Awards & Winners

1955 Tony Award

Check winners and nominations of 1955 Tony Award. Check awards winners of 9th Tony Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

9th Tony Awards

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play

Alfred Lunt

Honored for : Quadrille
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical

Cyril Ritchard

Honored for : Peter Pan
Tony Award for Best Choreography

Bob Fosse

Honored for : The Pajama Game
Tony Award for Best Director

Robert Montgomery

Honored for : The Desperate Hours
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Francis L. Sullivan

Honored for : Witness for the Prosecution
Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

Thomas Schippers

Honored for : The Saint of Bleecker Street
Tony Award for Best Stage Technician

Richard Rodda

Honored for : Peter Pan
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

Carol Haney

Honored for : The Pajama Game
Tony Award for Best Play

Joseph Hayes, Howard Erskine

Honored for : The Desperate Hours

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Joseph Hayes The Desperate Hours
Howard Erskine The Desperate Hours
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Walter Slezak

Honored for : Fanny
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Nancy Kelly

Honored for : The Bad Seed
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical

Mary Martin

Honored for : Peter Pan
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play

Patricia Jessel

Honored for : Witness for the Prosecution
Special Tony Award

Proscenium Productions

(an Off-Broadway company at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for generally high quality and viewpoint shown in The Way of the World and Thieves Carnival. Presented to Warren Enters, Robert Merriman and Sybil Trubin)
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Oliver Messel

Honored for : House of Flowers
Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Cecil Beaton

Honored for : Quadrille
Tony Award for Best Musical