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.

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1967–1968 season before April 5, 1968 are eligible.

Original plays

• After the Rain
• Avanti!
• Before You Go
• The Birthday Party
• Brief Lives
• By George
• Daphne in Cottage D
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
• Dr. Cook's Garden
• Everything in the Garden
• Exit the King
• The Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake
• The Girl in the Freudian Slip
• The Guide
• Halfway Up the Tree
• How to Be a Jewish Mother
• I Never Sang for My Father
• Johnny No-Trump
• Keep It In the Family
• Little Murders
• Loot
• A Minor Adjustment
• Mirele Efros
• More Stately Mansions
• The Natural Look
• The Ninety Day Mistress
• Pantagleize
• Plaza Suite
• Portrait of a Queen
• The Price
• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• The Promise
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• The Seven Descents of Myrtle
• Something Different
• Song of the Grasshopper
• Spofford
• Staircase
• The Natural Look
• That Summer - That Fall
• There's a Girl in My Soup
• The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
• The Unknown Soldier and His Wife
• War and Peace
• A Warm Body
• Weekend
• What Did We Do Wrong?
• You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running

Original musicals

• Darling of the Day
• The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
• Golden Rainbow
• The Grand Music Hall of Israel
• Hallelujah, Baby!
• The Happy Time
• Hello, Solly!
• Henry, Sweet Henry
• Here's Where I Belong
• How Now, Dow Jones
• Illya Darling
• Sherry!

Play revivals

• The Cherry Orchard
• Fumed Oak
• Galileo
• The Imaginary Invalid
• The Little Foxes
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• Saint Joan
• The Show-Off
• Still Life
• A Touch of the Poet
• Tiger at the Gates
• Ways and Means

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

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