1971-1972 award record
- Categories
- 16
- Honoured
- 51
- Nominated
- —
- New this season
- 1
51 awards were given across 16 categories. Shortlists were not published in this period, so everyone named here was honoured — none of them is a runner-up. The entries come from the announcements issued at the time, the only public record of this season. One category appears for the first time this season: Most Promising Book.
Most Promising Book
Winner
- Melvin Van Pebbles Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
Most Promising Composers
Winner
- Andrew Lloyd Webber Jesus Christ Superstar
Most Promising Costume Design
Winner
- Carrie F. Robbins Grease / The Beggar's Opera
Most Promising Directors
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- Dan Sullivan Suggs
- Gilbert Moses Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
Most Promising Lyricist
Winner
- Micki Grant Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
Most Promising Playwrights
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- David Wiltse Suggs
- J.E. Franklin Black Girl
- J.E. Gaines Don't Let It Go to Your Head
- Jason Miller That Championship Season
- Michael Weller Moonchildren
- Philip Dean Hayes The Sty of the Blind Pig
- Richard Wesley The Black Terror
Most Promising Set Design
Winner
- Video Free America Kaddish
Outstanding Book
Winner
- John Guare, Mel Shapiro Two Gentlemen of Verona
Outstanding Choreography
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- Jean Erdman Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Patricia Birch Grease
Outstanding Costume Design
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- Theoni V. Aldredge Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Willa Kim The Screens
Outstanding Directors
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- A.J. Antoon That Championship Season
- Andrei Serban Medea
- Jeff Bleckner Sticks and Bones
- Mel Shapiro Two Gentlemen of Verona / Older People
- Peter Hall Old Times
Outstanding Lyrics
Winner
- John Guare Two Gentlemen of Verona
Outstanding Music
Winner
- Galt MacDermot Two Gentlemen of Verona
Outstanding Performances
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- Brock Peters Lost in the Stars
- Charles Durning, Walter McGinn, Michael McGuire That Championship Season
- Eileen Atkins Vivat! Vivat Regina!
- George S. Irving An Evening with Richard Nixon
- Jonelle Allen Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Julie Bovasso The Screens
- Kain The Black Terror
- Lester Rawlins Nightride
- Linda Hopkins Inner City
- Marilyn Chris Kaddish
- Micki Grant Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
- Paul Sorvino That Championship Season
- Raul Julia Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Richard A. Dysart That Championship Season
- Robert Morse Sugar
- Ron Faber And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers
- Rosemary Harris Old Times
- Ruby Dee Boesman and Lena
- Sada Thompson Twigs
- Tom Aldredge Sticks and Bones
- William Atherton Suggs
Outstanding Set Design
These entries did not carry a heading of their own in the surviving announcement. They are placed here from their position in the original, so the heading above is the most likely one rather than a recorded one.
Honoured
- Kert Lundell Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
- Robert U. Taylor The Beggar's Opera
- Santo Loquasto Sticks and Bones / That Championship Season
Vernon Rice Awards
Winner
- Chelsea Theatre Center Chelsea Theatre Center
Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record
12 of the 50 names on this page appear in at least one other season held here. Reading a person as a run rather than a single entry is the point of an index like this one. A designer's work shows up under two or three different category names as the headings were renamed.
- Santo Loquasto 19 seasons 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1977-1978, 1978-1979, 1981-1982, 1988-1989, 1989-1990, 1990-1991, 1994-1995, 1997-1998, 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2021-2022
- Theoni V. Aldredge 9 seasons 1969-1970, 1972-1973, 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1978-1979, 1980-1981, 1981-1982, 1983-1984
- Patricia Birch 6 seasons 1973-1974, 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1998-1999, 2006-2007
- Willa Kim 4 seasons 1969-1970, 1974-1975, 1988-1989
- Ruby Dee 3 seasons 1970-1971, 1972-1973
- Sada Thompson 3 seasons 1956-1957, 1969-1970
- Carrie F. Robbins 2 seasons 1973-1974
- Galt MacDermot 2 seasons 1967-1968
- Jeff Bleckner 2 seasons 1970-1971
- Kert Lundell 2 seasons 1982-1983
- Robert U. Taylor 2 seasons 1975-1976
- Rosemary Harris 2 seasons 1972-1973