23rd Tony Awards

Shows that opened on Broadway during the 1968–1969 season before March 19, 1969 are eligible. ;Original plays • The American Dream • Blueprints: Projections and Perspectives • Box • But, Seriously... • A Cry of Players • The Cuban Thing • The Death of Bessie Smith • Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? • The Dozens • The Exercise • Fire! • The Flip Side • Forty Carats • Gianni Schicchi • The Goodbye People • The Great White Hope • Hadrian the Seventh • Happy Days • Happiness Is Just a Little Thing Called a Rolls Royce • The House of Atreus • In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer • Jimmy Shine • ''Krapp's Last Tape'' • Leda Had a Little Swan • Lovers • Lovers and Other Strangers • The Man in the Glass Booth • Mike Downstairs • Morning, Noon and Night • The Mother Lover • The Only Game in Town • Play It Again, Sam • Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung • Red, White and Maddox • Rockefeller and the Red Indians • The Seven Descents of Myrtle • Soldiers • The Sudden & Accidental Re-Education of Horse Johnson • The Tale of Kasane • The Three Musketeers • The Venetian Twins • The Watering Place • A Way of Life • We Bombed in New Haven • Woman Is My Idea • The Wrong Way Light Bulb • Zelda • The Zoo Story ;Original musicals • Canterbury Tales • Celebration • Come Summer • Dear World • The Fig Leaves Are Falling • George M! • Hair • Her First Roman • ''I'm Solomon'' • ''Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968'' • Maggie Flynn • The Megilla of Itzik Manger • ''Noël Coward's Sweet Potato'' • Promises, Promises • 1776 • Zorba ;Play revivals • Arturo Ui • Cock-a-Doodle Dandy • The Cocktail Party • The Critic • Cyrano de Bergerac • George Dandin • Hamlet • King Lear • The Misanthrope • On The Harmfulness of Tobacco • Tartuffe • Tyger! Tyger! and other burnings ==The ceremony==