Tony Award for Best Choreography
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The Tony award for Choreography has been awarded since 1947.
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[edit] List of Winners
Winners are in bold. Non-bold indicates a nomination.
[edit] 1940s
- 1947 Agnes de Mille (Brigadoon)
- 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)
- 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)
[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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 (Ilya Darling)
- 1969 Joe Layton (George M!)
- Sammy Bayes (Canterbury Tales)
- Ronald Field (Zorba)
- Michael Bennett (Promises, Promises)
[edit] 1970s
- 1970 Ron Field (Applause)
- Michael Bennett (Coco)
- Grover Dale (Billy)
- Louis Johnson (Purlie)
- 1971 Donald Saddler (No, No, Nanette)
- 1972 Michael Bennet (Follies)
- 1973 Bob Fosse (Pippin)
- 1974 Michael Bennett (Seesaw)
- 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)
- 1977 Peter Gennaro (Annie)
- Talley Beatty (Your Arm's 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 (Whoopie!)
- Tommy Tune (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
[edit] 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)
- 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)
- Graciele 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 Philips (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)
[edit] 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)
- 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)
[edit] 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)
- Jim Moore, George Pinney & Jonathan Vanderkolff (Blast)
- Randy Skinner (42nd Street)
- 2002 Rob Ashford (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
- John Carrafa (Into the Woods)
- John Carrafa (Urinetown: The Musical)
- Susan Stroman (Oklahoma!)
- 2003 Twyla Tharp (Movin' Out)
- Robert Longbottom (Flower Drum Song)
- Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray)
- Melinda Roy (Urban Cowboy: The Musical)
- 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 (1955), 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).
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