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Award record

1978-1979 award record

Categories
4
Honoured
4
Nominated
15

4 awards were given across 4 categories, chosen from 15 nominated entries listed below. The entries have been checked line by line against published records.

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

  • Bob Avian and Michael Bennett Ballroom

Also nominated

  • Dan Siretta Tip-Toes
  • Henry LeTang and Billy Wilson Eubie!
  • Larry Fuller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Outstanding Costume Design

Winner

  • Patricia Zipprodt King of Hearts

Also nominated

  • Franne Lee Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Julie Weiss The Elephant Man
  • Steven Rubin On Golden Pond
  • Theoni V. Aldredge Ballroom

Outstanding Lighting Design

Winner

  • Roger Morgan The Crucifer of Blood

Also nominated

  • Beverly Emmons The Elephant Man
  • Ken Billington Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Tharon Musser Ballroom
  • They're Playing Our Song

Outstanding Set Design

Winner

  • John Wulp The Crucifer of Blood

Also nominated

  • Eugene Lee Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • Santo Loquasto King of Hearts
  • Steven Rubin On Golden Pond
  • Wilford Leach All's Well That Ends Well

Of the 4 headings on record here, 3 are design and art-direction categories — including Outstanding Lighting Design. How the design categories developed →

Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record

11 of the 18 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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