Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical#1960s
{{Short description|Tony Award}}
{{Infobox award
| name = Tony Award for
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
| image_upright = 0.55
| image = Kecia Lewis in 2024.jpg
| caption = 2024 Recipient: Kecia Lewis
| awarded_for = Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
| presenter = American Theatre Wing The Broadway League
| location = United States New York City
| holder = Kecia Lewis for Hell's Kitchen {{small|(2024)}}
| website = [http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/index.html TonyAwards.com]
}}
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actresses for quality featured roles in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946.
Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."{{cite news|title=Operation Frenzy Before the Tony Awards|last=Kirkley|first=Donald|date=April 21, 1968|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1730778222.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI|page=T2|access-date=December 24, 2011}} {{subscription required}}
The award was originally called the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured or Supporting Role in a Musical. It was first presented to Juanita Hall at the 4th Tony Awards for her portrayal of Bloody Mary in South Pacific. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public;{{cite book|title=The Performing Arts: a Guide to the Reference Literature|last=Simons|first=Linda Keir|year=1994|publisher=ABC-CLIO|page=137|isbn=978-0-87287-982-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RBnpnURcDbMC|access-date=2012-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622021957/https://books.google.com/books?id=RBnpnURcDbMC|archive-date=2013-06-22|url-status=live}} the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".{{cite news|title=Popularizing the Tony Awards|last=Gelb|first=Arthur|date=April 1, 1956|newspaper=The New York Times|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60816F93F5F157A93C3A9178FD85F428585F9|access-date=January 14, 2011}} {{subscription required}} The category was renamed to its current title in 1976.
Judy Kaye, Andrea Martin and Audra McDonald share the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two. Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel and Marge MacDougall in Promises, Promises are the characters to take the award the most times, winning twice.
Winners and nominees
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File:Hall as Bloody Mary.jpg won for South Pacific (1950)]]
File:Helen Gallagher 1971.jpg won for Pal Joey (1952)]]
File:Gwen Verdon 1954.jpg won for Can-Can (1954)]]
File:Edie Adams 1958.JPG won for Lil' Abner (1957)]]
File:BarbaraCookApr2011.jpg won for The Music Man (1958)]]
File:Tammy Grimes 1966.jpg won for The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1961)]]
File:Phyllis Newman 1966.jpg won for Subways Are for Sleeping (1962)]]
File:Beatrice Arthur - 1973.jpg won for Mame (1966)]]
File:Melba Moore 1999.jpg won for Purlie (1970)]]
File:Deedeebridgewater.jpg won for The Wiz (1975)]]
File:Kelly Bishop.jpg won for A Chorus Line (1976)]]
File:Marilyn Cooper in Bye Bye Birdie.jpg won for Woman of the Year (1981)]]
File:Liliane Montevecchi by Virgil Apger, 1956.jpg won for Nine (1982)]]
File:Betty Buckley Eight Is Enough 1977.JPG won for Cats (1983)]]
File:Lila Kedrova (1965).jpg won for Zorba (1984)]]
File:Bebe Neuwirth.jpg won for Sweet Charity (1986)]]
File:Daisy Eagan 2011 by David Shankbone (cropped).JPG won for The Secret Garden (1991)]]
File:Tonya Pinkins Throws Down The Gauntlet.jpg won for Jelly's Last Jam (1992)]]
File:Andrea Martin - Lyceum Theatre 2019.jpg won twice: for My Favorite Year (1993) and Pippin (2013)]]
File:audra mcdonald 2021 2.jpg won twice: for Carousel (1994) and Ragtime (1998)]]
File:Kristin Chenoweth by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg won for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1999)]]
File:Jane Krakowski, Red Dress Collection 2007.jpg won for Nine (2003)]]
File:Anika Noni Rose (8281946306) (cropped).jpg won for Caroline, or Change (2004)]]
File:Sara Ramírez3.jpg won for Spamalot (2005)]]
File:beth leavel 2019 1.jpg won for The Drowsy Chaperone (2006)]]
File:Laura Benanti cropped.jpg won for Gypsy (2008)]]
File:Karen Olivo.jpg won for West Side Story (2009)]]
File:Katie Finneran in Annie The Musical, October 6, 2012.jpg won for Promises, Promises (2010)]]
File:Nikki M. James (5923037535).jpg won for The Book of Mormon (2011)]]
File:LenaHall2022.jpg won for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014)]]
File:RuthieAnnMiles54Below.jpg won for The King and I (2015)]]
File:Renée Elise Goldsberry at Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards.jpg won for Hamilton (2016)]]
File:Rachel Bay Jones stage door pippin.jpg won for Dear Evan Hansen (2017)]]
File:Lindsay Mendez, May 2018.jpg won for Carousel (2018)]]
File:Ali stroker 2021 1.jpg won for Oklahoma! (2019)]]
File:Lauren patten 2021 1.jpg won for Jagged Little Pill (2021)]]
File:Patti LuPone Agatha All Along Premiere.png won for Company (2022)]]
File:bonnie milligan 2023 1.jpg won for Kimberly Akimbo (2023)]]
File:Kecia Lewis in 2024.jpg won for Hell's Kitchen (2024)]]
=1950s=
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! scope="col" style="width:8%;"| Year ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Actor ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Musical ! scope="col" style="width:30%;"| Role(s) ! scope="col" style="width:2%;" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}} |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1950 {{small|(4th)}} |
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| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1951 {{small|(5th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Sarah Brown | |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1952 {{small|(6th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Pal Joey | Gladys Bumps | |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1953 {{small|(7th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Fay Fromkin | |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1954 {{small|(8th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Can-Can | Claudine | |
| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1955 {{small|(9th)}} |
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| Gladys Hotchkiss | |
| rowspan="5" align="center"| 1956 {{small|(10th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| rowspan="5" align="center"| {{cite web|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1956/category/any/show/any/|title=1956 Tony Awards Nominees|author=|publisher=American Theatre Wing|access-date=August 11, 2023}} |
| Rae Allen
| Gloria Thorpe |
| Pat Carroll
| Catch a Star! | Various Characters |
| Judy Tyler
| Suzy |
| rowspan="5" align="center"| 1957 {{small|(11th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Daisy Mae | rowspan="5" align="center"| {{cite web|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1957/category/any/show/any/|title=1957 Tony Awards Nominees|author=|publisher=American Theatre Wing|access-date=August 11, 2023}} |
| Virginia Gibson
| Beth Livingstone |
| Irra Petina
| Candide | The Old Lady / Madame Sofronia |
| Jo Sullivan Loesser
| Rosabella |
| rowspan="6" align="center"| 1958 {{small|(12th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Marian Paroo | rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1958/category/any/show/any/|title=1958 Tony Awards Nominees|author=|publisher=American Theatre Wing|access-date=August 11, 2023}} |
| Susan Johnson
| Mae |
| Carol Lawrence
| Maria |
| Jackie McKeever
| Mrs. Maud St.James |
| Josephine Premice
| Jamaica | Ginger |
| rowspan="3" align="center"| 1959 {{small|(13th)}} |
| style="background:#B0C4DE"
| Lois Lee | rowspan="3" align="center"| {{cite web|url=https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1959/category/any/show/any/|title=1959 Tony Awards Nominees|author=|publisher=American Theatre Wing|access-date=August 11, 2023}} |
| Julienne Marie
| Whoop-Up | Mary Champlain |
=1960s=
=1970s=
=1980s=
=1990s=
=2000s=
=2010s=
=2020s=
Statistics
=Most wins=
; 2 wins
=Most nominations=
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; 5 nominations
; 4 nominations
; 3 nominations
; 2 nominations
- Shoshana Bean
- Tammy Blanchard
- Gretha Boston
- Barbara Cook
- Helen Gallagher
- Jayne Houdyshell
- Cady Huffman
- Nikki M. James
- Patsy Kelly
- Judy Kuhn
- Marcia Lewis
- Priscilla Lopez
- Julienne Marie
- Millicent Martin
- Audra McDonald
- Lindsay Mendez
- Ruthie Ann Miles
- Bebe Neuwirth
- Mary Beth Peil
- Josephine Premice
- Chita Rivera
- Jennifer Simard
- Louise Troy
- Lillias White
- Mary Louise Wilson
}}
=Character win total=
; 2 wins
- Carrie Pipperidge from Carousel
- Marge MacDougall from Promises, Promises
=Character nomination total=
{{columns-list|colwidth=35em|
; 5 nominations
; 4 nominations
- Fraulein Schneider from Cabaret
; 3 nominations
- The Old Lady from Candide
; 2 nominations
- Anita from West Side Story
- Aunt Eller from Oklahoma!
- Berthe from Pippin
- Bloody Mary from South Pacific
- Carla Albanese from Nine
- Carrie Pipperidge from Carousel
- Gladys Bumps from Pal Joey
- Gladys Hotchkiss from The Pajama Game
- Hildy Esterhazy from On the Town and Jerome Robbins' Broadway
- Ilona Ritter from She Loves Me
- Jenny from The Threepenny Opera
- Lady of the Lake from Spamalot
- Liliane La Fleur from Nine
- Luisa Contini from Nine
- Madame Armfeldt from A Little Night Music
- Marge MacDougall from Promises, Promises
- Maria from West Side Story
- Nickie from Sweet Charity
- Peggy Sawyer from 42nd Street
- Queenie from Show Boat
- Sarah from Company
- Sofia Johnson from The Color Purple
- Trina from Falsettos
}}
=Productions with multiple nominations=
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- The Sound of Music – Patricia Neway and Lauri Peters, Kathy Dunn, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Marilyn Robers, William Snowden & Joseph Stewart
- A Joyful Noise – Leland Palmer and Susan Watson
- Applause – Bonnie Franklin and Penny Fuller
- Company – Barbara Barrie and Pamela Myers
- A Little Night Music – Patricia Elliott and Hermione Gingold
- Candide – Maureen Brennan and June Gable
- A Chorus Line – Kelly Bishop and Priscilla Lopez
- Side by Side by Sondheim – Millicent Martin and Julia McKenzie
- Ain't Misbehavin' – Nell Carter and Charlayne Woodard
- The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas – Carlin Glynn and Joan Ellis
- West Side Story – Debbie Allen and Josie de Guzman
- Nine – Karen Akers, Liliane Montevecchi and Anita Morris
- Quilters – Evalyn Baron and Lenka Peterson
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Patti Cohenour and Jana Schneider
- Les Misérables – Frances Ruffelle and Judy Kuhn
- Me and My Girl – Jane Connell and Jane Summerhays {{small|(Les Misérables and Me and My Girl were nominated the same year)}}
- Cabaret – Alyson Reed and Regina Resnik
- Jerome Robbins' Broadway – Debbie Gravitte, Jane Lanier and Faith Prince
- The Secret Garden – Daisy Eagan and Alison Fraser
- Smokey Joe's Cafe – Brenda Braxton, B.J. Crosby and DeLee Lively
- Contact – Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba
- Swing! – Laura Benanti and Ann Hampton Callaway {{small|(Contact and Swing! were nominated the same year)}}
- 42nd Street – Kate Levering and Mary Testa
- Nine – Jane Krakowski, Mary Stuart Masterson and Chita Rivera {{small|(This is the second time the show had multiple nominations)}}
- The Boy from Oz – Beth Fowler and Isabel Keating
- The Color Purple – Felicia P. Fields and Elisabeth Withers
- Billy Elliot the Musical – Haydn Gwynne and Carole Shelley
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown – Laura Benanti and Patti LuPone
- Fun Home – Judy Kuhn, Sydney Lucas and Emily Skeggs
- Carousel – Renée Fleming and Lindsay Mendez
- Oklahoma! – Ali Stroker and Mary Testa
- Tootsie – Lilli Cooper and Sarah Stiles {{small|(Oklahoma! and Tootsie were nominated the same year)}}
- Jagged Little Pill – Kathryn Gallagher, Celia Rose Gooding and Lauren Patten
- Company – Patti LuPone and Jennifer Simard {{small|(This is the second time the show had multiple nominations)}}
- Hell's Kitchen – Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis
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=Multiple awards and nominations=
; Actresses who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
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See also
{{Portal|Theatre}}
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Musical
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical
- List of Tony Award-nominated productions
References
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External links
- [http://www.ibdb.com/advSearchAwards.php Internet Broadway Database Awards Archive]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204062042/http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/archive/pastwinners/index.html Official Tony Awards Website Archive]
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