vignette| lauréate du prix meilleure actrice de comédie musicale.
Années 1940 1948 : Grace Hartman – dans Angel in the Wings (différents rôles) 1949 : Nanette Fabray – dans Love Life (Susan Cooper)
Années 1950 1950 : Mary Martin – dans South Pacific (Ensign Nellie Forbush) 1951 : Ethel Merman – dansCall Me Madam (Mrs. Sally Adams) 1952 : Gertrude Lawrence – dans The King and I (Anna Leonowens) 1953 : Rosalind Russell – dans Wonderful Town (uth Sherwood) 1954 : Dolores Gray – dans Carnival in Flanders (Cornelia) 1955 : Mary Martin – dans Peter Pan (Peter Pan)
1956 : Gwen Verdon – dans Damn Yankees (Lola)) Carol Channing – The Vamp Nancy Walker – Phoenix '55
1957 : Judy Holliday – dans Bells Are Ringing (Ella Peterson) Julie Andrews – My Fair Lady Ethel Merman – Happy Hunting
1958 : Thelma Ritter – dans New Girl in Town (Marthy) Gwen Verdon – New Girl in Town dans Anna Lena Horne – Jamaica Beatrice Lillie – Ziegfeld Follies
1959: Gwen Verdon – dans Redhead (Essie Whimple)) Miyoshi Umeki – Flower Drum Song
Années 1960
1960: Mary Martin – La Mélodie du bonheur (Maria Rainer) Carol Burnett – Once Upon a Mattress Dolores Gray – Eileen Herlie – Take Me Along Ethel Merman – Gypsy
1961: Elizabeth Seal – Irma la douce (Irma-La-Douce) Julie Andrews – Camelot Carol Channing – Show Girl Nancy Walker – Do Re Mi
1962: Anna Maria Alberghetti – Carnival ! (Lili) et Diahann Carroll – No Strings (Barbara Woodruff) Molly Picon – Milk and Honey Elaine Stritch – Sail Away
1963: Vivien Leigh – Tovarich (Tatiana) Georgia Brown – Oliver! Nanette Fabray – Mr. President Sally Ann Howes – Brigadoon
1964: Carol Channing – Hello, Dolly ! (Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi) Beatrice Lillie – High Spirits Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl Inga Swenson – 110 in the Shade
1965: Liza Minnelli – Flora the Red Menace (Flora) Elizabeth Allen – Do I Hear a Waltz? Nancy Dussault – Bajour Inga Swenson – Baker Street
1966: Angela Lansbury – Mame (Mame Dennis) Barbara Harris – On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Julie Harris – Skyscraper Gwen Verdon – Sweet Charity
1967: Barbara Harris – The Apple Tree (Eve, Princess Barbára, et Ella and Passionella) Lotte Lenya – Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider Mary Martin – I Do! I Do! Louise Troy – Walking Happy
1968: Patricia Routledge – Darling of the Day (Alice Challice) et Leslie Uggams – Hallelujah, Baby ! (Georgina) Melina Mercouri – Illya Darling Brenda Vaccaro – How Now, Dow Jones
1969: Angela Lansbury – Dear World (Countess Aurelia, the Madwoman of Chaillot) Maria Karnilova – Zorba Dorothy Loudon – The Fig Leaves Are Falling Jill O'Hara – Promises, Promises
Années 1970
1970: Lauren Bacall – Applause (Margo Channing) Katharine Hepburn – Coco Dilys Watling – Georgy
1971: Helen Gallagher – No, No, Nanette (Lucille Early) Susan Browning – Company Sandy Duncan – The Boy Friend Elaine Stritch – Company
1972: Alexis Smith – Follies (Phyllis Rogers Stone) Jonelle Allen – Two Gentlemen of Verona Dorothy Collins – Follies Mildred Natwick – 70, Girls, 70
1973: Glynis Johns – A Little Night Music (Desiree Armfeldt) Leland Palmer – Pippin Debbie Reynolds – Irene Marcia Rodd – Shelter
1974: Virginia Capers – Raisin (Lena Younger) Carol Channing – Lorelei Michele Lee – Seesaw
1975: Angela Lansbury – Gypsy (Rose) Lola Falana – Doctor Jazz Bernadette Peters – Mack & Mabel Ann Reinking – Goodtime Charley
1976: Donna McKechnie – A Chorus Line (Cassie) Vivian Reed – Bubbling Brown Sugar Chita Rivera – Chicago Gwen Verdon – Chicago
1977: Dorothy Loudon – Annie (Miss Hannigan) Clamma Dale – Porgy and Bess Ernestine Jackson – Guys and Dolls Andrea McArdle – Annie
1978: Liza Minnelli – The Act (Michelle Craig) Madeline Kahn – On the Twentieth Century Eartha Kitt – Timbuktu! Frances Sternhagen – Angel
1979: Angela Lansbury – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Mrs. Lovett) Tovah Feldshuh – Sarava Dorothy Loudon – Ballroom Alexis Smith – Platinum
Années 1980
1980: Patti LuPone – Evita (Eva Peron) Christine Andreas – Oklahoma! (Laurey) Sandy Duncan – Peter Pan (Peter Pan) Ann Miller – Sugar Babies (Ann)
1981: Lauren Bacall – Woman of the Year (Tess Harding) Meg Bussert – Brigadoon (Fiona MacLaren) Chita Rivera – Bring Back Birdie (Rose) Linda Ronstadt – The Pirates of Penzance (Mabel)
1982: Jennifer Holliday – Dreamgirls (comédie musicale) (Effie Melody White) Lisa Mordente – Marlowe (Emilia Bossano) Mary Gordon Murray – Little Me (Belle Poitrine) Sheryl Lee Ralph – Dreamgirls (Deena Jones)
1983: Natalia Makarova – On Your Toes (Vera Barnova) Lonette McKee – Show Boat (Julie) Chita Rivera – Merlin (The Queen) Twiggy – My One and Only (Edith Herbert)
1984: Chita Rivera – The Rink (Anna) Rhetta Hughes – Amen Corner (Margaret Alexander) Liza Minnelli – The Rink (Angel) Bernadette Peters – Sunday in the Park with George (Dot/Marie)
1985: no award
1986: Bernadette Peters – Song and Dance (Emma) Debbie Allen – Sweet Charity (Charity Hope Valentine) Cleo Laine – The Mystery of Edwin Drood (The Princess Puffer/Miss Angela Prysock) Chita Rivera – Jerry's Girls (performer)
1987: Maryann Plunkett – Me and My Girl (Sally Smith) Catherine Cox – Oh Coward ! (performer) Teresa Stratas – Rags (Rebecca Hershkowitz)
1988: Joanna Gleason – Into the Woods (La femme du boulanger) Alison Fraser – Romance/Romance (Josefine/Monica) Judy Kuhn – Chess (Florence) Patti LuPone – Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney)
1989: Ruth Brown – Black and Blue (divers personnages) Charlotte d'Amboise – Jerome Robbins' Broadway (divers personnages) Linda Hopkins – Black and Blue (Singer) Sharon McNight – Starmites (Diva)
Années 1990
1990: Tyne Daly – Gypsy (Rose) Georgia Brown – The Threepenny Opera (Mrs. Peachum Beth Fowler – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Mrs. Lovett) Liliane Montevecchi – Grand Hotel (Elizaveta Grushinskaya)
1991: Lea Salonga – Miss Saigon (Kim) June Angela – Shogun: The musical (Lady Mariko) Dee Hoty – The Will Rogers Follies (Betty Blake) Cathy Rigby – Peter Pan (Peter Pan)
1992: Faith Prince – Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide) Jodi Benson – Crazy for You (Polly) Josie de Guzman – Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown) Sophie Hayden – The Most Happy Fella (Rosabella)
1993: Chita Rivera – Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spider Woman / Aurora) Ann Crumb – Anna Karénine (Anna Karenina) Stephanie Lawrence – Blood Brothers (Mrs. Johnstone) Bernadette Peters – The Goodbye Girl (Paula McFadden)
1994: Donna Murphy – Passion (Fosca) Susan Egan – Beauty and the Beast (Belle) Dee Hoty – The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (Mona) Judy Kuhn – She Loves Me (Amalia Balash)
1995: Glenn Close – Sunset Boulevard (Norma Desmond) Rebecca Luker – Show Boat (Magnolia)
1996: Donna Murphy – The King and I (Anna Leonowens) Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria (declined) (Victor/Victoria) Crista Moore – Big: The musical (Susan) Daphne Rubin-Vega – Rent (Mimi Márquez)
1997: Bebe Neuwirth – Chicago (Velma Kelly) Pamela Isaacs – The Life (Queen) Tonya Pinkins – Play On! (Lady Liv) Karen Ziemba – Steel Pier (Rita Racine)
1998: Natasha Richardson – Cabaret (Sally Bowles) Betty Buckley – Triumph of Love (Hesione) Marin Mazzie – Ragtime (Mother) Alice Ripley et Emily Skinner – Side Show (Violet and Daisy Hilton)
1999: Bernadette Peters – Annie Get Your Gun (Annie Oakley) Carolee Carmello – Parade (Lucille Frank) Dee Hoty – Footloose (Vi Moore) Siân Phillips – Marlene (Marlene Dietrich)
Années 2000
2000: Heather Headley – Aïda (Aida) Toni Collette – The Wild Party (Queenie) Rebecca Luker – The Music Man (Marian Paroo) Marin Mazzie – Kiss Me, Kate (Lilli/Katharine) Audra McDonald – Marie Christine (Marie Christine)
2001: Christine Ebersole – 42nd Street (Dorothy Brock) Blythe Danner – Follies (Phyllis) Randy Graff – A Class Act (Sophie) Faith Prince – Bells Are Ringing (Ella Peterson) Marla Schaffel – Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)
2002: Sutton Foster – Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie Dillmount) Louise Pitre – Mamma Mia ! (Donna Sheridan) Vanessa Williams – Into the Woods (La sorcière) Nancy Opel – Urinetown (Penelope Pennywise) – Urinetown ( Hope Cladwell)
2003: Marissa Jaret Winokur – Hairspray (Tracy Turnblad) Melissa Errico – Amour (Isabelle) Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio – Man of La Mancha (Aldonza/Dulcinea) Elizabeth Parkinson – Movin' Out (Brenda ) Bernadette Peters – Gypsy (Rose)
2004: Idina Menzel – Wicked (Elphaba) Kristin Chenoweth – Wicked (Glinda) Stephanie D'Abruzzo – Avenue Q (Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut) Donna Murphy – Wonderful Town (Ruth Sherwood) Tonya Pinkins – Caroline, or Change (Caroline Thibodeaux)
2005: Victoria Clark – The Light in the Piazza (Margaret Johnson) Christina Applegate – Sweet Charity (Charity Hope Valentine) Erin Dilly – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Truly Scrumptious ) Sutton Foster – Little Women (Jo March) Sherie Rene Scott – Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Christine Colgate)
2006: LaChanze – The Color Purple (Celie) Sutton Foster – The Drowsy Chaperone (Janet Van De Graaff) Patti LuPone – Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett) Kelli O'Hara – The Pajama Game (Babe Williams) Chita Rivera – Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (elle-même)
2007: Christine Ebersole – Grey Gardens (Edith Bouvier Beale) Laura Bell Bundy – Legally Blonde (Elle Woods) Audra McDonald – 110 in the Shade (Lizzie Curry) Debra Monk – Curtains (Carmen Bernstein) Donna Murphy – LoveMusik (Lotte Lenya)
2008: Patti LuPone – Gypsy (Rose) Kerry Butler – Xanadu (Clio) Kelli O'Hara – South Pacific (Nellie Forbush) Faith Prince – A Catered Affair (Aggie Hurley) – Sunday in the Park with George (Dot)
2009: Alice Ripley – Next to Normal (Diana Goodman) Stockard Channing – Pal Joey (Vera Simpson) Sutton Foster – Shrek the Musical (Princess Fiona) Allison Janney – 9 to 5 (Violet Newstead) Josefina Scaglione – West Side Story (Maria)
Années 2010
2010 : Catherine Zeta-Jones – A Little Night Music (Desiree Armfeldt) Kate Baldwin – Finian's Rainbow (Sharon) Montego Glover – Memphis (Felicia) Christiane Noll – Ragtime (Mother) Sherie Rene Scott – Everyday Rapture (Sherie)
2011 : Sutton Foster – Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney) Beth Leavel – Baby It's You ! (Florence Greenberg) Patina Miller – Sister Act (Deloris Van Cartier) Donna Murphy – The People in the Picture (Raisel / Bubbie)
2012 : Audra McDonald – Porgy and Bess (Bess) Laura Osnes – Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker) Jan Maxwell – Follies (Phyllis Rogers Stone) Cristin Milioti – Once (Girl) Kelli O'Hara - Nice Work If You Can Get It (Billie Bendix)
2013 : Patina Miller – Pippin (chanteur principal) Stephanie J. Block – The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Edwin Drood / Miss Alice Nutting) Carolee Carmello – Scandalous (Aimee Semple McPherson) Valisia LeKae – Motown: The Musical (Diana Ross) Laura Osnes – Cinderella (Ella)
2014 : Jessie Mueller – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Carole King) Mary Bridget Davies – A Night with Janis Joplin (Janis Joplin) Sutton Foster – Violet (Violet Karl) Idina Menzel – If/Then (Elizabeth Vaughan) Kelli O'Hara – The Bridges of Madison County (Francesca Johnson)
2015 : Kelli O'Hara – Le Roi et moi (Anna Leonowen) Kristin Chenoweth – On the Twentieth Century (Lily Garland / Mildred Plotka) Leanne Cope – An American in Paris (Lise Bouvier) Beth Malone – Fun Home (Alison Bechdel) Chita Rivera – The Visit (Claire Zachanassian)
2016 : Cynthia Erivo – The Color Purple dans le rôle de Celie Harris Johnson Laura Benanti – She Loves Me dans le rôle d'Amalia Balash Carmen Cusack – Bright Star dans le rôle d'Alice Murphy Jessie Mueller – Waitress dans le rôle de Jenna Hunterson Phillipa Soo – Hamilton dans le rôle d'Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton