Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical |
Location | New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Currently held by | Tony Shalhoub for The Band's Visit (2018) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival. The award has been given since 1948, but the nominees who did not win have only been publicly announced since 1956.
Winners and nominees
1940s
Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
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1947 1st Tony Awards | |||
N/A | |||
1948 2nd Tony Awards | |||
Paul Hartman | Angel in the Wings | Various Characters | |
1949 3rd Tony Awards | |||
Ray Bolger | Where's Charley? | Charley Wykeham |
1950s
Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
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1950 4th Tony Awards | |||
Ezio Pinza | South Pacific | Emile De Beque | |
1951 5th Tony Awards | |||
Robert Alda | Guys and Dolls | Sky Masterson | |
1952 6th Tony Awards | |||
Phil Silvers | Top Banana | Jerry Biffle | |
1953 7th Tony Awards | |||
Thomas Mitchell | Hazel Flagg | Dr. Downer | |
1954 8th Tony Awards | |||
Alfred Drake | Kismet | Hajj | |
1955 9th Tony Awards | |||
Walter Slezak | Fanny | Panisse | |
1956 10th Tony Awards | |||
Ray Walston | Damn Yankees | Mr. Applegate | |
Stephen Douglass | Damn Yankees | Joe Hardy | |
Bill Johnson | Pipe Dream | Doc | |
1957 11th Tony Awards | |||
Rex Harrison | My Fair Lady | Henry Higgins | |
Fernando Lamas | Happy Hunting | Duke of Granada | |
Robert Weede | The Most Happy Fella | Tony | |
1958 12th Tony Awards | |||
Robert Preston | The Music Man | Harold Hill | |
Ricardo Montalbán | Jamaica | Koli | |
Eddie Foy, Jr. | Rumple | Rumple | |
Tony Randall | Oh, Captain! | Captain Henry St. James | |
1959 13th Tony Awards | |||
Richard Kiley | Redhead | Tom Baxter | |
Larry Blyden | Flower Drum Song | Sammy Fong |
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Award records
Multiple wins
- 2 Wins
Multiple nominations
Multiple character wins
- 3 Wins
- Pseudolus from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- 2 Wins
- Albin from La Cage aux Folles
- Emile de Becque from South Pacific
- J. Pierrepont Finch from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Multiple character nominations
-*Most of the leading male characters in Little Me are played by the same actor, but the actual roles vary. In the original 1962 Broadway production and the 1998 revival, Sid Caesar and Martin Short (respectively) played Noble Eggleston, Amos Pinchley, Val du Val, Fred Poitrine, Otto Schnitzler, and Prince Cherney. Caesar also played Noble Junior. In the 1981 revival, the lead roles were split among James Coco and Victor Garber with Garber playing Noble Eggleston, Val du Val, Fred Poitrine, and Noble Junior. Productions with multiple nominations
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