Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical
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The Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival. The award has been announced since 1948, but the nominees who did not win have only been announced since 1956.
In the lists below, the winner is displayed first, the non-winning nominees second.
- 1949 Ray Bolger. Where's Charley?
- 1950 Ezio Pinza. South Pacific
- 1951 Robert Alda. Guys and Dolls
- 1952 Phil Silvers. Top Banana
- 1953 Thomas Mitchell. Hazel Flagg
- 1954 Alfred Drake. Kismet
- 1955 Walter Slezak. Fanny
- 1958 Robert Preston. The Music Man
- 1960 Jackie Gleason. Take Me Along
- 1967 Robert Preston. I Do! I Do!
- 1968 Robert Goulet. The Happy Time
- 1971 Hal Linden. The Rothschilds
- 1973 Ben Vereen. Pippin
- 1975 John Cullum. Shenandoah
- 1976 George Rose. My Fair Lady
- 1979 Len Cariou. Sweeney Todd
- 1982 Ben Harney. Dreamgirls
- 1983 Tommy Tune. My One and Only
- 1987 Robert Lindsay. Me and My Girl
- 1991 Jonathan Pryce. Miss Saigon
- 1994 Boyd Gaines. She Loves Me
- 1997 James Naughton. Chicago
- 1998 Alan Cumming. Cabaret
- 1999 Martin Short. Little Me
- 2003 Harvey Fierstein. Hairspray
- 2004 Hugh Jackman, The Boy from Oz