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Special Tony Award includes Lifetime Achievement Award, Special Theatrical Event, Excellence in Theatre, and Special Tony Award:

1940s

  • 1947 Dora Chamberlain for unfailing courtesy as treasurer of the Martin Beck Theatre
  • 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Ira Katzenberg for enthusiasm as inveterate first-nighters
  • 1947 Jules Leventhal for the season's most prolific backer and producer
  • 1947 Burns Mantle for the annual publication of The Ten Best Plays
  • 1947 P. A. MacDonald for intricate construction for the production of If the Shoe Fits
  • 1947 Vincent Sardi for providing a transient home and comfort station for theatre folk at Sardi's for 20 years
  • 1948 Rosalind Gilder Contribution To Theatre Through A Publication for Editor, Theatre Arts
  • 1948 Vera Alle Distinguished Wing Volunteer Worker Through The War And After
  • 1948 Experimental Theatre Inc., For Experiment In Theatre, John Garfield Accepted
  • 1948 The Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest Outstanding Foreign Company
  • 1948 June Lockhart For Love or Money Outstanding Performance By Newcomers
  • 1948 James Whitmore Command Decision Outstanding Performance By Newcomers
  • 1948 Robert W. Dowling Progressive Theatre Operators to President of City Investing Company, owner of several theatres in New York
  • 1948 Paul Beisman Progressive Theatre Operators to Operator of the American Theatre, St. Louis
  • 1948 George Pierce for twenty-five years of courteous and efficient service as a backstage doorman (Empire Theatre)
  • 1948 Mary Martin Annie Get Your Gun Spreading Theatre To The Country While The Originals Perform In New York
  • 1948 Joe E. Brown Harvey Spreading Theatre To The Country While The Originals Perform In New York

1950s

  • 1950 Maurice Evans Brock Pemberton, founder of awards and its original chairman (posthumous).
  • 1950 Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt presented a special award to volunteer worker Philip Faversham of the American Theatre Wing's hospital program.
  • 1950 Brock Pemberton founder of awards and its original chairman (posthumous)
  • 1951 Ruth Green for her services as a volunteer in arranging reservation and seating for the five Tony Awards.
  • 1952 Judy Garland for an important contribution to the revival of vaudeville through her recent stint at the Palace Theatre.
  • 1952 Edward Kook for his contributing to and encouraging the development of stage lighting and electronics.
  • 1952 Charles Boyer for distinguished performance in Don Juan in Hell, thereby assisting in a new theatre trend.
  • 1953 Beatrice Lillie for An Evening with Beatrice Lillie.
  • 1953 Danny Kaye for heading a variety bill at the Palace Theatre. Equity Community Theatre.
  • 1955 Proscenium Productions an Off-Broadway company at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for generally high quality and viewpoint shown in The Way of the World and Thieves Carnival. Presented to Warren Enters, Robert Merriman and Sybil Trubin.
  • 1956 City Center
  • 1956 Fourth Street Chekov Theatre
  • 1956 The Shakespearewrights
  • 1956 The Threepenny Opera distinguished Off-Broadway production; Carmen Capalbo, Stanley Chase, producers.
  • 1956 The Theatre Collection of the N.Y. Public Library on its twenty-fifth anniversary, for its distinguished service to the theatre. George Freedley, founder and curator, accepted.
  • 1957 American Shakespeare Festival Stratford, Connecticut
  • 1957 Jean-Louis Barrault--French Repertory
  • 1957 Robert Russell Bennett
  • 1957 William Hammerstein
  • 1957 Paul Shyre
  • 1958 New York Shakespeare Festival for presenting free performances in Central Park and the Hecksher Theater.
  • 1958 Mrs. Martin Beck for fifteen years of untiring dedication to the American Theatre Wing, which she served as treasurer, secretary and chairman of the board of directors. Presented by Elaine Perry, daughter of Antoinette Perry.
  • 1958 Circle in the Square Phoenix Theatre, Esther Hawley
  • 1959 John Gielgud for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play, Ages of Man.
  • 1959 Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse for a collaboration that lasted longer than Gilbert and Sullivan.
  • 1959 Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Robert Dhery, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec), for contribution to the theatre.

1960s

1970s

  • 1970 Sir Noel Coward for his multiple and immortal contributions to the theatre
  • 1970 Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
  • 1970 New York Shakespeare Festival for pioneering efforts on behalf of new plays
  • 1970 Barbra Streisand
  • 1971 Elliot Norton drama critic, for distinguished theatrical commentary.
  • 1971 Ingram Ash president of Blaine-Thompson Advertising, for decades of devoted service to the theatre.
  • 1971 Playbill for chronicling Broadway through the years.
  • 1971 Roger L. Stevens
  • 1972 The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society for its many years of service to audiences for touring shows.
  • 1972 Fiddler on the Roof on becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway history. Presented to Harold S. Prince.
  • 1972 Ethel Merman
  • 1972 Richard Rodgers
  • 1973 John Lindsay Mayor of New York
  • 1973 The Actor's Fund of America
  • 1973 Shubert Organization
  • 1974 Liza Minnelli For adding lustre to the Broadway season
  • 1974 Bette Midler For adding lustre to the Broadway season
  • 1974 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Co-stars and authors of Good Evening
  • 1974 A Moon for the Misbegotten An outstanding dramatic revival of an American classic. Produced by Lester Osterman, Elliott Martin and Richard Hurner
  • 1974 Candide An outstanding contribution to the artistic development of the musical theatre. Produced by Chelsea Theatre Group, Harold Prince and Ruth Mitchell
  • 1974 Actor's Equity Association
  • 1974 The Theatre Development Fund
  • 1974 John F. Wharton Veteran theatrical attorney (Theatre Award '74)
  • 1974 Harold Friedlander The industry's foremost printing expert (Theatre Award '74)
  • 1975 Al Hirschfeld For 50 years of theatrical cartoons (Theatre Award '75)
  • 1976 Mathilde Pincus For outstanding service to the Broadway musical theatre
  • 1976 Thomas H. Fitzgerald To the gifted lighting technician of countless Broadway shows and many Tony telecasts. (Posthumous)
  • 1976 Circle in the Square For twenty-five continuous years of quality productions
  • 1976 Richard Burton
  • 1977 Lily Tomlin
  • 1977 Barry Manilow
  • 1977 Diana Ross
  • 1977 National Theatre of the Deaf
  • 1977 Equity Liberty Theatre
  • 1978 Charles Moss and Stan Dragoti To the creators (of Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc.) of the I Love New York Broadway Show Tours and its sponsor, the New York State Department of Commerce. (Theatre Award '78)
  • 1979 Henry Fonda
  • 1979 Walter F. Diehl International President of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators, has been an active force in advancing the well-being of the Broadway theatre and of theatre nationally
  • 1979 Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center, Waterford, Connecticut

1980s

1990s

  • 1990 Alfred Drake Special Awards
  • 1991 Father George Moore Special Award
  • 1992 NONE
  • 1993 Oklahoma! 50th anniversary
  • 1994 Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn Lifetime Achievement
  • 1995 Carol Channing Lifetime Achievement
  • 1996 NONE
  • 1997 Bernard B. Jacobs Lifetime Achievement
  • 1998 Edward E. Colton Lifetime Achievement
  • 1999 Isabelle Stevenson Lifetime Achievement

2000s

  • 2000
Dame Edna: The Royal Tour--Live Theatrical Event
T. Edward Hambleton--Lifetime Achievement
City Center Encores!--Excellence in Theatre
Eileen Heckart--Excellence in Theatre
Sylvia Herscher--Excellence in Theatre
  • 2001
Betty Corwin--The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts--Excellence in Theatre
Paul Gemignani--Lifetime Achievement
New Dramatists--Excellence in Theatre
Cy Feuer--Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway--Special Theatrical Event
Excellence in the Theatre
:The principal ensemble of La Bohème
:Paul Huntley
:Johnson-Liff Casting Associates
:The Acting Company
  • 2004 James M. Nederlander Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
  • 2005
700 Sundays--Best Special Theatrical Event
Edward Albee--Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
  • 2006
Sarah Jones, Bridge and Tunnel
Harold Prince--Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

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Sardi’s is a restaurant in New York City located in the theater district at 234 West 44th Street in Manhattan. Known for the hundreds of caricatures of show-business celebrities that adorn its walls, Sardi’s opened at its current location on March 5,1927.
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John Garfield

from the trailer for the film
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Birth name Jacob Julius Garfinkle
Born March 4 1913(1913--)
New York, New York, U.S.
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde, a comedy of manners on the seriousness of society in either three or four acts (depending on edition) inspired by W. S. Gilbert's Engaged.
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June Lockhart

June Lockhart and Guy Williams
from the 1965 TV series Lost in Space

Born May 25 1925 (1925--) (age 82)
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James Whitmore

Born September 1 1921 (1921--) (age 86)
White Plains, New York

James Allen Whitmore (born October 1, 1921) is an American film actor.
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George Foster Pierce (1811 - 1884) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South elected in 1854.

Birth and Family

He was born on 3 February 1811 in Greene County, Georgia. George Foster was the son of the Rev.
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Mary Martin

Mary Martin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949
Birth name Mary Virginia Martin
Born December 1, 1913
Weatherford, Texas
Died November 3 1990 (aged 78)
Rancho Mirage, California

Spouse(s)
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Annie Get Your Gun
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Broadway 1946 Original Cast Album
Music Irving Berlin
Lyrics Irving Berlin
Book Herbert Fields
Dorothy Fields

Productions 1946 Broadway
1947 West End
1947 U.S.
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There are several people named Maurice Evans:
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt known as Eleanor (IPA: [ˈɛlɪnɔː ˈɹoʊzəvɛlt]
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Brock Pemberton (December 14, 1885 - March 11, 1950) was an American theatrical producer, director and founder of the Tony Awards. Pemberton was born in Leavenworth, Kansas and attended the University of Kansas. Before becoming a producer he was a press agent in New York.
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Ruth Green may refer to:
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  • Ruth Green, a character on the BBC Scotland television series River City

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Judy Garland

from the trailer for A Star Is Born
Birth name Frances Ethel Gumm
Born May 10 1922(1922--)
Grand Rapids, Minnesota, U.S.
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Charles Boyer

from the film Love Affair (1939)

Born July 28 1899(1899--)
Figeac, France
Died July 26 1978 (aged 80)
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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Man and Superman is a drama written by George Bernard Shaw. The play was written in 1903 as a four act drama, responding to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the Don Juan theme.
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Bea Lillie

Birth name Beatrice Gladys Lillie
Born May 29 1894(1894--)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died January 20 1989 (aged 96) (Alzheimer's Disease)
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Danny Kaye

Kaye entertaining U.S. troops at Sasebo, Japan, 25 Oct 1945
Birth name David Daniel Kaminsky
Born January 18 1913(1913--)
Brooklyn, New York
Died
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Palace Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 1564 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.

Designed by architects Kirchoff & Rose, the theatre, built by California vaudeville entrepreneur and Broadway impresario Martin Beck, experienced a number of problems before it
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The Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38 Commerce Street in the borough of Manhattan, is New York City's oldest, continuously running off-Broadway theater.

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The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, England. It is widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies written and is still performed sporadically to this day.
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The Threepenny Opera
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Die Dreigroschenoper, original German poster from Berlin, 1928
Music Kurt Weill
Lyrics Bertolt Brecht
Book Bertolt Brecht
Based upon The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
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Stratford is a place name found in many English-speaking countries. It derives from the Old English words stræt (a street, more specifically a Roman road) and ford (a river-crossing). A variant of the name is "Stretford".
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Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault and his wife Madeleine Renaud, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1952.

Born September 8, 1910
Le Vésinet, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France
Died January 22, 1994
Paris, France

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Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.
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