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 | Alex Newell for Shucked (2023) |
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. The award has been given since 1947, but the nominees who did not win have only been publicly announced since 1956.
Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
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1947 (1st) | |||
David Wayne | Finian's Rainbow | Og | |
Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
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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) [1] | |||
Russ Brown | Damn Yankees | Benny Van Buren | |
Mike Kellin | Pipe Dream | Hazel | |
Will Mahoney | Finian's Rainbow | Finian McLonergan | |
Scott Merrill | The Threepenny Opera | Macheath | |
1957 (11th) [2] | |||
Sydney Chaplin | Bells Are Ringing | Jeff Moss | |
Robert Coote | My Fair Lady | Colonel Pickering | |
Stanley Holloway | Alfred P. Doolittle | ||
1958 (12th) [3] | |||
David Burns | The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | |
Ossie Davis | Jamaica | Cicero | |
Cameron Prud'Homme | New Girl in Town | Chris | |
Iggie Wolfington | The Music Man | Marcellus Washburn | |
1959 (13th) [4] | |||
Russell Nype (tie) | Goldilocks | George Randolph Brown | |
Leonard Stone (tie) [5] | Redhead | George Poppett |
Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
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2020 (74th) | |||
Danny Burstein | Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler | |
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 | |
2022 (75th) [65] | |||
Matt Doyle | Company | Jamie | |
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) [66] | |||
Alex Newell | Shucked | Lulu | |
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) | |||
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 | |
Daniel Radcliffe | Merrily We Roll Along | Charley Kringas | |
Steven Skybell | Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club | Herr Schultz | |
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Winners are in boldface
Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
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