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Award record

1975-1976 award record

Categories
4
Honoured
4
Nominated
20

4 awards were given across 4 categories, chosen from 20 nominated entries listed below. The entries have been checked line by line against published records.

One of the first seasons to publish nominee lists alongside winners, so the field is visible rather than implied. Pacific Overtures took two of the four craft awards; A Chorus Line and Chicago took one each, from twenty shortlisted names.

The shift matters for anyone reading the record as a run. Before this point several people could share a single category; from here on a category has one winner and a list of people who did not win.

Pacific Overtures, which took two of the four craft awards, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on 11 January 1976, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman.

It is set in nineteenth-century Japan and tells the story of the country's westernisation from 1853, when American ships forcibly opened it. Its scenic design was by Boris Aronson and its costume design by Florence Klotz — the same two names, in the same two categories, that this page records as winners.

Sources: Pacific Overtures

A bare stage photographed from the deck, with an overhead lighting rig throwing coloured beams down through haze and a scaffolding tower standing at the right.
A rig loaded over a bare stage — the decade the craft categories settled. Photographs on these record pages illustrate the period; they do not depict the productions listed.

Outstanding Choreography

Winner

  • Michael Bennett A Chorus Line

Also nominated

  • Billy Wilson Bubbling Brown Sugar
  • Donald Saddler The Robber Bridegroom
  • Patricia Birch Pacific Overtures

Outstanding Costume Design

Winner

  • Florence Klotz Pacific Overtures

Also nominated

  • Albert Wolsky A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
  • Ann Roth The Royal Family
  • Bernard Johnson Bubbling Brown Sugar
  • Theoni V. Aldredge Trelawny of the 'Wells'
  • They Knew What They Wanted

Outstanding Lighting Design

Winner

  • Jules Fisher Chicago

Also nominated

  • Ian Calderon Trelawny of the 'Wells'
  • James Tilton A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
  • Leon DiLeone Angel Street
  • Robert Ornbo Travesties
  • They Knew What They Wanted
  • Thomas R. Skelton Legend

Outstanding Set Design

Winner

  • Boris Aronson Pacific Overtures

Also nominated

  • James Tilton A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton
  • John Lee Beatty Knock Knock
  • Legend
  • Robert U. Taylor Lamppost Reunion
  • Santo Loquasto Kennedy's Children
  • They Knew What They Wanted

Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record

13 of the 21 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.

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