13th Tony Awards

Infobox Tony Awards
name = 13th


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date = April 12, 1959
venue = Waldorf-Astoria New York City, New York
host = Bud Collyer
network = none
last = 12th
next = 14th

The 13th Annual Tony Awards took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom on April 12, 1959 and was broadcast on local television station WCBS-TV in New York City. The Master of Ceremonies was Bud Collyer.

Presenters: Dana Andrews, Ina Balin, Ralph Bellamy, Polly Bergen, Claudette Colbert, Robert Dowling, Faye Emerson, Farley Granger, Oscar Hammerstein II, Celeste Holm, Robert Preston, Rip Torn .

Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Winners and nominees

"Winners are in bold"

Production

Outstanding Play----
*"J.B." by Archibald MacLeish. Produced by Alfred de Liagre, Jr.
*"A Touch of the Poet" by Eugene O'Neill. Produced by The Producers Theatre, Robert Whitehead, and Roger L. Stevens
*"Epitaph for George Dillon" by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton. Produced by David Merrick and Joshua Logan
*"The Disenchanted" by Budd Schulberg and Harvey Breit. Produced by William Darrid and Eleanor Saidenberg
*"The Visit" by Friedrich Duerrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency. Produced by the Producers Theatre

Outstanding Musical----
*"Redhead" by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon, and David Shaw, music by Albert Hague, lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Produced by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr.
*"Flower Drum Song". Book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joseph Fields, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, music by Richard Rodgers. Produced by Joseph Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers
*"La Plume de Ma Tante". Written, devised, and directed by Robert Dhery, music by Gerard Calvi, English lyrics by Ross Parker. David Merrick and Joseph Kipness, present the Jack Hylton Production.

Performance

Distinguished Dramatic Actor----
*Jason Robards, Jr. ("The Disenchanted")
*Cedric Hardwicke ("A Majority of One")
*Alfred Lunt ("The Visit)
*Christopher Plummer ("J. B.")
*Cyril Ritchard ("The Pleasure of His Company")
*Robert Stephens ("Epitaph for George Dillon")

Distinguished Dramatic Actress----
*Gertrude Berg ("A Majority of One")
*Claudette Colbert ("The Marriage-Go-Round")
*Lynn Fontanne ("The Visit")
*Kim Stanley ("A Touch of the Poet")
*Maureen Stapleton ("The Cold Wind and the Warm")

Distinguished Musical Actor----
*Richard Kiley ("Redhead")
*Larry Blyden ("Flower Drum Song")

Distinguished Musical Actress----
*Gwen Verdon ("Redhead")
*Miyoshi Umeki ("Flower Drum Song")

Distinguished Supporting or Featured Dramatic Actor----
*Charlie Ruggles ("The Pleasure of His Company")
*Marc Connelly ("Tall Story")
*George Grizzard ("The Disenchanted")
*Walter Matthau ("Once More, With Feeling")
*Robert Morse ("Say, Darling")
*George Scott ("Comes a Day")

Distinguished Supporting or Featured Dramatic Actress----
*Julie Newmar ("The Marriage-Go-Round")
*Maureen Delany ("God and Kate Murphy")
*Dolores Hart ("The Pleasure of His Company")
*Nan Martin ("J.B.)
*Bertrice Reading ("Requiem for a Nun")

Distinguished Supporting or Featured Musical Actor----
*Russell Nype ("Goldilocks")
*Leonard Stone ("Redhead")

Distinguished Supporting or Featured Musical Actress----
*Pat Stanley ("Goldilocks")
*Julienne Marie ("Whoop-Up")

Craft

Outstanding Director----
*Elia Kazan ("J.B.")
*Peter Brook ("The Visit")
*Robert Dhery ("La Plume de Ma Tante")
*William Gaskill ("Epitaph for George Dillon")
*Peter Glenville ("Rashomon")
*Cyril Ritchard ("The Pleasure of His Company")
*Dore Schary ("A Majority of One")

Outstanding Choreographer----
*Bob Fosse ("Redhead")
*Agnes de Mille ("Goldilocks")
*Carol Haney ("Flower Drum Song")
*Onna White ("Whoop-Up")

Scenic Designer----
*Donald Oenslager ("A Majority of One")
*Boris Aronson ("J.B.")
*Ballou ("The Legend of Lizzie")
*Ben Edwards ("Jane Eyre")
*Oliver Messel ("Rashomon")
*Teo Otto ("The Visit")

Costume Designer----
*Rouben Ter-Arutunian ("Redhead")
*Castillo ("Goldilocks")
*Dorothy Jenkins ("The World of Suzie Wong")
*Oliver Messel ("Rashomon")
*Irene Sharaff ("Flower Drum Song")

Conductor and Musical Director----
*Salvatore Dell'Isola ("Flower Drum Song")
*Jay Blackston ("Redhead")
*Lehman Engel ("Goldilocks")
*Gershon Kingsley ("La Plume de Ma Tante")

Stage Technician----
*Sam Knapp ("The Music Man")
*Thomas Fitzgerald ("Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?")
*Edward Flynn ("The Most Happy Fella")

pecial awards

*John Gielgud, for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man.

*Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse, for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.

*Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Robert Dhery, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec), for contribution to the theatre.

ee also

Tony Awards

External links

[http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html] Tony Awards Oficial Site