List of Tony Award records

Harold Prince held the record as the most wins and nominations for a Tony.

This list of Tony Award records are current as of 78th Tony Awards, with that ceremony taking place on June 8, 2025.

Some notable records and facts about the Tony Awards include the following:[1]

Most numbers

Nominations

  • The most Tony nominations ever received by a single production was Hamilton (2016) with 16 nominations in 13 categories
    • It narrowly passing the previous holders, The Producers (2001; 15 nominations in 12 categories) and Billy Elliot (2009; 15 nominations in 13 categories). The most nominations for a play was Stereophonic (2024; 13 nominations in 10 categories).
    • Musicals The Scottsboro Boys (2011) and Mean Girls (2018), as well as non-musical play Slave Play (2020) are tied: all three were nominated for 12 Tony Awards but did not win any.[2]

Winners

  • The most awards ever received by a single production was The Producers (2001) with 12 awards, including Best Musical.
    • The most Tonys ever received by a play was The Coast of Utopia (2007) with 7 awards, including Best Play.
  • Acting Awards: Only one production, South Pacific (1950 awards), has won all four of the acting awards in a single year.

Major categories

Big Six of Musical

Four musicals have won all "big six" awards (consisting Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress, and Best Direction awards) for original and adapted musicals:

Big Four of Play

Two plays have won all "big four" awards (consisting Best Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress, and Best Direction awards) for original and adapted plays:

Productions

  • Words and Music: Only nine musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had (co-)written the Book (non-sung dialogue and storyline) and the Score (music and lyrics): 1958 winner The Music Man (Meredith Willson – awards for Book and Score did not exist that year), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score), 1996 winner Rent (Jonathan Larson posthumously – who also won for Book and Score), 2001 winner The Producers (Mel Brooks – also won for Book and Score), 2005 winner Spamalot (Eric Idle – the only one who failed to win for Book or Score in a year where these awards existed), 2011 winner The Book of Mormon (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score), 2016 winner Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda also won for Book and Score), 2019 winner Hadestown (Anaïs Mitchell also won for Score), and 2022 winner A Strange Loop (Michael R. Jackson also won for Book).
  • Design Awards: Eleven shows have swept the Design Awards (original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008): Follies (1972), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), The Lion King (1998), The Producers (2001), The Light in the Piazza (2005), The Coast of Utopia (2007), the 2008 revival of South Pacific (first to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts), Peter and the Starcatcher (first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts) (2012), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2018), A Christmas Carol and Moulin Rouge! (both 2020).
  • Revivals: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller in 2012 became the first show (play or musical) to win as Best Production in four different years: Best Play at the 1949 awards, Best Revival at the 1984 awards (before the Best Revival award was split into two categories for Play and Musical in 1994), and Best Revival of a Play at the 1999 and 2012 awards. La Cage aux Folles made history as the first musical to win as Best Production in three different years, Best Musical at the 1984 awards and Best Revival of a Musical at both the 2005 awards and the 2010 awards. The King and I has also garnered three Tony Awards, one for each time it has been produced on Broadway, first as Best Musical and then twice as Best Revival of a Musical. Company has also won three Tony Awards, first as Best Musical in 1971, followed by Best Revival of a Musical in 2007 and 2022.

Individuals

Firsts

See also

References

  1. ^ "Facts & Trivia – History from the Tony Awards" Archived July 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine tonyawards.com, Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  2. ^ Jones, Kenneth; Gans, Andrew (May 3, 2011). "2011 Tony Nominations Announced; 'Book of Mormon' Earns 14 Nominations Archived October 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Playbill (playbill.com), Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  3. ^ Jones, Kenneth (June 9, 2003), " 'Take Me Out', 'Hairspray' Are Top Winners in 2003 Tony Awards; 'Long Day's Journey', 'Nine' Also Hot"Archived August 25, 2017, at the Wayback Machine Playbill (playbill.com) Retrieved August 26, 2017.
  4. ^ [1] nytimes.com, accessed May 1, 2025
  5. ^ Fierberg, Ruthie (May 2, 2019). "Ali Stroker Talks Making Broadway History With Her 2019 Tony Nomination". Playbill. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
  6. ^ "Tony Award winner Ali Stroker makes history as first wheelchair user to win trophy". Fox News. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
  7. ^ Smith, Courtney E. "Jessica Paz's Unlikely Journey From Scuba Store Employee To Landmark Tony Nominee". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  8. ^ "L Morgan Lee on making Broadway history: 'I could not stop crying'". www.theguardian.com. June 2022. Retrieved June 15, 2022.
  9. ^ Vanasco, Jennifer (2 May 2023). "'Some Like It Hot' leads with 13 Tony Award nominations". NPR. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  10. ^ Brunner, Jeryl. "This Year's Tony Awards Celebrated Women In An Epic And Historic Way". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-06-21.
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