay Blackston (Redhead)
• Salvatore Dell’Isola (Flower Drum Song)
• Lehman Engel (Goldilocks)
• Gershon Kingsley (La Plume de Ma Tante)

Best Choreography

• Bob Fosse (Redhead)

• Agnes de Mille (Goldilocks)
• Carol Haney (Flower Drum Song)
• Onna White (Whoop-Up)

Special Tony Award

• John Gielgud
• Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse
• Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante

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