Jerry Herman

American composer and lyricist (1931–2019)

Jerry Herman

File:Jerry Herman 2010.jpg

Herman at the White House for the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors

Born| (1931-07-10)July 10, 1931[1]

New York City, U.S.

Died| December 26, 2019(2019-12-26) (aged 88)

Miami, Florida, U.S.

Monuments| Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.
Alma mater| University of Miami (BA)
Partner(s)| Martin Finkelstein (d. 1990)[2][3]
Terry Marler (?–2019)[4]
Musical career
Genres| Musical theatre
Occupation(s)| Composer, Lyricist
Instrument(s)| Piano
Years active| 1954–2019

Musical artist

Website| jerryherman.com
Notes

[5][6][7][8][9]

Gerald Sheldon Herman (July 10, 1931 - December 26, 2019) was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.

One of the most commercially successful Broadway songwriters of his time, Herman was the composer and lyricist for a number of hit musicals, starting in the 1960s, that were characterized by an upbeat and optimistic outlook and what Herman called "the simple, hummable showtune". His shows include Hello, Dolly! (1964), at one time the longest-running musical in Broadway history, which also produced the hit title song for Louis Armstrong; Mame (1966), a vehicle for Angela Lansbury; and La Cage aux Folles (1984), the first hit Broadway musical about a gay couple.

In 2009, Herman received the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. He was a recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors.

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Early career
* 3 Broadway career
* 3.1 Hello, Dolly!
* 3.2 Mame
* 3.3 La Cage aux Folles
* 4 Songs
* 5 Impact and recognition
* 6 Personal life and death
* 7 Work
* 7.1 Theater
* 7.2 Films
* 7.3 Television
* 8 Awards and honors
* 8.1 Grammy Awards
* 8.2 Tony Awards
* 9 References
* 10 Further reading
* 11 External links

## Early life[edit | edit source]

Herman was born in Manhattan and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, the only child of musically inclined, middle-class Jewish parents.[10][11] He learned to play piano at an early age, and the frequently attended Broadway musicals.

Herman's father Harry was a gym teacher and in the summer worked in the Catskill Mountains hotels. His mother Ruth (Sachs) also worked in the hotels as a singer,[12] pianist, and children's teacher, and eventually became an English teacher. Herman told People Magazine in 1986 that his mother, who died in 1954, long before his success on Broadway, "was glamorous like Mame and witty like Dolly."[12]

After marrying, his parents lived in Jersey City and continued to work in the summers in various camps until they became head counselors and finally ran Stissing Lake Camp in the small town of Pine Plains, New York, in the Taconic Mountains. Herman spent all of his summers there, from age 6 to 23. It was at camp that he first became involved in theatrical productions, as director of Oklahoma!, Finian's Rainbow and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.[5] Herman graduated from Jersey City's Henry Snyder High School.[13]

At age 17, Herman was introduced to Frank Loesser who, after hearing material he had written, urged him to continue composing. He left the Parsons School of Design to attend the University of Miami,[14] which has one of the nation's most avant garde theater departments. While an undergraduate student at the University of Miami, Herman produced, wrote and directed a college musical called Sketchbook. It was scheduled to run for three performances, but the show was so popular it ran for an additional 17 performances.[15] Herman belonged to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.[16]

Herman graduated from the University of Miami in 1953 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree in 1980.[17]

## Early career[edit | edit source]

Following his graduation from the University of Miami in 1953, Herman moved to New York City, where he produced the Off-Broadway revue I Feel Wonderful, which was made up of material he had written at the university. It opened at the Theatre de Lys in Greenwich Village on October 18, 1954, and ran for 48 performances.[18] It was his only show his mother saw; she died of cancer at the age of forty-four in December 1954.[19] Herman said "I went into serious grieving."[20]

In 1957, Herman approached the owner of a West Fourth Street jazz club called the Showplace and asked to put on a revue. As well as supplying the music, Herman wrote the book and directed the one-hour revue, called Nightcap. He asked his friend, Phyllis Newman, to do movement and dance and it featured Charles Nelson Reilly (who later co-starred in Hello, Dolly!). The show opened in May 1958 and ran for two years.[21]

Herman next collected enough original material to put together an Off-Broadway revue called Parade in 1960. Herman directed with choreography by Richard Tone. The cast included Charles Nelson Reilly and Dody Goodman. It first opened at the Showplace and, expanded, moved to the Players Theatre in January 1960.[22][23]

## Broadway career[edit | edit source]

In 1960, Herman made his Broadway debut with the revue From A to Z, which featured contributions from newcomers Woody Allen and Fred Ebb as well.[24] That same year producer Gerard Oestreicher approached him after seeing a performance of "Parade", and asked if he would be interested in composing the score for a show about the founding of the state of Israel. The result was his first full-fledged Broadway musical, Milk and Honey in 1961. The show, about American tourists in Israel, starred Robert Weede, Mimi Benzell and Molly Picon. It received respectable reviews, was nominated for a Tony award, and ran for 543 performances.[12][25]

Herman met playwright Tad Mosel in 1960 and they collaborated on an Off-Broadway musical adaptation of Mosel's 1953 television play, Madame Aphrodite. The musical of the same name, which starred Nancy Andrews in the title role, opened at the Orpheum Theatre in December 1961 but closed after 13 performances.[26] The show has never been performed since. The failure of the musical hurt Herman, who felt that the direction and casting had not worked, but described his decision to make it as a "very brave thing for me to do...It was a dark piece, something more suited to early Sondheim than me".[26]

### Hello, Dolly![edit | edit source]

Main article: Hello, Dolly! (musical)

In 1964, producer David Merrick united Herman with musical actress Carol Channing and librettist Michael Stewart for a project that was to become one of his more successful, Hello, Dolly!.[12] The original production ran for 2,844 performances, the longest running musical for its time, and was later revived three times.[27] Although facing stiff competition from Funny Girl, Hello, Dolly! swept the Tony Awards that season, winning 10, a record that remained unbroken for 37 years, until The Producers won 12 Tonys in 2001.[27]

### Mame[edit | edit source]

Main article: Mame (musical)

In 1966, Herman's next musical was the hit Mame starring Angela Lansbury, which introduced a string of Herman standards, most notably the ballad "If He Walked Into My Life", the holiday favorite "We Need a Little Christmas", and the title tune.[28][29]

Although not commercial successes, Dear World (1969) starring Angela Lansbury, Mack & Mabel (1974) starring Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters, and The Grand Tour (1979) starring Joel Grey are noted for their interesting concepts and their melodic, memorable scores. Herman considers Mack & Mabel, also written in collaboration with Michael Stewart, his personal favorite score[30] with later composition La Cage aux Folles in a close second. Both Dear World and Mack & Mabel have developed a cult following among Broadway aficionados.[31][32]

### La Cage aux Folles[edit | edit source]

Main article: La Cage aux Folles (musical)

In 1983, Herman had his third hit with La Cage aux Folles starring George Hearn and Gene Barry, a show that was notable for being one of the first hit Broadway musicals centered around a gay couple. The musical was tried out in Boston, where Herman worried:[33]

> A man singing a love song to another man--I don't think that's ever been done in a Broadway musical before. And, I mean, this was Boston, Katherine Cornell country. Frankly, I didn't know whether or not they'd throw stones. The audience gave it an ovation. That's when I started to think, 'We've done something right. They've bought the characters.' "

> — Jerry Herman

Ticket sales were strong for its Boston tryout; a two-week extension required the box office to remain open for 36 hours straight to handle the demand.[33] Advance sales for its Broadway debut at the Palace Theatre were described as "something approximating outright pandemonium."[33] La Cage aux Folles won the Tony Award for Best Musical (1983), later became the only musical to win the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical twice (2005 and 2010).[27]

A revue, Jerry's Girls, "a pastiche" of his work, featured Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams and Chita Rivera and ran on Broadway from December 1985 to April 1986.[34]

## Songs[edit | edit source]

Many of Herman's show tunes have become pop standards. "Hello, Dolly!" was a #1 hit in the United States for Louis Armstrong, knocking The Beatles from #1 in 1964 after a 14-week run at the top ("I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", and "Can't Buy Me Love.").[35][36] A French recording by Petula Clark[37] charted in the Top Ten in both Canada and France.[citation needed]

"If He Walked into My Life" from Mame was recorded by Eydie Gormé, winning her a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Female in 1967.[38] "I Am What I Am" from La Cage aux Folles was recorded by Gloria Gaynor.[39]

Other well known Herman showtunes include "Shalom" from Milk and Honey; "Before the Parade Passes By", "Put On Your Sunday Clothes", and "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly!; "It's Today!", "Open a New Window", "We Need a Little Christmas," and "Bosom Buddies" from Mame; and "Tap Your Troubles Away", "I Won't Send Roses" and "Time Heals Everything" from Mack & Mabel.[40][41] His "I Am What I Am," written for La Cage aux Folles, became a gay pride anthem.[12][33]

## Impact and recognition[edit | edit source]

According to The Washington Post, Herman's 1983 La Cage aux Folles, which centered on a gay couple whose son is about to marry the daughter of a conservative family, "arrived during the height of the AIDS epidemic and helped put gay life into the cultural mainstream at a time when many gay men were being stigmatized."[12]

Herman is the only composer/lyricist to have had three original productions open on Broadway at the same time, from February to May 1969: Hello, Dolly!, Mame , and Dear World.[27] He was the first (of two) composers/lyricists to have three musicals run more than 1500 consecutive performances on Broadway (the other being Stephen Schwartz): Hello, Dolly! (2,844 performances), Mame (1,508), and La Cage aux Folles (1,761).[27] Herman is honored by a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at the 7000 block of Hollywood Boulevard.[42]

The Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, the campus theater at the University of Miami, his alma mater, is named in his honor.[43] He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1982.[44]

Herman's work has been the subject of two popular musical revues, Jerry's Girls conceived by Larry Alford,[45] and Showtune (2003) conceived by Paul Gilger.[46]

A 90-minute documentary about his life and career, Words and Music by Jerry Herman, by filmmaker Amber Edwards, was screened in 2007 and then broadcast on PBS.[47] [48] In the 2008 animated film WALL-E, Herman's music from Hello, Dolly! is a theme for the character WALL-E.[49]

In 1989, American-playwright Natalie Gaupp wrote a short play titled The Jerry Herman Center.[27] The play is a comedy which portrays the lives of several patients in "The Jerry Herman Center for Musical Theatre Addiction."[27] In 2012, Jason Graae and Faith Prince collaborated on The Prince and the Showboy, a show which pays tribute to Herman; Graae worked extensively with Herman and described him as "a survivor of the highest degree [who] lives his life as an eternal optimist."[50]

In 2010, he received a Kennedy Center Honor. Introduced by Angela Lansbury, there were performances by Carol Channing, Matthew Morrison, Christine Baranski and Christine Ebersole, Laura Benanti, Sutton Foster, Matthew Bomer and Kelli O' Hara, 2002 Kennedy Center Honoree Chita Rivera, an unknown choir that included the Gay Mens Chorus of Washington, and Lansbury. Also honored were talk show host/actress Oprah Winfrey, dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones, country singer/songwriter Merle Haggard, and singer/songwriter/musician Paul McCartney.

## Personal life and death[edit | edit source]

Having a flair for decorating in the 1970s, Herman took a break from composition after the failure of Mack and Mabel. Architectural Digest wrote about the firehouse he renovated:, and he also redecorated other houses and sold them. According to The Washington Post, Herman decorated three dozen homes.[12] Herman reportedly listed his 4,088-square-foot (379.8 m2) West Hollywood condominium apartment for sale early in 2013.[2][51][52]

Herman was openly gay, and at the time of his death was partnered with Terry Marler, a real estate broker.[4]

Herman was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1985.[53] As noted in the Words and Music PBS documentary, "He is one of the fortunate ones who survived to see experimental drug therapies take hold and was still, as one of his lyrics proclaims, 'alive and well and thriving' over a quarter of a century later."[54]

Herman's memoir, Showtune, was published in 1996.[55]

He died at a hospital in Miami on December 26, 2019, at age 88.[56][11]

## Work[edit | edit source]

### Theater[edit | edit source]

Off-Broadway

* I Feel Wonderful (1954)[57]
* Nightcap (1958)[57]
* Parade (1960)[57]
* Madame Aphrodite (1961)[58][59]
* Showtune (2003)[60]

Broadway musicals

* From A to Z (1960)[27]
* Milk and Honey (1961)[57]
* Hello, Dolly! (1964)[57]
* Ben Franklin in Paris (additional music) (1964)
* Mame (1966)[57]
* Dear World (1969)[57]
* Mack & Mabel (1974)[57]
* The Grand Tour (1979)[57]
* A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine (additional songs) (1980)[57]
* La Cage aux Folles (1983)[57]
* Jerry's Girls (1985)[57]
* An Evening with Jerry Herman (1998)[57]

Other stage

* Miss Spectacular (2003) recorded but unproduced[61]

### Films[edit | edit source]

Source: TCM[62]

* Hello, Dolly! (1969)[3]
* Mame (1974)[3]
* Barney's Great Adventure (title song) (1998)
* WALL-E (excerpts of Hello, Dolly! featured)

### Television[edit | edit source]

* Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)[63]

## Awards and honors[edit | edit source]

* 2010 Kennedy Center Honoree[64]
* 1999 Theatre World Special Award (An Evening with Jerry Herman)[65]
* 1999 New York University Musical Theater Hall of Fame[66]
* 1980 Doctor of Fine Arts, May 4, 1980, University of Miami[67]

### Grammy Awards[edit | edit source]

* 1966 Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album (Mame)[68]
* 1964 Song of the Year (Hello, Dolly!)[69]

### Tony Awards[edit | edit source]

* 2009 Special Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre[70]
* 1984 Best Original Score (La Cage aux Folles)[71]
* 1964 Best Composer and Lyricist (Hello, Dolly!)[71]

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## Further reading[edit | edit source]

* Showtune: A Memoir by Jerry Herman (1996) (with Marilyn Stasio), Donald I. Fine Books, an imprint of Penguin Books
* Citron, Stephen. Jerry Herman: Poet of the Showtune (2004), Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10082-5

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Musicals by Jerry Herman

* Parade
* From A to Z
* Milk and Honey
* Madame Aphrodite
* Hello, Dolly!
* Mame
* Dear World
* Mack and Mabel
* The Grand Tour
* La Cage aux Folles
* Jerry's Girls
* Mrs. Santa Claus
* Showtune
* An Evening with Jerry Herman
* Miss Spectacular

Awards for Jerry Herman

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music

1969–1975|

* Al Carmines/Burt Bacharach (1969)
* Stephen Sondheim/Kurt Weill (1970)
* Stephen Sondheim (1971)
* Galt MacDermot (1972)
* Stephen Sondheim (1973)
* Al Carmines (1974)
* Charlie Smalls (1975)

1976–2000|

* Marvin Hamlisch (1976)
* Cy Coleman (1977)
* Cy Coleman/Carol Hall (1978)
* Stephen Sondheim (1979)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1980)
* Maury Yeston (1982)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1983)
* Jerry Herman (1984)
* Larry Grossman (1985)
* Rupert Holmes (1986)
* Noel Gay/Claude-Michel Schönberg (1987)
* Andrew Lloyd Webber (1988)
* Cy Coleman (1990)
* Cy Coleman (1991)
* Erik Frandsen, Michael Garin, Paul Lockheart and Robert Hipkins (1992)
* Marvin Hamlisch (1993)
* Stephen Sondheim (1994)
* Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Cy Coleman (1997)
* Stephen Flaherty (1998)
* Jason Robert Brown (1999)
* Andrew Lippa (2000)

2001–present|

* David Yazbek (2001)
* Jason Robert Brown (2002)
* Marc Shaiman (2003)
* Jeanine Tesori (2004)
* Adam Guettel (2005)
* Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006)
* Duncan Sheik (2007)
* Stew and Heidi Rodewald (2008)
* Elton John (2009)
* David Bryan (2010)
* Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (2011)
* Alan Menken (2012)
* David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (2013)
* Jason Robert Brown (2014)
* Lin-Manuel Miranda (2015)
* Steve Martin and Edie Brickell (2016)
* David Yazbek (2017)
* David Friedman (2018)
* David Yazbek (2019)
* Dave Malloy (2020)
* No Award (2021)
* Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022)

* v
* t
* e

Grammy Award for Song of the Year

1959−1980|

* "Nel blu, dipinto di blu (Volare)" – Domenico Modugno (songwriter) (1959)
* "The Battle of New Orleans" – Jimmy Driftwood (songwriter) (1960)
* "Theme of Exodus" – Ernest Gold (songwriter) (1961)
* "Moon River" – Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini (songwriters) (1962)
* "What Kind of Fool Am I?" – Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley (songwriters) (1963)
* "Days of Wine and Roses" – Johnny Mercer & Henry Mancini (songwriters) (1964)
* "Hello, Dolly!" – Jerry Herman (songwriter) (1965)
* "The Shadow of Your Smile" – Paul Francis Webster & Johnny Mandel (songwriters) (1966)
* "Michelle" – John Lennon & Paul McCartney (songwriters) (1967)
* "Up, Up, and Away" – Jimmy Webb (songwriter) (1968)
* "Little Green Apples" – Bobby Russell (songwriter) (1969)
* "Games People Play" – Joe South (songwriter) (1970)
* "Bridge over Troubled Water" – Paul Simon (songwriter) (1971)
* "You've Got a Friend" – Carole King (songwriter) (1972)
* "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" – Ewan MacColl (songwriter) (1973)
* "Killing Me Softly with His Song" – Norman Gimbel & Charles Fox (songwriters) (1974)
* "The Way We Were" – Alan and Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch (songwriters) (1975)
* "Send In the Clowns" – Stephen Sondheim (songwriter) (1976)
* "I Write the Songs" – Bruce Johnston (songwriter) (1977)
* "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)" – Barbra Streisand & Paul Williams (songwriters) / "You Light Up My Life" – Joe Brooks (songwriter) (1978)
* "Just the Way You Are" – Billy Joel (songwriter) (1979)
* "What a Fool Believes" – Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald (songwriters) (1980)

1981−2000|

* "Sailing" – Christopher Cross (songwriter) (1981)
* "Bette Davis Eyes" – Donna Weiss & Jackie DeShannon (songwriters) (1982)
* "Always on My Mind" – Johnny Christopher, Mark James & Wayne Carson (songwriters) (1983)
* "Every Breath You Take" – Sting (songwriter) (1984)
* "What's Love Got to Do with It" – Graham Lyle & Terry Britten (songwriters) (1985)
* "We Are the World" – Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie (songwriters) (1986)
* "That's What Friends Are For" – Burt Bacharach & Carole Bayer Sager (songwriters) (1987)
* "Somewhere Out There" – James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil (songwriters) (1988)
* "Don't Worry, Be Happy" – Bobby McFerrin (songwriter) (1989)
* "Wind Beneath My Wings" – Larry Henley & Jeff Silbar (songwriters) (1990)
* "From a Distance" – Julie Gold (songwriter) (1991)
* "Unforgettable" – Irving Gordon (songwriter) (1992)
* "Tears in Heaven" – Eric Clapton & Will Jennings (songwriters) (1993)
* "A Whole New World" – Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) (1994)
* "Streets of Philadelphia" – Bruce Springsteen (songwriter) (1995)
* "Kiss from a Rose" – Seal (songwriter) (1996)
* "Change the World" – Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick & Tommy Sims (songwriters) (1997)
* "Sunny Came Home" – Shawn Colvin & John Leventhal (songwriters) (1998)
* "My Heart Will Go On" – James Horner & Will Jennings (songwriters) (1999)
* "Smooth" – Itaal Shur & Rob Thomas (songwriters) (2000)

2001−2020|

* "Beautiful Day" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2001)
* "Fallin'" – Alicia Keys (songwriter) (2002)
* "Don't Know Why" – Jesse Harris (songwriter) (2003)
* "Dance with My Father" – Richard Marx & Luther Vandross (songwriters) (2004)
* "Daughters" – John Mayer (songwriter) (2005)
* "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" – Adam Clayton, David Evans, Laurence Mullen & Paul Hewson (songwriters) (2006)
* "Not Ready to Make Nice" – Emily Burns Erwin, Martha Maguire, Natalie Maines Pasdar & Dan Wilson (songwriters) (2007)
* "Rehab" – Amy Winehouse (songwriter) (2008)
* "Viva la Vida" – Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William Champion & Christopher Martin (songwriters) (2009)
* "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" – Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart (songwriters) (2010)
* "Need You Now" – Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott (songwriters) (2011)
* "Rolling in the Deep" – Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth (songwriters) (2012)
* "We Are Young" – Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess (songwriters) (2013)
* "Royals" – Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor (songwriters) (2014)
* "Stay with Me" (Darkchild version) – James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith (songwriters) (2015)
* "Thinking Out Loud" – Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge (songwriters) (2016)
* "Hello" – Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin (songwriters) (2017)
* "That's What I Like" – Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip (songwriters) (2018)
* "This Is America" – Donald Glover, Ludwig Göransson & Jeffery Lamar Williams (songwriters) (2019)
* "Bad Guy" – Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell (songwriters) (2020)

2021−present|

* "I Can't Breathe" – Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. & Tiara Thomas (songwriters) (2021)
* "Leave the Door Open" – Brandon Anderson, Christopher Brody Brown, Dernst Emile II & Bruno Mars (songwriters) (2022)

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Kennedy Center Honorees (2010s)

2010|

* Merle Haggard
* Jerry Herman
* Bill T. Jones
* Paul McCartney
* Oprah Winfrey

2011|

* Barbara Cook
* Neil Diamond
* Yo-Yo Ma
* Sonny Rollins
* Meryl Streep

2012|

* Buddy Guy
* Dustin Hoffman
* David Letterman
* Led Zeppelin
* Natalia Makarova

2013|

* Martina Arroyo
* Herbie Hancock
* Billy Joel
* Shirley MacLaine
* Carlos Santana

2014|

* Al Green
* Tom Hanks
* Patricia McBride
* Sting
* Lily Tomlin

2015|

* Carole King
* George Lucas
* Rita Moreno
* Seiji Ozawa
* Cicely Tyson

2016|

* Martha Argerich
* Eagles
* Al Pacino
* Mavis Staples
* James Taylor

2017|

* Carmen de Lavallade
* Gloria Estefan
* LL Cool J
* Norman Lear
* Lionel Richie

2018|

* Cher
* Philip Glass
* Reba McEntire
* Wayne Shorter
* Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire, and Andy Blankenbuehler)

2019|

* Earth, Wind & Fire
* Sally Field
* Linda Ronstadt
* Sesame Street
* Michael Tilson Thomas

* Complete list
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* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

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Special Tony Award

1947–1975|

* Dora Chamberlain / Ira and Rita Katzenberg / Jules Leventhal / Burns Mantle / P. A. MacDonald / Vincent Sardi Sr. (1947)
* Vera Allen / Paul Beisman / Joe E. Brown / Cast of The Importance of Being Earnest / Robert W. Dowling / Experimental Theatre Inc. / Rosalind Gilder / June Lockhart / Mary Martin / George Pierce / James Whitmore (1948)
* No award (1949)
* Maurice Evans / Philip Faversham / Brock Pemberton (1950)
* Ruth Green (1951)
* Charles Boyer / Judy Garland / Edward Kook (1952)
* Danny Kaye / Beatrice Lillie (1953)
* No award (1954)
* Proscenium Productions (1955)
* Fourth Street Chekov Theatre / City Center / The New York Public Library Theatre Collection / The Shakespearewrights / The Threepenny Opera (1956)
* American Shakespeare Festival / Jean-Louis Barrault / Robert Russell Bennett / William Hammerstein / Joseph Harbuck / Paul Shyre (1957)
* Mrs. Martin Beck / New York Shakespeare Festival (1958)
* Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay / John Gielgud / Cast of La Plume de Ma Tante (1959)
* Burgess Meredith and James Thurber / John D. Rockefeller III (1960)
* David Merrick / The Theatre Guild (1961)
* Brooks Atkinson / Richard Rodgers / Franco Zeffirelli (1962)
* Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore / Irving Berlin / W. McNeil Lowry (1963)
* Eva Le Gallienne (1964)
* Gilbert Miller / Oliver Smith (1965)
* Helen Menken (1966)
* No award (1967)
* APA-Phoenix Theatre / Pearl Bailey / Carol Channing / Maurice Chevalier / Marlene Dietrich / Audrey Hepburn / David Merrick (1968)
* Leonard Bernstein / Carol Burnett / Rex Harrison / The National Theatre Company of Great Britain / The Negro Ensemble Company (1969)
* Noël Coward / Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt / New York Shakespeare Festival / Barbra Streisand (1970)
* Ingram Ash / Elliot Norton / Playbill / Roger L. Stevens (1971)
* Fiddler on the Roof / Ethel Merman / Richard Rodgers / The Theatre Guild-American Theatre Society (1972)
* The Actors Fund of America / John Lindsay / Shubert Organization (1973)
* Actors' Equity Association / A Moon for the Misbegotten / Candide / Peter Cook and Dudley Moore / Harold Friedlander / Bette Midler / Liza Minnelli / Theatre Development Fund / John F. Wharton (1974)
* Al Hirschfeld (1975)

1976–2000|

* George Abbott / Richard Burton / Circle in the Square Theatre / Thomas H. Fitzgerald / Mathilde Pincus (1976)
* Cheryl Crawford / Equity Liberty Theatre / Barry Manilow / National Theatre of the Deaf / Diana Ross / Lily Tomlin (1977)
* Irving Berlin / Stan Dragoti and Charles Moss (1978)
* Walter F. Diehl / Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center / Henry Fonda / Richard Rodgers (1979)
* Richard Fitzgerald / Helen Hayes / Mary Tyler Moore / Hobe Morrison (1980)
* Lena Horne (1981)
* Radio City Music Hall / The Actors Fund of America / Warner Communications (1982)
* No award (1983)
* A Chorus Line / Peter Feller / La Tragedie de Carmen (1984)
* Yul Brynner / New York State Council on the Arts (1985)
* No award (1986)
* George Abbott / Jackie Mason (1987)
* Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988)
* No award (1989)
* No award (1990–1992)
* Oklahoma! (1993)
* Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy (1994)
* Carol Channing / National Endowment for the Arts / Harvey Sabinson (1995)
* No award (1996)
* Bernard B. Jacobs (1997)
* Edward E. Colton / Ben Edwards (1998)
* Uta Hagen / Arthur Miller / Isabelle Stevenson (1999)
* Dame Edna: The Royal Tour / T. Edward Hambleton (2000)

2001–present|

* Paul Gemignani (2001)
* Julie Harris / Robert Whitehead (2002)
* Cy Feuer / Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003)
* James M. Nederlander (2004)
* Edward Albee (2005)
* Sarah Jones / Harold Prince (2006)
* No award (2007)
* Robert Russell Bennett / Stephen Sondheim (2008)
* Jerry Herman (2009)
* Alan Ayckbourn / Marian Seldes (2010)
* Athol Fugard / Philip J. Smith (2011)
* Actors' Equity Association / Hugh Jackman (2012)
* Bernard Gersten / Ming Cho Lee / Paul Libin (2013)
* Jane Greenwood (2014)
* John Cameron Mitchell / Tommy Tune (2015)
* Sheldon Harnick / Marshall W. Mason / National Endowment for the Arts / Miles Wilkin (2016)
* James Earl Jones (2017)
* John Leguizamo / Andrew Lloyd Webber / Chita Rivera / Bruce Springsteen (2018)
* Rosemary Harris / Marin Mazzie / Terrence McNally / Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company / Jason Michael Webb / Harold Wheeler (2019)
* No Award (2020)
* The Broadway Advocacy Coalition / David Byrne's American Utopia / Freestyle Love Supreme / Graciela Daniele (2021)
* Angela Lansbury / James C. Nicola (2022)

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Tony Award for Best Original Score

1947–1975|

* Street Scene by Kurt Weill (1947)
* Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter (1949)
* South Pacific by Richard Rodgers (1950)
* Call Me Madam by Irving Berlin (1951)
* No Strings by Richard Rodgers (1962)
* Oliver! by Lionel Bart (1963)
* Hello, Dolly! by Jerry Herman (1964)
* Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (1965)
* Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion (1966)
* Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1967)
* Hallelujah, Baby! by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1968)
* Company by Stephen Sondheim (1971)
* Follies by Stephen Sondheim (1972)
* A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim (1973)
* Gigi by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (1974)
* The Wiz by Charlie Smalls (1975)

1976–2000|

* A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (1976)
* Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (1977)
* On the Twentieth Century by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1978)
* Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim (1979)
* Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (1980)
* Woman of the Year by John Kander and Fred Ebb (1981)
* Nine by Maury Yeston (1982)
* Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot (1983)
* La Cage aux Folles by Jerry Herman (1984)
* Big River by Roger Miller (1985)
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (1986)
* Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil (1987)
* Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988)
* No Award (1989)
* City of Angels by Cy Coleman and David Zippel (1990)
* The Will Rogers Follies by Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green (1991)
* Falsettos by William Finn (1992)
* Kiss of the Spider Woman by John Kander and Fred Ebb / The Who's Tommy by Pete Townshend (1993)
* Passion by Stephen Sondheim (1994)
* Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton (1995)
* Rent by Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Titanic by Maury Yeston (1997)
* Ragtime by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (1998)
* Parade by Jason Robert Brown (1999)
* Aida by Elton John and Tim Rice (2000)

2001–present|

* The Producers by Mel Brooks (2001)
* Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis (2002)
* Hairspray by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (2003)
* Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (2004)
* The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel (2005)
* The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (2006)
* Spring Awakening by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (2007)
* In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2008)
* Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (2009)
* Memphis by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro (2010)
* The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (2011)
* Newsies by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman (2012)
* Kinky Boots by Cyndi Lauper (2013)
* The Bridges of Madison County by Jason Robert Brown (2014)
* Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron (2015)
* Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
* Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (2017)
* The Band's Visit by David Yazbek (2018)
* Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell (2019)
* No Ceremony (2020)
* A Christmas Carol by Christopher Nightingale (2021)
* Six by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (2022)

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