Friday, December 24, 2021

Tony Award Winners for Best Musical

Tony Awards:

Best Musical: 1949-2020

The Tony Award for Best Musical has been presented since 1949. Broadway musicals which have no been previously produced on Broadway are eligible. Winners are determined by Tony Award voters.

Check out other album of the year awards here.

  • 2020: Various Artists Moulin Rouge!
  • 2019: Anais Mitchell (music & lyrics) Hadestown
  • 2018: David Yazbeck (music & lyrics) The Band’s Visit
  • 2017: Benji Pasek & Justin Paul (music & lyrics) Dear Evan Hansen
  • 2016: Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics) Hamilton
  • 2015: Jeanine Tesori (music) & Lisa Kron (lyrics) Fun Home
  • 2014: Steven Lutvak (music) & Robert L. Freedman (lyrics) A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
  • 2013: Cyndi Lauper (music & lyrics) Kinky Boots
  • 2012: Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová Once
  • 2011: Robert Lopez, Trey Parker, & Matt Stone The Book of Mormon
  • 2010: David Bryan (music & lyrics) & Joe DPietro (lyrics) Memphis

  • 2009: Elton John (music) & Lee Hall (lyrics) Billy Elliot the Musical
  • 2008: Lin-Manuel Miranda (music & lyrics) In the Heights
  • 2007: Duncan Sheik (music) & Steven Sater (lyrics) Spring Awakening
  • 2006: Bob Gaudio (music) & Bob Crewe (lyrics) Jersey Boys
  • 2005: Eric Idle (music & lyrics) & John De Prez (music) Spamalot
  • 2004: Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx (music & lyrics) Avenue Q
  • 2003: Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (music & lyrcs) Hairspray
  • 2002: Jeanine Tesori (music) & Dick Scanlan (lyrics) Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • 2001: Mel Brooks (music & lyrics) The Producers
  • 2000: Various Artists Contact

  • 1999: Various Artists Fosse
  • 1998: Elton John (music) & Tim Rice (lyrics) The Lion King
  • 1997: Maury Yeston (music & lyrics) Titanic
  • 1996: Jonathan Larson (music & lyrics) Rent
  • 1995: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) with Don Black & Christopher Hampton (lyrics) Sunset Boulevard
  • 1994: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Passion
  • 1993: John Kander (music) & Fred Ebb (lyrics) Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • 1992: George Gershwin (music) & Ira Gershwin (lyrics) Crazy for You
  • 1991: Cy Coleman (music) with Betty Comden & Adolph Green (lyrics) The Will Rogers Follies
  • 1990: Cy Coleman (music) & David Zippel (lyrics) City of Angels

  • 1989: Various Artists Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
  • 1988: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) with Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe (lyrics) Phantom of the Opera
  • 1987: Claude-Michel Schönberg (music) with Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer (lyrics) Les Misérables
  • 1986: Rupert Holmes (music & lyrics) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • 1985: Roger Miller (music & lyrics) Big River
  • 1984: Jerry Herman music & lyrics) La Cage aux Folles
  • 1983: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) & T.S. Eliot (lyrics) Cats
  • 1982: Maury Yeston (music & lyrics) Nine
  • 1981: Harry Warren (music) with Al Dubin & Johnny Mercer (lyrics) 42nd Street
  • 1980: Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) & Tim Rice (lyrics) Evita

  • 1979: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • 1978: Fats Waller (music) & various artists (lyrics) Ain’t Misbehavin’
  • 1977: Charles Strouse (music) & Martin Charnin (lyrics) Annie
  • 1976: Marvin Hamlisch (music) & Edward Kleban (lyrics) A Chorus Line
  • 1975: Charlie Smalls et al (music & lyrics) The Wiz
  • 1974: Judd Woldin (music) & Robert Brittan (lyrics) Raisin
  • 1973: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) A Little Night Music
  • 1972: Galt MacDermot (music) & John Guare (lyrics) Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • 1971: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) Company
  • 1970: Charles Strouse (music) & Lee Adams (lyrics) Applause

  • 1969: Sherman Edwards (music & lyrics) 1776
  • 1968: Jule Styne (music) with Adolph Green & Betty Comden (lyrics) Hallelujah, Baby!
  • 1967: John Kander (music) & Fred Ebb (lyrics) Cabaret
  • 1966: Mitch Leigh (music) & Joe Darion (lyrics) Man of La Mancha
  • 1965: Jerry Bock (music) & Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) Fiddler on the Roof
  • 1964: Jerry Herman (music & lyrics) Hello, Dolly!
  • 1963: Stephen Sondheim (music & lyrics) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • 1962: Frank Loesser (music & lyrics) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • 1961: Charles Strouse (music) & Lee Adams (lyrics) Bye Bye Birdie
  • 1960: Richard Rodgers (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) The Sound of Music / Jerry Bock (music) & Sheldon Harnick (lyrics) Fiorello!

  • 1959: Albert Hague (music) & Dorothy Fields (lyrics) Redhead
  • 1958: Meredith Willson (music & lyrics) The Music Man
  • 1957: Alan Jay Lerner (music) & Frederick Loewe (lyrics) My Fair Lady
  • 1956: Richard Adler (music) & Jerry Ross (lyrics) Damn Yankees
  • 1955: Richard Adler (music) & Jerry Ross (lyrics) The Pajama Game
  • 1954: Alexander Borodin (music) with Robert Wright & George Forrest (lyrics) Kismet
  • 1953: Leonard Bernstein (music) with Betty Comden & Adolph Green (lyrics) Wonderful Town
  • 1952: Richard Rodgers (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) The King and I
  • 1951: Frank Loesser (music & lyrics) Guys and Dolls
  • 1950: Richard Rodgers (music) & Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) South Pacific
  • 1949: Cole Porter (music & lyrics) Kiss Me, Kate

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First posted 12/24/2021.

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