1960 Tony Awards results (14th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 14th Tony Awards, held on April 24, 1960. The 1960 Tony Award for Best Musical was a tie between “The Sound of Music” and “Fiorello!”.

Best Musical

• The Sound of Music
• Fiorello!

• Gypsy
• Once Upon a Mattress
• Take Me Along

Best Play

• The Miracle Worker

• A Raisin in the Sun
• The Tenth Man
• Toys in the Attic

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Melvyn Douglas (The Best Man)

• Lee Tracy (The Best Man)
• Jason Robards, Jr. (Toys in the Attic)
• Sidney Poitier (A Raisin in the Sun)
• George C. Scott (The Andersonville Trial)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker)

• Margaret Leighton (Much Ado About Nothing)
• Claudia McNeil (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Geraldine Page (The Andersonville Trial)
• Maureen Stapleton (Toys in the Attic)
• Irene Worth (Toys in the Attic)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Jackie Gleason (Take Me Along)

• Robert Morse (Take Me Along)
• Walter Pidgeon (Take Me Along)
• Andy Griffith (Destry Rides Again)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Mary Martin (The Sound of Music)

• Carol Burnett (Once Upon a Mattress)
• Dolores Gray (Destry Rides Again)
• Eileen Herlie (Take Me Along)
• Ethel Merman (Gypsy)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Roddy McDowall (The Fighting Cock)

• Warren Beatty (A Loss of Roses)
• Harry Guardino (One More River)
• Rip Torn (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Lawrence Winters (A Long Dream)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Anne Revere (Toys in the Attic)

• Leora Dana (The Best Man)
• Jane Fonda (There Was a Little Girl)
• Sarah Marshall (Goodbye, Charlie)
• Juliet Mills (Five Finger Exercise)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Tom Bosley (Fiorello!)

• Theodore Bikel (The Sound of Music)
• Kurt Kasznar (The Sound of Music)
• Howard Da Silva (Fiorello!)
• Jack Klugman (Gypsy)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Patricia Neway (The Sound of Music)

• Sandra Church (Gypsy)
• Pert Kelton (Greenwillow)
• Lauri Peters and the Children (The Sound of Music)

Best Scenic Design (Play)

• Howard Bay

• Will Steven Armstrong (Caligula)
• David Hays (The Tenth Man)
• George Jenkins (The Miracle Worker)
• Jo Mielziner (The Best Man)

Best Scenic Design (Musical)

• Oliver Smith (The Sound of Music)

• Cecil Beaton (Saratoga)
• William and Jean Eckart (Fiorello!)
• Peter Larkin (Greenwillow)
• Jo Mielziner (Gypsy)

Best Costume Design (Musical)

• Cecil Beaton (Saratoga)

• Alvin Colt (Greenwillow)
• Raoul Pene Du Bois (Gypsy)
• Miles White (Take Me Along)

Stage Technician Award (Play)

• John Walters (The Miracle Worker)

• Al Alloy (Take Me Along)
• James Orr (Greenwillow)

Best Direction of a Play

• Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker)

• Joseph Anthony (The Best Man)
• Tyrone Guthrie (The Tenth Man)
• Elia Kazan (Sweet Bird of Youth)
• Lloyd Richards (A Raisin in the Sun)

Best Direction of a Musical

• George Abbott (Fiorello!)

• Vincent J. Donehue (The Sound of Music)
• Peter Glenville (Take Me Along)
• Michael Kidd (Destry Rides Again)
• Jerome Robbins (Gypsy)

Best Choreography

• Michael Kidd (Destry Rides Again)

• Peter Gennaro (Fiorello!)
• Joe Layton (Greenwillow)
• Lee Scot (Happy Town)
• Onna White (Take Me Along)

Special Tony Award

• John D. Rockefeller III
• James Thurber and Burgess Meredith

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