19th Tony Awards

The 19th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast on June 13, 1965 from The Astor Hotel in New York City on local television station WWOR-TV (Channel 9). The Masters of Ceremonies were Tom Bosley, Jose Ferrer, and Van Johnson.

Presenters: George Abbott, Alan Alda, Robert Alda, Alan Arkin, Jean Pierre Aumont, Sidney Blackmer, Herschel Bernardi, Victor Borge, Gower Champion, Carol Channing, Barbara Cook, Farley Granger, George Grizzard, Sally Ann Howes, Anne Jeffreys, Bert Lahr, Piper Laurie, Bethel Leslie, Ethel Merman, Barry Nelson, Molly Picon, Maureen Stapleton, Jule Styne, Eli Wallach.

Performer: Lucine Amara

Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Award winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Production

Best Play

• The Subject Was Roses by Frank Gilroy. Produced by Edgar Lansbury
• Luv by Murray Schisgal. Produced by Clair Nichtern
• The Odd Couple by Neil Simon. Produced by Saint-Subber)
• Tiny Alice by Edward Albee. Produced by Theatre 1965, Richard Barr, and Clinton Wilder

Best Musical

• Fiddler on the Roof. Book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. Produced by Harold Prince
• Golden Boy. Book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams. Produced by Hillard Elkins.
• Half a Sixpence. Book by Beverly Cross, music and lyrics by David Heneker. Produced by Allen Hodgdon, Stevens Productions, and Harold Fielding
• Oh What a Lovely War. Devised by Joan Littlewood for Theatre Workshop, Charles Chilton and Members of the Cast. Produced by David Merrick and Gerry Raffles

Tony Award for Best Author (Dramatic)

• Neil Simon (The Odd Couple)
• Edward Albee (Tiny Alice)
• Frank Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses)
• Murray Schisgal (Luv)

Tony Award for Producer (Dramatic)

• Claire Nichtern (Luv)
• Hume Cronyn, Allen Hogdon Inc., Stevens Productions Inc., and Bonfils-Seawell Enterprises (Slow Dance on the Killing Ground)
• Theatre 1965, Richard Barr, and Clinton Wilder (Tiny Alice)
• Robert Whitehead (Tartuffe)

Tony Award for Producer (Musical)

• Harold Prince (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Allen-Hodgdon, Stevens Productions and Harold Fielding (Half a Sixpence)
• Hillard Elkins (Golden Boy)
• David Merrick (The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)

Performance

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

• Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple)
• John Gielgud (Tiny Alice)
• Donald Pleasence (Poor Bitos)
• Jason Robards (Hughie)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play

• Irene Worth (Tiny Alice)
• Marjorie Rhodes (All in Good Time)
• Beah Richards (The Amen Corner)
• Diana Sands (The Owl and the Pussycat)

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical

• Zero Mostel (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Sammy Davis, Jr. (Golden Boy)
• Cyril Ritchard (The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)
• Tommy Steele (Half a Sixpence)

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

• Liza Minnelli (Flora the Red Menace)
• Elizabeth Allen (Do I Hear a Waltz?)
• Nancy Dussault (Bajour)
• Inga Swenson (Baker Street)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play

• Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses)
• Murray Hamilton (Absence of a Cello)
• Martin Sheen (The Subject Was Roses)
• Clarence Williams III (Slow Dance On the Killing Ground)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play

• Alice Ghostley (The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window)
• Rae Allen (Traveller Without Luggage)
• Alexandra Berlin (All in Good Time)
• Carolan Daniels (Slow Dance on the Killing Ground)

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

• Victor Spinetti (Oh, What a Lovely War)
• Jack Cassidy (Fade Out - Fade In)
• James Grout (Half a Sixpence)
• Jerry Orbach (Guys and Dolls)

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical

• Maria Karnilova (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Luba Lisa (I Had a Ball)
• Carrie Nye (Half a Sixpence)
• Barbara Windsor (Oh, What a Lovely War)

Craft

Best Direction of a Play

• Mike Nichols (Luv and The Odd Couple)
• William Ball (Tartuffe)
• Ulu Grosbard (The Subject Was Roses)
• Alan Schneider (Tiny Alice)

Best Direction of a Musical

• Jerome Robbins (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Joan Littlewood (Oh, What a Lovely War)
• Anthony Newley (The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)
• Gene Saks (Half a Sixpence)

Best Choreography

• Jerome Robbins (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Peter Gennaro (Bajour)
• Donald McKayle (Golden Boy)
• Onna White (Half a Sixpence)

Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist

• Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley (The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)
• David Heneker (Half a Sixpence)
• Richard Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim (Do I Hear a Waltz?)

Best Scenic Design

• Oliver Smith (Baker Street, Luv and The Odd Couple)
• Boris Aronson (Fiddler on the Roof and Incident at Vichy)
• Sean Kenny (The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)
• Beni Montresor (Do I Hear a Waltz?)

Tony Award for Best Costume Design

• Patricia Zipprodt (Fiddler on the Roof)
• Jane Greenwood (Tartuffe)
• Motley (Baker Street)
• Freddy Wittop (The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd)

Special awards

• Gilbert Miller, for having produced 88 plays and musicals and for his perseverance which has helped to keep New York and theatre alive.
• Oliver Smith

See also

Tony Awards

External links

• Tony Awards official site