1962 Tony Awards results (16th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 16th Tony Awards, held on April 29, 1962. The 1962 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Best Musical

• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

• Carnival
• Milk and Honey
• No Strings

Best Play

• A Man for All Seasons

• Gideon
• The Caretaker
• Philadelphia, Here I Come!
• The Night of the Iguana

Best Original Score

• Richard Rodgers (No Strings)

• Richard Adler (Kwamina)
• Jerry Herman (Milk and Honey)
• Frank Loesser (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

Best Producer (Play)

• Robert Whitehead and Roger L. Stevens (A Man for All Seasons)

• Charles Bowden and Viola Rubber (The Night of the Iguana)
• Fred Coe and Arthur Cantor (Gideon)
• David Merrick (Ross)

Best Producer (Musical)

• Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

• Helen Bonfils, Haila Stoddard, and Charles Russel (Sail Away)
• David Merrick (Carnival)
• Gerard Oestriecher (Milk and Honey)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons)

• Fredric March (Gideon)
• John Mills (Ross)
• Donald Pleasence (The Caretaker)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Margaret Leighton (The Night of the Iguana)

• Gladys Cooper (A Passage to India)
• Colleen Dewhurst (Great Day in the Morning)
• Kim Stanley (A Far Country)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Robert Morse (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

• Ray Bolger (All American)
• Alfred Drake (Kean)
• Richard Kiley (No Strings)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Anna Maria Alberghetti (Carnival)
• Diahann Carroll (No Strings)

• Molly Picon (Milk and Honey)
• Elaine Stritch (Sail Away)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Walter Matthau (A Shot in the Dark)

• Godfrey M. Cambridge (Purlie Victorious)
• Joseph Campanella (A Gift of Time)
• Paul Sparer (Ross)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Elizabeth Ashley (Take Her, She’s Mine)

• Zohra Lampert (Look, We’ve Come Through)
• Janet Margolin (Daughter of Silence)
• Pat Stanley (Sunday in New York)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Charles Nelson Reilly (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

• Orson Bean (Subways Are for Sleeping)
• Severn Darden (The Second City)
• Pierre Olaf (Carnival)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Phyllis Newman (Subways Are for Sleeping)

• Elizabeth Allen (The Gay Life)
• Barbara Harris (The Second City)
• Barbra Streisand (Wholesale)

Best Scenic Design in a Musical

• Will Steven Armstrong (Carnival)

• Rouben Ter-Arutunian (A Passage to India)
• David Hays (No Strings)
• Oliver Smith (The Gay Life)

Best Costume Design in a Play

• Lucinda Ballard (The Gay Life)

• Donald Brooks (No Strings)
• Motley (Kwamina)
• Miles White (Milk and Honey)

Best Direction of a Play

• Noel Willman (A Man for All Seasons)

• Tyrone Guthrie (Gideon)
• Donald McWhinnie (The Caretaker)
• Jose Quintero (Great Day in the Morning)

Best Direction of a Musical

• Abe Burrows (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying)

• Gower Champion (Carnival)
• Joe Layton (No Strings)
• Joshua Logan (All American)

Best Choreography

• Joe Layton (No Strings)

• Agnes de Mille (Kwamina)
• Michael Kidd (Subways Are for Sleeping)
• Dania Krupska (The Happiest Girl in the World)

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Brooks Atkinson, retired drama critic of the New York Times; Franco Zeffirelli
• Richard Rodgers

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