Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical



























Tony Award for
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Awarded for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Location
United States New York City
Presented by
American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League
Currently held by
Lindsay Mendez for Carousel (2018)
Website TonyAwards.com

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical has been presented since 1950. The award was not given at the first three Tony Award ceremonies. Nominees were not announced publicly until 1956.




Contents






  • 1 Winners and nominees


    • 1.1 1950s


    • 1.2 1960s


    • 1.3 1970s


    • 1.4 1980s


    • 1.5 1990s


    • 1.6 2000s


    • 1.7 2010s




  • 2 Win Total


  • 3 Nomination Total


  • 4 Character win total


  • 5 Character nomination total


  • 6 External links





Winners and nominees



  indicates the winner


1950s




























































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

1950
4th Tony Awards

Juanita Hall

South Pacific

Bloody Mary

1951
5th Tony Awards

Isabel Bigley

Guys and Dolls
Sarah Brown

1952
6th Tony Awards

Helen Gallagher

Pal Joey
Gladys Bumps

1953
7th Tony Awards

Sheila Bond

Wish You Were Here
Fay Fromkin

1954
8th Tony Awards

Gwen Verdon

Can-Can
Claudine

1955
9th Tony Awards

Carol Haney

The Pajama Game
Gladys Hotchkiss

1956
10th Tony Awards

Lotte Lenya

The Threepenny Opera
Jenny

Rae Allen

Damn Yankees
Gloria Thorpe

Pat Carroll

Catch a Star
Various Characters

Judy Tyler

Pipe Dream
Suzy

1957
11th Tony Awards

Edie Adams

Lil' Abner
Daisy Mae

Virginia Gibson

Happy Hunting
Beth Livingstone

Irra Petina

Candide
The Old Lady

Jo Sullivan

The Most Happy Fella
Rosabella

1958
12th Tony Awards

Barbara Cook

The Music Man
Marian Paroo

Susan Johnson

Oh, Captain!
Mae

Carol Lawrence

West Side Story
Maria

Jackie McKeever

Oh, Captain!
Mrs. Maud St.James

Josephine Premice

Jamaica
Ginger

1959
13th Tony Awards

Pat Stanley

Goldilocks
Lois Lee

Julienne Marie

Whoop-Up
Mary Champlain


1960s






















































































































































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

1960
14th Tony Awards

Patricia Neway

The Sound of Music

Mother Abbess

Sandra Church

Gypsy

Louise

Pert Kelton

Greenwillow
Gramma Briggs

Lauri Peters

The Sound of Music

Liesl von Trapp

1961
15th Tony Awards

Tammy Grimes

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Molly Tobin

Nancy Dussault

Do Re Mi
Tilda Mullen

Chita Rivera

Bye Bye Birdie
Rosie Alvarez

1962
16th Tony Awards

Phyllis Newman

Subways Are For Sleeping
Martha Vail

Elizabeth Allen

The Gay Life
Magda

Barbara Harris

From the Second City
Various Characters

Barbra Streisand

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
Miss Marmelstein

1963
17th Tony Awards

Anna Quayle

Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
Evie / Anya / Ilse / Ginnie

Ruth Kobart

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Domina

Virginia Martin

Little Me
Young Belle Poitrine

Louise Troy

Tovarich
Natalia Mayovskaya

1964
18th Tony Awards

Tessie O'Shea

The Girl Who Came to Supper
Ada Cockle

Julienne Marie

Foxy
Celia

Kay Medford

Funny Girl
Rose Brice

Louise Troy

High Spirits
Ruth Condomine

1965
19th Tony Awards

Maria Karnilova

Fiddler on the Roof
Golde

Luba Lisa

I Had a Ball
Addie

Carrie Nye

Half a Sixpence
Helen Walsingham

Barbara Windsor

Oh, What a Lovely War!
Various Characters

1966
20th Tony Awards

Bea Arthur

Mame
Vera Charles

Helen Gallagher

Sweet Charity
Nickie

Patricia Marand

It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman

Lois Lane

Charlotte Rae

Pickwick
Mrs. Bardell

1967
21st Tony Awards

Peg Murray

Cabaret
Fraulein Kost

Leland Palmer

A Joyful Noise
Miss Jimmie

Josephine Premice

A Hand Is on the Gate
Various Characters

Susan Watson

A Joyful Noise
Jenny Lee

1968
22nd Tony Awards

Lillian Hayman

Hallelujah, Baby!
Momma
Geula Gill

The Grand Music Hall of Israel
Various Characters

Julie Gregg

The Happy Time
Laurie Mannon

Alice Playten

Henry, Sweet Henry
Lillian 'Lili' Kafritz

1969
23rd Tony Awards

Marian Mercer

Promises, Promises
Marge MacDougall

Sandy Duncan

Canterbury Tales
Molly / Allison / May / The Sweetheart
Lorraine Serabian

Zorba
Leader

Virginia Vestoff

1776

Abigail Adams


1970s

































































































































































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

1970
24th Tony Awards

Melba Moore

Purlie
Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins

Bonnie Franklin

Applause
Bonnie the Gypsy

Penny Fuller
Eve Harrington

Melissa Hart

Georgy
Meredith

1971
25th Tony Awards

Patsy Kelly

No, No, Nanette
Pauline

Barbara Barrie

Company
Sarah

Pamela Myers
Marta

1972
26th Tony Awards

Linda Hopkins

Inner City
Various Characters

Adrienne Barbeau

Grease
Betty Rizzo

Bernadette Peters

On the Town
Hildy Esterhazy

Beatrice Winde

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death
Various Characters

1973
27th Tony Awards

Patricia Elliott

A Little Night Music
Countess Charlotte Malcolm

Hermione Gingold

A Little Night Music
Madame Armfeldt

Patsy Kelly

Irene
Mrs. O'Dare

Irene Ryan

Pippin
Berthe

1974
28th Tony Awards

Janie Sell

Over Here!
Mitzi
Leigh Beery

Cyrano
Roxana
Maureen Brennan

Candide

Cunégonde

June Gable
The Old Lady

Ernestine Jackson

Raisin
Ruth Younger

1975
29th Tony Awards

Dee Dee Bridgewater

The Wiz

Glinda

Susan Browning

Goodtime Charley

Agnès Sorel
Zan Charisse

Gypsy

Louise

Taina Elg

Where's Charley?
Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez

Kelly Garrett

The Night That Made America Famous
Various Characters

Donna Theodore

Shenandoah
Ann Anderson

1976
30th Tony Awards

Kelly Bishop

A Chorus Line
Sheila Bryant

Priscilla Lopez

A Chorus Line
Diana Morales

Patti LuPone

The Robber Bridegroom
Rosamund Musgrove
Virginia Seidel

Very Good Eddie
Elsie Darling

1977
31st Tony Awards

Delores Hall

Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
Various Characters

Ellen Greene

The Threepenny Opera
Jenny

Millicent Martin

Side by Side by Sondheim
Various Characters

Julia McKenzie
Various Characters

1978
32nd Tony Awards

Nell Carter

Ain't Misbehavin'
Nell

Imogene Coca

On the Twentieth Century
Letitia Primrose

Ann Reinking

Dancin'
Various Characters

Charlayne Woodard

Ain't Misbehavin'
Charlayne

1979
33rd Tony Awards

Carlin Glynn

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Mona Stangley
Joan Ellis

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Shy

Millicent Martin

King of Hearts
Madame Madeleine

Maxine Sullivan

My Old Friends
Mrs. Cooper


1980s
























































































































































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

1980
34th Tony Awards

Priscilla Lopez

A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine
Gino / Usherette

Debbie Allen

West Side Story
Anita

Glenn Close

Barnum
Charity 'Chairy' Barnum

Josie de Guzman

West Side Story
Maria

1981
35th Tony Awards

Marilyn Cooper

Woman of the Year
Jan Donovan

Phyllis Hyman

Sophisticated Ladies
Various Characters
Wanda Richert

42nd Street
Peggy Sawyer

Lynne Thigpen

Tintypes
Sussanah

1982
36th Tony Awards

Liliane Montevecchi

Nine
Liliane La Fleur

Karen Akers

Nine
Luisa Contini

Laurie Beechman

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Narrator

Anita Morris

Nine
Carla Albanese

1983
37th Tony Awards

Betty Buckley

Cats

Grizabella

Christine Andreas

On Your Toes
Frankie Frayne

Karla Burns

Show Boat
Queenie

Denny Dillon

My One and Only
Mickey

1984
38th Tony Awards

Lila Kedrova

Zorba
Madame Hortense
Martine Allard

The Tap Dance Kid
Emma

Liz Callaway

Baby
Lizzie Fields

Dana Ivey

Sunday in the Park with George
Yvonne / Naomi Eisen

1985
39th Tony Awards

Leilani Jones

Grind
Satin
Evalyn Baron

Quilters
Daughter of the Frontier

Mary Beth Peil

The King and I

Anna Leonowens

Lenka Peterson

Quilters
Sarah

1986
40th Tony Awards

Bebe Neuwirth

Sweet Charity
Nickie

Patti Cohenour

The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Rosa Bud / Deirdre Peregrine

Jana Schneider
Helena Landless / Janet Conover

Elisabeth Welch

Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood
Various Characters

1987
41st Tony Awards

Frances Ruffelle

Les Misérables

Éponine

Jane Connell

Me and My Girl
Duchess Maria

Judy Kuhn

Les Misérables

Cosette

Jane Summerhays

Me and My Girl
Jaqueline 'Jackie' Carstone

1988
42nd Tony Awards

Judy Kaye

The Phantom of the Opera

Carlotta Guidicelli

Leleti Khumalo

Sarafina!
Sarafina

Alyson Reed

Cabaret

Sally Bowles

Regina Resnik
Fraulein Schneider

1989
43rd Tony Awards

Debbie Gravitte

Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Hildy Esterhazy / Mazeppa / Rosalia / Company
Jane Lanier

Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Various Characters

Faith Prince
Ma / Tessie / Company

Julie Wilson

Legs Diamond
Flo


1990s



















































































































































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

1990
44th Tony Awards

Randy Graff

City of Angels
Oolie / Donna

Jane Krakowski

Grand Hotel
Freida Flamm / Flaemmchen

Kathleen Rowe McAllen

Aspects of Love
Giulietta Trapani

Crista Moore

Gypsy

Louise

1991
45th Tony Awards

Daisy Eagan

The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox

Alison Fraser

The Secret Garden
Martha Sowerby

Cady Huffman

The Will Rogers Follies

Ziegfeld's Favorite

LaChanze

Once on This Island
Ti Moune

1992
46th Tony Awards

Tonya Pinkins

Jelly's Last Jam
Anita

Liz Larsen

The Most Happy Fella
Cleo

Vivian Reed

The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club
Enchantress

Barbara Walsh

Falsettos
Trina

1993
47th Tony Awards

Andrea Martin

My Favorite Year
Alice Miller

Marcia Mitzman Gaven

The Who's Tommy
Nora Walker

Jan Graveson

Blood Brothers
Linda

Lainie Kazan

My Favorite Year
Belle Carroca

1994
48th Tony Awards

Audra McDonald

Carousel
Carrie Pipperidge

Marcia Lewis

Grease
Miss Lynch

Sally Mayes

She Loves Me
Ilona Ritter

Marin Mazzie

Passion
Clara

1995
49th Tony Awards

Gretha Boston

Show Boat
Queenie
Brenda Braxton

Smokey Joe's Cafe
Various Characters

B.J. Crosby
DeLee Lively

1996
50th Tony Awards

Ann Duquesnay

Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
'da Singer / The Chanteuse
Joohee Choi

The King and I
Tuptim

Veanne Cox

Company
Amy

Idina Menzel

Rent
Maureen Johnson

1997
51st Tony Awards

Lillias White

The Life
Sonja

Marcia Lewis

Chicago
Matron Mama Morton

Andrea Martin

Candide
The Old Lady

Debra Monk

Steel Pier
Shelby Stevens

1998
52nd Tony Awards

Audra McDonald

Ragtime
Sarah

Anna Kendrick

High Society
Dinah Lord

Tsidii Le Loka

The Lion King
Rafiki

Mary Louise Wilson

Cabaret
Fraulein Schneider

1999
53rd Tony Awards

Kristin Chenoweth

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Sally Brown

Gretha Boston

It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues
Various Characters

Valerie Pettiford

Fosse
Various Characters

Mary Testa

On the Town
Madame Maude P. Dilly


2000s








































































































































































































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

2000
54th Tony Awards

Karen Ziemba

Contact
Wife

Laura Benanti

Swing!
Various Characters

Ann Hampton Callaway
Various Characters

Eartha Kitt

The Wild Party
Dolores

Deborah Yates

Contact
Girl in a Yellow Dress / Gina Minetti

2001
55th Tony Awards

Cady Huffman

The Producers

Ulla

Polly Bergen

Follies
Carlotta Campion

Kathleen Freeman

The Full Monty
Jeanette Burmeister

Kate Levering

42nd Street
Peggy Sawyer

Mary Testa
Maggie Jones

2002
56th Tony Awards

Harriet Sansom Harris

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mrs. Meers

Laura Benanti

Into the Woods
Cinderella

Spencer Kayden

Urinetown
Little Sally

Judy Kaye

Mamma Mia!
Rosie Mulligan

Andrea Martin

Oklahoma!
Aunt Eller

2003
57th Tony Awards

Jane Krakowski

Nine
Carla Albanese

Tammy Blanchard

Gypsy

Louise

Mary Stuart Masterson

Nine
Luisa Contini

Chita Rivera
Liliane La Fleur

Ashley Tuttle

Movin' Out
Judy

2004
58th Tony Awards

Anika Noni Rose

Caroline, or Change
Emmie Thibodeaux

Beth Fowler

The Boy from Oz
Marion Woolnough

Isabel Keating

Judy Garland

Jennifer Westfeldt

Wonderful Town
Eileen Sherwood

Karen Ziemba

Never Gonna Dance
Mabel Pritt

2005
59th Tony Awards

Sara Ramirez

Spamalot

Lady of the Lake

Joanna Gleason

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Muriel Eubanks

Celia Keenan-Bolger

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Olive Ostrovsky

Jan Maxwell

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Baroness Bomburst

Kelli O'Hara

The Light in the Piazza
Clara Johnson

2006
60th Tony Awards

Beth Leavel

The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone / Beatrice Stockwell

Carolee Carmello

Lestat

Gabrielle de Lioncourt
Felicia P. Fields

The Color Purple
Sofia Johnson

Megan Lawrence

The Pajama Game
Gladys Hotchkiss

Elisabeth Withers

The Color Purple
Shug Avery

2007
61st Tony Awards

Mary Louise Wilson

Grey Gardens

'Big Edie' Beale

Charlotte d'Amboise

A Chorus Line
Cassie Ferguson

Rebecca Luker

Mary Poppins
Winifred Banks

Orfeh

Legally Blonde
Paulette Bonafonté

Karen Ziemba

Curtains
Georgia Hendricks

2008
62nd Tony Awards

Laura Benanti

Gypsy

Louise

Loretta Ables Sayre

South Pacific

Bloody Mary

De'Adre Aziza

Passing Strange
Edwina / Marianna / Sudabey

Andrea Martin

Young Frankenstein
Frau Blücher

Olga Merediz

In the Heights
Abuela Claudia

2009
63rd Tony Awards

Karen Olivo

West Side Story
Anita Palacio

Jennifer Damiano

Next to Normal
Natalie Goodman

Haydn Gwynne

Billy Elliot the Musical
Georgia Wilkinson

Carole Shelley
Grandma

Martha Plimpton

Pal Joey
Gladys Bumps


2010s

















































































































































































































































Year
Actress
Musical
Character

2010
64th Tony Awards

Katie Finneran

Promises, Promises
Marge MacDougall

Barbara Cook

Sondheim on Sondheim
Various Characters

Angela Lansbury

A Little Night Music
Madame Armfeldt

Karine Plantadit

Come Fly Away
Kate

Lillias White

Fela!

Funmilayo Kuti

2011
65th Tony Awards

Nikki M. James

The Book of Mormon
Nabulungi Hatimbi

Laura Benanti

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Candela

Tammy Blanchard

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Hedy La Rue

Victoria Clark

Sister Act
Mother Superior

Patti LuPone

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Lucia

2012
66th Tony Awards

Judy Kaye

Nice Work If You Can Get It
Estonia Dulworth

Elizabeth A. Davis

Once
Réza

Jayne Houdyshell

Follies
Hattie Walker

Jessie Mueller

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Melinda Wells

Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Ghost the Musical
Oda Mae Brown

2013
67th Tony Awards

Andrea Martin

Pippin
Berthe

Annaleigh Ashford

Kinky Boots
Lauren

Victoria Clark

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
Marie / Fairy Godmother

Keala Settle

Hands on a Hardbody
Norma Valverde

Lauren Ward

Matilda the Musical
Miss Jennifer "Jenny" Honey

2014
68th Tony Awards

Lena Hall

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Yitzhak

Linda Emond

Cabaret
Fräulein Schneider

Anika Larsen

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical

Cynthia Weil

Adriane Lenox

After Midnight
Various Characters

Lauren Worsham

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Phoebe D'Ysquith

2015
69th Tony Awards

Ruthie Ann Miles

The King and I
Lady Thiang

Victoria Clark

Gigi
Mamita

Judy Kuhn

Fun Home
Helen Fontana Bechdel

Sydney Lucas
Small Alison

Emily Skeggs
Medium Alison

2016
70th Tony Awards

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Hamilton

Angelica Schuyler

Danielle Brooks

The Color Purple
Sofia Johnson

Jane Krakowski

She Loves Me
Ilona Ritter

Jennifer Simard

Disaster!
Sister Mary Downy

Adrienne Warren

Shuffle Along
Gertrude Saunders / Florence Mills

2017
71st Tony Awards

Rachel Bay Jones

Dear Evan Hansen
Heidi Hansen

Kate Baldwin

Hello, Dolly!
Irene Molloy

Stephanie J. Block

Falsettos
Trina

Jenn Colella

Come from Away
Annette, Beverley Bass, and others

Mary Beth Peil

Anastasia

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

2018
72nd Tony Awards

Lindsay Mendez

Carousel
Carrie Pipperidge

Ariana DeBose

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Disco Donna

Renée Fleming

Carousel
Nettie Fowler

Ashley Park

Mean Girls
Gretchen Wieners

Diana Rigg

My Fair Lady
Mrs. Higgins


Win Total


2 Wins


  • Judy Kaye

  • Andrea Martin

  • Audra McDonald



Nomination Total











Character win total


2 Wins


  • Carrie Pipperidge from Carousel

  • Marge MacDougall from Promises, Promises



Character nomination total











External links



  • Internet Broadway Database Awards Archive

  • Official Tony Awards Website Archive










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