Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
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| Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical | |
|---|---|
 2025 recipient: Jak Malone | |
| 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 | Jak Malone for Operation Mincemeat (2025) |
| 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 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 is the most nominated with five.
Winners and nominees
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1940s
[edit]| Year | Actor | Musical | Role(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 (1st) | ||||
| David Wayne | Finian's Rainbow | Og |
1950s
[edit]| Year | Actor | Musical | Role(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
1960s
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[edit]2020s
[edit]Statistics
[edit]Most wins
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Most nominations
[edit]Character nomination total
[edit]- 5 nominations
- Herbie from Gypsy
- 4 nominations
- Herr Schultz from Cabaret
- 2 nominations
- Alfred P. Doolittle from My Fair Lady
- Bruce Granit from On the Twentieth Century
- Cinderella's Prince / The Wolf from Into the Woods
- Cornelius Hackl from Hello, Dolly!
- Eddie Ryan from Funny Girl
- 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 Perón 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
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- My Fair Lady – Robert Coote and Stanley Holloway
- The Music Man – David Burns and Iggie Wolfington
- Fiorello! – Tom Bosley and Howard da Silva
- The Sound of Music – Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar
- Bye Bye Birdie – Dick Gautier and Dick Van Dyke
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – David Burns and Jack Gilford
- Cabaret – Joel Grey and Edward Winter
- 1776 – William Daniels (refused nomination) and Ronald Holgate
- Promises, Promises – Larry Haines and Edward Winter
- Coco – René Auberjonois and George Rose
- A Chorus Line – Robert LuPone and Sammy Williams
- Side by Side by Sondheim – David Kernan and Ned Sherrin
- Working – Steven Boockvor and Rex Everhart
- Evita – Bob Gunton and Mandy Patinkin
- Dreamgirls – Obba Babatundé and Cleavant Derricks
- Cats – Harry Groener and Stephen Hanan
- The Tap Dance Kid – Hinton Battle and Samuel E. Wright
- Big River – René Auberjonois, Daniel H. Jenkins and Ron Richardson
- 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
- Black and Blue – Bunny Briggs and Savion Glover
- Miss Saigon – Hinton Battle and Willy Falk
- The Who's Tommy – Michael Cerveris and Paul Kandel
- Show Boat – Michel Bell and Joel Blum
- The Life – Chuck Cooper 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 and Brad Oscar
- Hairspray – Dick Latessa and Corey Reynolds
- Movin' Out – Michael Cavanaugh and Keith Roberts
- Assassins – Michael Cerveris and Denis O'Hare
- Monty Python's Spamalot – Michael McGrath and Christopher Sieber
- Billy Elliot the Musical – David Bologna and Gregory Jbara
- 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 and Brad Oscar
- Hamilton – Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Groff and Christopher Jackson
- Falsettos – Andrew Rannells and Brandon Uranowitz
- Ain't Too Proud – Jeremy Pope and Ephraim Sykes
- Hadestown – André De Shields and Patrick Page
- Moulin Rouge! – Danny Burstein and Sahr Ngaujah
- Jagged Little Pill – Derek Klena and Sean Allan Krill
- Paradise Square – Sidney DuPont and A.J. Shively
- Shucked – Kevin Cahoon and Alex Newell
- The Outsiders – Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch
Multiple awards and nominations
[edit]- Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Other statistics
[edit]- There was one tie in the history of this category, in 1959.[72]
- The role of Herbie in Gypsy holds the record for most nominations in this category with five:
- 1960 – Jack Klugman
- 1990 – Jonathan Hadary
- 2003 – John Dossett
- 2008 – Boyd Gaines (winner)
- 2025 – Danny Burstein
- The role of Herr Schultz in Cabaret is the second most-nominated with four:
- 1988 – Werner Klemperer
- 1998 – Ron Rifkin (winner)
- 2014 – Danny Burstein
- 2024 – Steven Skybell
- Hinton Battle remains the most successful performer in the history of this category with a perfect score of three wins in three nominations. Danny Burstein has received the most nominations in this category with five, but has only been victorious once. Gregg Edelman, Marc Kudisch, and Christopher Fitzgerald have received three nominations but never won and are this category's biggest "losers." Coincidentally, Edelman and Kudisch 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 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 11.
See also
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- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical
- List of Tony Award-nominated productions
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