For Actors, all who have one a tony for Play and for Musical, whether in Leading Actor or Featured:

Boyd Gaines

Christian Borle

Christopher Plummer

David Wayne

Harvey Fierstein

John Lithgow

Jonathan Pryce

Kevin Kline

Matthew Broderick

Nathan Lane

Rex Harrison

Robert Morse

Zero Mostel

Angela Lansbury won for both

Christian Borle has also won both Featured Actor in a Play (Peter and the Starcatcher) and Featured Actor in a Musical (Something Rotten!).

Off the top of my head Nathan lane won for a play and a musical

Audra McDonald, Glenn Close and Matthew Broderick have all won for plays and musicals. Audra is famously the only person to win an acting Tony in all four categories (lead in a musical, lead in a play, featured in a musical, and featured in a play).

Howard Ashman for Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin if I’m not mistaken. At least nominated posthumously for Aladdin.

Edited: Ashman did not win any Tonys posthumously, but he was nominated posthumously for Best Original Score 3 times for Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, and Aladdin.

TS Eliot has a posthumous Tony for Cats lol

Howard Ashman was nominated posthumously for the scores of Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, and Aladdin.

I can see Sondheim being awarded some sort of special award, just because of the impact he’s had on modern musical theater, but it can’t remember any precedent for such an honor.

To my knowledge, there are only two posthumous winners of a Tony Award for a specific awards category: TS Eliot won for best book of a musical with Cats and Jonathan Larson won best musical, best book of a musical, and best original score for Rent.

There have also been a bunch of posthumous special Tony Awards: Brock Pemberton in 1950, Thomas H. Fitzgerald in 1976, Robert Preston in 1987, and Marin Mazzie in 2019.

It was a really weak year for musicals. It was up against 2 shows that flopped (one of which closed three days after opening) and a jukebox show with mixed reviews.

Yes, and lost best choreography, which is wild for a dance show with minimal plot

Gypsy (1960) didn't win any awards (not the big ones), losing out to The Sound of Music.

The cast album did win a Grammy.

Rose is synonymous with stage mothers. Everything's Coming Up Roses is a standard, along with Let Me Entertain You, and Wherever We Go (Together)

Edit: the album won a Grammy not a Tony

Oklahoma was probably the most influential Broadway show that never won a Tony until they gave it a special Tony for the show's 50th anniversary. Maybe they'll do the same for LSoH in 2032 on the 50th anniversary of its off Broadway start.

Possibly Chicago. It did win for the revival, but the original won nothing that it was nominated for, and now it is the most famous Fosse work and the longest running American musical, also the longest running musical currently on Broadway.

The original production of Little Shop never ran on Broadway and thusly was not eligible for a Tony award. The one and only Broadway production was a revival and received mixed reviews.

I think it’s funny you call Broadway theaters huge because they are dramatically smaller than many of the regional touring houses. The Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas has 5k seats, though admittedly it is cavernous. Dallas’ smaller touring venue (the Winspear Opera House) is still 3k seats and has a stage big enough to fit a 747 on it. By comparison, the largest Broadway theater is < 2k seats.

And it's not like they could've split the awards. There wasn't a Best Actor to give Gypsy.

actually, it did have a broadway run back in 2003 with Kerry Butler and Hunter Foster.

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Sound of Music (EGOT) - won Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy. 

Color Purple (EGT) - won Emmy, Tony, Grammy, nominated for Oscar.

Hair (GT) - won Tony and Grammy. Needs Emmy & Oscar.

Mary Poppins (GOT) has a Grammy, Oscar, and Tony - needs and Emmy. 

Grease (E) - nominated for Oscar (song Hopelessly Devoted to You) and Tony. Won Emmy. Film soundtrack nominated for AOTY at the Grammys. 

JCS (E) - nominated for Tony, nominated for Oscar (score), won Emmy, nominated for Grammy (Live version nominated for Musical Theater Album). 

Hamilton (EGT) - won Emmy, Grammy, Tony. Needs Oscar nom. 

Rent (ET) - won Emmy, Tony. Nominated for Grammy. Needs Oscar nom.

R&H Cinderella (E) - won Emmy, nominated for Tony. Needs Grammy and Oscar. 

Moulin Rouge! (OT) - won Oscar, Tony, nominated for Grammy. Needs Emmy nom. 

Sound of Music has EGOTd. The live production NBC did got an Emmy.

Gypsy has to be close.

Edit: 1993 TV version won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction.

The Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters albums won a Grammy.

Throughout the years the revivals have won a few Tonys

But apparently the 1962 movie was only nominated for Oscars

The Lion King is the first one I thought of. It has the Tonys, Oscars, Grammys for the musical, movie, and movie soundtrack respectively. But it also won Emmys for the Timon and Pumbaa TV show.

Though not a musical, the Harry Potter franchise is an Emmy away from an EGOT. It has 1 Oscar for the Fantastic Beast film, Tonys for the play, and Grammys for Jim Dale's version of the audiobooks. The filmed 20th anniversary special was nominated for 2 Emmys.

Interestingly, JCS has only ever won Emmys, even though it has been nominated for several Tonys across its original and revival productions and the film has an Oscar nomination.

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Hadestown is adapted from a folk album that came out in 2010 by Anais Mitchell, not just the Orpheus myth.

I guess there should be a third category of musicals adapted from non-musical properties but musicalized by the original writers who wrote an original story, which would include Billy Elliot and Kimberly Akimbo.

It’s so funny, I actually just did this same search for another thread a few weeks ago. I had the same results. And you could make an argument that a parody like Avenue Q or a genre-homage like City of Angels are adaptations of a sort, too. Also funny that The Book of Mormon takes its title from an existing book, but it’s not an adaptation of it, really.

Forum is based on two specific Plautus plays, Pseudolus and Miles Gloriosus.

So you did all that research and don't want to share it here? I would love to know as well.

Maybe not the worst but certainly very laughable: Avenue Q, what I’d considered one of the most poorly aged shows on Broadway, winning over Wicked.

Part of my Tonys frustration with DEH is simply that it was part of an incredibly strong season, and I think some of the backlash is related to it winning over (arguably) better shows, rather than being the best of a weak bunch (like Memphis, mentioned above). Any of the other three Best Musical nominees could have won that year and it would have been well-deserved, but DEH just kind of got crowned the unbeatable juggernaut.

Very true. I was never the biggest fan of DEH and I used to wonder whether it deserved the Tony. Recently, it has grown on me and I'm starting to like some of the songs that I thought were annoying before. It is still an undoubtedly flawed show, but what show isn't? It doesn't rub me the wrong way as much as it used to.

I think after Hamilton swept the Tonys they figured another year of two of sweeps would make people tune in. Hamilton at the time was such a cultural hit that it made sense, but DEH shouldn't had swept as much alongside shows like The Great Comet

Totally agree about Memphis. Horrible book and lead performance, and crappy generic songs that understood nothing about what made the R&B masterpieces that came out of that city so great. And yes, the white-savior aspect was especially egregious. But strongly disagree about the "clear winner" designation - that was the year of Bill T. Jones' magnificent "Fela!" And even that season's other also-rans, "American Idiot" and "Million Dollar Quartet," while by no means masterpieces, seemed like they were compared to garbage like "Memphis."

Dear Evan Hansen is the worst musical I have ever listened to and it winning over Come From Away is pretty much unforgivable. Not to mention Josh Groban being robbed over Ben Platt, who in my opinion is not really a very good actor.

I saw both shows literally right before the Tony Award that year and I would’ve given it to Come From Away. It really does span the full range of human experiences and Jenn Coella fucking killed it during Me and the Sky.

No, fun shows with thin plots/books essentially never win over musicals with strong books and jukebox musicals barely ever win. Moulin rouge likely only won because it was a covid truncated season with the lightning thief as the only original score (but abysmal reviews)

So the last time a jukebox musical won best musical was 2006 with Jersey Boys. Most of the very popular ones that have stuck around did not win such as Mama Mia, Rock of Ages, MJ, Tina, and Beautiful. Jukebox musicals are looked down on by the voters as being less original. Jukebox musicals are like the big blockbuster in an Oscars race. I think it is unlikely for it to win best musical, especially in a year we have a large number of totally new musicals to go up against.

Moulin Rouge did win during covid but I don't think that is indicative of the Tony voters changing. I think it had no competition because nothing opened in time to count for the Tony season before Covid shut down the world.

I would love to see it happen, but it appears that the Tony for Best Musical is Kimberly Akimbo’s to lose.

I have been trying to aptly describe my opinions on &Juliet ever since I saw it last summer in NY. You nailed it. “Just self-aware enough of its own lameness” YES! I had fun but it’s not a good musical objectively. I would be shocked if it picked up more than a win for design.

I think it’s unlikely to win over something with original music in a season with so many new musicals

I agree with Some Like It Hot being a more serious contender than some may think. Everything about the show - costumes, music, choreography, acting, all was on point.

I absolutely loved "& Juliet" but it seems jukebox musicals are for the Tony's what superhero movies are for the Oscar's - there'd have to be something earth shattering going on for one to win Best Movie or in this case Musical.