Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
| Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical | |
|---|---|
| Description | 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 | Christian Borle for Something Rotten! (2015) |
| Website | TonyAwards.com |
This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. It is the equivalent to the Best Supporting Actor award at the Academy Awards. The award has been given since 1947, but the nominees who did not win have only been publicly announced since 1956.
Award winners
1940s
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
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| 1947 1st Tony Awards | |||
| David Wayne | Finian's Rainbow | Og | |
| 1948 2nd Tony Awards | |||
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| 1949 3rd Tony Awards | |||
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1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple Winners
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Multiple Nominees
Character Nomination Total
4 nominations
- Herbie from Gypsy
3 nominations
- Herr Schultz from Cabaret
2 nominations
- Bruce Granit from On the Twentieth Century
- Cinderella's Prince / The Wolf from Into the Woods
- H.C. Curry from 110 in the Shade
- Hysterium from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Jim from Big River
- John Jasper / Mr. Clive Paget from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Juan Peron from Evita
- Judas Iscariot from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Lord Evelyn Oakleigh from Anything Goes
- Luther Billis from South Pacific
- Og from Finian's Rainbow
- Oscar from Sweet Charity
- Senex from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Sporting Life from Porgy and Bess
Productions With Multiple Nominations
- My Fair Lady – Robert Coote and Stanley Holloway
- The Music Man – David Burns (winner) and Iggie Wolfington
- Fiorello! – Tom Bosley (winner) and Howard Da Silva
- The Sound of Music – Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar
- Bye Bye Birdie – Dick Gautier and Dick Van Dyke (winner)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – David Burns (winner) and Jack Gilford
- Cabaret – Joel Grey (winner) and Edward Winter
- 1776 - William Daniels (refused nomination) and Ronald Holgate (winner)
- Promises, Promises – Larry Haines and Edward Winter
- Coco – René Auberjonois (winner) and George Rose
- A Chorus Line – Robert LuPone and Sammy Williams (winner)
- Side by Side by Sondheim – David Kernan and Ned Sherrin
- Working – Steven Boockvor and Rex Everhart
- Evita – Bob Gunton and Mandy Patinkin (winner)
- Dreamgirls – Obba Babatundé and Cleavant Derricks (winner)
- Cats – Harry Groener and Stephen Hanan
- The Tap Dance Kid – Hinton Battle (winner) and Samuel E. Wright
- Big River – René Auberjonois, Daniel H. Jenkins, and Ron Richardson (winner)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood - John Herrera and Howard McGillin
- Me and My Girl – George S. Irving and Timothy Jerome
- Anything Goes – Anthony Heald and Bill McCutcheon (winner)
- Black and Blue – Bunny Briggs and Savion Glover
- Miss Saigon – Hinton Battle (winner) and Willy Falk
- The Who's Tommy – Michael Cerveris and Paul Kandel
- Show Boat – Michel Bell and Joel Blum
- The Life – Chuck Cooper (winner) and Sam Harris
- Fosse – Desmond Richardson and Scott Wise
- Kiss Me, Kate – Michael Berresse, Michael Mulheren and Lee Wilkof
- The Full Monty – John Ellison Conlee and André DeShields
- The Producers – Roger Bart, Gary Beach (winner) and Brad Oscar
- Hairspray – Dick Latessa (winner) and Corey Reynolds
- Movin' Out – Michael Cavanaugh and Keith Roberts
- Assassins – Michael Cerveris (winner) and Denis O'Hare
- Monty Python's Spamalot – Michael McGrath and Christopher Sieber
- Billy Elliot the Musical – David Bologna and Gregory Jbara (winner)
- The Scottsboro Boys – Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon
- The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess – Phillip Boykin and David Alan Grier
- An American in Paris – Brandon Uranowitz and Max von Essen
- Something Rotten! – Christian Borle (winner) and Brad Oscar
- Hamilton – Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Groff, and Christopher Jackson
Statistics
- There have been no ties in the history of this category.
- The role of Herbie, in Gypsy, holds the record for most nominations in this category, with four:
- 1960 – Jack Klugman
- 1990 – Jonathan Hadary
- 2003 – John Dossett
- 2008 – Boyd Gaines
- Hinton Battle remains the most successful performer in the history of this category with a perfect score of three wins in three nominations. Scott Wise and René Auberjonois have also attained three nominations each, but have only been victorious once. Gregg Edelman and Marc Kudisch also received three nominations, and neither have ever won and they are this category's biggest "losers". Coincidentally, both were nominated and lost to Shuler Hensley in 2002.
- There has never been a consecutive winner in this category. There have been, though, some consecutive nominations. Jack Cassidy was consecutively nominated in 1964 and 1965, while Bruce Adler achieved the same honor in 1991 and 1992. Cassidy won in 1964, for his portrayal of Steve Kodaly, in She Loves Me.
- The record for the longest span between wins is held by Hiram Sherman, whose wins for Two's Company, in 1953, and How Now, Dow Jones, in 1968, are set apart by 15 years.
- The record for the longest span between nominations is held by John McMartin, whose nominations for Sweet Charity, in 1966, and High Society, in 1998, are set apart by 32 years. McMartin has never won a Tony Award in this category.
- The oldest winner in this category is Dick Latessa who was 73 when he won for Hairspray in 2003. The youngest winner is Frankie Michaels who won for Mame in 1966 at age 10.