Won five Tony Awards: in 1962, with collaborator
Robert Whitehead, as Best
Producer (Dramatic) and as producer of Best Play winner "A Man for All
Seasons," in 1971, a Special Tony Award; in 1983, as one of the
producers of Best Reproduction (Play or Musical) winner "On Your Toes;"
and in 1984, with Whitehead as producer of Best Reproduction winner
"Death of a Salesman." He was nominated ten other times: in 1956, again
with Whitehead, as producer of Best Play nominee "Bus Stop;" in 1958,
with Whitehead and The Producers Theatre as producer of Best Play
nominee "A Touch of the Poet;" also in 1962, as producer with
Frederick Brisson
and
Gilbert Miller of Best Play nominee "The Caretaker;" in 1970, as one of
the producers of Best Play nominee "Indians;" in 1972, as producer of
Best Play nominee "Old Times;" in 1978, as producer with collaborator
Alfred De Liagre Jr. of Best Play nominee "Deathtrap;" in 1979, as one of the
producers of Best Play nominee "Bedroom Farce;" in 1991, as one of the
producers of Best Play nominee "Shadowlands;" and, in 1994, as one of
the producers of Best Play nominee "Broken Glass" and of Best Revival
(Musical) nominee "She Loves Me
