Ceremony | Date | Location | Best Musical | Best Play | Host(s) | Network(s) | U.S. viewers (millions) |
1st Tony Awards | April 6, 1947 | Waldorf Astoria New York | N/A | N/A | Brock Pemberton | WOR, Mutual | |
2nd Tony Awards | March 28, 1948 | N/A | Mister Roberts | Bert Lytell, Hiram Sherman, Harry Hirshfield |
3rd Tony Awards | April 29, 1949 | Kiss Me, Kate | Death of a Salesman | Brock Pemberton, James Sauter |
4th Tony Awards | April 9, 1950 | South Pacific | The Cocktail Party | no formal host |
5th Tony Awards | March 25, 1951 | Guys and Dolls | The Rose Tattoo | James Sauter |
6th Tony Awards | March 30, 1952 | The King and I | The Fourposter | Helen Hayes |
7th Tony Awards | March 29, 1953 | Wonderful Town | The Crucible | Faye Emerson | NBC radio |
8th Tony Awards | March 28, 1954 | Plaza Hotel | Kismet | The Teahouse of the August Moon | James Sauter | NBC |
9th Tony Awards | March 27, 1955 | The Pajama Game | The Desperate Hours | Helen Hayes |
10th Tony Awards | April 1, 1956 | Damn Yankees | The Diary of Anne Frank | Jack Carter | DuMont |
11th Tony Awards | April 21, 1957 | Waldorf Astoria New York | My Fair Lady | Long Day's Journey into Night | Bud Collyer | none |
12th Tony Awards | April 13, 1958 | The Music Man | Sunrise at Campobello |
13th Tony Awards | April 12, 1959 | Redhead | J.B. | WCBS-TV |
14th Tony Awards | April 24, 1960 | Hotel Astor | The Sound of Music / Fiorello! | The Miracle Worker | Eddie Albert |
15th Tony Awards | April 16, 1961 | Waldorf Astoria New York | Bye Bye Birdie | Becket | Phil Silvers |
16th Tony Awards | April 29, 1962 | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | A Man for All Seasons | Ray Bolger, Robert Preston |
17th Tony Awards | April 28, 1963 | Hotel Americana | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Abe Burrows, Robert Morse | WWOR-TV |
18th Tony Awards | May 24, 1964 | New York Hilton Midtown | Hello, Dolly! | Luther | Sidney Blackmer |
19th Tony Awards | June 13, 1965 | Hotel Astor | Fiddler on the Roof | The Subject Was Roses | Tom Bosley, José Ferrer, Van Johnson |
20th Tony Awards | June 16, 1966 | Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Center | Man of La Mancha | Marat/Sade | George Abbott, Ginger Rogers | CBS (radio) |
21st Tony Awards | March 26, 1967 | Shubert Theatre | Cabaret | The Homecoming | Mary Martin, Robert Preston | ABC |
22nd Tony Awards | April 21, 1968 | Hallelujah, Baby! | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Angela Lansbury, Peter Ustinov | NBC |
23rd Tony Awards | April 20, 1969 | Mark Hellinger Theatre | 1776 | The Great White Hope | Diahann Carroll, Alan King |
24th Tony Awards | April 19, 1970 | Applause | Borstal Boy | Julie Andrews, Shirley MacLaine, Walter Matthau |
25th Tony Awards | March 28, 1971 | Palace Theatre | Company | Sleuth | Lauren Bacall, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Quayle, Anthony Quinn | ABC |
26th Tony Awards | April 23, 1972 | The Broadway Theatre | Two Gentlemen of Verona | Sticks and Bones | Henry Fonda, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov |
27th Tony Awards | March 25, 1973 | Imperial Theatre | A Little Night Music | That Championship Season | Rex Harrison, Celeste Holm |
28th Tony Awards | April 21, 1974 | Shubert Theatre | Raisin | The River Niger | Peter Falk, Florence Henderson, Robert Preston, Cicely Tyson | 20.0[4] |
29th Tony Awards | April 20, 1975 | Winter Garden Theatre | The Wiz | Equus | Larry Blyden, George S. Irving, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Michele Lee, Bernadette Peters, Bobby Van | 17.9[4] |
30th Tony Awards | April 18, 1976 | Shubert Theatre | A Chorus Line | Travesties | Eddie Albert, Richard Burton, Jane Fonda, Diana Rigg, George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere | 16.0[4] |
31st Tony Awards | June 5, 1977 | Annie | The Shadow Box | Jack Albertson, Bea Arthur, Buddy Ebsen, Damon Evans, Jean Stapleton, Leslie Uggams | |
32nd Tony Awards | June 4, 1978 | Ain't Misbehavin' | Da | No formal host | CBS |
33rd Tony Awards | June 3, 1979 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | The Elephant Man | Jane Alexander, Henry Fonda, Liv Ullmann |
34th Tony Awards | June 8, 1980 | Mark Hellinger Theatre | Evita | Children of a Lesser God | Mary Tyler Moore, Jason Robards |
35th Tony Awards | June 7, 1981 | 42nd Street | Amadeus | Ellen Burstyn, Richard Chamberlain |
36th Tony Awards | June 6, 1982 | Imperial Theatre | Nine | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Tony Randall |
37th Tony Awards | June 5, 1983 | Gershwin Theatre | Cats | Torch Song Trilogy | Richard Burton, Lena Horne, Jack Lemmon |
38th Tony Awards | June 3, 1984 | La Cage aux Folles | The Real Thing | Julie Andrews, Robert Preston |
39th Tony Awards | June 2, 1985 | Shubert Theatre | Big River | Biloxi Blues | no formal host |
40th Tony Awards | June 1, 1986 | Minskoff Theatre | Drood | I'm Not Rappaport |
41st Tony Awards | June 7, 1987 | Mark Hellinger Theatre | Les Misérables | Fences | Angela Lansbury |
42nd Tony Awards | June 5, 1988 | Minskoff Theatre | The Phantom of the Opera | M. Butterfly | 12.1[4] |
43rd Tony Awards | June 4, 1989 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | Jerome Robbins' Broadway | The Heidi Chronicles | 12.3[4] |
44th Tony Awards | June 3, 1990 | City of Angels | The Grapes of Wrath | Kathleen Turner | 10.1[4] |
45th Tony Awards | June 2, 1991 | Minskoff Theatre | The Will Rogers Follies | Lost in Yonkers | Julie Andrews, Jeremy Irons | 12.2[4] |
46th Tony Awards | May 31, 1992 | Gershwin Theatre | Crazy for You | Dancing at Lughnasa | Glenn Close | 11.7[4] |
47th Tony Awards | June 6, 1993 | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Liza Minnelli | 11.1[4] |
48th Tony Awards | June 12, 1994 | Passion | Angels in America: Perestroika | Anthony Hopkins, Amy Irving | 10.4[4] |
49th Tony Awards | June 4, 1995 | Minskoff Theatre | Sunset Boulevard | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Nathan Lane, Glenn Close, Gregory Hines | 10.2[4] |
50th Tony Awards | June 2, 1996 | Majestic Theatre | Rent | Master Class | Nathan Lane | 8.7[4] |
51st Tony Awards | June 1, 1997 | Radio City Music Hall | Titanic | The Last Night of Ballyhoo | Rosie O'Donnell | 13.0[4] |
52nd Tony Awards | June 7, 1998 | The Lion King | 'Art' | 11.7[4] |
53rd Tony Awards | June 6, 1999 | Gershwin Theatre | Fosse | Side Man | no formal host | 9.1[4] |
54th Tony Awards | June 4, 2000 | Radio City Music Hall | Contact | Copenhagen | Rosie O'Donnell | 8.5[4] |
55th Tony Awards | June 3, 2001 | The Producers | Proof | Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick | 8.9[4] |
56th Tony Awards | June 2, 2002 | Thoroughly Modern Millie | The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? | Bernadette Peters, Gregory Hines | 7.9[4] |
57th Tony Awards | June 8, 2003 | Hairspray | Take Me Out | Hugh Jackman | 7.8[4] |
58th Tony Awards | June 6, 2004 | Avenue Q | I Am My Own Wife | 6.4[4] |
59th Tony Awards | June 5, 2005 | Monty Python's Spamalot | Doubt: A Parable | 6.5[4] |
60th Tony Awards | June 11, 2006 | Jersey Boys | The History Boys | no formal host | 7.7[4] |
61st Tony Awards | June 10, 2007 | Spring Awakening | The Coast of Utopia | 5.7[4] |
62nd Tony Awards | June 15, 2008 | In the Heights | August: Osage County | Whoopi Goldberg | 6.2[4] |
63rd Tony Awards | June 7, 2009 | Billy Elliot the Musical | God of Carnage | Neil Patrick Harris | 7.4[4] |
64th Tony Awards | June 13, 2010 | Memphis | Red | Sean Hayes | 7.0[5] |
65th Tony Awards | June 12, 2011 | Beacon Theatre | The Book of Mormon | War Horse | Neil Patrick Harris | 6.9[6] |
66th Tony Awards | June 10, 2012 | Once | Clybourne Park | 6.0[7] |
67th Tony Awards | June 9, 2013 | Radio City Music Hall | Kinky Boots | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | 7.2[8] |
68th Tony Awards | June 8, 2014 | A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder | All the Way | Hugh Jackman | 7.0[9] |
69th Tony Awards | June 7, 2015 | Fun Home | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming | 6.4[10] |
70th Tony Awards | June 12, 2016 | Beacon Theatre | Hamilton | The Humans | James Corden | 8.7[11] |
71st Tony Awards | June 11, 2017 | Radio City Music Hall | Dear Evan Hansen | Oslo | Kevin Spacey | 6.0[12] |
72nd Tony Awards | June 10, 2018 | The Band's Visit | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Sara Bareilles, Josh Groban | 6.3[13] |