Lead Actress in a Musical
From Grace Hartman ("Angel In the Wings") in 1948 to Sutton Foster ("Anything Goes") in 2011, the Tony Awards have awarded excellence in Broadway theatre performances throughout the years.
Angela Lansbury has won Leading Actress in a Musical four times for "Sweeney Todd", "Gypsy", "Dear World", and "Mame".
Lead Actress in a Musical Tony Winners
| 2012 | |
| Nominees: Jan Maxwell (Follies); Audra McDonald (Porgy and Bess); Cristin Milioti (Once); Kelli O'Hara (Nice Work If You Can Get It); Laura Osnes (Bonnie & Clyde) | |
| 2011 Sutton Foster ("Anything Goes") | |
| Other Nominees: Beth Leavel (Baby It's You!); Patina Miller (Sister Act); Donna Murphy (The People In The Picture) | |
| 2010 Catherine Zeta-Jones ("A Little Night Music") | |
| Other Nominees: Kate Baldwin (Finian's Rainbow); Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture); Montego Glover (Memphis); Christiane Noll (Ragtime) | |
| 2009 Alice Ripley ("Next To Normal") | |
| Other Nominees: Stockard Channing (Pal Joey); Sutton Foster (Shrek The Musical); Allison Janney (9 To 5); Josefina Scaglione (West Side Story) | |
| 2008 Patti Lupone ("Gypsy") | |
| Other Nominees: Kerry Butler (Xanadu); Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific); Faith Prince (A Catered Affair); Jenna Russell (Sunday in the Park With George) | |
| 2007 Christine Ebersole ("Grey Gardens") | |
| Other Nominees: Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde The Musical); Audra McDonald (110 In the Shade); Debra Monk (Curtains); Donna Murphy (LoveMusik) | |
| 2006 LaChanze ("The Color Purple") | |
| Other Nominees: Sutton Foster (The Drowsy Chaperone); Patti LuPone (Sweeney Todd); Kelli O'Hara (The Pajama Game); Chita Rivera (Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life) | |
| 2005 Victoria Clark ("The Light In The Piazza") | |
| Other Nominees: Christina Applegate (Sweet Charity); Erin Dilly (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang); Sutton Foster (Little Women); Sherie Rene Scott (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) | |
| 2004 Idina Menzel ("Wicked") | |
| Other Nominees: Kristin Chenoworth (Wicked); Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q); Donna Murphy (Wonderful Town); Tonya Pinkins (Caroline or Change) | |
| 2003 Marissa Jaret Winokur ("Hairspray") | |
| Other Nominees: Melissa Errico (Amour); Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Man of La Mancha); Elizabeth Parkinson (Movin' Out); Bernadette Peters (Gypsy) | |
| 2002 Sutton Foster ("Thoroughly Modern Millie") | |
| Other Nominees: Louise Pitre (Mamma Mia!); Vanessa Williams (Into the Woods); Nancy Opel (Urinetown); Jennifer Laura Thompson (Urinetown) | |
| 2001 Christine Ebersole ("42nd Street") |    |
| Other Nominees: Blythe Danner (Follies); Randy Graff (A Class Act); Faith Prince (Bells Are Ringing); Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre) | |
| 2000 Heather Headley ("Aida") |  |
| Other Nominees: Toni Collette (The Wild Party); Rebecca Luker (The Music Man); Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me Kate); Audra McDonald (Marie Christine) | |
| 1999 Bernadette Peters ("Annie Get Your Gun") |  |
| Other Nominees: Carolee Carmello (Parade); Dee Hoty (Footloose); Sian Phillips (Marlene) | |
| 1998 Natasha Richardson ("Cabaret") | |
| Other Nominees: Betty Buckley (Triumph of Love); Marin Mazzie (Ragtime); Alcie Ripley and Emily Skinner (Side Show) | |
| 1997 Bebe Neuwirth ("Chicago") |  |
| Other Nominees: Pamela Isaacs (The Life); Tonya Pinkins (Play On); Karen Ziemba (Steel Pier) | |
| 1996 Donna Murphy ("The King and I") | |
| Other Nominees: Julie Andrews (Victor/Victoria); Crista Moore (Big); Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent) | |
| 1995 Glenn Close ("Sunset Boulevard") | |
| Other Nominees: Rebecca Luker (Show Boat) | |
| 1994 Donna Murphy ("Passion") | |
| Other Nominees: Susan Egan (Beauty and the Beast); Dee Hoty (The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas); Judy Kuhn (She Loves Me) | |
| 1993 Chita Rivera ("Kiss of the Spider Woman") | |
| Other Nominees: Ann Crumb (Anna Karenina); Stephanie Lawrence (Blood Brothers); Bernadette Peters (The Goodbye Girl) | |
| 1992 Faith Prince ("Guys and Dolls") | |
| Other Nominees: Jodi Benson (Crazy For You); Josie de Guzman (Guys and Dolls); Sophie Hayden (The Most Happy Fella) | |
| 1991 Lea Salonga ("Miss Saigon") | |
| Other Nominees: June Angela (Shogun); Dee Hoty (The Will Rogers Follies); Cathy Rigby (Peter Pan) | |
| 1990 Tyne Daly ("Gypsy") | |
| Other Nominees: Georgia Brown (Threepenny Opera); Beth Fowler (Sweeney Todd); Liliane Montevecchi (Grand Hotel) | |
| 1989 Ruth Brown ("Black and Blue") | |
| Other Nominees: Charlotte d'Amboise (Jerome Robbins' Broadway); Linda Hopkins (Black and Blue); Sharon McNight (Starmites) | |
| 1988 Joanna Gleason ("Into the Woods") | |
| Other Nominees: Alison Fraser (Romance/Romance); Judy Kuhn (Chess); Patti Lupone (Anything Goes) | |
| 1987 Maryann Plunkett ("Me and My Girl") | |
| Other Nominees: Catherine Cox (Oh Coward); Teresa Stratas (Rags) | |
| 1986 Bernadette Peters ("Song & Dance") | |
| Other Nominees: Debbie Allen (Sweet Charity); Cleo Laine (The Mystery of Edwin Drood); Chita Rivera (Jerry's Girls) | |
| 1984 Chita Rivera ("The Rink") | |
| Other Nominees: Rhetta Hughes (Amen Corner); Liza Minnelli (The Rink); Bernadette Peters (Sunday In the Park With George) | |
| 1983 Natalia Makarova ("On Your Toes") | |
| Other Nominees: Lonette McKee (Show Boat); Chita Rivera (Merlin); Twiggy (My One and Only) | |
| 1982 Jennifer Holliday ("Dreamgirls") | |
| Other Nominees: Lisa Mordente (Marlowe); Mary Gordon Murray (Little Me); Sheryl Lee Ralph (Dreamgirls) | |
| 1981 Lauren Bacall ("Woman of the Year") | |
| Other Nominees: Meg Bussert (Brigadoon); Chita Rivera (Bring Back Birdie); Linda Ronstadt (Pirates of Penzance) | |
| 1980 Patti Lupone ("Evita") | |
| Other Nominees: Christine Andreas (Oklahoma); Sandy Duncan (Peter Pan); Ann Miller (Sugar Babies) | |
| 1979 Angela Lansbury ("Sweeney Todd") |  |
| Other Nominees: Tovah Feldshuh (Sarava); Dorothy Loudon (Ballroom); Alexis Smith (Platinum) | |
| 1978 Liza Minnelli ("The Act") | |
| Other Nominees: Madeline Kahn (On the Twentieth Century); Eartha Kitt (Timbuktu); Frances Sternhagen (Angel) | |
| 1977 Dorothy Loudon ("Annie") |  |
| Other Nominees: Clamma Dale (Porgy and Bess); Ernestine Jackson (Guys and Dolls); Andrea McArdle (Annie) | |
| 1976 Donna McKechnie ("A Chorus Line") |  |
| Other Nominees: Vivian Reed (Bubbling Brown Sugar); Chita Rivera (Chicago); Gwen Verdon (Chicago) | |
| 1975 Angela Lansbury ("Gypsy") | |
| Other Nominees: Lola Falana (Doctor Jazz); Bernadette Peters (Mack and Mabel); Ann Reinking (Goodtime Charley) | |
| 1974 Virginia Capers ("Raisin") |  |
| Other Nominees: Carol Channing (Lorelei); Michele Lee (Seesaw) | |
| 1973 Glynis Johns ("A Little Night Music") |  |
| Other Nominees: Leland Palmer (Pippin); Debbie Reynolds (Irene); Marcia Rodd (Shelter) | |
| 1972 Alexis Smith ("Follies") | |
| Other Nominees: Jonelle Allen (Two Gentlemen of Verona); Dorothy Collins (Follies); Mildred Natwick (70 Girls 70) | |
| 1971 Helen Gallagher ("No No Nanette") | |
| Other Nominees: Susan Browning (Company); Sandy Duncan (The Boy Friend); Elaine Stritch (Company) | |
| 1970 Lauren Bacall ("Applause") |  |
| Other Nominees: Katharine Hepburn (Coco); Dilys Watling (Georgy) | |
| 1969 Angela Lansbury ("Dear World") | |
| Other Nominees: Maria Karnilova (Zorba); Dorothy Loudon (The Fig Leaves Are Falling); Jill O'Hara (Promises Promises) | |
| 1968 Patricia Routledge ("Darling of the Day") | |
| Other Nominees: Melina Mercouri (Illya Darling); Brenda Vaccaro (How Now Dow Jones) | |
| 1968 Leslie Uggams ("Hallelujah Baby!") | |
| Other Nominees: Melina Mercouri (Illya Darling); Brenda Vaccaro (How Now Dow Jones) | |
| 1967 Barbara Harris ("The Apple Tree") | |
| Other Nominees: Lotte Lenya (Cabaret); Marty Martin (I Do I Do); Louise Troy (Walking Happy) | |
| 1966 Angela Lansbury ("Mame") | |
| Other Nominees: Barbara Harris (On a Clear Day You Can See Forever); Julie Harris (Skyscraper); Gwen Verdon (Sweet Charity) | |
| 1965 Liza Minnelli ("Fiora the Red Menace") | |
| Other Nominees: Elizabeth Allen (Do I Heart A Waltz?); Nancy Dussault (Bajour); Inga Swenson (Baker Street) | |
| 1964 Carol Channing ("Hello Dolly") | |
| Other Nominees: Beatrice Lillie (High Spirits); Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl); Inga Swenson (110 In the Shade) | |
| 1963 Vivien Leigh ("Tovarich") | |
| Other Nominees: Georgia Brown (Oliver!); Nanette Fabray (Mr President); Sally Ann Howes (Brigadoon) | |
| 1962 Anna Maria Alberghetti ("Carnival") | |
| Other Nominees: Molly Picon (Milk and Honey); Elaine Stritch (Sail Away) | |
| 1962 Diahann Carroll ("No Strings") | |
| Other Nominees: Molly Picon (Milk and Honey); Elaine Stritch (Sail Away) | |
| 1961 Elizabeth Seal ("Irma La Douce") | |
| Other Nominees: Julie Andrews (Camelot); Carol Channing (Show Girl); Nancy Walker (Do Re Mi) | |
| 1960 Mary Martin ("The Sound Of Music") | |
| Other Nominees: Carol Burnett (Once Upon A Mattress); Dolores Gray (Destry Rides Again); Eileen Herlie (Take Me Along); Ethel Merman (Gypsy) | |
| 1959 Gwen Verdon ("Redhead") | |
| Other Nominees: Miyoshi Umeki (Flower Drum Song) | |
| 1958 Thelma Ritter ("New Girl In Town") | |
| Other Nominees: Lena Horne (Jamaica); Beatrice Lillie (Ziegfeld Follies) | |
| 1958 Gwen Verdon ("New Girl In Town") | |
| Other Nominees: Lena Horne (Jamaica); Beatrice Lillie (Ziegfeld Follies) | |
| 1957 Judy Holliday ("Bells Are Ringing") | |
| Other Nominees: Julie Andrews (My Fair Lady); Ethel Merman (Happy Hunting) | |
| 1956 Gwen Verdon ("Damn Yankees") | |
| Other Nominees: Carol Channing (The Vamp); Nancy Walker (Phoenix 55) | |
| 1955 Mary Martin ("Peter Pan") | |
| 1954 Dolores Gray ("Carnival In Flanders") | |
| 1953 Rosalind Russell ("Wonderful Town") | |
| 1952 Gertrude Lawrence ("The King and I") | |
| 1951 Ethel Merman ("Call Me Madam") | |
| 1950 Mary Martin ("South Pacific") | |
| 1949 Nanette Fabray ("Love Life") | |
| 1948 Grace Hartman ("Angel In The Wings") | |
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