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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
Annual theatre award in New York City
Annual theatre award in New York City
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Drama Desk Award |
| for Outstanding Musical | |
| awarded_for | Outstanding Musical |
| presenter | Drama Desk |
| location | New York City |
| country | United States |
| year | 1975 |
| holder | *Maybe Happy Ending* (2025) |
| website |
for Outstanding Musical
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.
Stephen Sondheim is the artist with the most wins and nominations in the category, winning four of his eight nominations. Following closely behind are Thomas Meehan, Cy Coleman and James Lapine with three wins each. For nominations, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken, Terrence McNally and Jeanine Tesori follow Sondheim with seven nominations each.
Winners and nominees
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1970s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ***The Wiz* ** | **William F. Brown** | **Charlie Smalls** | ||||||||
| *Goodtime Charley* | Sidney Michaels | Larry Grossman | Hal Hackady | |||||||
| *In Gay Company* | Fred Silver | |||||||||
| *The Lieutenant* | Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman and Chuck Strand | |||||||||
| ***A Chorus Line* ** | **James Kirkwood** | **Marvin Hamlisch** | **Edward Kleban** | |||||||
| *Pacific Overtures* | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | ||||||||
| *The Robber Bridegroom* | Alfred Uhry | Robert Waldman | Alfred Uhry | |||||||
| ***Annie* ** | **Thomas Meehan** | **Charles Strouse** | **Martin Charnin** | |||||||
| *Happy End* | Elisabeth Hauptmann | Kurt Weill | Bertolt Brecht | |||||||
| *I Love My Wife* | Michael Stewart | Cy Coleman | Michael Stewart | |||||||
| *The King and I* | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | |||||||
| *Porgy and Bess* | DuBose Heyward | George Gershwin | DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin | |||||||
| *The Robber Bridegroom* | Alfred Uhry | Robert Waldman | Alfred Uhry | |||||||
| ***Ain't Misbehavin'* ** | **N/A** | **Thomas "Fats" Waller** | **Various** | |||||||
| *The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas* | Larry L. King and Peter Masterson | Carol Hall | ||||||||
| *Dancin'* | Various | |||||||||
| *Runaways* | Elizabeth Swados | |||||||||
| *Working* | Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso | Various | ||||||||
| ***Sweeney Todd* ** | **Hugh Wheeler** | **Stephen Sondheim** | ||||||||
| *Eubie!* | Eubie Blake | Various | ||||||||
| *They're Playing Our Song* | Neil Simon | Marvin Hamlisch | Carole Bayer Sager | |||||||
| *The Umbrellas of Cherbourg* | Jacques Demy | Michel Legrand | Sheldon Harnick |
1980s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ***Evita* ** | **Tim Rice** | **Andrew Lloyd Webber** | **Tim Rice** | ||||||||||||
| *The 1940's Radio Hour* | Walton Jones | Various | |||||||||||||
| *Barnum* | Mark Bramble | Cy Coleman | Michael Stewart | ||||||||||||
| ''Sidewalkin''' | Jake Holmes | ||||||||||||||
| *Tintypes* | Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle | Various | |||||||||||||
| ***The Pirates of Penzance*** | **W. S. Gilbert** | **Arthur Sullivan** | **W. S. Gilbert** | ||||||||||||
| *[42nd Street](42nd-street-musical)* | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | ||||||||||||
| *Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music* | Various | ||||||||||||||
| ***Nine* ** | **Arthur Kopit** | **Maury Yeston** | |||||||||||||
| *Dreamgirls* | Tom Eyen | Henry Krieger | Tom Eyen | ||||||||||||
| *Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat* | Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice | ||||||||||||
| *Pump Boys and Dinettes* | Pump Boys and Dinettes | ||||||||||||||
| ***Little Shop of Horrors*** | **Howard Ashman** | **Alan Menken** | **Howard Ashman** | ||||||||||||
| *My One and Only* | Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | ||||||||||||
| ***Sunday in the Park with George* ** | **James Lapine** | **Stephen Sondheim** | |||||||||||||
| *Baby* | Sybille Pearson | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | ||||||||||||
| *The Rink* | Terrence McNally | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||||||
| *Taking My Turn* | Robert H. Livingston | Gary William Friedman | Will Holt | ||||||||||||
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| ***The Mystery of Edwin Drood* ** | **Rupert Holmes** | ||||||||||||||
| *Big Deal* | Bob Fosse | Various | |||||||||||||
| *Goblin Market* | Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon | Polly Pen | Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon | ||||||||||||
| *Personals* | Alan Merken | Stephen Schwartz | Alan Merken | ||||||||||||
| ***Les Misérables* ** | **Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil** | **Claude-Michel Schönberg** | **Herbert Kretzmer** | ||||||||||||
| *Me and My Girl* | L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber | Noel Gay | L. Arthur Rose and Douglas Furber | ||||||||||||
| *Olympus on My Mind* | Barry Harman | Grant Sturiale | Barry Harman | ||||||||||||
| *Starlight Express* | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Richard Stilgoe | |||||||||||||
| ***Into the Woods* ** | **James Lapine** | **Stephen Sondheim** | |||||||||||||
| *The Phantom of the Opera* | Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Charles Hart | ||||||||||||
| ***Jerome Robbins' Broadway* ** | **N/A** | **Various** | |||||||||||||
| *Black and Blue* | Claudio Segovia and Héctor Orezzoli | Various |
1990s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ***City of Angels* ** | **Larry Gelbart** | **Cy Coleman** | **David Zippel** | ||||||||||||
| *Aspects of Love* | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Charles Hart | |||||||||||||
| ***The Will Rogers Follies*** | **Peter Stone** | **Cy Coleman** | **Betty Comden and Adolph Green** | ||||||||||||
| *Assassins* | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| *The Secret Garden* | Marsha Norman | Lucy Simon | Marsha Norman | ||||||||||||
| ***Crazy for You* ** | **Ken Ludwig** | **George Gershwin** | **Ira Gershwin** | ||||||||||||
| *Jelly's Last Jam* | George C. Wolfe | Jelly Roll Morton | Susan Birkenhead | ||||||||||||
| ***Kiss of the Spider Woman* ** | **Terrence McNally** | **John Kander** | **Fred Ebb** | ||||||||||||
| *Ruthless!* | Joel Paley | Marvin Laird | Joel Paley | ||||||||||||
| *The Who's Tommy* | Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff | Pete Townshend | |||||||||||||
| *Wings* | Arthur Perlman | Jeffrey Lunden | Arthur Perlman | ||||||||||||
| ***Passion* ** | **James Lapine** | **Stephen Sondheim** | |||||||||||||
| *Beauty and the Beast* | Linda Woolverton | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman and Tim Rice | ||||||||||||
| *Hello Again* | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||||
| ***Show Boat*** | **Oscar Hammerstein II** | **Jerome Kern** | **Oscar Hammerstein II and P.G. Wodehouse** | ||||||||||||
| *A Christmas Carol* | Alan Menken | Lynn Ahrens | |||||||||||||
| *How to Succeed in Business Without | |||||||||||||||
| Really Trying* | Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert | Frank Loesser | |||||||||||||
| *Merrily We Roll Along* | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| *Sunset Boulevard* | Christopher Hampton and Don Black | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black | ||||||||||||
| ***Rent* ** | **Jonathan Larson** | ||||||||||||||
| *Bed and Sofa* | Laurence Klavan | Polly Pen | Laurence Klavan | ||||||||||||
| *Big: the musical* | John Weidman | David Shire | Richard Maltby, Jr. | ||||||||||||
| *Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk* | Reg E. Gaines | Daryl Waters, Zane Mark and Ann Duquesnay | Reg E. Gaines, George C. Wolfe and Ann Duquesnay | ||||||||||||
| *Chronicle of a Death Foretold* | Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis | Bob Telson | Graciela Daniele, Jim Lewis and Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||
| *Floyd Collins* | Tina Landau | Adam Guettel | |||||||||||||
| ***The Life* ** | **Cy Coleman, David Newman and Ira Gasman** | **Cy Coleman** | **Ira Gasman** | ||||||||||||
| *Steel Pier* | David Thompson | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||||||
| *Violet* | Brian Crawley | Jeanine Tesori | Brian Crawley | ||||||||||||
| ***Ragtime* ** | **Terrence McNally** | **Stephen Flaherty** | **Lynn Ahrens** | ||||||||||||
| *Forever Tango* | Various | ||||||||||||||
| *Hedwig and the Angry Inch* | John Cameron Mitchell | Stephen Trask | |||||||||||||
| *High Society* | Arthur Kopit | Cole Porter | Cole Porter and Susan Birkenhead | ||||||||||||
| *The Lion King* | Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi | Elton John | Tim Rice | ||||||||||||
| ***Parade* ** | **Alfred Uhry** | **Jason Robert Brown** | |||||||||||||
| *A New Brain* | William Finn and James Lapine | William Finn | |||||||||||||
| *The Civil War* | Gregory Boyd and Frank Wildhorn | Frank Wildhorn | Jack Murphy |
2000s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ***Contact* ** | **John Weidman** | **Various** | |||||||||||||
| *James Joyce's The Dead* | Richard Nelson | Shaun Davey | Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey | ||||||||||||
| *Saturday Night* | Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| *Swing!* | Paul Kelley | Various | |||||||||||||
| *The Wild Party* | Andrew Lippa | ||||||||||||||
| ***The Producers* ** | **Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan** | **Mel Brooks** | |||||||||||||
| *Bat Boy: The Musical* | Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming | Laurence O'Keefe | |||||||||||||
| *Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her | |||||||||||||||
| Chameleon Skin* | Kristen Childs | ||||||||||||||
| *The Full Monty* | Terrence McNally | David Yazbek | |||||||||||||
| *Urinetown* | Greg Kotis | Mark Hollman | Greg Kotis and Mark Hollman | ||||||||||||
| ***Thoroughly Modern Millie* ** | **Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan** | **Jeanine Tesori** | **Dick Scanlan** | ||||||||||||
| *The Last Five Years* | Jason Robert Brown | ||||||||||||||
| *Sweet Smell of Success* | John Guare | Marvin Hamlisch | Craig Carnelia | ||||||||||||
| *Tick, Tick... BOOM!* | Jonathan Larson and David Auburn | Jonathan Larson | |||||||||||||
| ***Hairspray* ** | **Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan** | **Marc Shaiman** | **Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman** | ||||||||||||
| *A Man of No Importance* | Terrence McNally | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| *Amour* | Didier Van Cauwelaert and Jeremy Sams | Michel Legrand | Jeremy Sams | ||||||||||||
| *Avenue Q* | Jeff Whitty | Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx | |||||||||||||
| *Movin' Out* | Twyla Tharp | Billy Joel | |||||||||||||
| *Zanna, Don't!* | Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris | Tim Acito | Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris | ||||||||||||
| ***Wicked* ** | **Winnie Holzman** | **Stephen Schwartz** | |||||||||||||
| *Caroline, or Change* | Tony Kushner | Jeanine Tesori | Tony Kushner | ||||||||||||
| *Johnny Guitar* | Nicholas van Hoogstraten | Martin Silvestri and Joel Higgins | Joel Higgins | ||||||||||||
| *The Musical of Musicals* | Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell | Eric Rockwell | Joanne Bogart | ||||||||||||
| ***Monty Python's Spamalot* ** | **Eric Idle** | **John Du Prez and Eric Idle** | **Eric Idle** | ||||||||||||
| *The 25th Annual Putnam County | |||||||||||||||
| Spelling Bee* | Rachel Sheinkin | William Finn | |||||||||||||
| *Altar Boyz* | Kevin Del Aguila | Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker | |||||||||||||
| *Dirty Rotten Scoundrels* | Jeffrey Lane | David Yazbek | |||||||||||||
| *The Light in the Piazza* | Craig Lucas | Adam Guettel | |||||||||||||
| ***The Drowsy Chaperone* ** | **Bob Martin and Don McKellar** | **Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison** | |||||||||||||
| *Grey Gardens* | Doug Wright | Scott Frankel | Michael Korie | ||||||||||||
| *Jersey Boys* | Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice | Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe | |||||||||||||
| *See What I Wanna See* | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||||
| *Thrill Me* | Stephen Dolginoff | ||||||||||||||
| *The Wedding Singer* | Tim Herlihy and Chad Beguelin | Matthew Sklar | Chad Beguelin | ||||||||||||
| ***Spring Awakening* ** | **Steven Sater** | **Duncan Sheik** | **Steven Sater** | ||||||||||||
| *Curtains* | Rupert Holmes | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||||||
| *In the Heights* | Quiara Alegría Hudes | Lin-Manuel Miranda | |||||||||||||
| *Legally Blonde* | Heather Hach | Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe | |||||||||||||
| *LoveMusik* | Alfred Uhry | Kurt Weill | Various | ||||||||||||
| *Mary Poppins* | Julian Fellowes | Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe | |||||||||||||
| ***Passing Strange* ** | **Stew** | **Stew and Heidi Rodewald** | **Stew** | ||||||||||||
| *A Catered Affair* | Harvey Fierstein | John Bucchino | |||||||||||||
| *Adding Machine* | Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt | Joshua Schmidt | Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| *The Glorious Ones* | Lynn Ahrens | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| *The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island* | Ben Katchor | Mark Mulcahy | Ben Katchor | ||||||||||||
| *Xanadu* | Douglas Carter Beane | Jeff Lynne and John Farrar | |||||||||||||
| ***Billy Elliot the Musical* ** | **Lee Hall** | **Elton John** | **Lee Hall** | ||||||||||||
| *[9 to 5](9-to-5-musical)* | Patricia Resnick | Dolly Parton | |||||||||||||
| *Fela!* | Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis | Fela Kuti | |||||||||||||
| *Liza's at the Palace...* | Ron Lewis | Various | |||||||||||||
| *Shrek the Musical* | David Lindsay-Abaire | Jeanine Tesori | David Lindsay-Abaire | ||||||||||||
| *The Story of My Life* | Brian Hill | Neil Bartram |
2010s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ***Memphis* ** | **Joe DiPietro** | **David Bryan** | **Joe DiPietro and David Bryan** | ||||||||||||
| *The Addams Family* | Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice | Andrew Lippa | |||||||||||||
| *American Idiot* | Michael Mayer and Billie Joe Armstrong | Green Day | Billie Joe Armstrong | ||||||||||||
| *Everyday Rapture* | Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott | Various | |||||||||||||
| *The Scottsboro Boys* | David Thompson | John Kander and Fred Ebb | |||||||||||||
| *Yank!* | David Zellnik | Joseph Zellnik | David Zellnik | ||||||||||||
| ***The Book of Mormon* ** | **Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone** | ||||||||||||||
| *In Transit* | Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth | ||||||||||||||
| *The Kid* | Michael Zam | Andy Monroe | Jack Lechner | ||||||||||||
| *Priscilla, Queen of the Desert* | Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott | Various | |||||||||||||
| *See Rock City & Other Destinations* | Adam Mathias | Brad Alexander | Adam Mathias | ||||||||||||
| *Sister Act* | Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner and Douglas Carter Beane | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | ||||||||||||
| ***Once* ** | **Enda Walsh** | **Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová** | |||||||||||||
| *Bonnie & Clyde* | Ivan Menchell | Frank Wildhorn | Don Black | ||||||||||||
| *Death Takes a Holiday* | Peter Stone and Thomas Meehan | Maury Yeston | |||||||||||||
| *Leap of Faith* | Janus Cercone and Glenn Slater | Alan Menken | Glenn Slater | ||||||||||||
| *Newsies* | Harvey Fierstein | Alan Menken | Jack Feldman | ||||||||||||
| *Nice Work If You Can Get It* | Joe DiPietro | George and Ira Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| *Queen of the Mist* | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||||
| ***Matilda the Musical* ** | **Dennis Kelly** | **Tim Minchin** | |||||||||||||
| *A Christmas Story: The Musical* | Joseph Robinette | Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | |||||||||||||
| *Giant* | Sybille Pearson | Michael John LaChiusa | |||||||||||||
| *Hands on a Hardbody* | Doug Wright | Amanda Green and Trey Anastasio | Amanda Green | ||||||||||||
| *Here Lies Love* | David Byrne and Fatboy Slim | ||||||||||||||
| *Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812* | Dave Malloy | ||||||||||||||
| *The Other Josh Cohen* | David Rossmer and Steve Rosen | ||||||||||||||
| ***A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder* ** | **Robert L. Freedman** | **Steven Lutvak** | **Robert L. Freedman and | ||||||||||||
| Steven Lutvak** | |||||||||||||||
| *Aladdin* | Chad Beguelin | Alan Menken | Chad Beguelin, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice | ||||||||||||
| *Beautiful: The Carole King Musical* | Douglas McGrath | Various | |||||||||||||
| *The Bridges of Madison County* | Marsha Norman | Jason Robert Brown | |||||||||||||
| *Fun Home* | Lisa Kron | Jeanine Tesori | Lisa Kron | ||||||||||||
| *Love's Labour's Lost* | Alex Timbers | Michael Friedman | |||||||||||||
| *Rocky the Musical* | Thomas Meehan | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| ***Hamilton* ** | **Lin-Manuel Miranda** | ||||||||||||||
| *An American in Paris* | Craig Lucas | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | ||||||||||||
| *Fly By Night* | Will Connolly, Michael Mitnick and Kim Rosenstock | ||||||||||||||
| *Pretty Filthy* | Bess Wohl | Michael Friedman | |||||||||||||
| *Something Rotten!* | Karey Kirkpatrick and | ||||||||||||||
| John O'Farrell | Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick | ||||||||||||||
| *The Visit* | Terrence McNally | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||||||
| ***Shuffle Along* ** | **George C. Wolfe** | **Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle** | |||||||||||||
| *First Daughter Suite* | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||||
| *Daddy Long Legs* | John Caird | Paul Gordon | |||||||||||||
| *School of Rock* | Julian Fellowes | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Glenn Slater | ||||||||||||
| *Waitress* | Jessie Nelson | Sara Bareilles | |||||||||||||
| ***Come from Away* ** | **Irene Sankoff and David Hein** | ||||||||||||||
| *Anastasia* | Terrence McNally | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| *The Band's Visit* | Itamar Moses | David Yazbek | |||||||||||||
| *Hadestown* | Anaïs Mitchell | ||||||||||||||
| *The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical* | Joe Tracz | Rob Rokicki | |||||||||||||
| ***SpongeBob SquarePants* ** | **Kyle Jarrow** | **Various** | |||||||||||||
| *Desperate Measures* | Peter Kellogg | David Friedman | Peter Kellogg | ||||||||||||
| *KPOP* | Jason Kim | Helen Park and Max Vernon | |||||||||||||
| *Mean Girls* | Tina Fey | Jeff Richmond | Nell Benjamin | ||||||||||||
| *Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story* | Hannah Moscovitch | Ben Caplan and Christian Barry | |||||||||||||
| ***The Prom* ** | **Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin** | **Matthew Sklar** | **Chad Beguelin** | ||||||||||||
| *Be More Chill* | Joe Tracz | Joe Iconis | |||||||||||||
| *The Hello Girls* | Peter Mills and Cara Reichel | Peter Mills | |||||||||||||
| *Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future* | Andrew R. Butler | ||||||||||||||
| *Tootsie* | Robert Horn | David Yazbek |
2020s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ***A Strange Loop*** | **Michael R. Jackson** | ||||||||||
| *Octet* | Dave Malloy | ||||||||||
| *The Secret Life of Bees* | Lynn Nottage | Duncan Sheik | Susan Birkenhead | ||||||||
| *Soft Power* | David Henry Hwang | Jeanine Tesori | David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori | ||||||||
| *The Wrong Man* | Ross Golan | ||||||||||
| *No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City*}} | |||||||||||
| ***Kimberly Akimbo*** | **David Lindsay-Abaire** | **Jeanine Tesori** | **David Lindsay-Abaire** | ||||||||
| *The Hang* | Taylor Mac | Matt Ray | Taylor Mac | ||||||||
| *Harmony: A New Musical* | Bruce Sussman | Barry Manilow | Bruce Sussman | ||||||||
| *Intimate Apparel* | Lynn Nottage | Ricky Ian Gordon | Lynn Nottage | ||||||||
| *Six* | Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss | ||||||||||
| ***Some Like It Hot*** | **Matthew López & Amber Ruffin** | **Marc Shaiman** | **Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman** | ||||||||
| *& Juliet* | David West Read | Max Martin and various others | |||||||||
| *Between the Lines* | Timothy Allen McDonald | Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson | |||||||||
| *F*ck7thGrade* | Liza Birkenmeier | Jill Sobule | |||||||||
| *Shucked* | Robert Horn | Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally | |||||||||
| *White Girl in Danger* | Michael R. Jackson | ||||||||||
| ***Dead Outlaw*** | **Itamar Moses** | **David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna** | |||||||||
| *Illinoise* | Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury | Sufjan Stevens | |||||||||
| *Lizard Boy* | Justin Huertas | ||||||||||
| *Teeth* | Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs | ||||||||||
| *The Connector* | Jonathan Marc Sherman | Jason Robert Brown | |||||||||
| *The Outsiders* | Adam Rapp and Justin Levine | Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance, and Justin Levine | |||||||||
| ***Maybe Happy Ending*** | *Will Aronson and Hue Park* | **Will Aronson** | **Will Aronson** and **Hue Park** | ||||||||
| *Boop! The Musical* | Bob Martin | David Foster | Susan Birkenhead | ||||||||
| *Death Becomes Her* | Marco Pennette | Julia Mattison and Noel Carey | |||||||||
| *Just in Time* | Warren Leight and Isaac Oliver | various artists | |||||||||
| *Music City* | Peter Zinn | J. T. Harding |
Artists with multiple wins
;4 wins
- Stephen Sondheim
;3 wins
- Thomas Meehan
- Cy Coleman
- James Lapine
;2 wins
- Terrence McNally
- Jeanine Tesori
- Marc Shaiman
- Scott Wittman
- Bob Martin
Artists with multiple nominations
;8 nominations
- Stephen Sondheim
;7 nominations
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Alan Menken
- Terrence McNally
- Jeanine Tesori
;6 nominations
- Lynn Ahrens
- John Kander
- Fred Ebb
- Michael John LaChiusa
;5 nominations
- Thomas Meehan
- Cy Coleman
- Stephen Flaherty
- George Gershwin
- Ira Gershwin
- Tim Rice
- David Yazbek
;4 nominations
- John Weidman
- Alfred Uhry
- James Lapine
- Susan Birkenhead
- Jason Robert Brown
;3 nominations
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Michael Stewart
- Stephen Schwartz
- Howard Ashman
- Peter Stone
- Don Black
- George C. Wolfe
- Bob Martin
- Chad Beguelin
- Glenn Slater
- Michael R. Jackson
;2 nominations
-
Robert Waldman
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Kurt Weill
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Oscar Hammerstein II
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Eubie Blake
-
Michel Legrand
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Mark Bramble
-
Arthur Kopit
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Maury Yeston
-
Sybille Pearson
-
David Shire
-
Richard Maltby, Jr.
-
Rupert Holmes
-
Polly Pen
-
Richard Stilgoe
-
Charles Hart
-
Marsha Norman
-
Jonathan Larson
-
Jim Lewis
-
Adam Guettel
-
David Thompson
-
Elton John
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William Finn
-
Frank Wildhorn
-
Andrew Lippa
-
Laurence O'Keefe
-
Dick Scanlan
-
Marc Shaiman
-
Scott Wittman
-
Robert Lopez
-
Craig Lucas
-
Doug Wright
-
Marshall Brickman
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Rick Elice
-
Matthew Sklar
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Duncan Sheik
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Nell Benjamin
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Julian Fellowes
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Harvey Fierstein
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Douglas Carter Beane
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David Lindsay-Abaire
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Joe DiPietro
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Dave Malloy
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Sara Bareilles
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Itamar Moses
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Joe Tracz
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Lynn Nottage
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Robert Horn
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