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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards , a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality featured roles in a musical play , whether a new production or a revival. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry , an American actress who died in 1946.
Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing , to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."[1]
The award was originally called the Tony Award for Best Performance in a Musical . It was first presented to David Wayne at the 1st Tony Awards for his portrayal of Og in Finian's Rainbow [2] [3] Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured or Supporting Role in a Musical . It was renamed again to its current title in 1976.
Hinton Battle holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of three. No characters have taken the award multiple times, but Herbie in Gypsy Cabaret
Winners and nominees [ edit ]
indicates the winner
David Wayne won for Finian's Rainbow (1947)Myron McCormick won for South Pacific (1950)Yul Brynner won for The King and I (1952)Harry Belafonte won for John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)David Burns won twice for The Music Man (1958) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963)Dick Van Dyke won for Bye Bye Birdie (1961)Jack Cassidy won for She Loves Me (1964)Joel Grey won for Cabaret (1967)René Auberjonois won for Coco (1970)Tommy Tune won for Seesaw (1974)Ted Ross won for The Wiz (1975)Kevin Kline won for On the Twentieth Century (1978)Mandy Patinkin won for Evita (1980)
Michael Jeter won for Grand Hotel (1990)Ron Rifkin won for Cabaret (1998)Boyd Gaines won twice: for Contact (2000) and Gypsy (2008)Shuler Hensley won for Oklahoma! (2002)Michael Cerveris won for Assassins (2004)Dan Fogler won for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005)Christian Hoff won for Jersey Boys (2006)John Gallagher Jr. won for Spring Awakening (2007)Gregory Jbara won for Billy Elliot the Musical (2009)John Larroquette won for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011)James Monroe Iglehart won for Aladdin (2014)Christian Borle won for Something Rotten! (2015)Daveed Diggs won for Hamilton (2016)Gavin Creel won for Hello, Dolly! (2017)Ari'el Stachel won for The Band's Visit (2018)André De Shields won for Hadestown (2019)Danny Burstein won for Moulin Rouge! (2020) Matt Doyle won for Company (2021)Alex Newell won for Shucked (2023)Daniel Radcliffe won for Merrily We Roll Along (2024)
Statistics [ edit ]
Most wins [ edit ]
3 wins
2 wins
Most nominations [ edit ]
3 nominations
2 nominations
Character nomination total [ edit ]
2 nominations
Productions with multiple nominations [ edit ]
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The Music Man David Burns Iggie Wolfington
Fiorello! Tom Bosley Howard da Silva
The Sound of Music Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar
Bye Bye Birdie Dick Gautier and Dick Van Dyke
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum David Burns Jack Gilford
Cabaret Joel Grey Edward Winter
1776 William Daniels (refused nomination) and Ronald Holgate
Promises, Promises Larry Haines and Edward Winter
Coco René Auberjonois George Rose
A Chorus Line Robert LuPone and Sammy Williams
Side by Side by Sondheim David Kernan and Ned Sherrin
Working Rex Everhart
Evita Bob Gunton and Mandy Patinkin
Dreamgirls Obba Babatundé and Cleavant Derricks
Cats Harry Groener and Stephen Hanan
The Tap Dance Kid Hinton Battle Samuel E. Wright
Big River René Auberjonois , Daniel H. Jenkins and Ron Richardson
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Howard McGillin
Me and My Girl George S. Irving and Timothy Jerome
Anything Goes Anthony Heald and Bill McCutcheon
Black and Blue Bunny Briggs and Savion Glover
Miss Saigon Hinton Battle
The Who's Tommy Michael Cerveris and Paul Kandel
Show Boat Joel Blum
The Life Chuck Cooper Sam Harris
Fosse Desmond Richardson and Scott Wise
Kiss Me, Kate Michael Berresse , Michael Mulheren and Lee Wilkof
The Full Monty André DeShields
The Producers Roger Bart , Gary Beach Brad Oscar
Hairspray Dick Latessa Corey Reynolds
Movin' Out Michael Cavanaugh and Keith Roberts
Assassins Michael Cerveris Denis O'Hare
Monty Python's Spamalot Michael McGrath and Christopher Sieber
Billy Elliot the Musical David Bologna and Gregory Jbara
The Scottsboro Boys Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess Phillip Boykin and David Alan Grier
An American in Paris Brandon Uranowitz and Max von Essen
Something Rotten! Christian Borle Brad Oscar
Hamilton Daveed Diggs Jonathan Groff and Christopher Jackson
Falsettos Andrew Rannells and Brandon Uranowitz
Ain't Too Proud Jeremy Pope and Ephraim Sykes
Hadestown André De Shields Patrick Page
Moulin Rouge! Danny Burstein Sahr Ngaujah
Jagged Little Pill Derek Klena and Sean Allan Krill
Paradise Square
Shucked Kevin Cahoon and Alex Newell
The Outsiders Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch
Multiple awards and nominations [ edit ]
Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Other statistics [ edit ]
There was one tie in the history of this category, in 1959.[71]
The role of Herbie, in Gypsy
Hinton Battle remains the most successful performer in the history of this category with a perfect score of three wins in three nominations. Danny Burstein has received the most nominations in this category with four, but has only been victorious once. Gregg Edelman , Marc Kudisch , and Christopher Fitzgerald have received three nominations but never won and are this category's biggest "losers." Coincidentally, Edelman and Kudisch were nominated and lost to Shuler Hensley in 2002.
There has never been a consecutive winner in this category. There have been, though, some consecutive nominations. Jack Cassidy was consecutively nominated in 1964 and 1965, while Bruce Adler achieved the same honor in 1991 and 1992. Cassidy won in 1964, for his portrayal of Steve Kodaly, in She Loves Me
The record for the longest span between wins is held by Hiram Sherman , whose wins for Two's Company How Now, Dow Jones
The record for the longest span between nominations is held by John McMartin , whose nominations for Sweet Charity High Society
The oldest winner in this category is Dick Latessa who was 73 when he won for Hairspray Frankie Michaels who won for Mame
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
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