1976 Tony Awards results (30th) – Winners & nominees

On this page, you’ll find a complete list of winners from the 30th Tony Awards, held on April 18, 1976. The 1976 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “A Chorus Line.”

Best musical

• A Chorus Line

• Bubbling Brown Sugar
• Chicago
• Pacific Overtures

Best play

• Travesties

• The First Breeze of Summer
• Knock Knock
• Lamppost Reunion

Best book of a musical

• James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante (A Chorus Line)

• Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse (Chicago)
• John Weidman (Pacific Overtures)
• Alfred Uhry (The Robber Bridegroom)

Best original score

• Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban (A Chorus Line)

• John Kander, Fred Ebb (Chicago)
• Stephen Sondheim (Pacific Overtures)
• Scott Joplin (Treemonisha)

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• John Wood (Travesties)

• Moses Gunn (The Poison Tree)
• George C. Scott (Death of a Salesman)
• Donald Sinden (Habeas Corpus)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Irene Worth (The Sunny Boys)

• Tovah Feldshuh (Yentl)
• Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family)
• Lynn Redgrave (Mrs. Warren’s Profession)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• George Rose (My Fair Lady)

• Mako (Pacific Overtures)
• Jerry Orbach (Chicago)
• Ian Richardson (My Fair Lady)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line)

• Vivian Reed (Bubbling Brown Sugar)
• Chita Rivera (Chicago)
• Gwen Verdon (Chicago)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Edward Herrmann (Mrs. Warren’s Profession)

• Barry Bostwick (They Knew What They Wanted)
• Gabriel Dell (Lamppost Reunion)
• Edward Herrmann (Mrs. Warren’s Profession)
• Daniel Seltzer (Knock Knock)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Shirley Knight (Kennedy’s Children)

• Mary Beth Hurt (Trelawny of the ‘Wells’)
• Lois Nettleton (They Knew What They Wanted)
• Meryl Streep (27 Wagons Full of Cotton)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Sammy Williams (A Chorus Line)

• Robert LuPone (A Chorus Line)
• Charles Repole (Very Good Eddie)
• Isao Sato (Pacific Overtures)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Carole Bishop (A Chorus Line)

• Priscilla Lopez (A Chorus Line)
• Patti LuPone (The Robber Bridegroom)
• Virginia Seidel (Very Good Eddie)

Best scenic design in a musical

• Boris Aronson (Pacific Overtures)

• Ben Edwards (The Shadow Box)
• David Mitchell (Trelawny of the ‘Wells’)
• Tony Walton (Chicago)

Best costume design in a play

• Florence Klotz (Pacific Overtures)

• Theoni V. Aldredge (A Chorus Line)
• Ann Roth (The Royal Family)
• Patricia Zipprodt (Chicago)

Best lighting design in a play

• Tharon Musser (A Chorus Line)

• Ian Calderon (Trelawny of the ‘Wells’)
• Jules Fisher (Chicago)
• Tharon Musser (Pacific Overtures)

Best direction of a play

• Ellis Rabb (The Royal Family)

• Arvin Brown (Ah, Wilderness!)
• Marshall W. Mason (Knock Knock)
• Peter Wood (Travesties)

Best direction of a musical

• Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line)

• Bob Fosse (Chicago)
• Bill Gile (Very Good Eddie)
• Harold Prince (Pacific Overtures)

Best choreography

• Michael Bennett and Bob Avian (A Chorus Line)

• Patricia Birch (Pacific Overtures)
• Bob Fosse (Chicago)
• Billy Wilson (Bubbling Brown Sugar)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• The Arena Stage

Special Tony Award

• Mathilde Pincus
• Thomas H. Fitzgerald
• Circle in the Square
• Richard Burton

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