Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music
Awarded for	Outstanding Music
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First award	1968
Currently held by	Will Aronson and Hue Park for Maybe Happy Ending (2025)
Website	dramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in musical theatre (distinct from incidental music in plays) across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was originally entitled Best Composer, before being renamed to its current title in 1969. The award is often referred to as Outstanding Score of a Musical.

Winners and nominees

Key

  and bold indicates the winner.

1960s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
1968
	Al Carmines	In Circles	[1]
Galt MacDermot	Hair
1969
	Al Carmines	Peace	[2]
Burt Bacharach	Promises, Promises

1970s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
1970
	Stephen Sondheim	Company	[3]
Kurt Weill	Mahagonny
1971
	Stephen Sondheim	Follies	[4]
1972
	Galt MacDermot	Two Gentlemen of Verona	[5]
1973
	Stephen Sondheim	A Little Night Music	[6]
1974
	Al Carmines	The Faggot	[7]
1975
	Charlie Smalls	The Wiz	[8]
	Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman & Chuck Strand	The Lieutenant
	Jerry Herman	Mack and Mabel
	Fred Silver	In Gay Company
1976
	Marvin Hamlisch	A Chorus Line	[9]
	Leonard Bernstein	1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
	Bill Heyer & Hank Beebe	Tuscaloosa's Calling Me
	Stephen Sondheim	Pacific Overtures
1977
	Cy Coleman	I Love My Wife	[10]
	Charles Strouse	Annie
	Elizabeth Swados	Nightclub Cantata
	Robert Waldman	The Robber Bridegroom
1978
	Cy Coleman	On the Twentieth Century	[11]
	Carol Hall	The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Elizabeth Swados	Runaways
1979
	Stephen Sondheim	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	[12] [13]
	Nancy Ford	I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road
	Marvin Hamlisch & Neil Simon	They're Playing Our Song
	Jerome Kass	Ballroom
	Michel Legrand	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1980s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
1980
	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Evita	[14]
	Cy Coleman	Barnum
	Elizabeth Swados	Runaways
1981	—
1982
	Maury Yeston	Nine	[15]
	Stephen Sondheim	Merrily We Roll Along
	Jim Wann	Pump Boys and Dinettes
1983
	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Cats	[16]
	Larry Grossman	A Doll's Life
	Gerald Jay Markee	Charlotte Sweet
	Des McAnuff	Death of Von Richthofen
	Alan Menken	Little Shop of Horrors
1984
	Jerry Herman	La Cage aux Folles	[17]
	Galt MacDermot	The Human Comedy
	David Shire	Baby
	Stephen Sondheim	Sunday in the Park with George
1985
	Larry Grossman	Grind	[18]
	Roger Miller	Big River
	Michael Rupert	3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down
1986
	Rupert Holmes	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	[19]
	Polly Pen	Goblin Market
	Charles Strouse	Mayor
	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Song and Dance
1987
	Noel Gay	Me and My Girl	[20]
	Claude-Michel Schönberg	Les Misérables
	Nick Bicat	The Knife
	Charles Strouse	Rags
Andrew Lloyd Webber	Starlight Express
1988
	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Phantom of the Opera	[21] [22]
	Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus	Chess
	David Evans	Birds of Paradise
	Hugh Masekela & Mbongeni Ngema	Sarafina!
	Stephen Sondheim	Into the Woods
1989	—

1990s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
1990
	Cy Coleman	City of Angels	[23] [24]
	Chet Forrest, Bob Wright & Maury Yeston	Grand Hotel
	Ástor Piazzolla	Dangerous Games
	David Shire	Closer Than Ever
	Andrew Lloyd Webber	Aspects of Love
1991
	Cy Coleman	The Will Rogers Follies	[25] [26]
	David Bucknam	The Waves
	William Finn	Falsettoland
	Lucy Simon	The Secret Garden
	Stephen Sondheim	Assassins
1992
	Erik Frandsen, Michael Garin, Robert Hipkins & Paul Lockheart	Song of Singapore	[27]
1993
	Marvin Hamlisch	The Goodbye Girl	[28] [29]
	John Kander	Kiss of the Spider Woman
	Jeffrey Lunden	Wings
1994
	Stephen Sondheim	Passion	[30]
	Michael John LaChiusa	Hello Again
	Alan Menken	Beauty and the Beast
	Polly Pen	Christina Alberta's Father
	Tom Waits	The Black Rider
1995	—
1996
	Jonathan Larson	Rent	[31] [32]
	Adam Guettel	Floyd Collins
	Stephen Hoffman	Splendora
	Polly Pen	Bed and Sofa
	David Shire	Big
	Bob Telson & Michael John LaChiusa	Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1997
	Cy Coleman	The Life	[33] [34] [35]
	John Kander	Steel Pier
	Jeanine Tesori	Violet
1998
	Stephen Flaherty	Ragtime	[36] [37]
	Paul Simon	The Capeman
	Stephen Trask	Hedwig and the Angry Inch
	Frank Wildhorn	The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
	Jason Robert Brown	Parade	[38] [39] [40]
	Cy Coleman	Exactly Like You
	William Finn	A New Brain
	Frank Wildhorn	The Civil War

2000s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
2000
	Andrew Lippa	The Wild Party	[41] [42]
	Shaun Davey	James Joyce's The Dead
	Stephen Sondheim	Saturday Night
2001
	David Yazbek	The Full Monty	[43] [44]
	Kirsten Childs	The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin
	Stephen Flaherty	Seussical
	Mark Hollmann	Urinetown
	Ed Kleban	A Class Act
	Laurence O'Keefe	Bat Boy: The Musical
2002
	Jason Robert Brown	The Last Five Years	[45] [46]
	Marvin Hamlisch	Sweet Smell of Success
	Jonathan Larson	Tick, Tick... BOOM!
	Jeanine Tesori	Thoroughly Modern Millie
2003
	Marc Shaiman	Hairspray	[47] [48] [49]
	Tim Acito	Zanna, Don't!
	Stephen Flaherty	A Man of No Importance
	Michel Legrand	Amour
	Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx	Avenue Q
	Anderson Edwards, Keith Glover & Keb' Mo'	Thunder Knocking on the Door
2004
	Jeanine Tesori	Caroline, or Change	[50] [51] [52]
	RaRa Avis & Andrew Yeater	Ramayana 2K3
	Boy George	Taboo
	Eric Rockwell	The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
	Stephen Schwartz	Wicked
	Martin Silvestri & Joel Higgins	Johnny Guitar
2005
	Adam Guettel	The Light in the Piazza	[53] [54]
	Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker	Altar Boyz
	Terry Davies	Play Without Words
	William Finn	The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
	Stephen Flaherty	Dessa Rose
	David Yazbek	Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
2006
	Lisa Lambert & Greg Morrison	The Drowsy Chaperone	[55] [56]
	Stephen Dolginoff	Thrill Me
	Scott Frankel	Grey Gardens
	Michael John LaChiusa	See What I Wanna See
	Peter Mills	The Pursuit of Persephone
	Matthew Sklar	The Wedding Singer
2007
	Duncan Sheik	Spring Awakening	[57] [58] [59]
	John Kander	Curtains
	Paul Leschen & Gila Sand	Twist: Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?
	Peter Rodgers Melnick	Adrift in Macao
	Lin-Manuel Miranda	In the Heights
	Laurence O'Keefe & Nell Benjamin	Legally Blonde
2008
	Heidi Rodewald & Stew	Passing Strange	[60] [61] [62]
	John Bucchino	A Catered Affair
	Stephen Flaherty	The Glorious Ones
	Tom Kitt	Next to Normal
	Mark Mulcahy	The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
	Joshua Schmidt	Adding Machine
2009
	Elton John	Billy Elliot the Musical	[63] [64] [65]
	Neil Bartram	The Story of My Life
	Zina Goldrich	Dear Edwina
	Dolly Parton	9 to 5
	Stephen Sondheim	Road Show
	Jeanine Tesori	Shrek the Musical

2010s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
2010
	David Bryan	Memphis	[66]
	Michael Friedman	Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
	Joe Iconis	Bloodsong of Love
	John Kander & Fred Ebb	The Scottsboro Boys
	Andrew Lippa	The Addams Family
	Joseph Zellnik	Yank!
2011
	Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone	The Book of Mormon	[67] [68] [69]
	Brad Alexander	See Rock City & Other Destinations
	Alan Menken	Sister Act
	Marc Shaiman	Catch Me If You Can
	Mike Stoller & Artie Butler	The People in the Picture
	David Yazbek	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
2012
	Alan Menken	Newsies	[70] [71] [72]
	Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová	Once
	Michael John LaChiusa	Queen of the Mist
	Alan Menken	Leap of Faith
	Frank Wildhorn	Bonnie & Clyde
	Maury Yeston	Death Takes a Holiday
2013
	David Byrne & Fatboy Slim	Here Lies Love	[73] [74]
	Trey Anastasio & Amanda Green	Hands on a Hardbody
	Michael John LaChiusa	Giant
	Dave Malloy	Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
	Benj Pasek & Justin Paul	A Christmas Story: The Musical
	David Rossmer & Steve Rosen	The Other Josh Cohen
2014
	Jason Robert Brown	The Bridges of Madison County	[75] [76] [77]
	Andrew Lippa	Big Fish
	Steven Lutvak	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
	Alan Menken	Aladdin
	Kevin Murphy & Laurence O'Keefe	Heathers: The Musical
	Jeanine Tesori	Fun Home
2015
	Lin-Manuel Miranda	Hamilton	[78] [79]
	Jason Robert Brown	Honeymoon in Vegas
	Michael Friedman	The Fortress of Solitude
	John Kander	The Visit
	Dave Malloy	Ghost Quartet
	Sting	The Last Ship
2016
	Steve Martin & Edie Brickell	Bright Star	[80] [81]
	Sara Bareilles	Waitress
	Michael John LaChiusa	First Daughter Suite
	Andrew Lloyd Webber	School of Rock
	The Lobbyists	SeaWife
2017
	David Yazbek	The Band's Visit	[82] [83]
	Stephen Flaherty	Anastasia
	Dave Malloy	Beardo
	Richard Oberacker	Bandstand
	Irene Sankoff & David Hein	Come from Away
2018
	David Friedman	Desperate Measures	[84] [85]
	The Bengsons	The Lucky Ones
	Ben Caplan & Christian Barry	Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
	Erin McKeown	Miss You Like Hell
	Helen Park & Max Vernon	KPOP
2019
	David Yazbek	Tootsie	[86] [87]
	Andrew R. Butler	Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
	Joe Iconis	Be More Chill
	Peter Mills	The Hello Girls
	Mark Sonnenblick	Midnight at the Never Get
	Shaina Taub	Twelfth Night

2020s

Year	Composer	Production	Ref.
2020
	Dave Malloy	Octet	[88] [89]
	Ross Golan	The Wrong Man
	Michael R. Jackson	A Strange Loop
	Joshua Rosenblum	Einstein's Dreams
	Duncan Sheik	The Secret Life of Bees
	Jeanine Tesori	Soft Power
2021	No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City		[90]
2022
	Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss	Six	[91] [92] [93]
	Jason Howland	Paradise Square
	Matt Ray	The Hang
	Carrie Rodriguez	¡Americano!
	Jeanine Tesori	Kimberly Akimbo
2023
	Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally	Shucked	[94] [95]
	Michael R. Jackson	White Girl in Danger
	Tom Kitt and AnnMarie Milazzo	Almost Famous
	Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson	Between the Lines
	The Kilbanes	Weightless
2024	Shaina Taub	Suffs	[96] [97]
	Jason Robert Brown	The Connector
	Justin Huertas	Lizard Boy: The Musical
	Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine	The Outsiders
	David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna	Dead Outlaw
2025
	Will Aronson	Maybe Happy Ending	[98] [99]
	David Foster	Boop! The Musical
	Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez	Real Women Have Curves
	Zoe Sarnak	The Lonely Few
	The Lazours	We Live in Cairo

Multiple wins

5 wins Cy Coleman Stephen Sondheim 3 wins Al Carmines Jason Robert Brown Andrew Lloyd Webber David Yazbek

2 wins Marvin Hamlisch

Multiple nominations

12 nominations Stephen Sondheim 7 nominations Andrew Lloyd Webber Jeanine Tesori 6 nominations Cy Coleman Stephen Flaherty Michael John LaChiusa Alan Menken David Yazbek 5 nominations Jason Robert Brown John Kander 4 nominations Dave Malloy 3 nominations Marvin Hamlisch Andrew Lippa Laurence O'Keefe Polly Pen David Shire Charles Strouse Elizabeth Swados Maury Yeston Frank Wildhorn

2 nominations Al Carmines William Finn Michael Friedman Larry Grossman Adam Guettel Jerry Herman Joe Iconis Michael R. Jackson Tom Kitt Jonathan Larson Michel Legrand Robert Lopez Galt MacDermot Peter Mills Lin-Manuel Miranda Marc Shaiman Duncan Sheik Shaina Taub

See also

• Tony Award for Best Original Score

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