| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- That Championship Season – Jason Miller
- Butley – Simon Gray
- The Changing Room – David Storey
- The Sunshine Boys – Neil Simon
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- A Little Night Music
- Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
- Pippin
- Sugar
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| Best Book of a Musical |
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
- Hugh Wheeler – A Little Night Music
- Micki Grant – Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
- Melvin Van Peebles – Don't Play Us Cheap
- Roger O. Hirson – Pippin
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- A Little Night Music – Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics)
- Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope – Micki Grant (music and lyrics)
- Much Ado About Nothing – Peter Link (music)
- Pippin – Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics)
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Alan Bates – Butley as Ben Butley
- Jack Albertson – The Sunshine Boys as Willie Clark
- Wilfrid Hyde-White – The Jockey Club Stakes as Marquis of Candover
- Paul Sorvino – That Championship Season as Phil Romano
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- Julie Harris – The Last of Mrs. Lincoln as Mary Todd Lincoln
- Jane Alexander – 6 Rms Riv Vu as Annie Miller
- Colleen Dewhurst – Mourning Becomes Electra as Christine Mannon
- Kathleen Widdoes – Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Ben Vereen – Pippin as The Leading Player
- Len Cariou – A Little Night Music as Frederick Egerman
- Robert Morse – Sugar as Jerry
- Brock Peters – Lost in the Stars as Stephen Kumalo
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- Glynis Johns – A Little Night Music as Desiree Armfeldt
- Leland Palmer – Pippin as Fastrada
- Debbie Reynolds – Irene as Irene O'Dare
- Marcia Rodd – Shelter as Maud
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- John Lithgow – The Changing Room as Kenny Kendal
- Barnard Hughes – Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry
- John McMartin – Don Juan as Sganarelle
- Hayward Morse – Butley as Joseph Keyston
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- Leora Dana – The Last of Mrs. Lincoln as Elizabeth Edwards
- Maya Angelou – Look Away as Elizabeth Keckley
- Katherine Helmond – The Great God Brown as Margaret
- Penelope Windust – Elizabeth I as Elizabeth the Player Queen
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- George S. Irving – Irene as Madame Lucy
- Laurence Guittard – A Little Night Music as Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm
- Avon Long – Don't Play Us Cheap as David
- Gilbert Price – Lost in the Stars as Absalom Kumalo
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- Patricia Elliott – A Little Night Music as Charlotte Malcolm
- Hermione Gingold – A Little Night Music as Madame Armfeldt
- Patsy Kelly – Irene as Mrs. O'Dare
- Irene Ryan – Pippin as Berthe
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- A.J. Antoon – That Championship Season
- A.J. Antoon – Much Ado About Nothing
- Alan Arkin – The Sunshine Boys
- Michael Rudman – The Changing Room
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- Bob Fosse – Pippin
- Vinnette Carroll – Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
- Gower Champion – Sugar
- Harold Prince – A Little Night Music
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| Best Choreography |
Best Scenic Design |
- Bob Fosse – Pippin
- Gower Champion – Sugar
- Peter Gennaro – Irene
- Donald Saddler – Much Ado About Nothing
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- Tony Walton – Pippin
- Boris Aronson – A Little Night Music
- David Jenkins – The Changing Room
- Santo Loquasto – That Championship Season
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| Best Costume Design |
Best Lighting Design |
- Florence Klotz – A Little Night Music
- Theoni V. Aldredge – Much Ado About Nothing
- Miles White – Tricks
- Patricia Zipprodt – Pippin
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- Jules Fisher – Pippin
- Martin Aronstein – Much Ado About Nothing
- Ian Calderon – That Championship Season
- Tharon Musser – A Little Night Music
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