1977 Tony Awards results (31st) – Winners & nominees

On this page, you’ll find a complete list of winners from the 31st Tony Awards, held on June 5, 1977. The 1977 Tony Award for Best Musical went to “Annie.”

Best musical

• Annie

• Happy End
• I Love My Wife
• Side by Side by Sondheim

Best play

• The Shadow Box

• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
• Ntozake Shange
• Otherwise Engaged
• Streamers

Best book of a musical

• Thomas Meehan (Annie)

• Elisabeth Hauptmann, Michael Feingold (Happy End)
• Michael Stewart (I Love My Wife)
• Vinnette Carroll (Your Arms Too Short to Box with God)

Best original score

• Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin (Annie)

• Stephen Schwartz (Godspell)
• Cy Coleman, Michael Stewart (I Love My Wife)
• Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Michael Feingold (Happy End)

Best revival

• Porgy and Bess

• Guys and Dolls
• The Cherry Orchard
• Threepenny Opera

Best performance by a leading actor in a play

• Al Pacino (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)

• Tom Courtenay (Otherwise Engaged)
• Ben Gazzara (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
• Ralph Richardson (No Man’s Land)

Best performance by a leading actress in a play

• Julie Harris (The Belle of Amherst)

• Colleen Dewhurst (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
• Liv Ullmann (Anna Christie)
• Irene Worth (The Cherry Orchard)

Best performance by a leading actor in a musical

• Barry Bostwick (The Robber Bridegroom)

• Robert Guillaume (Guys and Dolls)
• Raul Julia (The Threepenny Opera)
• Reid Shelton (Annie)

Best performance by a leading actress in a musical

• Dorothy Loudon (Annie)

• Clamma Dale (Porgy and Bess)
• Ernestine Jackson (Guys and Dolls)
• Andrea McArdle (Annie)

Best performance by a featured actor in a play

• Jonathan Pryce (Comedians)

• Bob Dishy (Sly Fox)
• Joe Fields (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)
• Laurence Luckinbill (The Shadow Box)

Best performance by a featured actress in a play

• Trazana Beverley (For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf)

• Patricia Elliott (The Shadow Box)
• Rose Gregorio (The Shadow Box)
• Mary McCarty (Anna Christie)

Best performance by a featured actor in a musical

• Lenny Baker (I Love My Wife)

• David Kernan (Side by Side by Sondheim)
• Larry Marshall (Porgy and Bess)
• Ned Sherrin (Side by Side by Sondheim)

Best performance by a featured actress in a musical

• Delores Hall (Your Arms Too Short to Box with God)

• Ellen Green (The Threepenny Opera)
• Millicent Martin (Side by Side by Sondheim)
• Julie N. McKenzie (Side by Side by Sondheim)

Best scenic design in a musical

• David Mitchell (Annie)

• Santo Loquasto (American Buffalo, The Cherry Orchard)
• Robert Randolph (Porgy and Bess)

Best costume design in a play

• Theoni V. Aldredge (Annie, The Threepenny Opera)
• Santo Loquasto (The Cherry Orchard)

• Nancy Potts (Porgy and Bess)

Best lighting design in a play

• Jennifer Tipton (The Cherry Orchard)

• John Bury (No Man’s Land)
• Pat Collins (The Threepenny Opera)
• Neil Peter Jampolis (Rotation)

Best direction of a play

• Gordon Davidson (The Shadow Box)

• Ulu Grosbard (American Buffalo)
• Mike Nichols (Comedians, Streamers)

Best direction of a musical

• Gene Saks (I Love My Wife)

• Vinnette Carroll (Your Arms Too Short to Box with God)
• Martin Charnin (Annie)
• Jack O’Brien (Porgy and Bess)

Best choreography

• Peter Gennaro (Annie)

• Talley Beatty (Your Arms Too Short to Box with God)
• Patricia Birch (Music Is)
• Onna White (I Love My Wife)

Regional theatre Tony Award

• Mark Taper Forum

Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre

• Lily Tomlin
• Barry Manilow
• Diana Ross
• National Theatre For the Deaf
• Equity Library Theatre

Lawrence Langner Award

• Cheryl Crawford

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