From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical was first • 1983: Little Shop of
awarded at the 1974-1975 Drama Desk Awards and has Horrors
been awarded every year since. Before the 21st Drama • My One and Only
Desk Awards, acting awards were given without making • 1984: Sunday in the Park
distinctions between roles in straight dramas as opposed with George
to musicals, nor were there separate categories for actors • Baby
and actresses. • The Rink
• Taking My Turn
Award winners and nomina- 1990s
tions • 1990: City of Angels • 1996: Rent
• Aspects of Love • Big
1970s • 1991: The Secret Garden • Bring in ’Da Noise,
• 1975: The Wiz • 1978: Ain’t Misbehavin’ • Assassins Bring in ’Da Funk
• Goodtime Charley • The Best Little • The Will Rogers • Chronicle of a Death
• In Gay Company Whorehouse in Texas Follies Foretold
• The Lieutenant • Dancin’ • 1992: Crazy for You • 1997: The Life
• 1976: A Chorus Line • Runaways • Jelly’s Last Jam • Violet
• Pacific Overtures • Working • 1993: Kiss of the Spider • Steel Pier
• The Robber • 1979: Sweeney Todd: The Woman • 1998: Ragtime
Bridegroom Demon Barber of Fleet • Ruthless! • Hedwig and the
• 1977: Annie Street • Tommy Angry Inch
• Happy End • Wings • High Society
• I Love My Wife • 1994: Passion • Forever Tango
• The King and I • Hello again • The Lion King
• Porgy and Bess • Beauty and the Beast • 1999: Parade
• The Robber • 1995: Show Boat • A New Brain
Bridegroom • A Christmas Carol • The Civil War
• How to Succeed in
1980s Business without
Really Trying
• 1980: Evita • 1986: The Mystery of
• Merrily We Roll
• Barnum Edwin Drood
Along
• The 1940’s Radio • Big Deal
• Sunset Boulevard
Hour • Goblin Market
• Sidewalkin’ • Personals
• Tintypes • 1987: Les Misérables
2000s
• 1981: The Pirates of • Me and My Girl • 2000: Contact • 2006: The Drowsy
Penzance • Olympus on My Mind • James Joyce’s The Chaperone
• 42nd Street • Starlight Express Dead • Grey Gardens
• Lena Horne: The • 1988: Into the Woods • Saturday Night • Jersey Boys
Lady and Her Music • The Phantom of the • Swing! • See What I Wanna
• 1982: Nine Opera • The Wild Party See
• Dreamgirls • 1989: Jerome Robbins’ • 2001: The Producers • Thrill Me
• Joseph and the Broadway • Bat Boy: The Musical • The Wedding Singer
Amazing Technicolor • Black and Blue • Bubbly Black Girl • 2007: Spring Awakening
Dreamcoat Sheds Her Chameleon • Curtains
• Pump Boys and Skin • In the Heights
Dinettes • The Full Monty • Legally Blonde
• Urinetown • Lovemusik
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
• 2002: Thoroughly • Mary Poppins • American Idiot
Modern Millie • 2008: Passing Strange • Everyday Rapture
• Sweet Smell of • Adding Machine • The Addams Family
Success • A Catered Affair • The Scottsboro Boys
• The Last Five Years • The Glorious Ones • Yank!
• tick, tick... BOOM! • The Slug Bearers of • 2011: The Book of Mormon
• 2003: Hairspray Kayrol Island • In Transit
• Amour • Xanadu • Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical
• Avenue Q • 2009: Billy Elliot the • See Rock City & Other Destinations
• A Man of No Musical • Sister Act
Importance • 9 to 5 • The Kid
• Movin’ Out • Fela!
• Zanna Don’t
• 2004: Wicked
• Liza’s at the Palace...!
• Shrek the Musical
See also
• Caroline, or Change • The Story of My Life • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a
• Johnny Guitar Musical
• The Musical of • Tony Award for Best Musical
Musicals • Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
• 2005: Spamalot
• The 25th Annual
Putnam County
References
Spelling Bee • "Drama Desk Award: Musical". Internet Broadway
• Altar Boyz Database. 2008. http://www.ibdb.com/
• Dirty Rotten advSearchAwards.php. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
Scoundrels • Red, Memphis, Bridge, Fences and La Cage Win
• The Light in the Drama Desk Awards, Playbill article, May 23, 2010
Piazza
External links
2010s
• Drama Desk official website
• 2010: Memphis
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