Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Musical |
Location | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
Currently held by | A Strange Loop (2020) |
Website | DramaDesk.org |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding 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.
Winners and nominees[]
1970s[]
Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics |
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1975 | ||||
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 | |||
1976 | ||||
A Chorus Line | James Kirkwood | Marvin Hamlisch | Edward Kleban | |
Pacific Overtures | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | ||
The Robber Bridegroom | Alfred Uhry | Robert Waldman | Alfred Uhry | |
1977 | ||||
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 | |
1978 | ||||
Ain't Misbehavin' | N/A | Thomas "Fats" Waller | Various | |
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Larry L. King and Peter Masterson | Carol Hall | ||
Dancin' | N/A | Various | ||
Runaways | Elizabeth Swados | |||
Working | Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso | Various | ||
1979 | ||||
Sweeney Todd | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim | ||
Eubie! | N/A | 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 |
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1980 | ||||
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 | ||
1981 | ||||
The Pirates of Penzance | W. S. Gilbert | Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | |
42nd Street | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | |
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music | N/A | Various | ||
1982 | ||||
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 | |||
1983 | ||||
Little Shop of Horrors | Howard Ashman | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman | |
My One and Only | Peter Stone and Timothy S. Mayer | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | |
1984 | ||||
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 | |
1985 | ||||
N/A | ||||
1986 | ||||
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 | |
1987 | ||||
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 | N/A | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Richard Stilgoe | |
1988 | ||||
Into the Woods | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | ||
The Phantom of the Opera | Richard Stilgoe and Andrew Lloyd Webber | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Charles Hart | |
1989 | ||||
Jerome Robbins' Broadway | N/A | Various | ||
Black and Blue | Claudio Segovia and Héctor Orezzoli | Various |
1990s[]
Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics |
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1990 | ||||
City of Angels | Larry Gelbart | Cy Coleman | David Zippel | |
Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Charles Hart | ||
1991 | ||||
The Secret Garden | Marsha Norman | Lucy Simon | Marsha Norman | |
Assassins | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | ||
The Will Rogers Follies | Peter Stone | Cy Coleman | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | |
1992 | ||||
Crazy for You | Ken Ludwig | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin | |
Jelly's Last Jam | George C. Wolfe | Jelly Roll Morton | Susan Birkenhead | |
1993 | ||||
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 | |
1994 | ||||
Passion | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | ||
Beauty and the Beast | Linda Woolverton | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman and Tim Rice | |
Hello Again | Michael John LaChiusa | |||
1995 | ||||
Show Boat | Oscar Hammerstein II | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II and P.G. Wodehouse | |
A Christmas Carol | N/A | 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 | |
1996 | ||||
Rent | Jonathan Larson | |||
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 | |
1997 | ||||
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 | |
1998 | ||||
Ragtime | Terrence McNally | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | |
Forever Tango | N/A | 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 | |
1999 | ||||
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 |
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2000 | ||||
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[1] | |||
2001 | ||||
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 | |
2002 | ||||
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 | ||
2003 | ||||
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 | |
2004 | ||||
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 | |
2005 | ||||
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 | ||
2006 | ||||
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 | |
2007 | ||||
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 | ||
2008 | ||||
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 | ||
2009 | ||||
Billy Elliot the Musical | Lee Hall | Elton John | Lee Hall | |
9 to 5 | 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 |
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2010 | ||||
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 | |
2011 | ||||
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 | |
2012 | ||||
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 | |||
2013 | ||||
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 | N/A | David Byrne and Fatboy Slim | ||
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 | Dave Malloy | |||
The Other Josh Cohen | David Rossmer and Steve Rosen | |||
2014 | ||||
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 | |
2015 | ||||
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 | |
2016 | ||||
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 | ||
2017 | ||||
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 | ||
2018 | ||||
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 | ||
2019 | ||||
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 |
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2020 | ||||
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 |
See also[]
References[]
- "Drama Desk Award for Musical". Internet Broadway Database. 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
- Notes
External links[]
Categories:
- Drama Desk Awards