27th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1972–1973 season before March 14, 1973 are eligible.

;Original plays

• All the Girls Came Out to Play
• Butley
• The Changing Room
• The Creation of the World and Other Business
• Elizabeth I
• Enemies
• The Enemy is Dead
• An Evening With Richard Nixon and...
• Finishing Touches
• 42 Seconds from Broadway
• The Jockey Club Stakes
• The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
• Let Me Hear You Smile
• The Lincoln Mask
• Look Away
• No Sex Please, We're British
• Out Cry
• Promenade, All!
• Ring Round the Bathtub
• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild
• 6 Rms Riv Vu
• Status Quo Vadis
• The Sunshine Boys
• That Championship Season
• Tough to Get Help
• Voices
• Warp! ;Original musicals
• Ambassador
• Dear Oscar
• Different Times
• Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
• Don't Play Us Cheap
• Dude
• From Israel with Love
• Hard Job Being God
• Heathen!
• Hurry, Harry
• Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
• A Little Night Music
• Mother Earth
• Pacific Paradise
• Pippin
• Shelter
• Sugar
• That's Entertainment
• Tricks
• Via Galactica ;Play revivals
• Captain Brassbound's Conversion
• The Crucible
• Don Juan
• The Great God Brown
• The Little Black Book
• Lysistrata
• Don Juan in Hell
• Medea
• The Merchant of Venice
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Plough and the Stars ;Musical revivals
• Irene
• Lost in the Stars
• Man of La Mancha
• Purlie

The ceremony

The ceremony opened with a song-and-dance medley performed by Gwen Verdon, Paula Kelly, Helen Gallagher and Donna McKechnie.

The theme was the global reach of Broadway. The "Wide World of Broadway" featured narrations by Rex Harrison, Walter Slezak, Rossano Brazzi, Yul Brynner and Peter Ustinov, who brought the viewers to: Vienna: West Side Story; Tokyo: The King and I; Milan: Ciao, Rudy; Paris: Hello, Dolly!; London: Show Boat; Zagreb, Yugoslavia: Man of La Mancha; and Wichita Falls, Texas: My Fair Lady.

Musicals represented:

• Pippin ("Magic To Do"- Ben Vereen and Company)

A new series of awards was started this year, termed "Theater Awards '73", renewable annually.

This was the fourth time that Julie Harris won a Tony Award (and her sixth nomination); she won a total of five with a sixth for Lifetime Achievement.

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

Special awards

These awards were given under the new title of "Theater Awards '73".

• John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City (construction of legitimate theaters)
• Actors' Fund of America (honored for 90 years of assistance to needy and elderly theater people)
• Shubert Organization (for nearly 75 years of activity as well as for the Shubert Foundation)

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 12 nominations: A Little Night Music
• 11 nominations: Pippin
• 7 nominations: Much Ado About Nothing
• 5 nominations: That Championship Season
• 4 nominations: The Changing Room, Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, Irene and Sugar
• 3 nominations: Butley and The Sunshine Boys
• 2 nominations: Don't Play Us Cheap, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln and Lost in the Stars

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 6 wins: A Little Night Music
• 5 wins: Pippin
• 2 wins: The Last of Mrs. Lincoln and That Championship Season

References

References

1. O'Connor, John. "TV Review: Tony Awards Pleasant Enough on A.B.C.", ''The New York Times'', March 27, 1973, p. 95
2. Phillips, McCandlish. "'Championship Season' Wins Tony: 'Little Night Music' Best Show-Alan Bates Top Actor Julie Harris a Winner New Special Awards", ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 26, 1973
3. [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=44243 "Julie Harris"] Internet Broadway Database