Tony Award for Best Original Score
With the Tony Award for Best Original Music (Tony Award for Best Original Score ), the composer and lyricist of musicals will be honored. The English term score ( in the narrow sense score, in a broader sense music in general) here refers therefore both the purely tonal work as well as on the set texts.
Nominierbar are only works that were written specifically for the musical theater. Music that was not written for the stage, as well as compilations of songs that previously found already use in any other form, are therefore excluded from the nomination.
This category was subjected to smaller changes in the course of time. So only the composer was awarded in 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1962. In all other years, composer and lyricist were always jointly honored ( 1971 only one prize each was separately awarded to the artist).
The Tony Award for Best Original Music went to so far:
1947-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
Since 2000
- 2000: Aida by Elton John (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics )
- 2001: The Producers by Mel Brooks (music and lyrics )
- 2002: Urinetown by Mark Hollmann (music and lyrics ) and Greg Kotis (lyrics )
- 2003: Hairspray by Marc Shaiman (music and lyrics ) and Scott Wittman (lyrics )
- 2004: Avenue Q by Robert Lopez (music and lyrics ) and Jeff Marx ( music and lyrics )
- 2005: The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel (music and lyrics )
- 2006: The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (music and lyrics )
- 2007: Spring Awaking by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (music and lyrics )
- 2008: In The Heights by Lin -Manuel Miranda (music and lyrics )
- 2009: Next to Normal by Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (lyrics )
Since 2010
- 2010: Memphis by David Bryan (music and lyrics ) and Joe DiPietro (lyrics )
- 2011: The Book of Mormon Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
- 2012: Newsies by Alan Menken (music) and Jack Feldman (lyrics )
- 2013: Kinky Boots by Cyndi Lauper