22nd Tony Awards

The 22nd Annual Tony Awards was held on April 21, 1968, at the Shubert Theatre and broadcast on television by NBC. Hosts were Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov, assisted by Jack Benny and with Alfred Drake doing narration.

22nd Tony Awards
Date	April 21, 1968
Location	Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York
Hosted by	Angela Lansbury and Peter Ustinov
Television/radio coverage
Network	NBC

The ceremony

The theme of this year's awards ceremony was to salute previous Tony Award-winning musicals.

Presenters: Anne Bancroft, Shirley Booth, Art Carney, Trudy Carson, Diahann Carroll, Carol Cole, Sandy Dennis, Audrey Hepburn, Jerry Herman, Anne Jackson, Alan King, Groucho Marx, Liza Minnelli, Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, Harold Prince, Tony Randall, Eli Wallach, Joanne Woodward.

Musicals represented:

• Golden Rainbow ("Twenty-Four Hours a Day" - Company);
• The Happy Time ("The Happy Time"/"A Certain Girl" - Robert Goulet, David Wayne, Michael Rupert)
• Fiddler on the Roof ("Matchmaker, Matchmaker" - Tanya Everett, Bette Midler, Mimi Turque)
• Cabaret ("Cabaret" - Jill Haworth)
• Man of La Mancha ("The Impossible Dream" - David Atkinson)
• Hello, Dolly! ("Put on Your Sunday Clothes"/"So Long, Dearie" - Pearl Bailey and Company)
• How Now, Dow Jones ("Step to the Rear" - Tony Roberts and Company)
• Hallelujah, Baby! ("Smile, Smile" - Leslie Uggams, Lillian Hayman, Robert Hooks)

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Best Play	Best Musical
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead – Tom Stoppard A Day in the Death of Joe Egg – Peter Nichols Plaza Suite – Neil Simon The Price – Arthur Miller	Hallelujah, Baby! The Happy Time How Now, Dow Jones Illya Darling
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Martin Balsam – You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running as Various Characters Albert Finney – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Bri Milo O'Shea – Staircase as Harry C. Leeds Alan Webb – I Never Sang for My Father as Tom Garrison	Zoe Caldwell – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie Colleen Dewhurst – More Stately Mansions as Sara Maureen Stapleton – Plaza Suite as Various Characters Dorothy Tutin – Portrait of a Queen as Victoria
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Robert Goulet – The Happy Time as Jacques Bonnard Robert Hooks – Hallelujah, Baby! as Clem Tony Roberts – How Now, Dow Jones as Charley David Wayne – The Happy Time as Grandpere Bonnard	Patricia Routledge – Darling of the Day as Alice Challice Leslie Uggams – Hallelujah, Baby! as Georgina Melina Mercouri – Illya Darling as Illya Brenda Vaccaro – How Now, Dow Jones as Cynthia Pike
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
James Patterson – The Birthday Party as Stanley Paul Hecht – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as The Player Brian Murray – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as Rosencrantz John Wood – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as Guildenstern	Zena Walker – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg as Sheila Pert Kelton – Spofford as Mrs. Punck Ruth White – The Birthday Party as Meg Eleanor Wilson – Weekend as Mrs. Andrews
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical	Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Hiram Sherman – How Now, Dow Jones as Wingate Scott Jacoby – Golden Rainbow as Ally Nikos Kourkoulos – Illya Darling as Tonio Michael Rupert – The Happy Time as Bibi Bonnard	Lillian Hayman – Hallelujah, Baby! as Momma Geula Gill – The Grand Music Hall of Israel as Various Characters Julie Gregg – The Happy Time as Laurie Mannon Alice Playten – Henry, Sweet Henry as Lillian 'Lili' Kafritz
Best Direction of a Play	Best Direction of a Musical
Mike Nichols – Plaza Suite Michael Blakemore – A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Derek Goldby – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Alan Schneider – You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running	Gower Champion – The Happy Time George Abbott – How Now, Dow Jones Jules Dassin – Illya Darling Burt Shevelove – Hallelujah, Baby!
Best Producer (Dramatic)	Best Producer (Musical)
David Merrick Arts Foundation – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead No nominees	Albert Selden, Hal James, Jane C. Nusbaum and Harry Rigby – Hallelujah, Baby! No nominees
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre	Best Choreography
Hallelujah, Baby! – Jule Styne (music) and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics) How Now, Dow Jones – Elmer Bernstein (music) and Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) Illya Darling – Manos Hadjidakis (music) and Joe Darion (lyrics) The Happy Time – John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics)	Gower Champion – The Happy Time Michael Bennett – Henry, Sweet Henry Kevin Carlisle – Hallelujah, Baby! Onna White – Illya Darling
Best Scenic Design	Best Costume Design
Desmond Heeley – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Boris Aronson – The Price Robert Randolph – Golden Rainbow Peter Wexler – The Happy Time	Desmond Heeley – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Jane Greenwood – More Stately Mansions Irene Sharaff – Hallelujah, Baby! Freddy Wittop – The Happy Time

Special awards

• Audrey Hepburn
• Carol Channing
• Pearl Bailey
• David Merrick
• Maurice Chevalier
• APA-Phoenix Theatre
• Marlene Dietrich

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations: 10 nominations: The Happy Time 9 nominations: Hallelujah, Baby! 8 nominations: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 6 nominations: How Now, Dow Jones and Illya Darling 4 nominations: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg 3 nominations: Plaza Suite 2 nominations: The Birthday Party, Golden Rainbow, Henry, Sweet Henry, More Stately Mansions, The Price and You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running

The following productions received multiple awards. 5 wins: Hallelujah, Baby! 4 wins: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 3 wins: The Happy Time

External links

• Tony Awards official site