Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Orchestrations |
Location | New York City |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Drama Desk |
First awarded | 1983 |
Currently held by | Marco Paguia for Buena Vista Social Club (2024) |
Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in musical theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. This category was eliminated after the 2011 ceremony, only to be reinstated about a week later due to popular and overwhelming demand from much of the Broadway community.
Year | Orchestrator | Production |
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1983 | ||
Michael Gibson | My One and Only | |
Hans Spialek | On Your Toes | |
1984 | ||
Michael Starobin | Sunday in the Park with George | |
Jonathan Tunick | Baby | |
Jim Tyler | La Cage aux Folles | |
1985 | ||
Steven Margoshes and Danny Troob | Big River | |
Bill Byers | Grind | |
Michael Starobin | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | |
La bohème | ||
1986 | ||
Rupert Holmes | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | |
Ralph Burns | Sweet Charity | |
James McElwaine | Goblin Market | |
1987 | ||
John Cameron | Les Misérables | |
Wally Harper | Barbara Cook: A Concert for the Theatre | |
Michael Starobin | Rags | |
Chris Walker | Me and My Girl | |
1988 | ||
David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber | The Phantom of the Opera | |
Michael Gibson | Anything Goes | |
Michael Starobin | Birds of Paradise | |
Jonathan Tunick | Into the Woods | |
1989 | — |
Year | Orchestrator | Production |
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2020 | ||
Tom Kitt | Jagged Little Pill | |
Alex Lacamoire | The Wrong Man | |
Or Matias and Dave Malloy | Octet | |
Danny Troob, John Clancy, and Larry Hochman | Soft Power | |
Jonathan Tunick | West Side Story | |
2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City [1] | |
2022 | ||
Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg | MJ | |
Tom Curran | Six | |
Greg Jarrett | Assassins | |
Mark Hartman and Yasuhiko Fukuoka | The Streets of New York | |
2023 | ||
Bryan Carter and Charlie Rosen | Some Like It Hot | |
Bruce Coughlin | A Man of No Importance | |
Jason Howland | Shucked | |
Kenny Seymour | The Harder They Come | |
Daryl Waters and Sam Davis | New York, New York | |
2024 [2] | ||
Marco Paguia | Buena Vista Social Club | |
Timo Andres | Illinoise | |
Will Butler and Justin Craig | Stereophonic | |
Andy Evan Cohen | The Greatest Hits Down Route 66 | |
Erik Della Penna, Dean Sharenow, and David Yazbek | Dead Outlaw | |
Michael Starobin, Shaina Taub (vocal arrangements), and Andrea Grody (vocal arrangements) | Suffs | |
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