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Tony Award
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
indicates the winner
Ray Bolger won for Where's Charley? (1949)
Phil Silvers won twice for Top Banana (1952) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1972)
Thomas Mitchell won for Hazel Flagg (1953)
Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady (1957)
Robert Preston won twice for The Music Man (1958) and I Do! I Do! (1967)
Jackie Gleason won for Take Me Along (1960)
Richard Burton won for Camelot (1961)
Robert Morse won for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962)
Zero Mostel won twice for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963) and Fiddler on the Roof (1965)
Robert Goulet won for The Happy Time (1968)
Jerry Orbach won for Promises, Promises (1969)
Cleavon Little won for Purlie (1970)
Christopher Plummer won for Cyrano (1974)
Len Cariou won for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)
Kevin Kline won for The Pirates of Penzance (1981)
Tommy Tune won for My One and Only (1983)
Jason Alexander won for Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989)
Jonathan Pryce won for Miss Saigon (1991)
Gregory Hines won for Jelly's Last Jam (1992)
Matthew Broderick won for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1996)
Nathan Lane won twice for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996) and The Producers (2001)
Alan Cumming won for Cabaret (1998)
Martin Short won for Little Me (1999)
Brian Stokes Mitchell won for Kiss, Me Kate (2000)
John Lithgow won for Sweet Smell of Success (2002)
Harvey Fierstein won Hairspray (2003)
Hugh Jackman won for The Boy from Oz (2004)
David Hyde Pierce won for Curtains (2007)
Billy Porter won for Kinky Boots (2013)
Neil Patrick Harris won for Hedwig and Angry Inch (2014)
Leslie Odom Jr. won for
Hamilton (2016)
Ben Platt won for Dear Evan Hansen (2017)
Tony Shalhoub won for The Band's Visit (2018)
Aaron Tveit won for Moulin Rouge! (2020)
J. Harrison Ghee won for Some Like it Hot (2024)
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1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
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2000s
2010s
2020s
Notes
^ The category was not given due to an insufficient number of musicals during the season.
Multiple wins
2 wins
Multiple nominations
4 nominations
3 nominations
2 nominations
Multiple character wins
3 Wins
2 Wins
Multiple character nominations
5 Nominations
4 Nominations
3 Nominations
2 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
Winners are in bold .
Multiple awards and nominations
Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Facts
The lead role of Pseudolus in
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has earned the Tony Award for the three different actors who have performed the character:
Three other male roles have produced multiple Tony Award winners: J. Pierrepont Finch in
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying :
Emile de Beque in
South Pacific :
and Albin in
La Cage Aux Folles :
Two actors have won for their performances in
My Fair Lady , each for a different character:
The lead role with most nominations is
Tevye , in
Fiddler on the Roof . Five actors have been nominated for their portrayals, with one win:
Take Me Along is the only production to receive three nominations for the award –
Jackie Gleason (winner),
Robert Morse and
Walter Pidgeon .
The lead role of
Sweeney Todd from
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has received 4 nominations, though only
Len Cariou has won the award for playing the role, which he originated.
Actors have won Tonys for both
Best Actor in a Play and "Best Actor in a Musical" for playing
Cyrano de Bergerac :
Jose Ferrer in
Cyrano de Bergerac and
Christopher Plummer in
Cyrano .
Four actors were nominated in this category for roles that have also been classified as
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical .
George Rose won the 1976 Best Actor Award for playing Alfred P. Doolitle in
My Fair Lady whereas
Stanley Holloway and
Norbert Leo Butz were nominated in the featured category for playing the part in 1956 and 2018, respectively. Similarly,
Lou Diamond Phillips and
Ken Watanabe were nominated for Best Actor for playing the King of Siam in
The King and I in 1996 and 2015, respectively, while
Yul Brynner won the Best Featured Actor Tony for the same role in 1951. Also,
Alan Cumming won for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in
Cabaret in 1998, which
Joel Grey won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for in 1966.
Harvey Fierstein was the first actor to win the award by portraying a female character, for his 2003 performance as Edna Turnblad in
Hairspray .
Neil Patrick Harris won in 2014 for his performance as Hedwig, a genderqueer woman in
Hedwig and the Angry Inch .
There have never been consecutive victories, and only four actors have managed, over the decades, to score consecutive nominations:
Gregory Hines (1980/1981),
George Hearn (1983/1984),
Patrick Wilson (2001/2002) and
Michael Cerveris (2006/2007).
In 2009,
David Álvarez ,
Trent Kowalik , and
Kiril Kulish were jointly nominated for the award for their performances in
Billy Elliot the Musical as the titular character. They won the award, marking the first time three actors have received it.
The oldest performer to win in this category is Bert Lahr who was 68 when he won for Foxy in 1964. The youngest winner is
Trent Kowalik who won for Billy Elliot at age 14. He shared the award with
David Álvarez and
Kiril Kulish – both 15 at the time.
The role of The Leading Player in
Pippin holds the distinction of winning in both Best Leading Actor and Leading Actress categories.
Ben Vereen won in 1972, while
Patina Miller won in the leading actress category for the 2013 revival.
See also
References
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"1956 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1957 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1958 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1959 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1960 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1961 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1962 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1963 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1964 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1965 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1966 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1967 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1968 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1969 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1970 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1971 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1972 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1973 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1974 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1975 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1976 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1977 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1978 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1979 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1980 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1981 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1982 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1983 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1984 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
^ Winship, Frederick M. (1985-06-03).
" 'Big River,' 'Biloxi Blues' win Tony Awards" .
UPI . Retrieved 2016-12-03 .
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"1986 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1987 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1988 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1989 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1990 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1991 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1992 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1993 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1994 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"1995 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"1996 Tony Awards Nominees" .
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"1997 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1998 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"1999 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2000 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2001 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2002 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2003 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2004 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2005 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2006 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2007 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2008 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2009 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 11, 2023 .
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"2010 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2011 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2012 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2013 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2014 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"Tony Nominations 2015: Full List" . Variety . April 28, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2016 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2017 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2018 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2019 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2022 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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"2023 Tony Awards Nominees" .
American Theatre Wing . May 2, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2023 .
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