Celebrate Broadway, Vol. 10: Best Musicals!

42nd Street – 1981 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: David Merrick
Opened August 25, 1980 – 3,486 performances
Competition: Sophisticated Ladies, Tintypes, Woman of the Year
1 other Tony Award – Best Choreography: Gower Champion (posthumous)

Fiddler on the Roof – 1965 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: Harold Prince
Book by Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Opened September 22, 1964 – 3,242 performances, 4 Broadway revivals
Competition: Golden Boy, Half a Sixpence, Oh! What a Lovely War
9 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Zero Mostel
... Best Featured Actress: Maria Karnilova
... Best Book: Joseph Stein
... Best Score: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
... Best Direction: Jerome Robbins
... Best Choreography: Jerome Robbins
... Best Costumes: Patricia Zipprodt
... Best Producer: Harold Prince
... Special Tony Award 1972: on becoming the longest-running musical in Broadway history

La Cage aux Folles – 1984 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Allan Carr, Kenneth D. Greenblatt, Marvin A Krauss, Stewart Fl\. Lane, James M. Nederlander, Martin Richards, Barry M. Brown, Fritz Holt
Opened August 21, 1983 – 1,761 performances
Competition: Baby, Sunday in the Park with George, The Tap Dance Kid
5 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: George Hearn
... Best Book: Harvey Fierstein
... Best Score: Jerry Herman
... Best Direction: Arthur Laurents
... Best Costumes: Theoni V. Aldredge

Ain't Misbehavin' – 1984 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Emanuel Azenberg, Dasha Epstein, The Shubert Organization, Jane Gaynor, Ron Dante
Opened May 9, 1978 – 1,604 performances
Competition: Dancin', On the Twentieth Century, Runaways
2 other Tony Awards
... Best Featured Actress: Nell Carter
... Best Direction: Richard Maltby, Jr.

Hello, Dolly! – 1964 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: David Merrick
Opened January 16, 1964 – 2,844 performances, 3 Broadway revivals
Competition: Funny Girl, High Spirits, She Loves Me
9 other Tony Awards
... Best Actress: Carol Channing
... Best Book: Michael Stewart
... Best Score (music and lyrics): Jerry Herman
... Best Direction: Gower Champion
... Best Choreography: Gower Champion
... Best Conductor/Musical Director: Shepard Coleman
... Best Costumes: Freddy Wittop
... Best Scenery: Oliver Smith
... Best Producer: David Merrick

Kiss of the Spider Woman – 1993 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: Livent, Inc.
Opened May 3, 1993 – 904 performances
Competition: The Who's Tommy, The Goodbye Girl, Bloodbrothers
6 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Brent Carver
... Best Actress: Chita Rivera
... Best Featured Actor: Anthony Crivello
... Best Book: Terrence McNally
... Best Score: John Kander & Fred Ebb (tied with The Who's Tommy)
... Best Costumes: Florence Klotz

Jerome Robbins' Broadway – 1984 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: The Shubert Organization, Roger Berlind, Suntory International Corporation, Byron Goldman, Emanuel Azenberg
Opened February 26, 1989 – 633 performances
Competition: Black and Blue, Starmites
5 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Jason Alexander
... Best Featured Actress: Debbie Shapiro-Gravitte
... Best Featured Actor: Scott Wise
... Best Direction: Jerome Robbins
... Best Lighting: Jennifer Tipton

Kismet – 1984 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: Charles Lederer
Opened December 3, 1953 – 583 performances
Competition: Can-Can, Carnival in Flanders, John Murray Anderson's Almanac, Me and Juliet, Hazel Flagg
5 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Alfred Drake
... Best Book: Charles Lederer and Luther Davis
... Best Score: Aleksandr Borodin, George "Chet" Forrest, Robert Wright
... Best Musical Conductor: Louis Adrian
... Best Producer: Charles Lederer

Sweeney Todd – 1984 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards
Opened March 1, 1979 – 557 performances
Competition: Ballroom, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, They're Playing Our Song
7 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Len Cariou
... Best Actress: Angela Lansbury
... Best Book: Hugh Wheeler
... Best Score: Stephen Sondheim
... Best Direction: Harold Prince
... Best Costumes: Franne Lee
... Best Scenery: Eugene Lee

Redhead – 1959 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Robert Fryer, Lawrence Carr
Opened February 5, 1959 – 452 performances
Competition: Flower Drum Song, La Plume de Ma Tante
7 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Richard Kiley
... Best Actress: Gwen Verdon
... Best Book: Herbert and Dorothy Fields, Sidney Sheldon, David Shaw
... Best Score: Albert Hague, Dorothy Fields
... Best Choreography: Bob Fosse
... Best Costumes: Rouben Ter-Arutunian
... Best Producers: Robert Fryer, Lawrence Carr

A Little Night Music – 1973 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: Harold Prince
Opened February 25, 1973 – 601 performances
Competition: Pippin, Sugar, Don't Bother Me I Can't Cope
5 other Tony Awards
... Best Actress: Glynis Johns
... Best Featured Actress: Patricia Elliott
... Best Book: Hugh Wheeler
... Best Score: Stephen Sondheim
... Best Costumes: Florence Klotz

The King and I – 1952 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Rodgers & Hammerstein
Opened March 29, 1951 – 1,246 performances, 3 Broadway revivals
Competition: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Flahooley, Top Banana, Paint Your Wagon
4 other Tony Awards
... Best Actress: Gertrude Lawrence
... Best Featured Actor: Yul Brynner
... Best Costumes: Irene Sharaff
... Best Scenery: Jo Mielziner

Les Misérables – 1987 Tony for Best Musical
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Opened March 12, 1987 – 6,680 performances
Competition: Me and My Girl, Rags, Starlight Express
7 other Tony Awards
... Best Featured Actress: Frances Ruffelle
... Best Featured Actor: Michael Maguire
... Best Book: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg
... Best Score: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil
... Best Direction: Trevor Nunn, John Caird
... Best Scenery: John Napier
... Best Lighting: David Hersey

How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying – 1962 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Cy Feuer, Ernest Martin
Opened October 14, 1961 – 1,417 performances
Competition: Carnival, Milk and Honey, No Strings
6 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Robert Morse
... Best Featured Actor: Charles Nelson Reilly
... Best Book: Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert
... Best Producers: Cy Feuer, Ernest Martin
... Best Direction: Abe Burrows
... Best Conductor: Elliot Lawrence

The Phantom of the Opera – 1988 Tony for Best Musical
Producers: Cameron Mackintosh, The Really Useful Theatre Company Ltd.
Opened January 26, 1988 – 9,475 performances as of Nov. 7, 2010
Competition: Into the Woods, Sarafina!, Romance Romance
6 other Tony Awards
... Best Actor: Michael Crawford
... Best Featured Actress: Judy Kaye
... Best Direction: Harold Prince
... Best Costumes: Maria Bjornson
... Best Scenery: Maria Bjornson
... Best Lighting: Andrew Bridge