1963 Tony Awards results (17th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 17th Tony Awards, held on April 28, 1963. The 1963 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”

Best Musical

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

• Little Me
• Oliver!
• Stop the World I Want to Get Off

Best Play

• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• A Thousand Clowns
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• Tchin-Tchin

Best Producer (Play)

• Richard Barr and Clinton Wilder, Theatre 1963 (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

• The Actors Studio Theatre (Pieces of Eight)
• Cheryl Crawford and Jerome Robbins (Mother Courage and Her Children)
• Paul Vroom, Buff Cobb, and Burry Fredrik (Too True to Be Good)

Best Producer (Musical)

• Harold Prince (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)

• Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin (Little Me)
• David Merrick and Donald Albery (Oliver!)

Best Author (Musical)

• Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)

• Lionel Bart (Oliver!)
• Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (Stop the World I Want to Get Off)
• Neil Simon (Little Me)

Best Original Score

• Lionel Bart (Oliver!)

• Anthony Newley (Stop the World I Want to Get Off)
• Leslie Bricusse (Stop the World I Want to Get Off)
• Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh (Little Me)
• Milton Schafer, Ronny Graham (Bravo Giovanni)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Arthur Hill (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

• Charles Boyer (Lord Pengo)
• Paul Ford (Never Too Late)
• Bert Lahr (The Beauty Part)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Uta Hagen (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

• Hermione Baddeley (The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore)
• Margaret Leighton (Tchin-Tchin)
• Claudia McNeil (Tiger Tiger Burning Bright)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Zero Mostel (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)

• Sid Caesar (Little Me)
• Anthony Newley (Stop the World I Want to Get Off)
• Clive Revill (Oliver!)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Vivien Leigh (Tovarich)

• Georgia Brown (Oliver!)
• Nanette Fabray (Mr. President)
• Sally Ann Howes (Brigadoon)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Alan Arkin (Enter Laughing)

• Barry Gordon (A Thousand Clowns)
• Paul Rogers (Photo Finish)
• Frank Silvera (The Lady of the Camellias)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Sandy Dennis (A Thousand Clowns)

• Melinda Dillon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
• Alice Ghostley (The Beauty Part)
• Zohra Lampert (Mother Courage and Her Children)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• David Burns (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)

• Jack Gilford (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
• David Jones (Oliver!)
• Swen Swenson (Little Me)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Anna Quayle (Stop the World I Want to Get Off)

• Ruth Kobart (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
• Virginia Martin (Little Me)
• Louise Troy (Tovarich)

Best Scenic Design

• Sean Kenny (Oliver!)

• Will Steven Armstrong (Tchin-Tchin)
• Anthony Powell (The School for Scandal)
• Franco Zeffirelli (The Lady of the Camellias)

Best Costume Design

• Anthony Powell (The School for Scandal)

• Marcel Escoffier (The Lady of the Camellias)
• Robert Fletcher (Little Me)
• Motley (Mother Courage and Her Children)

Best Direction of a Play

• Alan Schneider (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

• George Abbott (Never Too Late)
• John Gielgud (The School for Scandal)
• Peter Glenville (Tchin-Tchin)

Best Direction of a Musical

• George Abbott (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)

• Peter Coe (Oliver!)
• John Fearnley (Brigadoon)
• Cy Feuer and Bob Fosse (Little Me)

Best Choreography

• Bob Fosse (Little Me)

• Carol Haney (Bravo Giovanni)

Best Stage Technician

• Solly Pernick (Mr. President)

• Milton Smith (Beyond the Fringe)

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• W. McNeil Lowry
• Irving Berlin
• Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore

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