Tony Award / Best Actor in a Musical
All actors who have appeared in plays and musicals on Broadway in New York during the year can be nominated for the Tony Award / Best Actor in a Musical . The Tony Award for best performance in a male lead in a musical has gone to:
1947-1949
- 1948: Paul Hartman (in Angel in the Wings )
- 1949: Ray Bolger (in Where's Charley? )
1950-1959
- 1950: Ezio Pinza (in South Pacific )
- 1951: Robert Alda (in Guys and Dolls )
- 1952: Phil Silvers (in Top Banana )
- 1953: Thomas Mitchell (in Hazel Flagg )
- 1954: Alfred Drake (in Kismet )
- 1955: Walter Slezak (in Fanny )
- 1956: Ray Walston (in Damn Yankees )
- 1957: Rex Harrison (in My Fair Lady )
- 1958: Robert Preston (in The Music Man )
- 1959: Richard Kiley (in Redhead )
1960-1969
- 1960: Jackie Gleason (in Take Me Along )
- 1961: Richard Burton (in Camelot )
- 1962: Robert Morse (in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying )
- 1963: Zero Mostel (in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum )
- 1964: Bert Lahr (in Foxy )
- 1965: Zero Mostel (in Anatevka )
- 1966: Richard Kiley (in The Man of La Mancha )
- 1967: Robert Preston (in I Do! I Do! )
- 1968: Robert Goulet (in The Happy Time )
- 1969: Jerry Orbach (in Promises, Promises )
1970-1979
- 1970: Cleavon Little (in Purlie )
- 1971: Hal Linden (in The Rothschilds )
- 1972: Phil Silvers (in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum )
- 1973: Ben Vereen (in Pippin )
- 1974: Christopher Plummer (in Cyrano )
- 1975: John Cullum (in Shenandoah )
- 1976: George Rose (in My Fair Lady )
- 1977: Barry Bostwick (in The Robber Bridegroom )
- 1978: John Cullum (in On the Twentieth Century )
- 1979: Len Cariou (in Sweeney Todd )
1980-1989
- 1980: Jim Dale (in Barnum )
- 1981: Kevin Kline (in The Pirates of Penzance )
- 1982: Ben Harney (in Dreamgirls )
- 1983: Tommy Tune (in My One and Only )
- 1984: George Hearn (in La Cage aux Folles )
- 1986: George Rose (in The Mystery of Edwin Drood )
- 1987: Robert Lindsay (in Me and My Girl )
- 1988: Michael Crawford (in Phantom of the Opera )
- 1989: Jason Alexander (in Jerome Robbins' Broadway )
1990-1999
- 1990: James Naughton (in City of Angels )
- 1991: Jonathan Pryce (in Miss Saigon )
- 1992: Gregory Hines (in Jelly's Last Jam )
- 1993: Brent Carver (in Spider Woman's Kiss )
- 1994: Boyd Gaines (in She Loves Me ) (revival)
- 1995: Matthew Broderick (in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! ) (Revival)
- 1996: Nathan Lane (in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ) (revival)
- 1997: James Naughton (in Chicago ) (revival)
- 1998: Alan Cumming (in Cabaret ) (revival)
- 1999: Martin Short (in Little Me )
2000-2009
- 2000: Brian Stokes Mitchell (in Kiss Me, Kate ) (revival)
- 2001: Nathan Lane (in The Producers )
- 2002: John Lithgow (in Sweet Smell of Success )
- 2003: Harvey Fierstein (in Hairspray )
- 2004: Hugh Jackman (in The Boy from Oz )
- 2005: Norbert Leo Butz (in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels )
- 2006: John Lloyd Young (in Jersey Boys )
- 2007: David Hyde Pierce (in Curtains )
- 2008: Paulo Szot (in South Pacific ) (revival)
- 2009: David Alvarez , Trent Kowalik , Kiril Kulish (in Billy Elliott )
Since 2010
- 2010: Douglas Hodge (in La Cage aux Folles )
- 2011: Norbert Leo Butz (in Catch Me If You Can )
- 2012: Steve Kazee (in Once )
- 2013: Billy Porter (in Kinky Boots )
- 2014: Neil Patrick Harris (in Hedwig and the Angry Inch )
- 2015: Michael Cerveris (in Fun Home )
- 2016: Leslie Odom Jr. (in Hamilton )
- 2017: Ben Platt (in Dear Evan Hansen )