Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Musical | |
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Awarded for | Best Musical |
Location | New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Currently held by | The Band's Visit (2018) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Awards are yearly awards that recognize achievement in live Broadway theatre. The award for Best Musical is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. It is the final award presented at the ceremony. The award goes to the producers of the musical. The musicals that are nominated for this award are usually performed during the ceremony and before this award is presented. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical.
Winners and nominees
† marks winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
indicates the winner
1940s
Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics |
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1949 3rd Tony Awards | ||||
Kiss Me, Kate | Bella & Samuel Spewack | Cole Porter |
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Records
Accumulated records as of 2016:[1]
- The Producers has won the most Tonys, winning in 12 categories, including Best Musical.
- Hamilton is the most-nominated production in Tony history, with 16 nominations.
- The Sound of Music and Fiorello! are the only two musicals to date to have ever tied for the Best Musical award (in 1960).
- Passion is the shortest-running winner, with 280 performances.
- The Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running Best Musical winner, with 16 previews and 12,630 performances as of 12 June 2018.
- Hallelujah, Baby! is the only show thus far to have won the Tony Award for Best Musical after closing.
- Fun Home is the first musical written entirely by women to win the Tony Award as Best Musical.
- Kiss Me, Kate and Titanic are the only two shows to win the Tony Award for Best Musical without any Tony nominations in the acting categories. (In Kiss Me, Kate's case, only winners were announced that year, and only in the lead performance categories.)
- What is now the Richard Rodgers Theatre has housed more Best Musical winners than any other theater on Broadway: Guys and Dolls (1951), Damn Yankees (1956), Redhead (1959), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), 1776 (1969), Raisin (1974), Nine (1982), In the Heights (2008), and Hamilton (2016).
See also
References
- ↑ "Facts About the Tony Awards". Tony Legacy. The American Theatre Wing. 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-18.
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