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
Music/Book: Will Aronson Lyrics/Book: Hue Park
Musical Type: Contemporary (2016)
Tony Award Year: 2025
Music/Lyrics/Book: Justin Levine Music/Lyrics: Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance Book: Adam Rapp
Tony Award Year: 2024
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics/Book: David Lindsay-Abaire
Tony Award Year: 2023
Music/Lyrics/Book: Michael R. Jackson
Tony Award Year: 2022
Music/Lyrics: Various Book: John Logan
Tony Award Year: 2020
Music/Lyrics/Book: Anaïs Mitchell
Tony Award Year: 2019
Music/Lyrics: David Yazbek Book: Itamar Moses
Tony Award Year: 2018
Music/Lyrics: Benj Pasek, Justin Paul Book: Steven Levenson
Tony Award Year: 2017
Music/Lyrics/Book: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Tony Award Year: 2016
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics/Book: Lisa Kron
Tony Award Year: 2015
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Music/Lyrics: Steven Lutvak Lyrics/Book: Robert L. Freedman
Tony Award Year: 2014
Music/Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper Book: Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award Year: 2013
Music/Lyrics: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová Book: Enda Walsh
Tony Award Year: 2012
Music/Lyrics/Book: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone
Tony Award Year: 2011
Music/Lyrics: David Bryan Lyrics/Book: Joe DiPietro
Tony Award Year: 2010
Music: Elton John Lyrics/Book: Lee Hall
Tony Award Year: 2009
Music/Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda Book: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Tony Award Year: 2008
Music: Duncan Sheik Lyrics/Book: Steven Sater
Tony Award Year: 2007
Music: Bob Gaudio Lyrics: Bob Crewe Book: Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice
Tony Award Year: 2006
Music: John Du Prez Music/Lyrics/Book: Eric Idle
Tony Award Year: 2005
Music/Lyrics: Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx Book: Jeff Whitty
Tony Award Year: 2004
Music/Lyrics: Marc Shaiman Lyrics: Scott Wittman Book: Mark O’Donnell, Thomas Meehan
Tony Award Year: 2003
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics/Book: Dick Scanlan Book: Richard Morris
Tony Award Year: 2002
Music/Lyrics/Book: Mel Brooks Book: Thomas Meehan
Tony Award Year: 2001
Music/Lyrics: Various Book: John Weidman
Tony Award Year: 2000
Music/Lyrics: Various Concept: Chet Walker, Ann Reinking, Richard Maltby, Jr.
Tony Award Year: 1999
Music: Elton John Lyrics: Tim Rice Book: Roger Allers, Irene Mecchi
Tony Award Year: 1998
Music/Lyrics: Maury Yeston Book: Peter Stone
Tony Award Year: 1997
Music/Lyrics/Book: Jonathan Larson
Tony Award Year: 1996
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics/Book: Don Black, Christopher Hampton
Tony Award Year: 1995
Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: James Lapine
Tony Award Year: 1994
Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Book: Terrence McNally
Tony Award Year: 1993
Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin Book: Ken Ludwig
Tony Award Year: 1992
Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph Green Book: Peter Stone
Tony Award Year: 1991
Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: David Zippel Book: Larry Gelbart
Tony Award Year: 1990
Music/Lyrics: Various
Tony Award Year: 1989
Music/Book: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart Lyrics/Book: Richard Stilgoe
Tony Award Year: 1988
Music/Lyrics: Claude-Michel Schönberg Lyrics: Alan Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer, Jean-Marc Natel
Tony Award Year: 1987
Music/Lyrics/Book: Rupert Holmes
Tony Award Year: 1986
Music/Lyrics: Roger Miller Book: William Hauptman
Tony Award Year: 1985
Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman Book: Harvey Fierstein
Tony Award Year: 1984
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: T.S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn, Richard Stilgoe
Tony Award Year: 1983
Music/Lyrics: Maury Yeston Book: Arthur Kopit
Tony Award Year: 1982
Music: Harry Warren Lyrics: Al Dubin, Johnny Mercer Book: Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble
Tony Award Year: 1981
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice
Tony Award Year: 1980
Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Hugh Wheeler
Tony Award Year: 1979
Music: Thomas “Fats” Waller Lyrics: Various Concept: Murray Horwitz, Richard Maltby, Jr.
Tony Award Year: 1978
Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin Book: Thomas Meehan
Tony Award Year: 1977
Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Edward Kleban Book: James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante
Tony Award Year: 1976
Music/Lyrics: Charlie Smalls Book: William F. Brown
Tony Award Year: 1975
Music: Judd Woldin Lyrics: Robert Brittan Book: Robert Nemiroff, Charlotte Zaltzberg
Tony Award Year: 1974
Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Hugh Wheeler
Tony Award Year: 1973
Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics/Adaptation: John Guare Adaptation: Mel Shapiro
Tony Award Year: 1972
Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: George Furth
Tony Award Year: 1971
Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams Book: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Tony Award Year: 1970
Music/Lyrics: Sherman Edwards Book: Peter Stone
Tony Award Year: 1969
Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Adolph Green, Betty Comden Book: Arthur Laurents
Tony Award Year: 1968
Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Book: Joe Masteroff
Tony Award Year: 1967
Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: Joe Darion Book: Dale Wasserman
Tony Award Year: 1966
Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick Book: Joseph Stein
Tony Award Year: 1965
Music/Lyrics: Jerry Herman Book: Michael Stewart
Tony Award Year: 1964
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Music/Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart
Tony Award Year: 1963
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Music/Lyrics: Frank Loesser Book: Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert
Tony Award Year: 1962
Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams Book: Michael Stewart
Tony Award Year: 1961
Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick Book: Jerome Weidman, George Abbott
Tony Award Year: 1960
Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II Book: Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Tony Award Year: 1960
Music: Albert Hague Lyrics/Book: Dorothy Fields Book: Herbert Fields, Sidney Sheldon, David Shaw
Tony Award Year: 1959
Music/Lyrics/Book: Meredith Willson
Tony Award Year: 1958
Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics/Book: Alan Jay Lerner
Tony Award Year: 1957
Music/Lyrics: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross Book: George Abbott, Douglass Wallop
Tony Award Year: 1956
Music/Lyrics: Richard Adler, Jerry Ross Book: George Abbott, Richard Bissell
Tony Award Year: 1955
Music: Alexander Borodin Lyrics: Robert Wright, George Forrest Book: Charles Lederer, Luther Davis
Tony Award Year: 1954
Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden, Adolph Green Book: Joseph Fields, Jerome Chodorov
Tony Award Year: 1953
Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II
Tony Award Year: 1952
Music/Lyrics: Frank Loesser Book: Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows
Tony Award Year: 1951
Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics/Book: Oscar Hammerstein II Book: Joshua Logan
Tony Award Year: 1950
Music/Lyrics: Cole Porter Book: Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack
Tony Award Year: 1949
Last Reviewed: June 6, 2025