| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- The Great White Hope – Howard Sackler
- Hadrian the Seventh – Peter Luke
- Lovers – Brian Friel
- The Man in the Glass Booth – Robert Shaw
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- 1776
- Hair
- Promises, Promises
- Zorba
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- James Earl Jones – The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
- Art Carney – Lovers as Andy Tracey
- Alec McCowen – Hadrian the Seventh as Fr. William Rolfe
- Donald Pleasence – The Man in the Glass Booth as Arthur Goldman
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- Julie Harris – Forty Carats as Ann Stanley
- Estelle Parsons – The Seven Descents of Myrtle as Myrtle
- Charlotte Rae – Morning, Noon and Night as Various Characters
- Brenda Vaccaro – The Goodbye People as Nancy Scott
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Jerry Orbach – Promises, Promises as Chuck Baxter
- Herschel Bernardi – Zorba as Zorba
- Jack Cassidy – Maggie Flynn as The Clown
- Joel Grey – George M! as George M. Cohan
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- Angela Lansbury – Dear World as Countess Aurelia
- Maria Karnilova – Zorba as Madame Hortense
- Dorothy Loudon – The Fig Leaves Are Falling as Lillian Stone
- Jill O'Hara – Promises, Promises as Fran Kubelik
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- Al Pacino – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? as Bickham
- Richard Castellano – Lovers and Other Strangers as Frank
- Tony Roberts – Play It Again Sam as Dick Christie
- Louis Zorich – Hadrian the Seventh as Cardinal Ragna
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- Jane Alexander – The Great White Hope as Eleanor Bachman
- Diane Keaton – Play It Again Sam as Linda Christie
- Lauren Jones – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? as Linda
- Anna Manahan – Lovers as Hanna
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Ronald Holgate – 1776 as Richard Henry Lee
- Larry Haines – Promises, Promises as Dr. Dreyfuss
- Edward Winter – Promises, Promises as J.D. Sheldrake
- William Daniels – 1776 as John Adams
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- Marian Mercer – Promises, Promises as Marge MacDougall
- Sandy Duncan – Canterbury Tales as Various Characters
- Lorraine Serabian – Zorba as Leader
- Virginia Vestoff – 1776 as Abigail Adams
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Peter Dews – Hadrian the Seventh
- Joseph Hardy – Play It Again Sam
- Harold Pinter – The Man in the Glass Booth
- Michael A. Schultz – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
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- Peter Hunt – 1776
- Robert Moore – Promises, Promises
- Tom O'Horgan – Hair
- Harold Prince – Zorba
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| Best Choreography |
Best Scenic Design |
- Joe Layton – George M!
- Sammy Bayes – Canterbury Tales
- Ron Field – Zorba
- Michael Bennett – Promises, Promises
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- Boris Aronson – Zorba
- Derek Cousins – Canterbury Tales
- Jo Mielziner – 1776
- Oliver Smith – Dear World
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| Best Costume Design |
- Louden Sainthill – Canterbury Tales
- Michael Annals – Morning, Noon and Night
- Robert Fletcher – Hadrian the Seventh
- Patricia Zipprodt – Zorba
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