| Best Play |
Best Musical |
- The Shadow Box – Michael Cristofer
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf – Ntozake Shange
- Otherwise Engaged – Simon Gray
- Streamers – David Rabe
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- Annie
- Happy End
- I Love My Wife
- Side by Side by Sondheim
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| Most Innovative Production of a Revival |
Best Book of a Musical |
- Porgy and Bess
- Guys and Dolls
- The Cherry Orchard
- The Threepenny Opera
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- Thomas Meehan – Annie
- Elisabeth Hauptmann – Happy End
- Michael Stewart – I Love My Wife
- Vinnette Carroll – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
- Al Pacino – The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel as Pavlo Hummel
- Tom Courtenay – Otherwise Engaged as Simon
- Ben Gazzara – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George
- Ralph Richardson – No Man's Land as Hirst
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- Julie Harris – The Belle of Amherst as Various Characters
- Colleen Dewhurst – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha
- Liv Ullmann – Anna Christie as Anna Christopherson
- Irene Worth – The Cherry Orchard as Ranevskaya
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| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
- Barry Bostwick – The Robber Bridegroom as Jamie Lockhart
- Robert Guillaume – Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit
- Raúl Juliá – The Threepenny Opera as Macheath
- Reid Shelton – Annie as Oliver Warbucks
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- Dorothy Loudon – Annie as Miss Hannigan
- Clamma Dale – Porgy and Bess as Bess
- Ernestine Jackson – Guys and Dolls as Sarah Brown
- Andrea McArdle – Annie as Annie
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
- Jonathan Pryce – Comedians as Gethin Price
- Bob Dishy – Sly Fox as Abner Truckle
- Joe Fields – The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel as First Sergeant Tower
- Laurence Luckinbill – The Shadow Box as Brian
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- Trazana Beverley – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf as Lady in Red
- Patricia Elliott – The Shadow Box as Beverly
- Rose Gregorio – The Shadow Box as Agnes
- Mary McCarty – Anna Christie as Marthy Owen
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| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
- Lenny Baker – I Love My Wife as Alvin
- David Kernan – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer
- Larry Marshall – Porgy and Bess as Sportin' Life
- Ned Sherrin – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer
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- Delores Hall – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God as Various Characters
- Ellen Greene – The Threepenny Opera as Jenny
- Millicent Martin – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer
- Julia McKenzie – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer
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| Best Direction of a Play |
Best Direction of a Musical |
- Gordon Davidson – The Shadow Box
- Ulu Grosbard – American Buffalo
- Mike Nichols – Comedians
- Mike Nichols – Streamers
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- 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
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| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
Best Choreography |
- Annie – Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics)
- Godspell – Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics)
- I Love My Wife – Cy Coleman (music) and Michael Stewart (lyrics)
- Happy End – Kurt Weil (music) and Bertolt Brecht (lyrics)
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- Peter Gennaro – Annie
- Talley Beatty – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
- Patricia Birch – Music Is
- Onna White – I Love My Wife
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| Best Scenic Design |
Best Costume Design |
- David Mitchell – Annie
- Santo Loquasto – American Buffalo
- Santo Loquasto – The Cherry Orchard
- Robert Randolph – Porgy and Bess
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- Theoni V. Aldredge – Annie
- Santo Loquasto – The Cherry Orchard
- Theoni V. Aldredge – The Threepenny Opera
- Nancy Potts – Porgy and Bess
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| Best Lighting Design |
- Jennifer Tipton – The Cherry Orchard
- John Bury – No Man's Land
- Pat Collins – The Threepenny Opera
- Neil Peter Jampolis – The Innocents
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