Tony Award for Best Choreography

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The Tony award for Choreography has been awarded since 1947.

Contents 1 List of Winners 1.1 1940s 1.2 1950s 1.3 1960s 1.4 1970s 1.5 1990s 1.6 2000s 2 Trivia 3 External links

[edit] List of Winners

Winners are in bold. Non-bold indicates a nomination.

[edit] 1940s

• 1947 Agnes de Mille(Brigadoon)
  • Michael Kidd (Finian's Rainbow)
• 1948 Jerome Robbins (High Button Shoes)
• 1949 Gower Champion (Lend An Ear)

[edit] 1950s

• 1950 Helen Tamiris (Touch and Go)
• 1951 Michael Kidd (Guys and Dolls)
• 1952 Robert Alton (Pal Joey)
• 1953 Donald Saddler (Wonderful Town)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 1970s

• 1970 Ron Field (Applause)

[edit] 1990s

• 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)

[edit] 2000s

• 2004 Kathleen Marshall (Wonderful Town)
  • Wayne Cilento (Wicked)
  • Jerry Mitchell (Never Gonna Dance)
  • Anthony Van Laast and 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)

[edit] Trivia

Bob Fosse has been awarded with the most Tony Awards for this category with a total amount of eight awards for The Pajama Game (1995), Damn Yankees (1956), Redhead (1959), Little Me (1963), Sweet Charity (1966), Pippin (1973), Dancin' (1978), and Big Deal (1986). Bob Fosse has also been awarded Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Pippin (1973).

[edit] External links

• Tony Awards