The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical was established in 1976. It is presented annually by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of British productions. The awards were originally known as the Society of West End Theatre Awards, but renamed in honor of actor Laurence Olivier in 1984.
Check out other album of the year awards here.
- 2020: Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (music & lyrics) Dear Evan Hansen
- 2019: Irene Sankoff & David Hern (music & lyrics) Come from Away
- 2018: Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics) Hamilton
- 2017: Tim Minchin (music & lyrics) Groundhog Day
- 2016: Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics) Kinky Boots
- 2015: Ray Davies (music & lyrics) Sunny Afternoon
- 2014: Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, & Matt Stone (music & lyrics) The Book of Mormon
- 2013: Irving Berlin (music & lyrics) Top Hat
- 2012: Tim Minchin (music & lyrics) Matilda
- 2011: Neil Benjamin & Laurence O’Keefe (music & lyrics) Legally Blonde
- 2010: Duncan Sheik (music) & Steven Sater (lyrics) Spring Awakening
- 2009: Bob Gaudio (music) & Bob Crewe (lyrics) Jersey Boys
- 2008: Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (music & lyrcs) Hairspray
- 2007: Tony Kushner (music & lyrics) Caroline, or Change
- 2006: Elton John (music) & Lee Hall (lyrics) Billy Elliot the Musical
- 2005: Mel Brooks (music & lyrics) The Producers
- 2004: Richard Thomas (music & lyrics) and Stewart Lee (lyrics) Jerry Springer
- 2003: Madness (music & lyrics) Our House
- 2002: --
- 2001: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Merrily We Roll Along
- 2000: George Stiles (music) & Anthony Drewe (lyrics) Honk!
- 1999: Taliep Petersen (music) & David Kramer (lyrics) Kat and the Kings
- 1998: Alan Menken (music) with Howard Ashman & Tim Rice (lyrics) Beauty and the Beast
- 1997: Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) with Alain Boublil, Edward Hardy, & Stephen Clark (lyrics) Martin Guerre
- 1996: Various Artists Jolson
- 1995: Stephen Flaherty (music) & Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) Once on This Island
- 1994: Cy Coleman (music) & David Zippel (lyrics) City of Angels
- 1993: George Gershwin (music) & Ira Gershwin (lyrics) Crazy for You
- 1992: Georges Bizet (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) Carmen Jones
- 1991: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Sunday in the Park with George
- 1990: --
- 1989: Various Artists Return to the Forbidden Planet
- 1988: Leonard Bernstein (music) with Stephen Sondheim et al (lyrics) Candide
- 1987: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Follies
- 1986: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) with Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe (lyrics) Phantom of the Opera
- 1985: Noel Gay (music) with Douglas Furber & L. Arthur Rose (lyrics) Me and My Girl
- 1984: Harry Warren (music) with Al Dubin & Johnny Mercer (lyrics) 42nd Street
- 1983: Willy Russell (music & lyrics) Blood Brothers
- 1982: Monty Norman (music) & Peter Nichols (lyrics) Poppy
- 1981: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) & T.S. Eliot (lyrics) Cats
- 1980: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- 1979: Monty Norman (music & lyrics) with Julian More (lyrics) Songbook
- 1978: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) & Tim Rice (lyrics) Evita
- 1977: Guy Woolfenden (music) & Trevor Nunn (lyrics) The Comedy of Errors
- 1976: Marvin Hamlisch (music) & Edward Kleban (lyrics) A Chorus Line
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