Tony Award Winning Musicals
The following list includes Tony Award winning musicals, featuring shows that have received a Tony for Best Musical. Additional musical lists are available in the musical database.
Tony Award Winning Musicals
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: Will Aronson and Hue Park
Tony Award Year: 2025
Musical Type: Contemporary (2023)
Creators: Justin Levine, Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance, and Adam Rapp
Tony Award Year: 2024
Musical Type: Contemporary (2021)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire
Tony Award Year: 2023
Musical Type: Contemporary (2019)
Creators: Michael R. Jackson
Tony Award Year: 2022
Musical Type: Contemporary (2018)
Creators: John Logan and Others
Tony Award Year: 2020
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Anaïs Mitchell
Tony Award Year: 2019
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Creators: David Yazbek and Itamar Moses
Tony Award Year: 2018
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson
Tony Award Year: 2017
Musical Type: Contemporary (2015)
Creators: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Tony Award Year: 2016
Musical Type: Contemporary (2013)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron
Tony Award Year: 2015
Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)
Creators: Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman
Tony Award Year: 2014
Musical Type: Contemporary (2012)
Creators: Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award Year: 2013
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, and Enda Walsh
Tony Award Year: 2012
Musical Type: Contemporary (2011)
Creators: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone
Tony Award Year: 2011
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: David Bryan and Joe DiPietro
Tony Award Year: 2010
Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)
Creators: Elton John and Lee Hall
Tony Award Year: 2009
Musical Type: Contemporary (2005)
Creators: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes
Tony Award Year: 2008
Musical Type: Contemporary (2006)
Creators: Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater
Tony Award Year: 2007
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: Bob Gaudio, Bob Crewe, Marshall Brickman, and Rick Elice
Tony Award Year: 2006
Musical Type: Contemporary (2004)
Creators: John Du Prez and Eric Idle
Tony Award Year: 2005
Musical Type: Contemporary (2003)
Creators: Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty
Tony Award Year: 2004
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Mark O’Donnell, and Thomas Meehan
Tony Award Year: 2003
Musical Type: Contemporary (2002)
Creators: Jeanine Tesori, Dick Scanlan, and Richard Morris
Tony Award Year: 2002
Musical Type: Contemporary (2001)
Creators: Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Tony Award Year: 2001
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1999)
Creators: John Weidman and Others
Tony Award Year: 2000
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1999)
Creators: Chet Walker, Ann Reinking, Richard Maltby, Jr., and Others
Tony Award Year: 1999
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Elton John, Tim Rice, Roger Allers, and Irene Mecchi
Tony Award Year: 1998
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1997)
Creators: Maury Yeston and Peter Stone
Tony Award Year: 1997
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1996)
Creators: Jonathan Larson
Tony Award Year: 1996
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1991)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton
Tony Award Year: 1995
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1994)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
Tony Award Year: 1994
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1992)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Terrence McNally
Tony Award Year: 1993
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1992)
Creators: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and Ken Ludwig
Tony Award Year: 1992
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1991)
Creators: Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Peter Stone
Tony Award Year: 1991
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Cy Coleman, David Zippel, and Larry Gelbart
Tony Award Year: 1990
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1989)
Creators: Various Artists
Tony Award Year: 1989
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1986)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe
Tony Award Year: 1988
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)
Creators: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alan Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, and Jean-Marc Natel
Tony Award Year: 1987
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1985)
Creators: Rupert Holmes
Tony Award Year: 1986
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1985)
Creators: Roger Miller and William Hauptman
Tony Award Year: 1985
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1983)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award Year: 1984
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1981)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber, T.S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn, and Richard Stilgoe
Tony Award Year: 1983
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1982)
Creators: Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit
Tony Award Year: 1982
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1980)
Creators: Harry Warren, Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer, Michael Stewart, and Mark Bramble
Tony Award Year: 1981
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1976)
Creators: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Tony Award Year: 1980
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1979)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Tony Award Year: 1979
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1978)
Creators: Thomas “Fats” Waller, Murray Horwitz, Richard Maltby, Jr., and Others
Tony Award Year: 1978
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1976)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan
Tony Award Year: 1977
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1975)
Creators: Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante
Tony Award Year: 1976
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1974)
Creators: Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown
Tony Award Year: 1975
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)
Creators: Judd Woldin, Robert Brittan, Robert Nemiroff, and Charlotte Zaltzberg
Tony Award Year: 1974
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1973)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
Tony Award Year: 1973
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1971)
Creators: Galt MacDermot, John Guare, and Mel Shapiro
Tony Award Year: 1972
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Tony Award Year: 1971
Musical Type: Late 20th Century (1970)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Tony Award Year: 1970
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1969)
Creators: Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone
Tony Award Year: 1969
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1967)
Creators: Jule Styne, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Arthur Laurents
Tony Award Year: 1968
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1966)
Creators: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Joe Masteroff
Tony Award Year: 1967
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1965)
Creators: Mitch Leigh, Joe Darion, and Dale Wasserman
Tony Award Year: 1966
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, and Joseph Stein
Tony Award Year: 1965
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1964)
Creators: Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart
Tony Award Year: 1964
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1962)
Creators: Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove, and Larry Gelbart
Tony Award Year: 1963
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1961)
Creators: Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert
Tony Award Year: 1962
Musical Type: Post-Golden Age (1960)
Creators: Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, and Michael Stewart
Tony Award Year: 1961
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Jerome Weidman, and George Abbott
Tony Award Year: 1960
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay, and Russel Crouse
Tony Award Year: 1960
Musical Type: Golden Age (1959)
Creators: Albert Hague, Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields, Sidney Sheldon, and David Shaw
Tony Award Year: 1959
Musical Type: Golden Age (1957)
Creators: Meredith Willson
Tony Award Year: 1958
Musical Type: Golden Age (1956)
Creators: Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
Tony Award Year: 1957
Musical Type: Golden Age (1955)
Creators: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, George Abbott, and Douglass Wallop
Tony Award Year: 1956
Musical Type: Golden Age (1954)
Creators: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, George Abbott, and Richard Bissell
Tony Award Year: 1955
Musical Type: Golden Age (1953)
Creators: Alexander Borodin, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Charles Lederer, and Luther Davis
Tony Award Year: 1954
Musical Type: Golden Age (1953)
Creators: Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Joseph Fields, and Jerome Chodorov
Tony Award Year: 1953
Musical Type: Golden Age (1951)
Creators: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Tony Award Year: 1952
Musical Type: Golden Age (1950)
Creators: Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling, and Abe Burrows
Tony Award Year: 1951
Musical Type: Golden Age (1949)
Creators: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan
Tony Award Year: 1950
Musical Type: Golden Age (1948)
Creators: Cole Porter, Bella Spewack, and Samuel Spewack
Tony Award Year: 1949