Tony Award Winning Plays: 1947-1959
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| Who created Tony Awards? | The American Theatre Wing and Broadway League
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| 1st Tony Awards Ceremony? | 1947
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| Who is Tony? | Antoinette Perry- One of the ATW founders
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| Who is eligible? | Shows appearing on Broadway: theatres with under 700 seats in a certain location in NYC
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| Who votes? | To nominate shows: critics on opening night To vote on winners: Awards Administration committee
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| 1947 Winner: All My Sons | A son dies in war and his dad works in a plant that may have manufactured the known faulty parts that may have caused his son's death
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| 1948: Mister Roberts | Lt. Junior Grant stands up for crew against tyranny
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| 1949: Best Play: Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller Loser dad tries to get loser sons to succeed in life
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| 1949: Best Musical: Kiss Me Kate | Cole Porter. Musical version of Taming of the Shrew
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| 1950: Best Play: Cocktail Party: t.S. Eliot | Troubled married couple with a mysterious stranger
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| 1951: Best Play: The Rose Tattoo | Tennessee Williams Italian American widow withdrawn from world and tries to get her daughter to do the same but her daughter wants boys
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| 1951: Best Musical: Guys and Dolls | Frank Loesser. Gang member falls in love with a mission worker
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| 1952: Best Play: The Fourposters | Jan de Hartog. Focuses on trials and tribulations in the bedroom
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| 1952: Best Musical: The King and I | Rogers and Hammerstein
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| 1953: Best Play: The Crucible | Arthur Miller
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| 1953: Best Musical: Wonderful Town | Leonard Bernstein. Sisters travel the country in search of fame and for and fortune and go to NYC
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| 1954: Play: The Teahouse of the August Moon | John Patrick. Racial and gender injustices in Japan after WWII
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| 1954: Musical: Kismet | Robert Wright. Story of a desert sheik
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| 1955: Play: Desperate Hours | Hayes. 3 escaped cons
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| 1955: Musical: The Pajama Gang | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. Labor troubles in a pajama factory and love
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| 1956: Play: Diary of Anne FraNK | Francis Goodrich and Albert Mackett
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| 1956: Musical: Damn Yankees | Richard Adler. Guy sells his soul to the devil to see his baseball team win
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| 1956: Runner Up: Bus Stop | William Inge. People stuck in a diner due to a freak snowstorm
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| 1956: Runner Up: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams. Family deals with death of patriarch, failing marriage, family secrets
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| 1957: Play: Long Days Journey Into Night | Eugene O'Neil. Family in 1912 deals with addiction and lack of family connections
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| 1957: Musical: My Fair Lady | Fredrick Loewe and Allan Jay Lerner. Based on Pygmalion
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| 1957: Runner Up Musicals: Bells Are Ringing | Jule Styre. Revolves around Elle who works at an answering station
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| 1957: Runner Up Musicals: Candide | Leonard Bernstein. Voltaire (in serving as a "classic hero") discovers the danger of mindless optimism
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| 1957: Runner Up Musicals: The Most Happy Fella | Frank Loesser. Romance betwwen an old man and a young woman through love letters
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| 1958: Play: Sunrise at Campobello | Dave Schary. Story of FDR's struggles with polio
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| 1958: Musical: The Music Man | Meredith Wilson
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| 1958 Runners-Up: Look Back in Anger | John Osbourne. Love triangle including a young man, his wife and haughty friend
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| 1958 Runners-Up: West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim
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| 1959: play: J.B. | Archibald MacLeish. Play within a play set in 1950s. Two vendors assume roles of God and Satan to determine fate of a banker named JB
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| 1959: Musical: Redhead | Albert Hague. Murder mystery set in a wax museum during time of Jack the Ripper
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| 1959: Runners-Up: A Touch of the Poet | Eugene O'Neil. Braggart soldier and social climber fall victim to class system of 1828 Massachusetts
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| 1959: Runners-Up:Flowerdrum Song | Richard Rogers
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