Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director

The Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director was first presented in 1948, and later discontinued after 1964.

Awards and nominations

1940s

• 1948: Milton Rosenstock – Finian's Rainbow
  • No nominees

• 1949: Max Meth – As the Girls Go
  • No nominees

1950s

• 1950: Maurice Abravanel – Regina
  • No nominees

• 1951: Lehman Engel – The Consul
  • No nominees

• 1952: Max Meth – Pal Joey
  • No nominees

• 1953: Lehman Engel – Wonderful Town and Gilbert and Sullivan Season
  • No nominees

• 1954: Louis Adrian – Kismet
  • No nominees

• 1955: Thomas Schippers – The Saint of Bleecker Street
  • No nominees

• 1956: Hal Hastings – Damn Yankees
  • Salvatore Dell'Isola – Pipe Dream
  • Milton Rosenstock – The Vamp

• 1957: Franz Allers – My Fair Lady
  • Herbert Greene (Broadway conductor) – The Most Happy Fella
  • Samuel Krachmalnick – Candide

• 1958: Herbert Greene (Broadway conductor) – The Music Man
  • Max Goberman – West Side Story

• 1959: Salvatore Dell'Isola – Flower Drum Song
  • Jay Blackston – Redhead
  • Lehman Engel – Goldilocks
  • Gershon Kingsley – La Plume de Ma Tante

1960s

• 1960: Frederick Dvonch – The Sound of Music
  • Abba Bogin – Greenwillow
  • Lehman Engel – Take Me Along
  • Hal Hastings – Fiorello!
  • Milton Rosenstick – Gypsy

• 1961: Franz Allers – Camelot
  • Pembroke Davenport – 13 Daughters
  • Stanley Lebowsky – Irma La Douce
  • Elliot Lawrence – Bye Bye Birdie

• 1962: Elliot Lawrence – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • Pembrode Davenport – Kean
  • Herbert Greene – The Gay Life
  • Peter Matz – No Strings

• 1963: Donald Pippin – Oliver!
  • Jay Blackton – Mr. President
  • Anton Coppola – Bravo Giovanni
  • Julius Rudel – Brigadoon

• 1964: Shepard Coleman – Hello, Dolly!
  • Lehman Engel – What Makes Sammy Run?
  • Charles Jaffe – West Side Story
  • Fred Werner – High Spirits

References

• Conductor and Musical Director Tony Award Winners at broadwayworld.com