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

Due vittorie

Record di candidature

5 Candidature

Michael Stewart

4 Candidature

3 Candidature

2 Candidature

Collegamenti esterni

Sito ufficiale, su tonyawards.com. URL consultato il 19 gennaio 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 15 giugno 2007).
Internet Broadway Database, su ibdb.com. URL consultato il 19 gennaio 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 19 dicembre 2013).

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