Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

American Broadway theatre award

Tony Award for
Best Book of a Musical

Awarded for| Best Book of a Musical
Location| United States New York City
Presented by| American Theatre Wing The Broadway League
Currently held by| Will Aronson and Hue Park for Maybe Happy Ending (2025)
Website| TonyAwards.com

The Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical is awarded to librettists of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical play. Eligibility is restricted to works with original narrative framework; plotless revues and revivals are ineligible. This award was originally called the Tony Award for Best Author, until musicals were split off from dramas.

## Winners and nominees

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indicates the winner

### 1940s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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1949
(3rd)
Kiss Me, Kate | Bella and Samuel Spewack

### 1950s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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1950
(4th)
South Pacific | Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan

### 1960s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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1962
(16th)
[1]
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Abe Burrows, Willie Gilbert and Jack Weinstock
Carnival! | Helen Deutsch and Michael Stewart
1963
(17th)
[2]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove
Little Me | Neil Simon
Oliver! | Lionel Bart
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off | Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
1964
(18th)
[3]
Hello, Dolly! | Michael Stewart
The Girl Who Came to Supper | Noël Coward and Harry Kurnitz
High Spirits | Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin
She Loves Me | Joe Masteroff
1965
(19th)
[4]
Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein
Baker Street | Jerome Coopersmith
Ben Franklin in Paris | Sidney Michaels
Half a Sixpence | Beverley Cross

### 1970s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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1971
(25th)
[5]
Company | George Furth
The Me Nobody Knows | Robert H. Livingston and Herb Schapiro
The Rothschilds | Sherman Yellen
1972
(26th)
[6]
Two Gentlemen of Verona | John Guare and Mel Shapiro
Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death | Melvin Van Peebles
Follies | James Goldman
Grease | Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs
1973
(27th)
[7]
A Little Night Music | Hugh Wheeler
Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope | Micki Grant
Don't Play Us Cheap | Melvin Van Peebles
Pippin | Roger O. Hirson
1974
(28th)
[8]
Candide | Hugh Wheeler
Raisin | Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg
Seesaw | Michael Bennett
1975
(29th)
[9]
Shenandoah | James Lee Barrett, Philip Rose and Peter Udell
The Lieutenant | Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman and Chuck Strand
Mack and Mabel | Michael Stewart
The Wiz | William F. Brown
1976
(30th)
[10]
A Chorus Line | Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood Jr.
Chicago | Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Pacific Overtures | John Weidman
The Robber Bridegroom | Alfred Uhry
1977
(31st)
[11]
Annie | Thomas Meehan
Happy End | Michael Feingold and Elisabeth Hauptmann
I Love My Wife | Michael Stewart
Your Arms Too Short to Box with God | Vinnette Justine Carroll
1978
(32nd)
[12]
On the Twentieth Century | Betty Comden and Adolph Green
A History of the American Film | Christopher Durang
Runaways | Elizabeth Swados
Working | Stephen Schwartz
1979
(33rd)
[13]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Hugh Wheeler
Ballroom | Jerome Kass
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Larry L. King and Peter Masterson
They're Playing Our Song | Neil Simon

### 1980s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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1980
(34th)
[14]
Evita | Tim Rice
Barnum | Mark Bramble
A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine | Dick Vosburgh
Sugar Babies | Ralph G. Allen and Harry Rigby
1981
(35th)
[15]
Woman of the Year | Peter Stone
42nd Street | Mark Bramble and Michael Stewart
Tintypes | Mary Kyte
The Moony Shapiro Songbook | Julian More and Monty Norman
1982
(36th)
[16]
Dreamgirls | Tom Eyen
The First | Martin Charnin and Joel Siegel
Nine | Arthur Kopit
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Tim Rice
1983
(37th)
[17]
Cats | T. S. Eliot
A Doll's Life | Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Merlin | Richard Levinson and William Link
My One and Only | Timothy S. Mayer and Peter Stone
1984
(38th)
[18]
La Cage aux Folles | Harvey Fierstein
Baby | Sybille Pearson
Sunday in the Park with George | James Lapine
The Tap Dance Kid | Charles Blackwell
1985
(39th)
Big River | William Hauptman
Grind | Fay Kanin
Harrigan 'N Hart | Michael Stewart
Quilters | Barbara Damashek and Molly Newman
1986
(40th)
[19]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Rupert Holmes
Big Deal | Bob Fosse
Singin' in the Rain | Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Wind in the Willows | Jane Iredale
1987
(41st)
[20]
Les Misérables | Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Me and My Girl | Stephen Fry, Douglas Furber, Mike Ockrent and L. Arthur Rose
Rags | Joseph Stein
Smile | Howard Ashman
1988
(42nd)
[21]
Into the Woods | James Lapine
The Gospel at Colonus | Lee Breuer
The Phantom of the Opera | Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Romance/Romance | Barry Harman

### 1990s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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1990
(44th)
[22]
City of Angels | Larry Gelbart
Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber
Grand Hotel | Luther Davis
Meet Me in St. Louis | Hugh Wheeler
1991
(45th)
[23]
The Secret Garden | Marsha Norman
Miss Saigon | Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Once on This Island | Lynn Ahrens
The Will Rogers Follies | Peter Stone
1992
(46th)
[24]
Falsettos | William Finn and James Lapine
Crazy for You | Ken Ludwig
Five Guys Named Moe | Clarke Peters
Jelly's Last Jam | George C. Wolfe
1993
(47th)
[25]
Kiss of the Spider Woman | Terrence McNally
Anna Karenina | Peter Kellogg
Blood Brothers | Willy Russell
The Who's Tommy | Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend
1994
(48th)
[26]
Passion | James Lapine
Beauty and the Beast | Linda Woolverton
Cyrano: The Musical | Koen van Dijk
A Grand Night for Singing | Walter Bobbie
1995
(49th)
Sunset Boulevard | Don Black and Christopher Hampton
1996
(50th)
[27]
Rent | Jonathan Larson
Big | John Weidman
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk | Reg E. Gaines
Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Graciela Daniele, Michael John LaChiusa and Jim Lewis
1997
(51st)
[28]
Titanic | Peter Stone
Jekyll & Hyde | Leslie Bricusse
The Life | Cy Coleman, Ira Gasman and David Newman
Steel Pier | David Thompson
1998
(52nd)
[29]
Ragtime | Terrence McNally
The Lion King | Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Nan Knighton
Side Show | Bill Russell
1999
(53rd)
[30]
Parade | Alfred Uhry
Footloose | Walter Bobbie and Dean Pitchford
It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues | Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor and Dan Wheetman
Marlene | Pam Gems

### 2000s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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2000
(54th)
[31]
James Joyce's The Dead | Richard Nelson
Contact | John Weidman
Marie Christine | Michael John LaChiusa
The Wild Party | Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe
2001
(55th)
[32]
The Producers | Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
A Class Act | Linda Kline and Lonny Price
The Full Monty | Terrence McNally
Jane Eyre | John Caird
2002
(56th)
[33]
Urinetown | Greg Kotis
Mamma Mia! | Catherine Johnson
Sweet Smell of Success | John Guare
Thoroughly Modern Millie | Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan
2003
(57th)
[34]
Hairspray | Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell
Amour | Jeremy Sams and Didier Van Cauwelaert
Flower Drum Song | David Henry Hwang
A Year with Frog and Toad | Willie Reale
2004
(58th)
[35]
Avenue Q | Jeff Whitty
The Boy from Oz | Nick Enright and Martin Sherman
Caroline, or Change | Tony Kushner
Wicked | Winnie Holzman
2005
(59th)
[36]
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Rachel Sheinkin
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Jeffrey Lane
The Light in the Piazza | Craig Lucas
Monty Python's Spamalot | Eric Idle
2006
(60th)
[37]
The Drowsy Chaperone | Bob Martin and Don McKellar
The Color Purple | Marsha Norman
Jersey Boys | Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
The Wedding Singer | Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy
2007
(61st)
[38]
Spring Awakening | Steven Sater
Curtains | Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone
Grey Gardens | Doug Wright
Legally Blonde | Heather Hach
2008
(62nd)
[39]
Passing Strange | Stew
Cry-Baby | Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell
In the Heights | Quiara Alegría Hudes
Xanadu | Douglas Carter Beane
2009
(63rd)
[40]
Billy Elliot the Musical | Lee Hall
Next to Normal | Brian Yorkey
Shrek the Musical | David Lindsay-Abaire
[title of show] | Hunter Bell

### 2010s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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2010
(64th)
[41]
Memphis | Joe DiPietro
Everyday Rapture | Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott
Fela! | Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis
Million Dollar Quartet | Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
2011
(65th)
[42]
The Book of Mormon | Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson | Alex Timbers
The Scottsboro Boys | David Thompson
Sister Act | Douglas Carter Beane, Bill and Cheri Steinkellner
2012
(66th)
[43]
Once | Enda Walsh
Lysistrata Jones | Douglas Carter Beane
Newsies | Harvey Fierstein
Nice Work If You Can Get It | Joe DiPietro
2013
(67th)
[44]
Matilda the Musical | Dennis Kelly
A Christmas Story: The Musical | Joseph Robinette
Kinky Boots | Harvey Fierstein
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella | Douglas Carter Beane
2014
(68th)
[45]
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder | Robert L. Freedman
Aladdin | Chad Beguelin
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | Douglas McGrath
Bullets Over Broadway | Woody Allen
2015
(69th)
[46]
Fun Home | Lisa Kron
An American in Paris | Craig Lucas
Something Rotten! | Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell
The Visit | Terrence McNally
2016
(70th)
[47]
Hamilton | Lin-Manuel Miranda
Bright Star | Steve Martin
School of Rock | Julian Fellowes
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed | George C. Wolfe
2017
(71st)
[48]
Dear Evan Hansen | Steven Levenson
Come from Away | David Hein and Irene Sankoff
Groundhog Day | Danny Rubin
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | Dave Malloy
2018
(72nd)
[49]
The Band's Visit | Itamar Moses
Frozen | Jennifer Lee
Mean Girls | Tina Fey
SpongeBob SquarePants | Kyle Jarrow
2019
(73rd)
[50]
Tootsie | Robert Horn
Ain’t Too Proud | Dominique Morisseau
Beetlejuice | Scott Brown and Anthony King
Hadestown | Anaïs Mitchell
The Prom | Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin

### 2020s

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Year  | Production  | Author

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2020
(74th)
Jagged Little Pill | Diablo Cody
Moulin Rouge! | John Logan
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical | Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins
2022
(75th)
[51]
A Strange Loop | Michael R. Jackson
Girl from the North Country | Conor McPherson
MJ | Lynn Nottage
Mr. Saturday Night | Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel
Paradise Square | Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan
2023
(76th)
[52]
Kimberly Akimbo | David Lindsay-Abaire
& Juliet | David West Read
New York, New York | David Thompson and Sharon Washington
Shucked | Robert Horn
Some Like It Hot | Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin
2024
(77th)
[53]
Suffs | Shaina Taub
Hell's Kitchen | Kristoffer Diaz
The Notebook | Bekah Brunstetter
The Outsiders | Justin Levine and Adam Rapp
Water for Elephants | Rick Elice
2025
(78th)
Maybe Happy Ending | Will Aronson and Hue Park
Buena Vista Social Club | Marco Ramirez
Dead Outlaw | Itamar Moses
Death Becomes Her | Marco Pennette
Operation Mincemeat | David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts

## Award records

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3 Wins

* Hugh Wheeler (2 consecutive)
* Thomas Meehan
* James Lapine

2 Wins

* Terrence McNally
* Larry Gelbart
* Peter Stone

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## Nomination records

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5 Nominations

* Michael Stewart
* Peter Stone

4 Nominations

* Douglas Carter Beane
* James Lapine
* Terrence McNally
* Hugh Wheeler
* Thomas Meehan

3 Nominations

* Chad Beguelin
* Harvey Fierstein
* Michael John LaChiusa
* David Thompson
* George C. Wolfe
* Betty Comden
* Adolph Green
* Craig Lucas
* John Weidman

2 Nominations

* Walter Bobbie
* Alain Boublil
* Mark Bramble
* Leslie Bricusse
* Alfred Uhry
* Joe DiPietro
* Rick Elice
* Bob Fosse
* Larry Gelbart
* John Guare
* Rupert Holmes
* Robert Horn
* Jim Lewis
* David Lindsay-Abaire
* Bob Martin
* Itamar Moses
* Marsha Norman
* Tim Rice
* Dick Scanlan
* Claude-Michel Schönberg
* Neil Simon
* Joseph Stein
* Melvin Van Peebles
* Andrew Lloyd Webber
* Mark O'Donnell

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## See also

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* Tony Award for Best Original Score
* Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical
* Laurence Olivier Award for Best Original Score or New Orchestrations
* List of Tony Award-nominated productions

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "1962 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
2. ^ "1963 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
3. ^ "1964 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
4. ^ "1965 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
5. ^ "1971 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
6. ^ "1972 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
7. ^ "1973 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
8. ^ "1974 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
9. ^ "1975 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
10. ^ "1976 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
11. ^ "1977 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
12. ^ "1978 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
13. ^ "1979 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
14. ^ "1980 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
15. ^ "1981 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
16. ^ "1982 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
17. ^ "1983 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
18. ^ "1984 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
19. ^ "1986 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
20. ^ "1987 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
21. ^ "1988 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 11, 2023.
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42. ^ "2011 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
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48. ^ "2017 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
49. ^ "2018 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
50. ^ "2019 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
51. ^ "2022 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
52. ^ "2023 Tony Awards Nominees". American Theatre Wing. May 2, 2023. Retrieved August 10, 2023.
53. ^ "2024 Tony Awards Nominees". New York Times. April 30, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024.

## External links

[edit]

* Tony Awards Official site
* Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing
* Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com

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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical

1950–1975|

* South Pacific by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan (1950)
* Hello, Dolly! by Michael Stewart (1964)
* Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein (1965)
* Company by George Furth (1971)
* Two Gentlemen of Verona by John Guare and Mel Shapiro (1972)
* A Little Night Music by Hugh Wheeler (1973)
* Candide by Hugh Wheeler (1974)
* Shenandoah by James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell and Philip Rose (1975)

1976–2000|

* A Chorus Line by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante (1976)
* Annie by Thomas Meehan (1977)
* On the Twentieth Century by Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1978)
* Sweeney Todd by Hugh Wheeler (1979)
* Evita by Tim Rice (1980)
* Woman of the Year by Peter Stone (1981)
* Dreamgirls by Tom Eyen (1982)
* Cats by T. S. Eliot (1983)
* La Cage aux Folles by Harvey Fierstein (1984)
* Big River by William Hauptman (1985)
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (1986)
* Les Misérables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (1987)
* Into the Woods by James Lapine (1988)
* No Award (1989)
* City of Angels by Larry Gelbart (1990)
* The Secret Garden by Marsha Norman (1991)
* Falsettos by William Finn and James Lapine (1992)
* Kiss of the Spider Woman by Terrence McNally (1993)
* Passion by James Lapine (1994)
* Sunset Boulevard by Don Black and Christopher Hampton (1995)
* Rent by Jonathan Larson (1996)
* Titanic by Peter Stone (1997)
* Ragtime by Terrence McNally (1998)
* Parade by Alfred Uhry (1999)
* James Joyce's The Dead by Richard Nelson (2000)

2001–present|

* The Producers by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan (2001)
* Urinetown by Greg Kotis (2002)
* Hairspray by Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell (2003)
* Avenue Q by Jeff Whitty (2004)
* The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin (2005)
* The Drowsy Chaperone by Bob Martin and Don McKellar (2006)
* Spring Awakening by Steven Sater (2007)
* Passing Strange by Stew (2008)
* Billy Elliot the Musical by Lee Hall (2009)
* Memphis by Joe DiPietro (2010)
* The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (2011)
* Once by Enda Walsh (2012)
* Matilda the Musical by Dennis Kelly (2013)
* A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman (2014)
* Fun Home by Lisa Kron (2015)
* Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
* Dear Evan Hansen by Steven Levenson (2017)
* The Band's Visit by Itamar Moses (2018)
* Tootsie by Robert Horn (2019)
* Jagged Little Pill by Diablo Cody (2020/21)
* A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (2022)
* Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire (2023)
* Suffs by Shaina Taub (2024)
* Maybe Happy Ending by Will Aronson and Hue Park (2025)

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Play|

* Best Play
* Revival
* Direction
* Leading Actor
* Leading Actress
* Featured Actor
* Featured Actress
* Costume Design
* Lighting Design
* Scenic Design
* Sound Design

Musical|

* Best Musical
* Revival
* Direction
* Leading Actor
* Leading Actress
* Featured Actor
* Featured Actress
* Book
* Choreography
* Costume Design
* Lighting Design
* Orchestrations
* Original Score
* Scenic Design
* Sound Design

Special (non-competitive)|

* Regional Theatre Tony Award
* Special Tony Award
* Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre
* Isabelle Stevenson Award

Retired|

* Author
* Conductor and Musical Director
* Costume Design*
* Director*
* Lighting Design*
* Newcomer
* Revival*
* Scenic Design*
* Special Theatrical Event
* Stage Technician

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Nominee demographics|

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* Other countries

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