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The 2nd Tony Awards were held on March 28, 1948, at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom in New York City, and broadcast on radio station WOR and the Mutual Network. The Masters of Ceremonies were Harry Hirshfield, Bert Lytell, and Hiram Sherman. The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, or more commonly, the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live Broadway productions and performances, plus several non-competitive Special Awards (such as the Regional Theatre Award). They are presented by the American Theatre Wing and the League of American Theatres and Producers at an annual ceremony in New York City.

Ceremony

The award for the women was a gold bracelet, with a disc inscribed with the actress' initials and the name of the prize, and the men received a gold bill clip, similarly inscribed.^[1]

Performers and performances were: High Button Shoes (Nanette Fabray, Helen Gallagher, and Donald Saddler), Make Mine Manhattan (Kyle MacDonnell and Joshua Shelley), Look Ma I'm Dancin'! (Virginia Gorski and Don Liberto), Forest Bonshire, Jack Carter, Stan Fisher, Lisa Kirk, Kathryn Lee, Jack McCauley, Lucy Monroe, Ferruccio Tagliavini and Pia Tassinari (of the Metropolitan Opera), Maggie Teyte (City Center Opera).^[2]^[1]

Winners and nominees

Production

Award

Winner

Best Play

Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan – Producer Leland Hayward

Outstanding Foreign Company

The cast of The Importance of Being Earnest

Performance

Award

Winner

Actor-Play

Henry Fonda (Mister Roberts)
Paul Kelly (Command Decision)
Basil Rathbone (The Heiress)

Actress-Play

Judith Anderson (Medea)
Katharine Cornell (Antony and Cleopatra)
Jessica Tandy (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Actor-Musical

Paul Hartman (Angel in the Wings)

Actress-Musical

Grace Hartman (Angel in the Wings)

Newcomer

June Lockhart (For Love or Money)
James Whitmore (Command Decision)

Craft

Award

Winner (s)

Director

Joshua Logan (Mister Roberts)

Costume Designer

Mary Percy Schenck (The Heiress)

Choreographer

Jerome Robbins (High Button Shoes)

Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

Milton Rosenstock (Finian's Rainbow)

Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Horace Armistead (The Medium)

Tony Award for Best Stage Technician

George Gebhardt

Special Awards

Award

Winner (s)

Progressive Theatre Operators

Robert W. Dowling, president of City Investing Company, owner of several theatres in New York
Paul Beisman, operator of the American Theatre, St. Louis

Spreading Theatre To The Country While The Originals Perform In New York

Mary Martin (Annie Get Your Gun)
Joe E. Brown (Harvey)

Contribution To Development Of Regional Theatre

Barter Theatre, Virginia, Robert Porterfield

Contribution To Theatre Through A Publication

Theatre Arts, Rosalind Gilder, editor

Distinguished Wing Volunteer Worker Through The War And After

Vera Allen

Experiment In Theatre

The Experimental Theatre, Inc., John Garfield accepting

Special Award

George Pierce, for twenty-five years of courteous and efficient service as a backstage doorman (Empire Theatre)

References

1. ^¹{{cite web|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/history/ceremonies/200909151253044663062.html|title=Tony Awards official site, Ceremonies, 1948|website=tonyawards.com|access-date=February 16, 2018}}
2. ^Calta, Louis. The New York Times, March 17, 1948, p. 10
3. ^Tony Awards History 1948 tonyawards.com

External links

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