1975 Tony Awards results (29th) – Winners & nominees

This page lists the winners from the 29th Tony Awards ceremony held on April 11, 1975. The 1975 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “The Wiz.”

Best musical

• The Wiz

• Mack and Mabel
• The Lieutenant
• Shenandoah

Best play

• Equus

• Same Time, Next Year
• Seascape
• Short Eyes
• Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island
• The National Health

Best book of a musical

• James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell, Philip Rose (Shenandoah)

• Michael Stewart (Mack and Mabel)
• Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman, Chuck Strand (The Lieutenant)
• William F. Brown (The Wiz)

Best original score

• Charlie Smalls (The Wiz)

• Letter for Queen Victoria (Alan Lloyd)
• Peter Udell (Shenandoah)
• Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman, Chuck Strand (The Lieutenant)

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• John Kani and Winston Ntshona (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead)

• James Dale (Scapino!)
• Peter Firth (Equus)
• Henry Fonda (Clarence Darrow)
• Ben Gazzara (Hughie/Duet)
• John Wood (Sherlock Holmes)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Ellen Burstyn (Same Time, Next Year)

• Elizabeth Ashley (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
• Diana Rigg (The Misanthrope)
• Maggie Smith (Private Lives)
• Liv Ullmann (A Doll’s House)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• John Cullum (Shenandoah)

• Joel Grey (Goodtime Charley)
• Raul Julia (Where’s Charley?)
• Eddie Mekka (The Lieutenant)
• Robert Preston (Mack and Mabel)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Angela Lansbury (Gypsy)

• Lola Falana (Doctor Jazz)
• Bernadette Peters (Mack and Mabel)
• Ann Reinking (Goodtime Charley)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Frank Langella (Seascape)

• Larry Blyden (Absurd Person Singular)
• Leonard Frey (The National Health)
• Philip Locke (Sherlock Holmes)
• George Rose (My Fat Friend)
• Dick Anthony Williams (Black Picture Show)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Rita Moreno (The Ritz)

• Linda Miller (Black Picture Show)
• Geraldine Page (Absurd Person Singular)
• Carole Shelley (Absurd Person Singular)
• Elizabeth Spriggs (London Assurance)
• Frances Sternhagen (Equus)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Ted Ross (The Wiz)

• Tom Aldredge (Where’s Charley?)
• John Bottoms (Dance With Me)
• Douglas Henning (The Magic Show)
• Gilbert Price (The Night That Made America Famous)
• Richard B. Shull (Goodtime Charley)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Dee Dee Bridgewater (The Wiz)

• Susan Browning (Goodtime Charley)
• Zan Charisse (Gypsy)
• Taina Elg (Where’s Charley?)
• Kelly Garrett (The Night That Made America Famous)
• Donna Theodore (Shenandoah)

Best scenic design

• Carl Toms (Sherlock Holmes)

• Scott Johnson (Dance With Me)
• Tanya Moiseiwitsch (The Misanthrope)
• William Ritman (God’s Favorite)
• Rouben Ter-Arutunian (Goodtime Charley)
• Robert Wagner (Mack and Mabel)

Best costume design in a play

• Geoffrey Holder (The Wiz)

• Arthur Boccia (Where’s Charley?)
• Raoul Pene Du Bois (Doctor Jazz)
• Willa Kim (Goodtime Charley)
• Tanya Moiseiwitsch (The Misanthrope)
• Patricia Zipprodt (Mack and Mabel)

Best lighting design in a play

• Neil Peter Jampolis (Sherlock Holmes)

• Chip Monk (The Rocky Horror Show)
• Abe Feder (Goodtime Charley)
• Andy Phillips (Equus)
• Thomas Skelton (All God’s Chillun Got Wings)
• James Tilton (Seascape)

Best direction of a play

• John Dexter (Equus)

• Arvin Brown (The National Health)
• Frank Dunlop (Scapino!)
• Ronald Eyre (London Assurance)
• Athol Fugard (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead)
• Gene Saks (Same Time, Next Year)

Best direction of a musical

• Geoffrey Holder (The Wiz)

• Gower Champion (Mack and Mabel)
• Grover Dale (The Magic Show)
• Arthur Laurents (Gypsy)

Best choreography

• George Faison (The Wiz)

• Gower Champion (Mack and Mabel)
• Donald McKayle (Doctor Jazz)
• Margo Sappington (Where’s Charley?)
• Robert Tucker (Shenandoah)
• Joel Zwick (Dance With Me)

劇場賞

• Al Hirschfeld for 50 years

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