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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations

FieldValue
nameDrama Desk Award
for Outstanding Orchestrations
awarded_forOutstanding Orchestrations
presenterDrama Desk
locationNew York City
countryUnited States
year1983
holderAndrew Resnick and Michael Thurber for *Just in Time* (2025)
website

for Outstanding Orchestrations The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in musical theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. This category was eliminated after the 2011 ceremony, only to be reinstated about a week later due to popular and overwhelming demand from much of the Broadway community.

Winners and nominees

;Key

1980s

YearOrchestrator(s)ProductionRef.1983198419851986198719881989
**Michael Gibson*****My One and Only***
**Hans Spialek*****On Your Toes***
**Michael Starobin*****Sunday in the Park with George***
Jonathan Tunick*Baby*
Jim Tyler*La Cage aux Folles*
**Steven Margoshes and Danny Troob*****Big River***
Bill Byers*Grind*
Michael Starobin*Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down*
*La bohème*
**Rupert Holmes*****The Mystery of Edwin Drood***
Ralph Burns*Sweet Charity*
James McElwaine*Goblin Market*
**John Cameron*****Les Misérables***
Wally Harper*Barbara Cook: A Concert for the Theatre*
Michael Starobin*Rags*
Chris Walker*Me and My Girl*
**David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber*****The Phantom of the Opera***
Michael Gibson*Anything Goes*
Michael Starobin*Birds of Paradise*
Jonathan Tunick*Into the Woods*
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1990s

YearOrchestrator(s)ProductionRef.1990199119921993199419951996199719981999
**Billy Byers*****City of Angels***
Rodolfo Alchourron and James Kowal*Dangerous Games*
David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber*Aspects of Love*
Peter Matz*Grand Hotel*
**William David Brohn*****Miss Saigon***
***The Secret Garden***
Billy Byers*The Will Rogers Follies*
David Krane*And the World Goes 'Round*
Mboni Ngema*Township Fever*
**Luther Henderson*****Jelly's Last Jam***
John Carlini*Song of Singapore*
William David Brohn*Crazy For You*
**Jose Libertella and Luis Stazo*****Tango Pasion***
Steven Margoshes*The Who's Tommy*
Michael Starobin*My Favorite Year*
Chris Walker*Putting It Together*
**Jonathan Tunick*****Passion***
Douglas Besterman*Damn Yankees*
Peter Matz*The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public*
Danny Troob*Beauty and the Beast*
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**Steve Skinner*****Rent***
Bruce Coughlin*Floyd Collins*
**Jonathan Tunick*****Titanic* **
Michael Gibson*Steel Pier*
Joseph Joubert and Buryl Red*Violet*
Don Sebesky and Harold Wheeler*The Life*
**William David Brohn*****Ragtime* **
Lisandro Adrover*Luis Bravo's Forever Tango*
Bruce Coughlin*The Sound of Music*
Robert Elhai, David Metzger and Bruce Fowler*The Lion King*
Michael Gibson*Cabaret*
Stanley Silverman*The Capeman*
**Don Sebesky*****Parade* **
Michael Starobin*A New Brain*
Jonathan Tunick*Captains Courageous*
Jeff Waxman*Woody Guthrie's American Song*

2000s

YearOrchestrator(s)ProductionRef.2000200120022003200420052006200720082009
**Don Sebesky*****Kiss Me, Kate* **
Doug Besterman*The Music Man*
Michael Gibson*The Wild Party*
Taliep Petersen*Kat and the Kings*
Jonathan Tunick*Saturday Night*
Harold Wheeler*Swing!*
**Doug Besterman*****The Producers* **
Bruce Coughlin*Urinetown*
Michael Starobin*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*
Jonathan Tunick*Follies*
Harold Wheeler*The Full Monty*
**Doug Besterman and Ralph Burns*****Thoroughly Modern Millie* **
Jason Robert Brown*The Last Five Years*
Jonathan Tunick*Elaine Stritch: At Liberty*
**Harold Wheeler*****Hairspray* **
Luther Henderson*Little Ham*
Michel Legrand*Amour*
**William David Brohn*****Wicked* **
Paul Bogaev*Bombay Dreams*
Michael Starobin*Assassins*
Harold Wheeler*Never Gonna Dance*
**Bruce Coughlin, Adam Guettel and Ted Sperling*****The Light in the Piazza* **
Steven M. Alper*The Immigrant*
Larry Hochman*Monty Python's Spamalot*
Doug Katsaros and Lynne Shankel*Altar Boyz*
Kim Scharnberg*Little Women*
Harold Wheeler*Dirty Rotten Scoundrels*
**Sarah Travis*****Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street* **
Larry Blank*The Drowsy Chaperone*
Bruce Coughlin*Grey Gardens*
*See What I Wanna See*
Daniel Feyer and Peter Mills*The Pursuit of Persephone*
Danny Troob and Dick Lieb*The Pajama Game*
**Mary Mitchell Campbell*****Company***
**Jonathan Tunick*****LoveMusik* **
William David Brohn*Curtains*
Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman*In the Heights*
Duncan Sheik*Spring Awakening*
Jonathan Tunick*The Apple Tree*
**Jason Carr*****Sunday in the Park with George* **rowspan=6
Doug Besterman*Young Frankenstein*
Michael Starobin*The Glorious Ones*
Stew and Heidi Rodewald*Passing Strange*
Jonathan Tunick*A Catered Affair*
Tim Weil*10 Million Miles*
**Martin Koch*****Billy Elliot the Musical* **
Larry Blank*Irving Berlin's White Christmas*
Bruce Coughlin, Stephen Oremus and Alex Lacamoire*[9 to 5](9-to-5-musical)*
Aaron Johnson and Antibalas*Fela!*
Edward B. Kessel*A Tale of Two Cities*
Danny Troob and John Clancy*Shrek the Musical*

2010s

YearOrchestrator(s)ProductionRef.2010201120122013201420152016201720182019
**Daryl Waters and David Bryan*****Memphis* **
Larry Hochman*The Scottsboro Boys*
Tom Kitt*American Idiot*
*Everyday Rapture*
John Oddo*All About Me*
**Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus*****The Book of Mormon* **
Mary-Mitchell Campbell*Hello Again*
Bruce Coughlin*The Burnt Part Boys*
Simon Hale, Jim Abbott and David Yazbek*Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*
Marc Shaiman and Larry Blank*Catch Me If You Can*
Lynne Shankel*The Extraordinary Ordinary*
**Martin Lowe*****Once* **
Bill Elliott*Nice Work If You Can Get It*
Larry Hochman*Death Takes a Holiday*
John McDaniel*Bonnie & Clyde*
Michael Starobin*Queen of the Mist*
Danny Troob*Newsies*
**Danny Troob*****Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella* **
Trey Anastasio and Don Hart*Hands on a Hardbody*
Larry Blank*A Christmas Story: The Musical*
Bruce Coughlin*Giant*
Larry Hochman*Chaplin: The Musical*
Steve Margoshes*Soul Doctor*
**Jason Robert Brown*****The Bridges of Madison County* **
John Clancy*Fun Home*
Larry Hochman*Big Fish*
Steve Sidwell*Beautiful: The Carole King Musical*
Michael Starobin*If/Then*
Jonathan Tunick*A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder*
**Christopher Austin*****An American in Paris ***
Mary-Mitchell Campbell*Allegro*
Larry Hochman*Something Rotten!*
Alex Lacamoire*Hamilton*
Rob Mathes*The Last Ship*
Don Sebesky, Larry Blank, Jason Robert Brown and Charlie Rosen*Honeymoon in Vegas*
**Larry Hochman*****She Loves Me* **
August Eriksmoen*Bright Star*
Joseph Joubert and Catherine Jayes*The Color Purple*
Andrew Lloyd Webber*School of Rock*
Michael Starobin and Bruce Coughlin*First Daughter Suite*
**Bill Elliott and Greg Anthony Rassen*****Bandstand***
Doug Besterman*Anastasia*
Bruce Coughlin*War Paint*
Benjamin Cox*Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
August Eriksmoen*Come from Away*
Jamshied Sharifi*The Band's Visit*
**Jonathan Tunick*****Carousel* **
Tom Kitt*SpongeBob SquarePants*
Annmarie Milazzo and Michael Starobin*Once on This Island*
Charlie Rosen and Erin McKeown*Miss You Like Hell*
Jonathan Tunick*Pacific Overtures*
**Daniel Kluger*****Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!***
Larry Blank*Fiddler on the Roof*
Simon Hale*Girl from the North Country*
Charlie Rosen*Be More Chill*
Daryl Waters*The Cher Show*

2020s

YearOrchestrator(s)ProductionRef.202020212022202320242025
**Tom Kitt*****Jagged Little Pill***
Alex Lacamoire*The Wrong Man*
Or Matias and Dave Malloy*Octet*
Danny Troob, John Clancy, and Larry Hochman*Soft Power*
Jonathan Tunick*West Side Story*
*No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City*}}
**Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg*****MJ***
Tom Curran*Six*
Greg Jarrett*Assassins*
Mark Hartman and Yasuhiko Fukuoka*The Streets of New York*
**Bryan Carter and Charlie Rosen*****Some Like It Hot***
Bruce Coughlin*A Man of No Importance*
Jason Howland*Shucked*
Kenny Seymour*The Harder They Come*
Daryl Waters and Sam Davis*New York, New York*
**Marco Paguia*****Buena Vista Social Club***
Timo Andres*Illinoise*
Will Butler and Justin Craig* Stereophonic*
Andy Evan Cohen*The Greatest Hits Down Route 66*
Erik Della Penna, Dean Sharenow, and David Yazbek*Dead Outlaw*
Michael Starobin, Shaina Taub (vocal arrangements), and Andrea Grody (vocal arrangements)*Suffs*
**Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber***Just in Time*
Will Aronson*Maybe Happy Ending*
Doug Besterman*Boop! The Musical*
Joseph Joubert and Daryl Waters*Pirates! The Penzance Musical*
Michael Starobin*All the World's a Stage*

Statistics

Multiple wins

; 4 wins

  • Jonathan Tunick

; 3 wins

  • William David Brohn

; 2 wins

  • Doug Besterman
  • Larry Hochman
  • Don Sebesky
  • Danny Troob

Multiple nominations

; 15 nominations

  • Jonathan Tunick
  • Michael Starobin

; 9 nominations

  • Larry Hochman

; 7 nominations

  • Doug Besterman
  • Danny Troob

; 6 nominations

  • Harold Wheeler

; 5 nominations

  • William David Brohn
  • Michael Gibson

; 4 nominations

  • Don Sebesky
  • Alex Lacamoire

;3 nominations

  • Steven Margoshes
  • Bill Byers
  • Jason Robert Brown
  • Tom Kitt
  • Joseph Joubert

; 2 nominations

  • David Yazbek
  • Ralph Burns
  • Peter Matz
  • Luther Henderson

References

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  6. "1988 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
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