Tony Award for Best Choreography

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The Tony award for Choreography has been awarded since 1947.

Contents

1 Award winners and nominations
- 1.1 1940s
- 1.2 1950s
- 1.3 1960s
- 1.4 1970s
- 1.5 1980s
- 1.6 1990s
- 1.7 2000s
- 1.8 2010s
2 Multiple winners
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Award winners and nominations

[edit] 1940s

1947: Agnes de Mille – Brigadoon / Michael Kidd – Finian's Rainbow
1948: Jerome Robbins – High Button Shoes
1949: Gower Champion – Lend An Ear

[edit] 1950s

1950: Helen Tamiris – Touch and Go
1951: Michael Kidd – Guys and Dolls
1952: Robert Alton – Pal Joey
1953: Donald Saddler – Wonderful Town
1954: Michael Kidd – Can-Can
1955: Bob Fosse – The Pajama Game
1956: Bob Fosse – Damn Yankees
- Robert Alton – The Vamp
- Boris Runanin – Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream
- Anna Sokolow – Red Roses For Me

1957: Michael Kidd – Li'l Abner
- Hanya Holm – My Fair Lady
- Dania Krupska – The Most Happy Fella
- Jerome Robbins / Bob Fosse – Bells Are Ringing
1958: Jerome Robbins – West Side Story
- Bob Fosse – New Girl In Town
- Onna White – The Music Man
1959: Bob Fosse – Redhead
- Agnes de Mille – Goldilocks
- Carol Haney – Flower Drum Song
- Onna White – Whoop-Up

[edit] 1960s

1960: Michael Kidd – Destry Rides Again
- Peter Gennaro – Fiorello!
- Joe Layton – Greenwillow
- Lee Scot – Happy Town
- Onna White – Take Me Along
1961: Gower Champion – Bye Bye Birdie
- Onna White – Irma La Douce
1962: Joe Layton – No Strings
- Agnes de Mille – Kwamina
- Michael Kidd – Subways Are For Sleeping
- Dania Krupska – The Happiest Girl in the World
1963: Bob Fosse – Little Me
- Carol Haney – Bravo Giovanni
1964: Gower Champion – Hello, Dolly!
- Danny Daniels – High Spirits
- Carol Haney – Funny Girl
- Herbert Ross – Anyone Can Whistle
1965: Jerome Robbins – Fiddler on the Roof
- Peter Gennaro – Bajour
- Donald McKayle – Golden Boy
- Onna White – Half a Sixpence

1966: Bob Fosse – Sweet Charity
- Jack Cole – Man of La Mancha
- Michael Kidd – Skyscraper
- Onna White – Mame
1967: Ron Field – Cabaret
- Michael Bennett – A Joyful Noise
- Danny Daniels – Walking Happy / Annie Get Your Gun
- Lee Theodore – The Apple Tree
1968: Gower Champion – The Happy Time
- Michael Bennett – Henry, Sweet Henry
- Kevin Carlisle – Hallelujah, Baby!
- Onna White – Illya Darling
1969: Joe Layton – George M!
- Sammy Bayes – Canterbury Tales
- Ronald Field – Zorba
- Michael Bennett – Promises, Promises

[edit] 1970s

1970: Ron Field – Applause
- Michael Bennett – Coco
- Grover Dale – Billy
- Louis Johnson – Purlie
1971: Donald Saddler – No, No, Nanette
- Michael Bennett – Company
- Michael Kidd – The Rothschilds
1972: Michael Bennett – Follies
- Patricia Birch – Grease
- Jean Erdman – Two Gentlemen of Verona
1973: Bob Fosse – Pippin
- Gower Champion – Sugar
- Peter Gennaro – Irene
- Donald Saddler – Much Ado About Nothing
1974: Michael Bennett – Seesaw
- Patricia Birch – Over Here!
- Donald McKayle – Raisin
1975: George Faison – The Wiz
- Gower Champion – Mack and Mabel
- Donald McKayle – Doctor Jazz
- Margo Sappington – Where's Charley?
- Robert Tucker – Shenandoah
- Joel Zwick – Dance with Me

1976: Michael Bennett / Bob Avian – A Chorus Line
- Patricia Birch – Pacific Overtures
- Bob Fosse – Chicago
- Billy Wilson – Bubbling Brown Sugar
1977: Peter Gennaro – Annie
- Talley Beatty – Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
- Patricia Birch – Music Is
- Onna White – I Love My Wife
1978: Bob Fosse – Dancin'
- Arthur Faria – Ain't Misbehavin'
- Ron Lewis – The Act
- Elizabeth Swados – Runaways
1979: Michael Bennett / Bob Avian – Ballroom
- Henry LeTang / Billy Wilson – Eubie!
- Dan Siretta – Whoopee!
- Tommy Tune – The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

[edit] 1980s

1980: Tommy Tune / Thommie Walsh – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
- Ernest Flatt – Sugar Babies
- Larry Fuller – Evita
- Joe Layton – Barnum
1981: Gower Champion – 42nd Street
- Graciela Daniele – The Pirates of Penzance
- Henry LeTang / Donald McKayle / Michael Smuin – Sophisticated Ladies
- Roland Petit – Can-Can
1982: Michael Bennett / Michael Peters – Dreamgirls
- Peter Gennaro – Little Me
- Tony Tanner – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
- Tommy Tune – Nine
1983: Tommy Tune / Thommie Walsh – My One and Only
- George Faison – Porgy and Bess
- Gillian Lynne – Cats
- Donald Saddler – On Your Toes
1984: Danny Daniels – The Tap Dance Kid
- Wayne Cilento – Baby
- Graciela Daniele – The Rink
- Scott Salmon – La Cage aux Folles

1986: Bob Fosse – Big Deal
- Graciela Daniele – The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Peter Martins – Song & Dance
- Tango Argentino Dancers – Tango Argentino
1987: Gillian Gregory – Me and My Girl
- Ron Field – Rags
- Brian Macdonald – The Mikado
- Arlene Phillips – Starlight Express
1988: Michael Smuin – Anything Goes
- Lar Lubovitch – Into the Woods
- Gillian Lynne – The Phantom of the Opera
- Ndaba Mhlongo / Mbongeni Ngema – Sarafina!
1989: Cholly Atkins / Henry LeTang / Frankie Manning / Fayard Nicholas – Black and Blue
- Michele Assaf – Starmites
- Bill Irwin / Kimi Okada – Largely New York
- Alan Johnson – Legs Diamond

[edit] 1990s

1990: Tommy Tune – Grand Hotel
- Joan Brickhill – Meet Me in St. Louis
- Graciela Daniele / Tina Paul – Dangerous Games
1991: Tommy Tune – The Will Rogers Follies
- Bob Avian – Miss Saigon
- Graciela Daniele – Once on This Island
- Dan Siretta – Oh, Kay!
1992: Susan Stroman – Crazy for You
- Terry John Bates – Dancing at Lughnasa
- Christopher Chadman – Guys and Dolls
- Hope Clarke / Ted L. Levy / Gregory Hines – Jelly's Last Jam
1993: Wayne Cilento – The Who's Tommy
- Graciela Daniele – The Goodbye Girl
- Vincent Paterson / Rob Marshall – Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Randy Skinner – Ain't Broadway Grand
1994: Kenneth MacMillan – Carousel
- Jeff Calhoun – Grease
- Rob Marshall – Damn Yankees
- Rob Marshall – She Loves Me

1995: Susan Stroman – Show Boat
- Bob Avian – Sunset Boulevard
- Wayne Cilento – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Joey McKneely – Smokey Joe's Cafe
1996: Savion Glover – Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk
- Graciela Daniele – Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Susan Stroman – Big, The Musical
- Marlies Yearby – Rent
1997: Ann Reinking – Chicago
- Wayne Cilento – Dream
- Joey McKneely – The Life
- Susan Stroman – Steel Pier
1998 Garth Fagan – The Lion King
- Graciela Daniele – Ragtime
- Forever Tango Dancers – Forever Tango
- Rob Marshall – Cabaret
1999: Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake
- Patricia Birch – Parade
- Rob Marshall – Little Me
- A. C. Ciulla – Footloose

[edit] 2000s

2000: Susan Stroman – Contact
- Kathleen Marshall – Kiss Me, Kate
- Susan Stroman – The Music Man
- Lynne Taylor-Corbett – Swing!
2001: Susan Stroman – The Producers
- Jerry Mitchell – The Full Monty
- Randy Skinner – 42nd Street
2002: Rob Ashford – Thoroughly Modern Millie
- John Carrafa – Into the Woods
- John Carrafa – Urinetown: The Musical
- Susan Stroman – Oklahoma!
2003: Twyla Tharp – Movin' Out
- Robert Longbottom – Flower Drum Song
- Jerry Mitchell – Hairspray
- Melinda Roy – Urban Cowboy: The Musical
2004: Kathleen Marshall – Wonderful Town
- Wayne Cilento – Wicked
- Jerry Mitchell – Never Gonna Dance
- Anthony Van Laast / Farah Khan – Bombay Dreams

2005: Jerry Mitchell – La Cage aux Folles
- Wayne Cilento – Sweet Charity
- Jerry Mitchell – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Casey Nicholaw – Monty Python's Spamalot
2006: Kathleen Marshall – The Pajama Game
- Rob Ashford – The Wedding Singer
- Donald Bryd – The Color Purple
- Casey Nicholaw – The Drowsy Chaperone
2007: Bill T. Jones – Spring Awakening
- Rob Ashford – Curtains
- Matthew Bourne / Stephen Mear – Mary Poppins
- Jerry Mitchell – Legally Blonde
2008: Andy Blankenbuehler – In The Heights
- Rob Ashford – Cry-Baby
- Christopher Gattelli – South Pacific
- Dan Knechtges – Xanadu
2009: Peter Darling – Billy Elliot the Musical
- Karole Armitage – Hair
- Andy Blankenbuehler – 9 to 5
- Randy Skinner – White Christmas

[edit] 2010s

2010: Bill T. Jones – Fela!
- Rob Ashford – Promises, Promises
- Lynne Page – La Cage aux Folles
- Twyla Tharp – Come Fly Away

2011: Kathleen Marshall – Anything Goes
- Rob Ashford – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Casey Nicholaw – The Book of Mormon
- Susan Stroman – The Scottsboro Boys

[edit] Multiple winners

8 wins: Bob Fosse
5 wins: Michael Bennet, Gower Champion, Michael Kidd
4 wins: Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune
3 wins: Kathleen Marshall
2 wins: Bob Avian, Bill T. Jones

[edit] See also

[edit] References

"Tony Award for Best Choreography". The Internet Broadway Database. 2008. http://www.ibdb.com/advSearchAwards.php. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

[edit] External links

The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards official website

Tony Award for Best Choreography

1947–1975

Agnes de Mille / Michael Kidd (1947)
Jerome Robbins (1948)
Gower Champion (1949)
Helen Tamiris (1950)
Michael Kidd (1951)
Robert Alton (1952)
Donald Saddler (1953)
Michael Kidd (1954)
Bob Fosse (1955)
Bob Fosse (1956)
Michael Kidd (1957)
Jerome Robbins (1958)
Bob Fosse (1959)
Michael Kidd (1960)
Gower Champion (1961)
Joe Layton (1962)
Bob Fosse (1963)
Gower Champion (1964)
Jerome Robbins (1965)
Bob Fosse (1966)
Ron Field (1967)
Gower Champion (1968)
Joe Layton (1969)
Ron Field (1970)
Donald Saddler (1971)
Michael Bennett (1972)
Bob Fosse (1973)
Michael Bennett (1974)
George Faison (1975)

1976–2000

Michael Bennett / Bob Avian (1976)
Peter Gennaro (1977)
Bob Fosse (1978)
Michael Bennett / Bob Avian (1979)
Tommy Tune / Thommie Walsh (1980)
Gower Champion (1981)
Michael Bennett / Michael Peters (1982)
Tommy Tune / Thommie Walsh (1983)
Danny Daniels (1984)
Bob Fosse (1986)
Gillian Gregory (1987)
Michael Smuin (1988)
Cholly Atkins / Henry LeTang / Frankie Manning / Fayard Nicholas (1989)
Tommy Tune (1990)
Tommy Tune (1991)
Susan Stroman (1992)
Wayne Cilento (1993)
Kenneth MacMillan (1994)
Susan Stroman (1995)
Savion Glover (1996)
Ann Reinking (1997)
Garth Fagan (1998)
Matthew Bourne (1999)
Susan Stroman (2000)

2001–present

v t e Tony Awards

Play	Best Play Best Direction of a Play Best Leading Actor in a Play Best Leading Actress in a Play Best Featured Actor in a Play Best Featured Actress in a Play Best Costume Design of a Play Best Lighting Design of a Play Best Revival of a Play Best Scenic Design of a Play Best Sound Design of a Play

Musical	Best Musical Best Direction of a Musical Best Leading Actor in a Musical Best Leading Actress in a Musical Best Featured Actor in a Musical Best Featured Actress in a Musical Best Book of a Musical Best Choreography Best Costume Design of a Musical Best Lighting Design of a Musical Best Orchestrations Best Original Score Best Revival of a Musical Best Scenic Design of a Musical Best Sound Design of a Musical

Special (non-competitive)	Regional Theatre Tony Award Special Tony Award Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre Isabelle Stevenson Award

Retired	Best Author Best Conductor and Musical Director Best Director Best Revival Best Special Theatrical Event Best Stage Technician

Ceremonies	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

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