Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical

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The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who is voted the best non-starring actor in a musical, whether a new production or a revival. This award was introduced in 1947 and not awarded again until 1950; prior to 1976, it was known as "Best Performance by a Featured or Supporting Actor in a Musical."

Contents

1 Winners and Nominees
2 1940s
3 1950s
4 1960s
5 1970s
6 1980s
7 1990s
8 2000s
9 Winners with Multiple Tony Awards for Featured Actor in a Musical

Winners and Nominees

In the following list, the winner is displayed first; the non-winning nominees, where known, are second. Prior to 1956, records of nominees were not kept.

1940s

'1947 David Wayne, Finian's Rainbow''

1950s

'1950 Myron McCormick, South Pacific''

'1951 Russell Nype in Call Me Madam'' as Kenneth Gibson

'1952 Yul Brynner, The King and I''

'1953 Hiram Sherman in Two's Company'' as Introducer of "Opening - Theatre is a Lady"/Singer of "A Man's Home"/Reggie/Singer and Dancer of "Roll Along, Sadie"/Performer of "Street Scenes"/Peter("Going to the Studio")/Peter

'1954 Harry Belafonte, John Murray Anderson's Almanac''

'1955 Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan''

'1956 Russ Brown, Damn Yankees''
*Mike Kellin, Pipe Dream
*Will Mahoney, Finian's Rainbow
*Scott Merrill, The Threepenny Opera

'1957 Sydney Chaplin, Bells Are Ringing''
*Robert Coote, My Fair Lady
*Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady

'1958 David Burns in The Music Man'' as Mayor Shinn
*Ossie Davis, Jamaica
*Cameron Prud'homme, New Girl In Town
*Iggie Wolfington, The Music Man

'1959 Russell Nype in Goldilocks'' as George Randolph Brown
*Leonard Stone, Redhead

1960s

'1961 Dick Van Dyke, Bye, Bye Birdie''
*Clive Revill, Irma La Douce
*Dick Gautier, Bye, Bye Birdie
*Ron Husmann, ''Tenderloin

'1962 Charles Nelson Reilly, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying''
*Orson Bean, Subways Are for Sleeping
*Severn Darden, From the Second City
*Pierre Olaf, Carnival

'1963 David Burns in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' as Senex
*Jack Gilford, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
*David Jones, Oliver!
*Swen Sweson, Little Me

'1965 Victor Spinetti, Oh, What a Lovely War''
*Jack Cassidy, Fade Out - Fade In
*James Grout, Half a Sixpence''
*Jerry Orbach, Guys and Dolls''

'1966 Frankie Michaels, Mame''
*Roy Castle, Pickwick
*John McMartin, Sweet Charity
*Michael O'Sullivan, Superman

'1967 Joel Grey in Cabaret'' as The Master of Ceremonies
*Leon Bibb, A Hand is on the Gate
*Gordon Dilworth, A Hand is on the Gate
*Edward Winter, Cabaret

'1968 Hiram Sherman, How Now, Dow Jones''
*Scott Jacoby, Golden Rainbow
*Nikos Kourkoulos, Ilya Darling
*Mike Rupert, The Happy Time

'1969 Ronald Holgate, 1776''
*A, Larry Haine, Promises, Promises
*Edward Winter, Promises, Promises

1970s

'1971 Keene Curtis, The Rothschilds''
*Charles Kimbrough, Company
*Walter Willison, Two by Two

'1972 Larry Blyden, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum''
*Timothy Myers, Grease
*Gene Nelson, Follies
*Ben Vereen, Jesus Christ Superstar

'1973 George S, Irving, Irene''
*Laurence Guittard, A Little Night Music
*Avon Long, Don't Play Us Cheap
*Gilbert Price, Lost in the Stars

'1975 Ted Ross, The Wiz''
*Tom Aldredge, Where's Charley?
*John Bottoms, Dance With Me
*Douglas Henning, The Magic Show
*Gilbert Price, The Night That Made America Famous
*Richard B, Shull, Goodtime Charley

'1976 Sammy Williams, A Chorus Line''
*Robert LuPone, A Chorus Line
*Charles Repole, Very Good Eddie
*Isao Sato, Pacific Overtures

'1977 Lenny Baker, I Love My Wife''
*David Kernan, Side by Side by Sondheim
*Larry Marshall, Porgy and Bess
*Ned Sherrin, Side by Side by Sondheim

'1978 Kevin Kline in On the Twentieth Century'' as Bruce Granit
*Steven Boockvor, Working
*Wayne Cliento, Dancin'
*Rex Everhart, Working

'1979 Henderson Forsythe in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'' as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
*Richard Cox, Platinum
*Gregory Hines, Eubie
*Ronald Holgate, The Grand Tour

1980s

'1980 Mandy Patinkin in Evita'' as Che
*David Garrison, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
*Harry Groener, Oklahoma!
*Bob Gunton, Evita

'1981 Hinton Battle in Sophisticated Ladies'' as Performer
*Tony Azito, The Pirates of Penzance
*Lee Roy Reams, 42nd Street
*Paxton Whitehead, Camelot

'1982 Cleavant Derricks in Dreamgirls'' as James "Thunder" Early
*Obba Babatunde, Dreamgirls
*David Alan Grier, The First
*Bill Hutton, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

'1983 Charles "Honi" Coles in My One and Only'' as Mr. Magix
*Harry Groener, Cats
*Stephen Hanan, Cats
*Lara Teeter, On Your Toes

'1984 Hinton Battle in The Tap dance Kid'' as Dipsey
*Stephen Geoffreys, The Human Comedy
*Todd Graff, Baby
*Samuel E, Wright, The Tap Dance Kid

'1985 Ron Richardson in Big River'' as Jim
*Rene Auberjonois, Big River
*Daniel H, Jenkins, Big River
*Kurt Knudson, Take Me Along

'1986 Michael Rupert in Sweet Charity'' as Oscar
*Christopher d'Amboise, Song & Dance
*John Herrera, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
*Howard McGillin, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

'1987 Michael Maguire in Les Misérables'' as Enjolras
*George S, Irving, Me and My Girl
*Timothy Jerome, Me and My Girl
*Robert Torti, Starlight Express

'1988 Bill McCutcheon in Anything Goes'' as Moonface Martin
*Anthony Heald, Anything Goes
*Werner Klemperer, Cabaret
*Robert Westenberg, Into the Woods

'1989 Scott Wise in Jerome Robbins' Broadway'' as First Protean/Chip/Papa Crook/Riff
*Bunny Briggs, Black and Blue
*Savion Glover, Black and Blue
*Scott Wentworth, Welcome to the Club

1990s

'1990 Michael Jeter in Grand Hotel'' as Otto Kringelein
*Rene Auberjonois, City of Angels
*Kevin Colson, Aspects of Love
*Jonathan Hadary,

'1991 Hinton Battle in Miss Saigon'' as John
*Bruce Adler, Those Were The Days
*Gregg Burge, Oh, Kay!
*'Willy Falk, Miss Saigon

'1992 Scott Waara in The Most Happy Fella'' as Herman
*Bruce Adler, Crazy For You
*Keith David, Jelly's Last Jam
*Jonathan Kaplan, Falsettos

'1993 Anthony Crivello in Kiss of the Spider Woman'' as Valentin
*Michael Cerveris, The Who's Tommy
*Gregg Edelman, Anna Karenina
*Paul Kandel, The Who's Tommy

'1994 Jarrod Emick in Damn Yankees'' as Joe Hardy
*Tom Aldredge, Passion
*Gary Beach, Beauty and the Beast
*Jonathan Freeman, She Loves Me

'1995 George Hearn in Sunset Boulevard'' as Max von Mayerling
*Michel Bell, Show Boat
*Joel Blum, Show Boat
*Victor Trent Cook, Smokey Joe's Cafe

'1996 Wilson Jermaine Heredia in Rent'' as Angel Dumont Schnaurd
*Lewis J, Stadlen, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
*Brett Tabisel, Big
*Scott Wise, State Fair

'1997 Chuck Cooper in The Life'' as Memphis
*Joel Blum, Steel Pier
*Andre De Shields, Play On!
*Sam Harris, The Life

'1998 Ron Rifkin in Cabaret'' as Herr Schultz
*Gregg Edelman, 1776
*John McMartin, High Society
*Samuel E, Wright, The Lion King

'1999 Roger Bart in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'' as Snoopy
*Desmond Richardson, Fosse
*Ron Taylor, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues
*Scott Wise, Fosse

2000s

'2000 Boyd Gaines in Contact'' as Michael Wiley
*Michael Berresse, Kiss Me, Kate
*Stephen Spinella, James Joyce's The Dead
*Lee Wilkof, Kiss Me, Kate
*Michael Mulheren, Kiss Me, Kate

'2001 Gary Beach in The Producers'' as Roger DeBris
*Roger Bart, The Producers
*John Ellison Conlee, The Full Monty
*André De Shields, The Full Monty
*Brad Oscar, The Producers

'2002 Shuler Hensley in Oklahoma!'' as Jud Fry
*Brian d'Arcy James,
*Gregg Edelman, Into The Woods
*Marc Kudisch, Thoroughly Modern Millie
*Norbert Leo Butz, Thou Shalt Not

'2003 Dick Latessa in Hairspray'' as Wilbur Turnblad
*Michael Cavanaugh, Movin' Out
*John Dossett,
*Corey Reynolds, Hairspray
*Keith Roberts, Movin' Out

'2004 Michael Cerveris in Assassins'' as John Wilkes Booth
*John Cariani, Fiddler on the Roof
*Raul Esparza, Taboo
*Michael McElroy, Big River
*Denis O'Hare, Assassins

'2005 Dan Fogler in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee'' as William Barfee
*Marc Kudisch, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
*Michael McGrath, Monty Python's Spamalot
*Matthew Morrison, The Light In The Piazza
*Christopher Sieber, Monty Python's Spamalot

'2006 Christian Hoff in Jersey Boys'' as Tommy DeVito
*Danny Burstein, The Drowsy Chaperone''
*Jim Dale, The Threepenny Opera''
*Brandon Victor Dixon, The Color Purple''
*Manoel Felciano, Sweeney Todd''

Winners with Multiple Tony Awards for Featured Actor in a Musical

Hinton Battle (3)

David Burns (2)

Russell Nype (2)

Hiram Sherman (2)

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