Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical | |
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Awarded for | Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical |
Location | United States New York City |
Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
Currently held by | Daniel Radcliffe for Merrily We Roll Along (2024) |
Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality featured roles in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946.
Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year." [1]
The award was originally called the Tony Award for Best Performance in a Musical. It was first presented to David Wayne at the 1st Tony Awards for his portrayal of Og in Finian's Rainbow . Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public; [2] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers". [3] Following the first ceremony, this category was not awarded until 1950 when it was renamed to Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured or Supporting Role in a Musical. It was renamed again to its current title in 1976.
Hinton Battle holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of three. No characters have taken the award multiple times, but Herbie in Gypsy and Herr Schultz in Cabaret are the most nominated, with four each.
Year | Actor | Musical | Role(s) | Ref. |
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1947 (1st) | ||||
David Wayne | Finian's Rainbow | Og |
Year | Actor | Musical | Role(s) | Ref. |
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1950 (4th) | ||||
Myron McCormick | South Pacific | Luther Billis | ||
1951 (5th) | ||||
Russell Nype | Call Me Madam | Kenneth Gibson | ||
1952 (6th) | ||||
Yul Brynner | The King and I | The King of Siam | ||
1953 (7th) | ||||
Hiram Sherman | Two's Company | Various Characters | ||
1954 (8th) | ||||
Harry Belafonte | John Murray Anderson's Almanac | Various Characters | ||
1955 (9th) | ||||
Cyril Ritchard | Peter Pan | Captain Hook / Mr. Darling | ||
1956 (10th) | ||||
Russ Brown | Damn Yankees | Benny Van Buren | [4] | |
Mike Kellin | Pipe Dream | Hazel | ||
Will Mahoney | Finian's Rainbow | Finian McLonergan | ||
Scott Merrill | The Threepenny Opera | Macheath | ||
1957 (11th) | ||||
Sydney Chaplin | Bells Are Ringing | Jeff Moss | [5] | |
Robert Coote | My Fair Lady | Colonel Pickering | ||
Stanley Holloway | Alfred P. Doolittle | |||
1958 (12th) | ||||
David Burns | The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | [6] | |
Ossie Davis | Jamaica | Cicero | ||
Cameron Prud'Homme | New Girl in Town | Chris | ||
Iggie Wolfington | The Music Man | Marcellus Washburn | ||
1959 (13th) | ||||
Russell Nype | Goldilocks | George Randolph Brown | [7] | |
Leonard Stone | Redhead | George Poppett |
Year | Actor | Musical | Role(s) | Ref. |
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2020 (74th) | ||||
Danny Burstein | Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler | [67] | |
Derek Klena | Jagged Little Pill | Nick Healy | ||
Sean Allan Krill | Steve Healy | |||
Sahr Ngaujah | Moulin Rouge! | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | ||
Daniel J. Watts | Tina | Ike Turner | ||
2021 | No ceremony | |||
2022 (75th) | ||||
Matt Doyle | Company | Jamie | [68] | |
Sidney DuPont | Paradise Square | Washington Henry | ||
Jared Grimes | Funny Girl | Eddie Ryan | ||
John-Andrew Morrison | A Strange Loop | Thought 4 | ||
A.J. Shively | Paradise Square | Owen Duignan | ||
2023 (76th) | ||||
Alex Newell | Shucked | Lulu | [69] | |
Kevin Cahoon | Shucked | Peanut | ||
Justin Cooley | Kimberly Akimbo | Seth Weetis | ||
Kevin Del Aguila | Some Like It Hot | Osgood Fielding III | ||
Jordan Donica | Camelot | Lancelot | ||
2024 (77th) | ||||
Daniel Radcliffe | Merrily We Roll Along | Charley Kringas | [70] | |
Roger Bart | Back to the Future: The Musical | Doc Brown | ||
Joshua Boone | The Outsiders | Dallas Winston | ||
Brandon Victor Dixon | Hell's Kitchen | Davis | ||
Sky Lakota-Lynch | The Outsiders | Johnny Cade | ||
Steven Skybell | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club | Herr Schultz | ||
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