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

• Hugh Wheeler (2 consecutive)
• Thomas Meehan
• James Lapine

Due vittorie

• Terrence McNally
• Larry Gelbart
• Peter Stone
• Michael Stewart

Record di candidature

5 Candidature

• Michael Stewart

4 Candidature

• Douglas Carter Beane
• James Lapine
• Terrence McNally
• Peter Stone
• Hugh Wheeler

3 Candidature

• Chad Beguelin
• Harvey Fierstein
• Michael John LaChiusa
• George C. Wolfe

2 Candidature

• Walter Bobbie
• Alain Boublil
• Mark Bramble
• Leslie Bricusse
• Betty Comden
• Joe DiPietro
• Bob Fosse
• Larry Gelbart
• Adolph Green
• John Guare
• Rupert Holmes
• Jim Lewis
• Craig Lucas
• Bob Martin
• Thomas Meehan
• Marsha Norman
• Tim Rice
• Dick Scanlan
• Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Neil Simon
• Joseph Stein
• David Thompson
• Melvin Van Peebles
• Andrew Lloyd Webber

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).