| Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Orchestrations | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Orchestrations |
| Location | New York City |
| Presented by | Outer Critics Circle |
| Currently held by | Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time (2025) |
| Website | OuterCriticsCircle.org |
The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Orchestrations is an honor presented at the Outer Critics Circle Awards, a ceremony established in 1950 for excellence in orchestrations on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, to orchestrators of any production. The category was added to the ceremony in 2017. [1]
Michael Starobin has been nominated the most, with three nominations, while no orchestrator has won the award more than once.
and bold indicates winner
| Year | Name | Work | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | |||
| Larry Hochman | Hello, Dolly! | [2] | |
| Larry Blank | Holiday Inn | ||
| Bill Elliott and Greg Anthony Rassen | Bandstand | ||
| Doug Besterman | Anastasia | ||
| Jamshied Sharifi | The Band's Visit | ||
| 2018 | |||
| Jonathan Tunick | Carousel | [3] | |
| Jason Robert Brown | Prince of Broadway | ||
| AnnMarie Milazzo and Michael Starobin | Once on This Island | ||
| Claire van Kampen | Farinelli and the King | ||
| Tom Kitt | SpongeBob SquarePants | ||
| 2019 | |||
| Daniel Kluger | Oklahoma! | [4] | |
| Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose | Hadestown | ||
| Harold Wheeler | Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Time of the Temptations | ||
| Joseph Joubert | Carmen Jones | ||
| Simon Hale | Girl from the North Country |