Tony Award al miglior libretto di un musical
# Tony Award al miglior libretto di un musical

Il Tony Award al miglior libretto (Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical) è un riconoscimento teatrale presentato dal 1949 che viene consegnato ai migliori librettisti e sceneggiatori per un musical. Questo premio era originariamente chiamato Tony Award al miglior autore, finché il teatro musicale e quello di prosa formarono due categorie differenti per le premiazioni dei Tony Award.

## Vincitori e candidati

### Anni 1940

* 1949: Kiss Me, Kate – Samuel e Bella Spewack
   * Nessuna nomination

### Anni 1950

* 1950: South Pacific – Oscar Hammerstein e Joshua Logan
   * Nessuna nomination

### Anni 1960

* 1962: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying – Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock e Willie Gilbert
   * Carnival! – Michael Stewart e Helen Deutsch
* 1963: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – Burt Shevelove e Larry Gelbart
   * Oliver! – Lionel Bart
   * Little Me – Neil Simon
   * Stop the World – I Want to Get Off – Leslie Bricusse e Anthony Newley
* 1964: Hello, Dolly! – Michael Stewart
   * The Girl Who Came to Supper – Noël Coward e Harry Kurnitz
   * She Loves Me – Joe Masteroff
   * High Spirits – Hugh Martin e Timothy Gray
* 1965: Fiddler on the Roof – Joseph Stein
   * Baker Street – Jerome Coopersmith
   * Half a Sixpence – Beverley Cross
   * Ben Franklin in Paris – Sidney Michaels

### Anni 1970

* 1971: Company – George Furth
   * The Me Nobody Knows – Robert H. Livingston e Herb Schapiro
   * The Rothschilds – Sherman Yellen
* 1972: Two Gentlemen of Verona – John Guare e Mel Shapiro
   * Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death – Melvin Van Peebles
   * Follies – James Goldman
   * Grease – Jim Jacobs e Warren Casey
* 1973: A Little Night Music – Hugh Wheeler
   * Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope – Micki Grant
   * Don't Play Us Cheap – Melvin Van Peebles
   * Pippin – Roger O. Hirson
* 1974: Candide – Hugh Wheeler
   * Raisin – Robert Nemiroff e Charlotte Zaltzberg
   * Seesaw – Michael Bennett
* 1975: Shenandoah – James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell e Philip Rose
   * Mack and Mabel – Michael Stewart
   * The Lieutenant – Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman, e Chuck Strand
   * The Wiz – William F. Brown
* 1976: A Chorus Line – James Kirkwood Jr. e Nicholas Dante
   * Chicago – Fred Ebb e Bob Fosse
   * Pacific Overtures – John Weidman
   * The Robber Bridegroom – Alfred Uhry
* 1977: Annie – Thomas Meehan
   * Happy End? – Elisabeth Hauptmann e Michael Feingold
   * I Love My Wife – Michael Stewart
   * Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God – Vinnette Justine Carroll
* 1978: On the Twentieth Century – Betty Comden and Adolph Green
   * A History of the American Film – Christopher Durang
   * Runaways – Elizabeth Swados
   * Working – Stephen Schwartz
* 1979: Sweeney Todd – Hugh Wheeler
   * Ballroom – Jerome Kass
   * The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – Larry L. King e Peter Masterson
   * They're Playing Our Song – Neil Simon

### Anni 1980

* 1980: Evita – Tim Rice
   * A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine – Dick Vosburgh
   * Barnum – Mark Bramble
   * Sugar Babies – Ralph G. Allen e Harry Rigby
* 1981: Woman of the Year – Peter Stone
   * 42nd Street – Michael Stewart e Mark Bramble
   * The Moony Shapiro Songbook – Monty Norman e Julian More
   * Tintypes – Mary Kyte
* 1982: Dreamgirls – Tom Eyen
   * Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Tim Rice
   * Nine – Arthur Kopit
   * The First – Joel Siegel e Martin Charnin
* 1983: Cats – T. S. Eliot
   * A Doll's Life – Betty Comden e Adolph Green
   * Merlin – Richard Levinson e William Link
   * My One and Only – Peter Stone e Timothy S. Mayer
* 1984: La Cage aux Folles – Harvey Fierstein
   * Baby – Sybille Pearson
   * Sunday in the Park with George – James Lapine
   * The Tap Dance Kid – Charles Blackwell
* 1985: Big River – William Hauptman
   * Grind – Fay Kanin
   * Harrigan and Hart – Michael Stewart
   * Quilters – Molly Newman e Barbara Damashek
* 1986: The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Rupert Holmes
   * Big Deal – Bob Fosse
   * Singin' in the Rain – Betty Comden e Adolph Green
   * Wind in the Willows – Jane Iredale
* 1987: Les Misérables – Alain Boublil e Claude-Michel Schönberg
   * Me and My Girl – L. Arthur Rose, Douglas Furber, Stephen Fry e Mike Ockrent
   * Rags – Joseph Stein
   * Smile – Howard Ashman
* 1988: Into the Woods – James Lapine
   * The Gospel at Colonus – Lee Breuer
   * The Phantom of the Opera – Richard Stilgoe e Andrew Lloyd Webber
   * Romance/Romance – Barry Harman

### Anni 1990

* 1990: City of Angels – Larry Gelbart
   * Aspects of Love – Andrew Lloyd Webber
   * Grand Hotel – Luther Davis
   * Meet Me in St. Louis – Hugh Wheeler
* 1991: The Secret Garden – Marsha Norman
   * Miss Saigon – Alain Boublil e Claude-Michel Schönberg
   * Once on This Island – Lynn Ahrens
   * The Will Rogers Follies – Peter Stone
* 1992: Falsettos – William Finn e James Lapine
   * Crazy for You – Ken Ludwig
   * Five Guys Named Moe – Clarke Peters
   * Jelly's Last Jam – George C. Wolfe
* 1993: Kiss of the Spider Woman – Terrence McNally
   * Anna Karenina – Peter Kellogg
   * Blood Brothers – Willy Russell
   * The Who's Tommy – Pete Townshend e Des McAnuff
* 1994: Passion – James Lapine
   * Beauty and the Beast – Linda Woolverton
   * Cyrano: The Musical – Koen van Kijk
   * A Grand Night for Singing – Walter Bobbie
* 1995: Sunset Boulevard – Don Black e Christopher Hampton
   * Nessuna nomination
* 1996: Rent – Jonathan Larson
   * Big: The Musical – John Weidman
   * Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk – Reg E. Gaines
   * Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Graciela Daniele, Jim Lewis e Michael John LaChiusa
* 1997: Titanic – Peter Stone
   * Jekyll & Hyde – Leslie Bricusse
   * The Life – David Newman, Ira Gasman e Cy Coleman
   * Steel Pier – David Thompson
* 1998: Ragtime – Terrence McNally
   * The Lion King – Roger Allers e Irene Mecchi
   * The Scarlet Pimpernel – Nan Knighton
   * Side Show – Bill Russell
* 1999: Parade – Alfred Uhry
   * Footloose – Dean Pitchford e Walter Bobbie
   * It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues – Charles Bevel, Lita Gaithers, Randal Myler, Ron Taylor e Dan Wheetman
   * Marlene – Pam Gems

### Anni 2000

* 2000: James Joyce's The Dead – Richard Nelson
   * Contact – John Weidman
   * Marie Christine – Michael John LaChiusa
   * The Wild Party – Michael John LaChiusa e George C. Wolfe
* 2001: The Producers – Mel Brooks e Thomas Meehan
   * A Class Act – Linda Kline e Lonny Price
   * The Full Monty – Terrence McNally
   * Jane Eyre – John Caird
* 2002: Urinetown – Greg Kotis
   * Mamma Mia! – Catherine Johnson
   * Sweet Smell of Success – John Guare
   * Thoroughly Modern Millie – Richard Morris e Dick Scanlan
* 2003: Hairspray – Thomas Meehan e Mark O'Donnell
   * Amour – Didier Van Cauwelaert e Jeremy Sams
   * Flower Drum Song – David Henry Hwang
   * A Year With Frog and Toad – Willie Reale
* 2004: Avenue Q – Jeff Whitty
   * The Boy from Oz – Martin Sherman e Nick Enright
   * Caroline, or Change – Tony Kushner
   * Wicked – Winnie Holzman
* 2005: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee – Rachel Sheinkin
   * Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – Jeffrey Lane
   * The Light in the Piazza – Craig Lucas
   * Monty Python's Spamalot – Eric Idle
* 2006: The Drowsy Chaperone – Bob Martin e Don McKellar
   * The Wedding Singer – Chad Beguelin e Tim Herlihy
   * Jersey Boys – Marshall Brickman e Rick Elice
   * The Color Purple – Marsha Norman
* 2007: Spring Awakening – Steven Sater
   * Legally Blonde - Heather Hach
   * Curtains - Rupert Holmes & Peter Stone
   * Grey Gardens - Doug Wright
* 2008: Passing Strange – Stew
   * Cry-Baby – Thomas Meehan e Mark O'Donnell
   * In the Heights – Quiara Alegría Hudes
   * Xanadu – Douglas Carter Beane
* 2009: Billy Elliot the Musical – Lee Hall
   * Next to Normal – Brian Yorkey
   * Shrek the Musical – David Lindsay-Abaire
   * [Title of show] – Hunter Bell

### Anni 2010

* 2010: Memphis – Joe DiPietro
   * Everyday Rapture – Dick Scanlan e Sherie Rene Scott
   * Fela! – Jim Lewis e Bill T. Jones
   * Million Dollar Quartet – Colin Escott e Floyd Mutrux
* 2011: The Book of Mormon – Trey Parker, Robert Lopez e Matt Stone
   * Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson – Alex Timbers
   * The Scottsboro Boys – David Thompson
   * Sister Act – Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner e Douglas Carter Beane
* 2012: Once – Enda Walsh
   * Lysistrata Jones – Douglas Carter Beane
   * Nice Work If You Can Get It – Joe DiPietro
   * Newsies – Harvey Fierstein
* 2013: Matilda the Musical – Dennis Kelly
   * Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella – Douglas Carter Beane
   * Kinky Boots – Harvey Fierstein
   * A Christmas Story, the Musical – Joseph Robinette
* 2014: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder – Robert L. Freedman
   * Bullets Over Broadway – Woody Allen
   * Aladdin – Chad Beguelin
   * Beautiful: The Carole King Musical – Douglas McGrath
* 2015: Fun Home – Lisa Kron
   * Something Rotten! – Karey Kirkpatrick & John O'Farrell
   * An American in Paris – Craig Lucas
   * The Visit – Terrence McNally
* 2016: Hamilton – Lin-Manuel Miranda
   * School of Rock – Julian Fellowes
   * Bright Star – Steve Martin
   * Shuffle Along – George C. Wolfe
* 2017: Dear Evan Hansen – Steven Levenson
   * Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 – Dave Malloy
   * Groundhog Day – Danny Rubin
   * Come from Away – David Hein & Irene Sankoff
* 2018: The Band's Visit – Itamar Moses
   * Frozen – Jennifer Lee
   * Mean Girls – Tina Fey
   * SpongeBob SquarePants – Kyle Jarrow
* 2019: Tootsie – Robert Horn
   * Ain’t Too Proud – Dominique Morisseau
   * Beetlejuice – Scott Brown & Anthony King
   * Hadestown – Anaïs Mitchell
   * The Prom – Chad Beguelin & Bob Martin

### Anni 2020

* 2020: Jagged Little Pill – Diablo Cody
   * Moulin Rouge! – John Logan
   * Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar & Kees Prins
* 2021: La cerimonia non si è tenuta
* 2022: A Strange Loop – Michael R. Jackson
   * Girl from the North Country – Conor McPherson
   * MJ – Lynn Nottage
   * Mr. Saturday Night – Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel
   * Paradise Square – Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas & Larry Kirwan
* 2023: Kimberly Akimbo – David Lindsay-Abaire
   * & Juliet - David West Read
   * Shucked – Robert Horn
   * Some Like It Hot – Matthew López e Amber Ruffin
   * New York, New York – David Thompson e Sharon Washington

## Librettisti più premiati

### Tre vittorie

* Hugh Wheeler (2 consecutive)
* Thomas Meehan
* James Lapine

### Due vittorie

* Terrence McNally
* Larry Gelbart
* Peter Stone
* Michael Stewart

## Record di candidature

### 5 Candidature

* Michael Stewart

### 4 Candidature

* Douglas Carter Beane
* James Lapine
* Terrence McNally
* Peter Stone
* Hugh Wheeler

### 3 Candidature

* Chad Beguelin
* Harvey Fierstein
* Michael John LaChiusa
* George C. Wolfe

### 2 Candidature

* Walter Bobbie
* Alain Boublil
* Mark Bramble
* Leslie Bricusse
* Betty Comden
* Joe DiPietro
* Bob Fosse
* Larry Gelbart
* Adolph Green
* John Guare
* Rupert Holmes
* Jim Lewis
* Craig Lucas
* Bob Martin
* Thomas Meehan
* Marsha Norman
* Tim Rice
* Dick Scanlan
* Claude-Michel Schönberg
* Neil Simon
* Joseph Stein
* David Thompson
* Melvin Van Peebles
* Andrew Lloyd Webber
