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Award record

1973-1974 award record

Categories
9
Honoured
47
Nominated
New this season
5

47 awards were given across 9 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. 5 categories appear for the first time this season: Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Costume Designers, Outstanding New Playwrights, Outstanding Score of a Musical, Outstanding Set Designers.

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.

Most Promising Performers

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

  • Bill Cobbs Freeman, What the Wine Cellars Buy
  • D. Jamin-Bartlett A Little Night Music
  • Gail Strickland Status Quo Vadis
  • Mary Lou Rosato The School for Scandal
  • Ralph Carter Dude
  • Tom Atkins The Changing Room
  • Trish Hawkins The Hot L Baltimore

Outstanding Book of a Musical

Winner

  • Hugh Wheeler Candide

Outstanding Choreography

Winner

  • Patricia Birch Over Here

Outstanding Costume Designers

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

  • Carrie F. Robbins Over Here / The Iceman Cometh
  • Franne Lee Candide

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

  • Frank Dunlop Scapino
  • Harold Prince Candide / The Visit
  • Jose Quintero A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Marvin Felix Camillo Short Eyes

Outstanding New 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 E. Freeman Creeps
  • David W. Rintels Clarence Darrow
  • Edward J. Moore The Sea Horse
  • Mark Medoff When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
  • Miguel Pinero Short Eyes
  • Ray Aranha My Sister, My Sister

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

  • Barbara Barrie The Killdeer
  • Brian Bedford Jumpers
  • Colleen Dewhurst A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Conchata Ferrel The Sea Horse
  • Dick A. Williams What the Wine Sellers Buy
  • Ed Flanders A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Elizabeth Sturges When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
  • George Rose My Fat Friend
  • Henry Fonda Clarence Darrow
  • Ian McKellen The Wood Demon / King Lear
  • Jason Robards A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Jim Dale Scapino
  • Joseph Buloff Hard to Be a Jew
  • Kevin Conway When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?
  • Kevin O'Connor The Contractor
  • Madeline Kahn Boom Boom Boom
  • Michael Moriarty Find Your Way Home
  • Nicol Williamson Uncle Vanya
  • Ruby Lynn Reyner La Bohemia
  • Seret Scott My Sister, My Sister
  • Veronica Redd The Sirens
  • Zero Mostel Ulysses in Nighttown

Outstanding Score of a Musical

Winner

  • Al Carmines The Faggot

Outstanding Set Designers

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 Mitchell Short Eyes
  • Douglas W. Schmidt Over Here / Veronica's Room
  • Franne Lee, Eugene Lee Candide

Who else on this page appears elsewhere in the record

20 of the 47 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.

  • Douglas W. Schmidt 6 seasons 1976-1977, 1979-1980, 1980-1981, 1982-1983, 2016-2017
  • Patricia Birch 6 seasons 1971-1972, 1975-1976, 1976-1977, 1998-1999, 2006-2007
  • Brian Bedford 4 seasons 1968-1969, 1969-1970, 1970-1971
  • Colleen Dewhurst 4 seasons 1969-1970, 1970-1971, 1972-1973
  • Al Carmines 3 seasons 1967-1968, 1968-1969
  • David Mitchell 3 seasons 1977-1978, 1979-1980
  • Harold Prince 3 seasons 1969-1970, 1972-1973
  • Bill Cobbs 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Carrie F. Robbins 2 seasons 1971-1972
  • D. Jamin-Bartlett 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Franne Lee 2 seasons 1978-1979
  • Gail Strickland 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Hugh Wheeler 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Jose Quintero 2 seasons 1955-1956
  • Kevin O'Connor 2 seasons 1965-1966
  • Mary Lou Rosato 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Nicol Williamson 2 seasons 1968-1969
  • Ralph Carter 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Tom Atkins 2 seasons 1972-1973
  • Trish Hawkins 2 seasons 1972-1973
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