Tony Award For Best Musical - Best Musicals

The Tony Awards are yearly awards that recognize achievement in live Broadway theatre. The award for Best Musical is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The awards goes to the producers of the musical. This is a list of winners and nominations for the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Winners and nominees

† marks winners of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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Records

Accumulated records as of 2016:

• Hamilton holds the record as the most-nominated production in Tony history, with 16 nominations. The Producers is the most-winning show, triumphing in 12 categories including Best Musical.
• The Sound of Music and Fiorello! are the only two musicals to date to have ever tied for the Best Musical award (in 1960).
• Passion is the shortest-running winner, with 280 performances.
• The Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running Best Musical winner, with 16 previews and 12,078 performances as of 5 February 2017.
• Hallelujah, Baby! is the only show thus far to have won the Tony Award for Best Musical after closing.
• Fun Home is the first musical written entirely by women to win the Tony Award as Best Musical.