Tony Award for Best Choreography

The Tony award for Choreography has been awarded since 1947.

Award winners and nominations

1940s

* 1947: Agnes de Mille – "Brigadoon" / Michael Kidd – "Finian's Rainbow"
* 1948: Jerome Robbins – "High Button Shoes"
* 1949: Gower Champion – "Lend An Ear"

1950s

* 1950: Helen Tamiris – "Touch and Go"
* 1951: Michael Kidd – "Guys and Dolls"
* 1952: Robert Alton – "Pal Joey"
* 1953: Donald Saddler – "Wonderful Town"
* 1954: Michael Kidd – "Can-Can"
* 1955: Bob Fosse – "The Pajama Game"
* 1956: Bob Fosse – "Damn Yankees"
** Robert Alton – "The Vamp"
** Boris Runanin – "Phoenix '55 / Pipe Dream"
** Anna Sokolow – "Red Roses For Me"
* 1957: Michael Kidd – "Li'l Abner"
** Hanya Holm – "My Fair Lady"
** Dania Krupska – "The Most Happy Fella"
** Jerome Robbins / Bob Fosse – "Bells Are Ringing"
* 1958: Jerome Robbins – "West Side Story"
** Bob Fosse – "New Girl In Town"
** Onna White – "The Music Man"
* 1959: Bob Fosse – "Redhead"
** Agnes de Mille – "Goldilocks"
** Carol Haney – "Flower Drum Song"
** Onna White – "Whoop-Up"

1960s

* 1960: Michael Kidd – "Destry Rides Again"
** Peter Gennaro – "Fiorello!"
** Joe Layton – "Greenwillow"
** Lee Scot – "Happy Town"
** Onna White – "Take Me Along"
* 1961: Gower Champion – "Bye Bye Birdie"
** Onna White – "Irma La Douce"
* 1962: Joe Layton – "No Strings"
** Agnes de Mille – "Kwamina"
** Michael Kidd – "Subways Are For Sleeping"
** Dania Krupska – "The Happiest Girl in the World"
* 1963: Bob Fosse – "Little Me"
** Carol Haney – "Bravo Giovanni"
* 1964: Gower Champion – "Hello, Dolly!"
** Danny Daniels – "High Spirits"
** Carol Haney – "Funny Girl"
** Herbert Ross – "Anyone Can Whistle"
* 1965: Jerome Robbins – "Fiddler on the Roof"
** Peter Gennaro – "Bajour"
** Donald McKayle – "Golden Boy"
** Onna White – "Half a Sixpence"

* 1966: Bob Fosse – "Sweet Charity"
** Jack Cole – "Man of La Mancha"
** Michael Kidd – "Skyscraper"
** Onna White – "Mame"
* 1967: Ron Field – "Cabaret"
** Michael Bennett – "A Joyful Noise"
** Danny Daniels – "Walking Happy / Annie Get Your Gun"
** Lee Theodore – "The Apple Tree"
* 1968: Gower Champion – "The Happy Time"
** Michael Bennett – "Henry, Sweet Henry"
** Kevin Carlisle – "Hallelujah, Baby!"
** Onna White – "Illya Darling"
* 1969: Joe Layton – "George M!"
** Sammy Bayes – "Canterbury Tales"
** Ronald Field – "Zorba"
** Michael Bennett – "Promises, Promises"

1970s

* 1970: Ron Field – "Applause"
** Michael Bennett – "Coco"
** Grover Dale – "Billy"
** Louis Johnson – "Purlie"
* 1971: Donald Saddler – "No, No, Nanette"
** Michael Bennett – "Company"
** Michael Kidd – "The Rothschilds"
* 1972: Michael Bennett – "Follies"
** Patricia Birch – "Grease"
** Jean Erdman – "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
* 1973: Bob Fosse – "Pippin"
** Gower Champion – "Sugar"
** Peter Gennaro – "Irene"
** Donald Saddler – "Much Ado About Nothing"
* 1974: Michael Bennett – "Seesaw"
** Patricia Birch – "Over Here!"
** Donald McKayle – "Raisin"
* 1975: George Faison – "The Wiz"
** Gower Champion – "Mack and Mabel"
** Donald McKayle – "Doctor Jazz"
** Margo Sappington – "Where's Charley?"
** Robert Tucker – "Shenandoah"
** Joel Zwick – "Dance With Me"
* 1976: Michael Bennett / Bob Avian – "A Chorus Line"
** Patricia Birch – "Pacific Overtures"
** Bob Fosse – "Chicago"
** Billy Wilson – "Bubbling Brown Sugar"
* 1977: Peter Gennaro – "Annie"
** Talley Beatty – "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God"
** Patricia Birch – "Music Is"
** Onna White – "I Love My Wife"
* 1978: Bob Fosse – "Dancin'"
** Arthur Faria – "Ain't Misbehavin'"
** Ron Lewis – "The Act"
** Elizabeth Swados – "Runaways"
* 1979: Michael Bennett / Bob Avian – "Ballroom"
** Henry LeTang / Billy Wilson – "Eubie!"
** Dan Siretta – "Whoopee!"
** Tommy Tune – "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"

1980s

* 1980: Tommy Tune / Thommie Walsh – "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine"
** Ernest Flatt – "Sugar Babies"
** Larry Fuller – "Evita"
** Joe Layton – "Barnum"
* 1981: Gower Champion – "42nd Street"
** Graciela Daniele – "The Pirates of Penzance"
** Henry le Tan / Donald McKayle / Michael Smuin – "Sophisticated Ladies"
** Roland Petit – "Can-Can"
* 1982: Michael Bennett / Michael Peters – "Dreamgirls"
** Peter Gennaro – "Little Me"
** Tony Tanner – "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"
** Tommy Tune – "Nine"
* 1983: Tommy Tune / Thommie Walsh – "My One and Only"
** George Faison – "Porgy and Bess"
** Gillian Lynne – "Cats"
** Donald Saddler – "On Your Toes"
* 1984: Danny Daniels – "The Tap Dance Kid"
** Wayne Cilento – "Baby"
** Graciela Daniele – "The Rink"
** Scott Salmon – "La Cage aux Folles"

* 1986: Bob Fosse – "Big Deal"
** Graciela Daniele – "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
** Peter Martins – "Song & Dance"
** Tango Argentino Dancers – "Tango Argentino"
* 1987: Gillian Gregory – "Me and My Girl"
** Ron Field – "Rags"
** Brian Macdonald – "The Mikado"
** Arlene Phillips – "Starlight Express"
* 1988: Michael Smuin – "Anything Goes"
** Lar Lubovitch – "Into the Woods"
** Gillian Lynne – "The Phantom of the Opera"
** Ndaba Mhlongo / Mbongeni Ngema – "Sarafina!"
* 1989: Cholly Atkins / Henry LeTang / Frankie Manning / Fayard Nicholas – "Black and Blue"
** Michele Assaf – "Starmites"
** Bill Irwin / Kimi Okada – "Largely New York"
** Alan Johnson – "Legs Diamond"

1990s

* 1990: Tommy Tune – "Grand Hotel"
** Joan Brickhill – "Meet Me in St. Louis"
** Graciela Daniele / Tina Paul – "Dangerous Games"
* 1991: Tommy Tune – "The Will Rogers Follies"
** Bob Avian – "Miss Saigon"
** Graciela Daniele – "Once on This Island"
** Dan Siretta – "Oh, Kay!"
* 1992: Susan Stroman – "Crazy for You"
** Terry John Bates – "Dancing at Lughnasa"
** Christopher Chadman – "Guys and Dolls"
** Hope Clarke / Ted L. Levy / Gregory Hines – "Jelly's Last Jam"
* 1993: Wayne Cilento – "The Who's Tommy"
** Graciela Daniele – "The Goodbye Girl"
** Vincent Paterson / Rob Marshall – "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
** Randy Skinner – "Ain't Broadway Grand"
* 1994: Kenneth MacMillan – "Carousel"
** Jeff Calhoun – "Grease"
** Rob Marshall – "Damn Yankees"
** Rob Marshall – "She Loves Me"

* 1995: Susan Stroman – "Show Boat"
** Bob Avian – "Sunset Boulevard"
** Wayne Cilento – "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
** Joey McKneely – "Smokey Joe's Cafe"
* 1996: Savion Glover – "Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk"
** Graciela Daniele – "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"
** Susan Stroman – "Big, The Musical"
** Marlies Yearby – "Rent"
* 1997: Ann Reinking – "Chicago"
** Wayne Cilento – "Dream"
** Joey McKneely – "The Life"
** Susan Stroman – "Steel Pier"
* 1998 Garth Fagan – "The Lion King"
** Graciela Daniele – "Ragtime"
** Forever Tango Dancers – "Forever Tango"
** Rob Marshall – "Cabaret"
* 1999: Matthew Bourne – "Swan Lake"
** Patricia Birch – "Parade"
** Rob Marshall – "Little Me"
** A. C. Ciulla – "Footloose"

2000s

* 2000: Susan Stroman – "Contact"
** Kathleen Marshall – "Kiss Me, Kate"
** Susan Stroman – "The Music Man"
** Lynne Taylor-Corbett – "Swing!"
* 2001: Susan Stroman – "The Producers"
** Jerry Mitchell – "The Full Monty"
** Randy Skinner – "42nd Street"
* 2002: Rob Ashford – "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
** John Carrafa – "Into the Woods"
** John Carrafa – ""
** Susan Stroman – "Oklahoma!"
* 2003: Twyla Tharp – "Movin' Out"
** Robert Longbottom – "Flower Drum Song"
** Jerry Mitchell – "Hairspray"
** Melinda Roy – ""
* 2004: Kathleen Marshall – "Wonderful Town"
** Wayne Cilento – "Wicked"
** Jerry Mitchell – "Never Gonna Dance"
** Anthony Van Laast / Farah Khan – "Bombay Dreams"
* 2005: Jerry Mitchell – "La Cage aux Folles"
** Wayne Cilento – "Sweet Charity"
** Jerry Mitchell – "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
** Casey Nicholaw – "Monty Python's Spamalot"
* 2006: Kathleen Marshall – "The Pajama Game"
** Rob Ashford – "The Wedding Singer"
** Donald Bryd – "The Color Purple"
** Casey Nicholaw – "The Drowsy Chaperone"
* 2007: Bill T. Jones – "Spring Awakening"
** Rob Ashford – "Curtains"
** Matthew Bourne / Stephen Mear – "Mary Poppins"
** Jerry Mitchell – "Legally Blonde"
* 2008: Andy Blankenbuehler – "In The Heights"
** Rob Ashford – "Cry-Baby"
** Christopher Gattelli – "Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific"
** Dan Knechtges – "Xanadu"

ee also

* Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography
* Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer

References

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External links

* [http://www.tonyawards.com/ The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards official website]