Tony Awards
circa 1947
In honor - Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theater...simply a Tony Award
Founded by theater producer and director, Brock Pemberton
Annual ceremony in Manhattan, generally in June
Awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, regional theater, and noncompetitive honors including Special Tony Award, Tony Honors for Excellence in Theater, and Isabelle Stevenson Award
The Tony Awards are the equivalent to the Emmy (television), Grammy (music), and Academy (film).
EGOT - Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony win sweep
The Tony Awards are the U.S. equivalent of the UK's Laurence Olivier Awards, France's Moliere Awards, Spain's Premios Max, Australia's Helpmann Awards, and Russia's Golden Mask.
Tony Award Categories
Leading Actor/Actress in a Play ... Musical
Featured Actor/Actress in a Play .... Musical
Best Musical - Best Sound Design of a Play
(16 categories in between)
Rules for a new play or musical
Committees and voters
Eligibility date (Season)
Broadway theater
Special Tony Award
The Special Tony Award category includes Lifetime Achievement and Special Tony. This category is non-competitive and are honorary.
- 1940s (as of 1947...1949 not listed)
- 1950s (as of 1950...1954 not listed)
- Noted winners -
Judy Garland (1952, Important contribution to the revival of vaudeville)
- 1960s (as of 1960...1967 not listed)
- Noted winners -
Irving Berlin (1963, Distinguished Contribution)
Pearl Bailey, Carol Channing, Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, & David Merrick (1968)
Leonard Bernstein, Carol Burnett (1969)
- 1970s (as of 1970)- Noted winners -
Barbra Streisand (1970, Star of the Decade)
Fiddler on the Roof (1972)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Bette Midler, Liza Minelli (1974)
Barry Manilow, Diana Ross, Lily Tomlin (1977)
Irving Berlin (1978)
Henry Fonda (1979)
- 1980s (as of 1980...1983/1986/1989 not listed)
- Noted winners -
Mary Tyler Moore (1980)
Lena Horne (1981)
A Chorus Line (1984)
- 1990s (as of 1993...1996 not listed)
- Noted winners -
Oklahoma! (1993, 50th Anniversary)
Carol Channing (1995, Lifetime Achievement)
National Endowment for the Arts (1995, Tony Honor)
- 2000s (as of 2000...2007 not listed)
- Noted winners -
Lifetime Achievement in the Theater issued in 2002 - 2006, 2008, 2009)
- 2010s (as of 2010)
- Noted winners -
Lifetime Achievement in the Theater issued in 2010, 2011, 2014 - 2016, 2018, 2019)
Hugh Jackman (2012)
James Earl Jones (2017, Lifetime Achievement in the Theater)
Bruce Springsteen (2018)
- 2020s (as of 2020...2021 not listed)
- Noted winners -
Lifetime Achievement in the Theater issued in 2020, 2022 - 2025)
David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)
(Side note - Harvey Fierstein received a Lifetime Achievement in the Theater Tony Award in 2025. In 1988, he starred in the film Torch Song Trilogy. Matthew Broderick, amongst the full cast, was a co-star. In 2001, Matthew Broderick starred in The Producers with Nathan Lane. This Broadway production ran for 2,502 performances and received a record 12 Tony Awards as well as two Drama Desk Awards and a Grammy Award. Broderick and Lane starred in the 2005 film version as well. If anything is taken away for Set List, "Springtime for Hitler" is an iconic Broadway song and is listed No. 12 on the film's soundtrack. Broadway's version of six degrees of separation.)
Set List Recommended
Saturdays in January
Pearl Bailey
In Chicago, Set List is long-winded.
On Broadway - Play it!
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