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Best Actress (Featured and Supporting) - A tie - to Dale Wasserman's Nurse and Walter Matthau's Wife

Dale Wasserman was in a hospital room recuperating from surgery on the night of the 1966 awards. But he knew immediately that his Man of La Mancha had just won as Best Musical. His nurse, instead of awakening him with a hypodermic shot, brought him flowers and an improvised plaque....Walter Matthau was sure that he'd win a Tony for The Odd Couple because his wife, Carol Marcus Saroyan, vowed in his support: "I'm a very bad sport. If Walter doesn't win the Tony, I'll simply kill myself."

Best Actor (Featured and Supporting) to Anne Bancroft's Father

Immediately after picking up her award for The Miracle Worker, Anne Bancroft drove to Yonkers to share the triumph with her parent. They were asleep, so Miss Bancroft left the medal in their mailbox. (Although we didn't see her father's performance when he came upon it the next day, we have no doubt that it was worthy of this award.)

Best Choreographer - to The Unknown Production Assistant who in 1956 organized the awards in the order in which they were to be given

That was the year Eileen Herlie of The Matchmaker, accepting for Sir Tyrone Guthrie (Best Director), was given Alvin Colt's Tony for Best Costumes. Colt got Peter Larkin's (Best Scenic Design) and when he returned it to the Tony Committee he received one that should have gone to Dick Adler and Jerry Ross for their Damn Yankees songs....Ray Walston of Damn Yankees accepted two Tonys that night, one for himself and one for vacationing Russ Brown, but the

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two Tonys he was awarded were marked for Ed Begley (Inherit the Wind) and Sir Tyrone Guthrie. (Walston later swapped Tonys with Begley, but he refused to surrender the Guthrie until he'd first collected the Tony that was to go to Russ Brown.)

Special Award to Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams, who has never won a Tony, has said that he'd accept one only if it were of solid gold and had a sapphire base. A Broadway star overhearing this remark, bit her tongue, crossed her fingers and told Williams that he was right: "I'd rather not win the Tony but deserve it, than win it and not deserve it."

Best Director to Harold Prince
This award goes to Hal Prince for the intelligent way in which he directed things so that Joel Grey was virtually assure of a Tony for Cabaret. Although it was apparent soon after the show opened that Grey was giving a starring performance, Prince decided astutely to wait until after Grey had won a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actor before elevating him to star billing.

Best Play to Anonymous

The plot concerns a famed Broadway gentleman who failed to win a Tony. This gentleman inspired my urging in print a Grand Jury investigation of the way Tony winners were selected. The following year, however, when our protagonist was awarded a Tony, he merely laughed at his earlier misgiving. "Nothing," he told me, "makes a prize so authentic, important and cherished as when it's awarded to you." . . . Now if only somebody would write an appropriate score for that, I'm absolutely sure it could win my award for Best Musical.

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