Tony Award for Best Musical

Since 1949, the award for Best Musical is awarded at the Tony Awards.

By 1970, in addition to the producers and the writers and composers were awarded for best musical, as of 1971, only the producer.

Winners & Nominees

1949-1950

1951-1960

1961-1970

1971-1980

1981-1990

1991-2000

2001-2010

2011-2020

  • List ( Awards )
  • Tony Award
Cy Coleman Cole Porter South Pacific (musical) Oscar Hammerstein II Leland Hayward Joshua Logan Guys and Dolls Abe Burrows Cy Feuer Jo Swerling The King and I Betty Comden Adolph Green Charles Lederer The Pajama Game George Abbott Richard Adler Jerry Ross (composer) Damn Yankees My Fair Lady Frederick Loewe Jule Styne Candide (operetta) Lillian Hellman Richard Wilbur The Music Man Meredith Willson Arthur Laurents Stephen Sondheim Al Morgan (musician) Jamaica (Musical) Harold Arlen Yip Harburg David Merrick Dorothy Fields Herbert Fields Sidney Sheldon Russel Crouse Howard Lindsay Jerry Bock Jerome Weidman Gypsy (Musical) Mary Rodgers Robert Russell Bennett Joseph Stein Garson Kanin Marguerite Monnot Monty Norman How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Helen Deutsch Jerry Herman Samuel A. Taylor A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (film) Larry Gelbart Neil Simon Oliver! Lionel Bart Anthony Newley Hello, Dolly! (Musical) Funny Girl (Musical) Ray Stark She Loves Me Joe Masteroff William Gibson (playwright) Clifford Odets Joan Littlewood Man of La Mancha Mitch Leigh Dale Wasserman Mame (Musical) Sammy Cahn Peter Stone Sweet Charity Cabaret (Musical) Fred Ebb John Kander Harvey Schmidt Elmer Bernstein Jules Dassin Galt MacDermot James Rado Burt Bacharach Hal David Zorba (musical) Ossie Davis Grease (Musical) Pippin (Musical) Saul Raisin A Chorus Line Chicago (Musical) Annie (Musical) Lewis M. Allen Columbia Pictures Ira B. Bernstein Martin Richards (producer) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Evita (Musical) Robert Stigwood 42nd Street (Musical) Sophisticated Ladies Geffen Records Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Gail Berman David Geffen Cameron Mackintosh Ivan Reitman My One and Only La Cage aux Folles (Musical) Allan Carr Leader of the Pack Clive Davis Song and Dance Me and My Girl Richard Armitage (actor) The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) Sarafina! (film) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Aspects of Love Pierre Cossette Miss Saigon Capital Cities (band) Playwrights Horizons TV Asahi Crazy for You (song) Margo Lion (cabaret singer) Blood Brothers (Musical) Bill Kenwright Scott Rudin Joop van den Ende Sunset Boulevard (Musical) Ahmanson Theatre Rent (Musical) Swinging on a Star Steel Pier The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical) The Producers (Musical) Mel Brooks Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein 20th Century Fox Amber David Brown (producer) Ernest Lehman Urinetown Hairspray (Musical) New Line Cinema Avenue Q HBO The Boy from Oz David Stone (producer) The Drowsy Chaperone Tamara Tunie Mary Poppins Everett Goodman Grossman Cry-Baby Brian Grazer Next to Normal Carl Levin American Idiot Jay Z Million Dollar Quartet The Book of Mormon (Musical) Sister Act (Musical) Kinky Boots (Musical)
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