31st Tony Awards

{{Infobox award

| name = 31st Tony Awards

| image =

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| date = June 5, 1977

| location = Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York

| host = Jack Albertson, Beatrice Arthur, Buddy Ebsen, Damon Evans, Jean Stapleton, and Leslie Uggams

| network = ABC

| previous = 30th

| main = Tony Awards

| next = 32nd

}}

The 31st Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by ABC television on June 5, 1977, from the Shubert Theatre in New York City.

The ceremony

Hosts-Performers-Presenters were Jack Albertson, Beatrice Arthur, Buddy Ebsen, Damon Evans, Jean Stapleton, and Leslie Uggams. Additional presenters-performers were Diana Ross, Jane Alexander, Alan Arkin, Lauren Bacall, Valerie Harper, Barry Manilow, Robert Preston, Tony Randall, and Lily Tomlin.

The theme of the show was survival; each host performed a solo, with songs of determination and perseverance, including "I'm Still Here", "Before the Parade Passes By", "Don't Rain On My Parade", "September Song", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "New York City Rhythm", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" and "Being Alive".

Musicals represented:

Annie ("You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile"/"Easy Street"/"Tomorrow" - Andrea McArdle, Dorothy Loudon and Company)
Happy End ("Bilbao Song" - Company)
I Love My Wife ("I Love My Wife"/"Married Couple Seeks Married Couple"/"Hey There, Good Times" - Company)
Side by Side by Sondheim ("I'm Still Here" - Millicent Martin)

Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold

style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" \| Best Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! width="50%" \| Best Musical
class=wikitable width="95%"
valign="top" \| The Shadow Box – Michael Cristofer For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf – Ntozake Shange Otherwise Engaged – Simon Gray Streamers – David Rabe \| valign="top" \| *Annie* Happy End I Love My Wife Side by Side by Sondheim
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Most Innovative Production of a Revival ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Book of a Musical
valign="top" \| *Porgy and Bess* Guys and Dolls The Cherry Orchard The Threepenny Opera \| valign="top" \| Thomas Meehan – Annie Elisabeth Hauptmann – Happy End Michael Stewart – I Love My Wife Vinnette Carroll – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
valign="top" \| *Al Pacino – The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel* as Pavlo Hummel** Tom Courtenay – Otherwise Engaged as Simon Ben Gazzara – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George Ralph Richardson – No Man's Land as Hirst \| valign="top" \| *Julie Harris – The Belle of Amherst* as Various Characters** Colleen Dewhurst – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha Liv Ullmann – Anna Christie as Anna Christopherson Irene Worth – The Cherry Orchard as Ranevskaya
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
valign="top" \| *Barry Bostwick – The Robber Bridegroom* as Jamie Lockhart** Robert Guillaume – Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit Raul Julia – The Threepenny Opera as Macheath Reid Shelton – Annie as Oliver Warbucks \| valign="top" \| *Dorothy Loudon – Annie* as Miss Hannigan** Clamma Dale – Porgy and Bess as Bess Ernestine Jackson – Guys and Dolls as Sarah Brown Andrea McArdle – Annie as Annie
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
valign="top" \| *Jonathan Pryce – Comedians* as Gethin Price** Bob Dishy – Sly Fox as Abner Truckle Joe Fields – The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel as First Sergeant Tower Laurence Luckinbill – The Shadow Box as Brian \| valign="top" \| *Trazana Beverley – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf* as Lady in Red** Patricia Elliott – The Shadow Box as Beverly Rose Gregorio – The Shadow Box as Agnes Mary McCarty – Anna Christie as Marthy Owen
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
valign="top" \| *Lenny Baker – I Love My Wife* as Alvin** David Kernan – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer Larry Marshall – Porgy and Bess as Sportin' Life Ned Sherrin – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer \| valign="top" \| *Delores Hall – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God* as Various Characters** Ellen Greene – The Threepenny Opera as Jenny Millicent Martin – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer Julia McKenzie – Side by Side by Sondheim as Performer
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Direction of a Play ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Direction of a Musical
valign="top" \| Gordon Davidson – The Shadow Box Ulu Grosbard – American Buffalo Mike Nichols – Comedians Mike Nichols – Streamers \| valign="top" \| Gene Saks – I Love My Wife Vinnette Carroll – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God Martin Charnin – Annie Jack O'Brien – Porgy and Bess
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Choreography
valign="top" \| Annie – Charles Strouse (music) and Martin Charnin (lyrics) Godspell – Stephen Schwartz (music and lyrics) I Love My Wife – Cy Coleman (music) and Michael Stewart (lyrics) Happy End – Kurt Weill (music) and Bertolt Brecht (lyrics) \| valign="top" \| Peter Gennaro – Annie Talley Beatty – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God Patricia Birch – Music Is Onna White – I Love My Wife
style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Scenic Design ! style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Costume Design
valign="top" \| David Mitchell – Annie Santo Loquasto – American Buffalo Santo Loquasto – The Cherry Orchard Robert Randolph – Porgy and Bess \| valign="top" \| Theoni V. Aldredge – Annie Santo Loquasto – The Cherry Orchard Theoni V. Aldredge – The Threepenny Opera Nancy Potts – Porgy and Bess
colspan="2" style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" \| Best Lighting Design
colspan="2" valign="top" \| Jennifer Tipton – The Cherry Orchard John Bury – No Man's Land Pat Collins – The Threepenny Opera Neil Peter Jampolis – The Innocents