Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical
The Drama League Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical is a theater award presented annually since 1996 by The Drama League for the most outstanding musical revival of the season.
Both La Cage aux Folles and Company have won the award twice, while Fiddler on the Roof and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street lead with the most nominations, with three each. For producing companies, Roundabout Theatre Company and Lincoln Center Theater lead the wins with three each, with Roundabout also leading the nominations with 18.
Winners and nominees
- Key
2000s
Year |
Production |
Book |
Score |
Producers |
Ref. |
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2004 |
Assassins |
John Weidman |
Stephen Sondheim |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Little Shop of Horrors |
Howard Ashman |
Howard Ashman and Alan Menken |
Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Steven Baruch, James D. Stern, Douglas L. Meyer, Rick Steiner / John & Bonnie Osher and Simone Genatt Haft |
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Wonderful Town |
Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chorodov |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Roger Berlind and Barry & Fran Weissler |
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Finian's Rainbow |
E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy |
Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg |
Irish Repertory Theatre |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
Joseph Stein |
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock |
James L. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley, Harbor Entertainment, Terry Allen Kramer, Bob Boyett, Lawrence Horowitz and Clear Channel Entertainment |
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Big River |
William Hauptman |
Roger Miller |
Roundabout Theatre Company and Deaf West Theatre |
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2005 |
La Cage Aux Folles |
Harvey Fierstein |
Jerry Herman |
James L. Nederlander, Clear Channel Entertainment, Kenneth D. Greenblatt, Terry Allen Kramer and Martin Richards |
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Pacific Overtures |
John Weidman |
Stephen Sondheim |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Shockheaded Peter |
Julian Bleach, Anthony Cairns, Graeme Gilmour and Tamzin Griffin |
Adrian Huge, Martyn Jacques and Adrian Stout |
Dan Markley, Alan J. Schuster, Pomegranate Arts, Shockheaded Media, Harriet Newman Leve, Sonny Everett, Michael Skipper, True Love Prods., Dede Harris/Morton Swinsky |
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2006 |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Hugh Wheeler |
Stephen Sondheim |
Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Ambassador Theatre Group, Adam Kenwright and Tulchin / Bartner / Bagert |
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Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris |
Eric Blau and Mort Shuman |
Jacques Brel |
New York City Center |
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The Pajama Game |
George Abbott and Richard Bissell |
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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The Threepenny Opera |
Bertolt Brecht |
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht |
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Two Gentlemen of Verona |
John Guare and Mel Shapiro |
Galt MacDermot |
Shakespeare in the Park |
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2007 |
Company |
George Furth |
Stephen Sondheim |
Boyett Ostar Productions, Stephanie McClelland, Bill Rollnick, James D'Orta and Philip Geier |
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The Fantasticks |
Tom Jones |
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones |
The Theater Center |
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Les Misérables |
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer |
Cameron Mackintosh |
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A Chorus Line |
James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante |
Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban |
Vienna Waits Productions |
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110 in the Shade |
N. Richard Nash |
Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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2008 |
South Pacific |
Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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Sunday in the Park with George |
James Lapine |
Stephen Sondheim |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Gypsy |
Arthur Laurents |
Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim |
Roger Berlind, The R/F/B/V Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel |
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Black Nativity |
Langston Hughes |
Various |
Classical Theatre of Harlem |
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Seussical |
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens |
TheatreWorksUSA |
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2009 |
Hair |
Gerome Ragni |
Gerome Ragni and James Rado |
The Public Theater |
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Enter Laughing The Musical |
Joseph Stein |
Stan Daniels |
York Theatre Company |
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Guys and Dolls |
Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows |
Frank Loesser |
Howard Panter, Ambassador Theatre Group, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Bill Kenwright, Northwater Entertainment, etc. |
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Pal Joey |
John O'Hara |
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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West Side Story |
Arthur Laurents |
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim |
Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller, Terry Allen Kramer, Sander Jacobs, Roy Furman, etc. |
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Garden of Earthly Delights |
N/A |
Richard Peaslee |
Minetta Lane Theatre |
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2010s
Year |
Production |
Book |
Score |
Producers |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 |
La Cage aux Folles |
Harvey Fierstein |
Jerry Herman |
Menier Chocolate Factory |
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Ragtime |
Alfred Uhry |
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty |
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
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Promises, Promises |
Neil Simon |
Burt Bacharach and Hal David |
Broadway Across America, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, The Weinstein Company / Terry Allen Kramer, Candy Spelling, etc. |
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Finian's Rainbow |
E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy |
Burton Lane and E.Y. Harburg |
David Richenthal, Jack Viertel, Alan D. Marks, Michael Speyer, Bernard Abrams, David M. Milch, Stephen Moore, Debbie Bisno / Myla Lerner and Jujamcyn Theaters |
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A Little Night Music |
Hugh Wheeler |
Stephen Sondheim |
Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Menier Chocolate Factory, Roger Berlind, David Babani, Sonia Friedman, etc. |
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2011 |
Anything Goes |
Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse |
Cole Porter |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert |
Frank Loesser |
Broadway Across America, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Joseph Smith, Michael McCabe, Candy Spelling, Takonkiet Viravan, etc. |
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Hello Again |
Michael John LaChiusa |
Transport Group |
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2012 |
Follies |
James Goldman |
Stephen Sondheim |
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
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Evita |
N/A |
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice |
Hal Luftig, Scott Sanders Productions, Roy Furman, Yasuhiro Kawana, Allan S. Gordon / Adam S. Gordon, James L. Nederlander, etc. |
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The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess |
DuBose Heyward |
George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin |
American Repertory Theatre |
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Carrie |
Lawrence D. Cohen |
Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore |
MCC Theater |
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Jesus Christ Superstar |
N/A |
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice |
Stratford Shakespeare Festival |
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2013 |
Pippin |
Roger O. Hirson |
Stephen Schwartz |
Barry & Fran Weissler, Howard & Janet Kagan, Lisa Matlin, Kyodo Tokyo, A&A Gordon / Brunish Trinchero, etc. |
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Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella |
Oscar Hammerstein II and Douglas Carter Beane |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
Robyn Goodman, Jill Furman, Stephen Kocis, Edward Walson, Venetian Glass Productions, The Araca Group, Luigi & Rose Caiola, Roy Furman, etc. |
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Annie |
Thomas Meehan |
Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin |
Arielle Tepper Madover, Roger Horchow, Sally Horchow, Roger Berlind, Roy Furman, Debbie Bisno, Stacey Mindich, James M. Nederlander, etc. |
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Marry Me a Little |
Craig Lucas and Norman René |
Stephen Sondheim |
Keen Company |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
Rupert Holmes |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Passion |
James Lapine |
Stephen Sondheim |
Classic Stage Company |
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2014 |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
John Cameron Mitchell |
Stephen Trask |
Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jessica Genick, Will Trice, Ronald Frankel, Rebecca Gold, Roger Berlind, etc. |
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Violet |
Brian Crawley |
Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Les Misérables |
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Herbert Kretzmer |
Cameron Mackintosh |
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Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill |
Lanie Robertson |
Billie Holiday |
Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jessica Genick, Will Trice, Ronald Frankel, Rebecca Gold, Roger Berlind, Ken Greiner, etc. |
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2015 |
The King and I |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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Into the Woods |
James Lapine |
Stephen Sondheim |
Fiasco Theater, McCarter Theatre Center and Roundabout Theatre Company |
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On the Twentieth Century |
Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Cy Coleman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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On the Town |
Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
Barrington Stage Company, Howard & Janet Kagan, Severn Partners Entertainment, Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman, etc. |
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Allegro |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
Classic Stage Company |
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2016 |
The Color Purple |
Marsha Norman |
Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray |
Scott Sanders Productions, Roy Furman, Oprah Winfrey, David Babani, Tom Siracusa, Caiola Productions, etc. |
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Dames at Sea |
George Haimsohn and Robin Miller |
Jim Wise, George Haimsohn and Robin Miller |
Infinity Theatre Company-Anna Roberts Ostroff & Alan Ostroff, Martin Platt & David Elliott, Patricia M. Roberts & Bert C. Roberts, etc. |
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Fiddler on the Roof |
Joseph Stein |
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick |
Jeffrey Richards, Jam Theatricals, Louise Gund, Jerry Frankel, Broadway Across America, Rebecca Gold, Stephanie P. McClelland, etc. |
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She Loves Me |
Joe Masteroff |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Spring Awakening |
Steven Sater |
Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater |
Deaf West Theatre |
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2017 |
Hello, Dolly! |
Michael Stewart |
Jerry Herman |
Scott Rudin, Roy Furman, James L. Nederlander, Eli Bush, Universal Stage Productions, Roger Berlind, etc. |
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Miss Saigon |
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Alain Boublil, Richard Maltby Jr. and Claude-Michel Schönberg |
Cameron Mackintosh |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Hugh Wheeler |
Stephen Sondheim |
Tooting Arts Club and Barrow Street Theatre |
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Sweet Charity |
Neil Simon |
Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields |
The New Group |
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Falsettos |
William Finn and James Lapine |
William Finn |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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Cats |
T.S. Eliot |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
The Shubert Organization, James L. Nederlander, Really Useful Group, Cameron Mackintosh, Roy Furman, John Gore, etc. |
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Sunset Boulevard |
Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
The Really Useful Group, Ltd |
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2018 |
My Fair Lady |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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Once on This Island |
Lynn Ahrens |
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens |
Ken Davenport, Hunter Arnold, Carl Daikeler, Roy Putrino, Broadway Strategic Return Fund, Sandi Moran, Caiola Productions, etc. |
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Pacific Overtures |
John Weidman |
Stephen Sondheim |
Classic Stage Company |
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Carousel |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
Roy Furman, Scott Rudin, Universal Theatrical Group, Benjamin Lowy, Eli Bush, James L. Nederlander, Candy Spelling, etc. |
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2019 |
Kiss Me, Kate |
Cy Coleman |
Bella Spewack and Samuel Spewack |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Carmen Jones |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Georges Bizet and Oscar Hammerstein II |
Classic Stage Company |
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Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish |
Joseph Stein |
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick |
National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene |
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Oklahoma! |
Oscar Hammerstein II |
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II |
St. Ann's Warehouse |
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Ordinary Days |
N/A |
Adam Gwon |
Keen Company |
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Smokey Joe's Cafe |
N/A |
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller |
Stage 42 |
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2020s
Year |
Production |
Book |
Score |
Producers |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 |
Little Shop of Horrors |
Howard Ashman |
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman |
Tom Kirdahy, Robert Ahrens, Hunter Arnold, and Mickey Liddell, Caiola Productions, Curt Cronin, and DDM Productions |
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Rock of Ages |
Chris D'Arienzo |
Various |
New World Stages |
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Enter Laughing The Musical |
Joseph Stein |
Stan Daniels |
York Theatre Company |
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
Richard Morris |
Meredith Willson |
Transport Group |
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West Side Story |
Arthur Laurents |
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim |
Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Eli Bush, Adam Rodner and James L. Nederlander |
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2021 |
No award given due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
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2022 |
Company |
George Furth |
Stephen Sondheim |
Elliott & Harper Productions, The Shubert Organization, Catherine Schreiber, Nederlander Presentations, Inc., etc. |
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The Music Man |
Meredith Willson |
Barry Diller, David Geffen, Kate Horton and Fictionhouse; Associate Producer: Rashad V. Chambers |
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Funny Girl |
Isobel Lennart |
Jule Styne and Bob Merrill |
Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, David Babani, Roy Furman, No Guarantees, Adam Blanshay Productions, Daryl Roth, etc. |
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Caroline, or Change |
Tony Kushner |
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Assassins |
John Weidman |
Stephen Sondheim |
Classic Stage Company |
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2023 |
Into the Woods |
James Lapine |
Stephen Sondheim |
New York City Center, Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn Theaters, Daryl Roth, Hunter Arnold, etc. |
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Camelot |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Hugh Wheeler |
Stephen Sondheim |
Jeffrey Seller, Bob Boyett, Diana DiMenna & Plate Spinner Productions / Aaron Glick, Eastern Standard Time, Roy Furman, Thomas Kail, etc. |
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Bob Fosse's Dancin' |
Various |
Old Globe, Joey Parnes, Hunter Arnold, Kayla Greenspan, Rodger Hess & Michael Seago, Bob Boyett, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, etc. |
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1776 |
Peter Stone |
Sherman Edwards |
Roundabout Theatre Company and American Repertory Theater |
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A Man of No Importance |
Terrence McNally |
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens |
Classic Stage Company |
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Parade |
Alfred Uhry |
Jason Robert Brown |
New York City Center, Seaview, Ambassador Theatre Group Productions, Alex Levy, Kevin Ryan, Eric & Marsi Gardiner, etc. |
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2024 |
Merrily We Roll Along |
George Furth |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sonia Friedman Productions, David Babani, Patrick Catullo and Jeff Romley, Debbie Bisno, etc. |
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The Who's Tommy |
Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff |
Pete Townshend |
Stephen Gabriel and Ira Pittelman; Co-Produced by Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky, Mary Maggio & Scott Abrams, Goodman Theatre, etc. |
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Cabaret |
Joe Masteroff |
John Kander and Fred Ebb |
Ambassador Theatre Group |
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Gutenberg! |
Scott Brown and Anthony King |
Ambassador Theatre Group, Patrick Catullo, Bad Robot Live, Seth A. Goldstein, Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Runyonland Productions, etc. |
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Here Lies Love |
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim |
Hal Luftig / Kevin Connor, Patrick Catullo, Clint Ramos, Jose Antonio Vargas and Diana DiMenna & Plate Spinner Productions, etc |
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I Can Get It for You Wholesale |
Jerome Weidman |
Harold Rome |
Classic Stage Company |
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Spamalot |
Eric Idle |
Eric Idle and John Du Prez |
Jeffrey Finn and Roy Furman; Co-Produced by Bob Boyett, The Shubert Organization, etc. |
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The Wiz |
William F. Brown |
Charlie Smalls, Timothy Graphenreed, Harold Wheeler, George Faison and Luther Vandross |
Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson, Brian Anthony Moreland, Kandi Burruss & Todd Tucker, Elizabeth Armstrong, etc. |
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2025 |
Sunset Blvd. |
Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
The Jamie Lloyd Company, ATG Productions, Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Gavin Kalin Productions, etc. |
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The Marriage of Figaro |
Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Little Island |
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Once Upon a Mattress |
Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller and Amy Sherman-Palladino |
Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer |
New York City Center, Seaview, Creative Partners Productions, Jenny Gersten & Half Zip Productions and Hugo Six, etc. |
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The Last Five Years |
Jason Robert Brown |
Seaview, ATG Productions, The Season, Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson and Bee Carrozzini; Co-Produced by Aleff Productions, etc. |
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Gypsy |
Arthur Laurents |
Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim |
Tom Kirdahy and Mara Isaacs; Produced by Kevin Ryan and Diane Scott Carter; Co-Produced by Wendy Federman & Heni Koenigsberg, etc. |
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Floyd Collins |
Tina Landau |
Adam Guettel |
Lincoln Center Theatre in association with Creative Partners Productions and Mark Cortale & Charles D. Urstadt. |
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
T.S. Eliot |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Michael Harrison, Mike Bosner, and Perelman Arts Center |
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Pirates! The Penzance Musical |
W. S. Gilbert |
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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Urinetown |
Greg Kotis |
Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis |
New York City Center |
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2026 |
Ragtime |
Terrence McNally |
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens |
Lincoln Center Theater |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
Rachel Sheinkin |
William Finn |
David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Barrington Stage Company and Second Stage Theater |
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Bat Boy: The Musical |
Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming |
Laurence O'Keefe |
New York City Center |
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball |
T.S. Eliot |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Cynthia Erivo, Get Lifted, LaChanze, Jeremy Pope, Law Roach, Lena Waithe, et al. |
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Chess |
Danny Strong |
Benny Andersson, Lea Michele, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Tim Rice |
Michael Mayer & Stark Sands, The Shubert Organization, et al. |
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The Gospel at Colonus |
Lee Breuer |
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson |
Little Island at Pier 55 |
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Heathers |
Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy |
Bill Kenwright Ltd., Paul Taylor-Mills, and Jerry Goehrin |
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Masquerade |
Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe |
Randy Weiner and Andrew Lloyd Webber |
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Oratorio for Living Things |
Heather Christian |
Signature Theatre Company |
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The Rocky Horror Show |
Richard O'Brien |
Roundabout Theatre Company |
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The Wild Party |
George C. Wolfe and Michael John LaChiusa |
Michael John LaChiusa |
New York City Center |
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Titles with multiple wins
- 2 wins
- La Cage Aux Folles
- Company
Producing companies with multiple wins
- 3 wins
- Roundabout Theatre Company
- Lincoln Center Theater
Titles with multiple nominations
- 3 nominations
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- 2 nominations
- Assassins
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Finian's Rainbow
- La Cage Aux Folles
- Pacific Overtures
- Les Misérables
- Gypsy
- West Side Story
- Into the Woods
- Company
- Cats
- Sunset Boulevard
- Ragtime
Producing companies with multiple nominations
- 18 nominations
- Roundabout Theatre Company
- 7 nominations
- Classic Stage Company
- Ambassador Theatre Group
- The Shubert Organization
- 6 nominations
- Lincoln Center Theater
- 5 nominations
- New York City Center
- 2 nominations
- Deaf West Theatre
- The Public Theater
- York Theatre Company
- Menier Chocolate Factory
- The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- American Repertory Theater
- Transport Group