30th Tony Awards

Eligibility

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1975–1976 season before March 26, 1976 are eligible.

;Original plays

• The First Breeze of Summer
• Habeas Corpus
• Kennedy's Children
• Knock Knock
• Lamppost Reunion
• The Leaf People
• Little Black Sheep
• A Matter of Gravity
• Me Jack, You Jill
• Murder Among Friends
• The Norman Conquests
• P.S. Your Cat Is Dead
• The Poison Tree
• Summer Brave
• Travesties
• We Interrupt This Program...
• Yentl
• Zalmen or The Madness of God ;Original musicals
• Boccaccio
• Bubbling Brown Sugar
• Chicago
• A Chorus Line
• The Fifth Season
• Home Sweet Homer
• Me and Bessie
• A Musical Jubilee
• Pacific Overtures
• The Robber Bridegroom
• Rodgers and Hart
• Rockabye Hamlet
• Treemonisha ;Play revivals
• Ah, Wilderness!
• Angel Street
• The Constant Wife
• Death of a Salesman
• Edward II
• The Glass Menagerie
• Hamlet
• The Lady from the Sea
• A Memory of Two Mondays
• Mrs. Warren's Profession
• The Royal Family
• The Skin of Our Teeth
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• They Knew What They Wanted
• The Time of Your Life
• Trelawny of the "Wells"
• 27 Wagons Full of Cotton ;Musical revivals
• Hello, Dolly!
• My Fair Lady
• Very Good Eddie

The ceremony

Presenters: Alan Arkin, Clifton Davis, Bonnie Franklin, Celeste Holm, Cloris Leachman, Michele Lee, Jerry Lewis, Hal Linden, Mary Martin, Mike Nichols, Christopher Plummer, Vanessa Redgrave, Marlo Thomas, Leslie Uggams.

The theme of the show was "The Ones That Got Away", a medley of memorable songs from past musicals that did not win the Tony performed by Linden, Davis, Lee and Uggams with Richard Burton performing the number from Camelot.

The medley included songs from:

• Annie Get Your Gun
• High Button Shoes
• Where's Charley?
• Miss Liberty
• Call Me Madam
• Paint Your Wagon
• Wish You Were Here
• Can-Can
• Peter Pan
• Mr Wonderful
• Bells Are Ringing
• West Side Story
• Flower Drum Song
• Gypsy
• Camelot
• Milk And Honey
• Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
• Funny Girl
• Do I Hear a Waltz?
• Sweet Charity
• Walking Happy
• How Now, Dow Jones
• Hair
• Purlie
• The Rothschilds
• Grease
• Pippin
• Gigi
• Shenandoah

Musicals represented:

• A Chorus Line ("I Hope I Get It"/"One" - Company)
• Bubbling Brown Sugar ("Sweet Georgia Brown" - Vivian Reed, Lonnie McNeil, Newton Winters)
• Chicago ("All I Care About" - Jerry Orbach and Company)
• Pacific Overtures ("Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea" - Mako and Company)

Winners and nominees

Source:BroadwayWorld

Winners are in bold

Special awards

• Lawrence Langner Award Winner (Lifetime Achievement in Theatre) - George Abbott
• Regional Theatre Award - The Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. (This award takes note of the company's balanced program of distinguished revivals and a broad spectrum of new works and American premieres of important foreign plays.)
• Mathilde Pincus, for outstanding service to the Broadway musical theatre
• Thomas H. Fitzgerald, to the gifted lighting technician of countless Broadway shows and many Tony telecasts. (Posthumous)
• Circle in the Square, for twenty-five continuous years of quality productions.
• Richard Burton

Multiple nominations and awards

These productions had multiple nominations:

• 12 nominations: A Chorus Line
• 11 nominations: Chicago
• 10 nominations: Pacific Overtures
• 3 nominations: Bubbling Brown Sugar, Knock Knock, Lamppost Reunion, The Royal Family, Travesties, Trelawny of the 'Wells' and Very Good Eddie
• 2 nominations: Mrs. Warren's Profession, My Fair Lady, The Robber Bridegroom and They Knew What They Wanted

The following productions received multiple awards.

• 9 wins: A Chorus Line
• 2 wins: Pacific Overtures and Travesties

References

References

1. [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/ceremonies/200909161253133625312.html "Ceremony 1976"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-06-16 tonyawards.com, accessed May 30, 2016)
2. [http://sanfrancisco.broadwayworld.com/tonyawardsyear.cfm?year=1976 "1976 Tony Award Winners"] broadwayworld.com, accessed April 30, 2011