1973 Tony Awards results (27th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 27th Tony Awards ceremony. The 1973 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “A Little Night Music.”

Best musical

• A Little Night Music

• Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope
• Pippin
• Sugar

Best play

• That Championship Season

• Butley
• The Changing Room
• The Sunshine Boys

Best book of a musical

• Hugh Wheeler (A Little Night Music)

• Micki Grant (Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope)
• Melvin Van Peebles (Don’t Play Us Cheap)
• Roger O. Hirson (Pippin)

Best original score

• Stephen Sondheim (A Little Night Music)

• Micki Grant (Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope)
• Peter Link (Much Ado About Nothing)
• Stephen Schwartz (Pippin)

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Alan Bates (Butley)

• Jack Albertson (The Sunshine Boys)
• Wilfrid Hyde-White (The Jockey Club Stakes)
• Paul Sorvino (That Championship Season)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Julie Harris (The Last of Mrs. Lincoln)

• Jane Alexander (6 Rms Riv Vu)
• Colleen Dewhurst (Mourning Becomes Electra)
• Kathleen Widdoes (Much Ado About Nothing)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Ben Vereen (Pippin)

• Len Cariou (A Little Night Music)
• Robert Morse (Sugar)
• Brock Peters (Lost in the Stars)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Glynis Johns (A Little Night Music)

• Leland Palmer (Pippin)
• Debbie Reynolds (Irene)
• Marcia Rodd (Shelter)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• John Lithgow (The Changing Room)

• Barnard Hughes (Much Ado About Nothing)
• John McMartin (Don Juan)
• Hayward Morse (Butley)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Leora Dana (The Last of Mrs. Lincoln)

• Maya Angelou (Look Away)
• Katherine Helmond (The Great God Brown)
• Penelope Windust (Elizabeth I)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• George S. Irving (Irene)

• Laurence Guittard (A Little Night Music)
• Avon Long (Don’t Play Us Cheap)
• Gilbert Price (Lost in the Stars)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Patricia Elliott (A Little Night Music)

• Hermione Gingold (A Little Night Music)
• Patsy Kelly (Irene)
• Irene Ryan (Pippin)

Best scenic design

• Tony Walton (Pippin)

• Boris Aronson (A Little Night Music)
• David Jenkins (The Changing Room)
• Santo Loquasto (That Championship Season)

Best costume design in a play

• Florence Klotz (A Little Night Music)

• Theoni V. Aldredge (Much Ado About Nothing)
• Miles White (Tricks)
• Patricia Zipprodt (Pippin)

Best lighting design in a play

• Jules Fisher (Pippin)

• Martin Aronstein (Much Ado About Nothing)
• Ian Calderon (That Championship Season)
• Tharon Musser (A Little Night Music)

Best direction of a play

• A.J. Antoon (That Championship Season)

• Alan Arkin (The Sunshine Boys)
• Michael Rudman (The Changing Room)

Best direction of a musical

• Bob Fosse (Pippin)

• Vinnette Carroll (Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope)
• Gower Champion (Sugar)
• Harold Prince (A Little Night Music)

Best choreography

• Bob Fosse (Pippin)

• Gower Champion (Sugar)
• Peter Gennaro (Irene)
• Donald Saddler (Much Ado About Nothing)

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City
• Actor’s Fund of America
• Shubert Organization

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