Tony Award for
Best Musical

Best Musical

New York City

has won the most Tonys, winning in 12 categories, including Best Musical.

The Producers

is the most-nominated production in Tony history, with 16 nominations.

Hamilton

and Fiorello! are the only two musicals to date to have ever tied for the Best Musical award (in 1960).

The Sound of Music

is the shortest-running winner, with 280 performances. (If preview performances are included, then that distinction belongs to A Strange Loop.)

Passion

is the longest-running Best Musical winner, with 16 previews and over 13,981 performances.[70]

The Phantom of the Opera

is the only show thus far to have won the Tony Award for Best Musical after closing.

Hallelujah, Baby!

and Titanic are the only two shows to win the Tony Award for Best Musical without any Tony nominations in the acting categories. (In Kiss Me, Kate's case, only winners were announced that year, and only in the lead performance categories.)

Kiss Me, Kate

(1972), Raisin (1974), 42nd Street (1981) and A Strange Loop (2022) won Best Musical and only one other Tony Award.

Two Gentlemen of Verona

What is now the has housed more Best Musical winners than any other theater on Broadway: Guys and Dolls (1951), Damn Yankees (1956), Redhead (1959), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962), 1776 (1969), Raisin (1974), Nine (1982), In the Heights (2008), and Hamilton (2016).

Richard Rodgers Theatre

was the first winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical to be entirely written by one man, Rupert Holmes. Rent (by Jonathan Larson), Hamilton (by Lin-Manuel Miranda), and A Strange Loop (by Michael R. Jackson) also achieved this feat. Hadestown is the first musical entirely written by one woman, Anaïs Mitchell, to win this award.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

was the first musical written entirely by a team of women to win the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Fun Home

The (2020) is the first ceremony in which only jukebox musicals were nominated.

74th Tony Awards

Accumulated records as of 2022:[69]

Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical

List of Tony Award and Olivier Award winning musicals

List of Tony Award-nominated productions

Tony Awards Official site

Tony Awards at Internet Broadway database Listing

Internet Broadway Database, See Awards

Tony Awards at broadwayworld.com