Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Book of a Musical |
Location | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
Currently held by | Michael R. Jackson for A Strange Loop (2020) |
Website | DramaDeskAwards.com |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions. For two years, in addition to the award for Outstanding Book, an award was presented to the writers of the Most Promising Book. Recipients of this honor were Melvin Van Peebles for Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death in 1972 and Ron House and Diz White for El Grande de Coco-Cola in 1973.
Winners and nominees[]
1970s[]
Year | Writer | Production |
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1970 | ||
George Furth | Company | |
1971 | ||
Burt Shevelove | No, No, Nanette | |
1972 | ||
John Guare and Mel Shapiro | Two Gentlemen of Verona | |
1973 | ||
Hugh Wheeler | A Little Night Music | |
1974 | ||
Hugh Wheeler | Candide | |
1976 | ||
James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante | A Chorus Line | |
Alfred Uhry | The Robber Bridegroom | |
John Weidman | Pacific Overtures | |
1977 | ||
Thomas Meehan | Annie | |
1979 | ||
Hugh Wheeler | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
1980s[]
Year | Writer | Production |
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1984 | ||
James Lapine | Sunday in the Park with George | |
Harvey Fierstein | La Cage aux Folles | |
Garry Trudeau | Doonesbury | |
1985 | ||
Jerry Colker | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | |
1986 | ||
Rupert Holmes | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | |
Marta Kauffman, Seth Friedman and David Crane | Personals | |
Warren Leight | Mayor | |
1987 | ||
L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber, Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent | Me and My Girl | |
Barry Harman | Olympus on My Mind | |
1988 | ||
James Lapine | Into the Woods |
1990s[]
Year | Writer | Production |
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1990 | ||
Larry Gelbart | City of Angels | |
1991 | ||
Marsha Norman | The Secret Garden | |
John Weidman | Assassins | |
1992 | ||
George C. Wolfe | Jelly's Last Jam | |
1994 | ||
James Lapine | Passion | |
Michael John LaChiusa | Hello Again | |
1995 | N/A | |
1996 | ||
Jonathan Larson | Rent | |
Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | |
Laurence Klavan | Bed and Sofa | |
Tina Landau | Floyd Collins | |
John Weidman | Big: the musical | |
1997 | N/A | |
1998 | ||
Terrence McNally | Ragtime | |
1999 | ||
Alfred Uhry | Parade | |
William Finn and James Lapine | A New Brain |
2000s[]
Year | Writer | Production |
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2001 | ||
Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan | The Producers | |
Kirsten Childs | The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin | |
Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming | Bat Boy: The Musical | |
Greg Kotis | Urinetown | |
Terrence McNally | The Full Monty | |
2002 | ||
John Lahr and Elaine Stritch | Elaine Stritch at Liberty | |
John Guare | Sweet Smell of Success | |
Jonathan Larson and David Auburn | Tick, Tick... BOOM! | |
Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan | Thoroughly Modern Millie | |
2003 | ||
Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan | Hairspray | |
Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris | Zanna, Don't! | |
Terrence McNally | A Man of No Importance | |
Jeremy Sams and Didier Van Cauwelaert | Amour | |
Jeff Whitty | Avenue Q | |
2004 | ||
Winnie Holzman | Wicked | |
Tony Kushner | Caroline, or Change | |
2005 | ||
Rachel Sheinkin | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | |
Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe | Cam Jensen | |
Kevin Del Aguila | Altar Boyz | |
Mark Harelik | The Immigrant | |
Eric Idle | Monty Python's Spamalot | |
Jeffrey Lane | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | |
2006 | ||
Bob Martin and Don McKellar | The Drowsy Chaperone | |
Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman | Jersey Boys | |
Doug Wright | Grey Gardens | |
2007 | ||
Rupert Holmes and Peter Stone | Curtains | |
Scott Brown and Anthony King | Gutenberg! The Musical! | |
Julian Fellowes | Mary Poppins | |
Heather Hach | Legally Blonde | |
Steven Sater | Spring Awakening | |
Alfred Uhry | LoveMusik | |
2008 | ||
Douglas Carter Beane | Xanadu | |
Harvey Fierstein | A Catered Affair | |
Ben Katchor | The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island | |
Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt | Adding Machine | |
Stew | Passing Strange | |
Eric H. Weinberger | Wanda's World | |
2009 | ||
Lee Hall | Billy Elliot the Musical | |
Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis | This Beautiful City | |
Joe DiPietro | The Toxic Avenger | |
Brian Hill | The Story of My Life | |
David Lindsay-Abaire | Shrek the Musical | |
Patricia Resnick | 9 to 5 |
2010s[]
Year | Writer | Production |
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2010 | ||
Alex Timbers | Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson | |
Joe DiPietro | Memphis | |
Joe Iconis | Bloodsong of Love | |
Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott | Everyday Rapture | |
David Thompson | The Scottsboro Boys | |
David Zellnik | Yank! | |
2011 | ||
Adam Mathias | See Rock City and Other Destinations | |
Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth | In Transit | |
Iris Rainer Dart | The People in the Picture | |
Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | |
Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone | The Book of Mormon | |
Michael Zam | The Kid | |
2012 | ||
Joe DiPietro | Nice Work If You Can Get It | |
Douglas Carter Beane | Lysistrata Jones | |
Janus Cercone and Warren Leight | Leap of Faith | |
Joy Gregory | The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World | |
Michael John LaChiusa | Queen of the Mist | |
Thomas Meehan and Peter Stone | Death Takes a Holiday | |
2013 | ||
Dennis Kelly | Matilda the Musical | |
Sybille Pearson | Giant | |
Joseph Robinette | A Christmas Story: The Musical | |
David Rossmer and Steve Rosen | The Other Josh Cohen | |
Jeff Whitty | Bring It On: The Musical | |
Doug Wright | Hands on a Hardbody | |
2014 | ||
Robert L. Freedman | A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder | |
Chad Beguelin | Aladdin | |
Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair | Murder for Two | |
Lisa Kron | Fun Home | |
Douglas McGrath | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | |
Marsha Norman | The Bridges of Madison County | |
2015 | ||
Lin-Manuel Miranda | Hamilton | |
Hunter Bell and Lee Overtree | Found | |
Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell | Something Rotten! | |
Craig Lucas | An American in Paris | |
Terrence McNally | The Visit | |
Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly, and Michael Mitnick | Fly by Night | |
2016 | ||
John Caird | Daddy Long Legs | |
Michael John LaChiusa | First Daughter Suite | |
Jessie Nelson | Waitress | |
2017 | ||
Irene Sankoff and David Hein | Come from Away | |
Terrence McNally | Anastasia | |
Itamar Moses | The Band's Visit | |
Richard Oberacker and Rob Taylor | Bandstand | |
Joe Tracz | The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical | |
2018 | ||
Tina Fey | Mean Girls | |
Kyle Jarrow | SpongeBob SquarePants | |
Peter Kellogg | Desperate Measures | |
Hannah Moscovitch | Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story | |
2019 | ||
Robert Horn | Tootsie | |
Scott Brown and Anthony King | Beetlejuice | |
Andrew R. Butler | Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future | |
Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin | The Prom | |
Dominique Morisseau | Ain't Too Proud |
2020s[]
Year | Writer | Production |
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2020 | ||
Michael R. Jackson | A Strange Loop | |
David Henry Hwang | Soft Power | |
Dave Malloy | Octet | |
Lynn Nottage | The Secret Life of Bees | |
Mark Saltzman | Romeo & Bernadette | |
Dick Scanlan | The Unsinkable Molly Brown |
Multiple wins[]
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Multiple nominations[]
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See also[]
References[]
- "Drama Desk Award for Book of a Musical". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
External links[]
Categories:
- Drama Desk Awards