El Premi Tony al Millor Actor Protagonista de Musical és atorgat a l'actor escollit com a millor actor en una obra musical, tant és que sigui una nova producció o un revival. El premi es concedeix des de 1948, però els nominats només van ser també anunciats des de 1956.
Guanyadors 1940 1948 Paul Hartman a Angel a the Wings com "Horace" / "Mr. Blodgett" / "George" / "Dr. Hutchinson, W.T." / "The Stranger" 1949 Ray Bolger a Where's Charley? com "Charley Wykeham"
1950
1950 Ezio Pinza a South Pacific com "Emile De Beque" 1951 Robert Alda a Guys and Dolls com "Sky Masterson" 1952 Phil Silvers a Top Banana com "Jerry Biffle" 1953 Thomas Mitchell a Hazel Flagg com "Dr. Downer" 1954 Alfred Drake a Kismet com "Hajj" 1955 Walter Slezak a Fanny com "Panisse"
1956 Ray Walston a Damn Yankees com "Mr. Applegate" Stephen Douglass a Damn Yankees com "Joe Hardy" William Johnson a Pipe Dream com "Doc"
1957 Rex Harrison a My Fair Lady com "Henry Higgins" Fernando Lamas a Happy Hunting com "Duke of Granada" Robert Weede a The Most Happy Fella com "Tony"
1958 Robert Preston a The Music Man com "Harold Hill" Ricardo Montalbán a Jamaica com "Koli" Eddie Foy, Jr. a Rumple com "Rumple" Tony Randall a Oh, Captain! com "Captain Henry St. James"
1959 Richard Kiley a Redhead com "Tom Baxter" Larry Blyden a Flower Drum Song com "Sammy Fong"
1960
1960 Jackie Gleason a Take Me Along com "Sid Davis" Robert Morse a Take Me Along com "Richard Miller" Walter Pidgeon a Take Me Along com "Nat Miller" Andy Griffith a Destry Rides Again com "Destry"
1961 Richard Burton a Camelot com "Arthur" Phil Silvers a Do Re Mi com "Hubert Cram" Maurice Evans a Tenderloin com "Reverend Brock"
1962 Robert Morse a How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying com "J. Pierrepont Finch" Ray Bolger a All-American com "Professor Fodorski" Alfred Drake a Kean com "Edmund Kean" Richard Kiley a No Strings com "David Jordan"
1963 Zero Mostel a Golfus de Roma com "Pseudolus" Sid Caesar a Little Me com "Fred Poitrine" / "Mr. Pinchley" / "Noble Eggleston" / "Noble Junior" / "Otto Schnitzler" / "Prince Cherney" / "Val du Val" Anthony Newley a Stop the World - I Want to Get Off com "Littlechap" Clive Revill a Oliver! com "Fagin"
1964 Bert Lahr a Foxy com "Foxy" Sydney Chaplin a Funny Girl com "Nick Arnstein" Bob Fosse a Pal Joey com "Joey Evans" Steve Lawrence a What Makes Sammy Run? com "Sammy Glick"
1965 Zero Mostel a Fiddler on the Roof com "Tevye" Sammy Davis, Jr. a Golden Boy com "Joe Wellington" Cyril Ritchard a The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd com "Sir" Tommy Steele a Half a Sixpence com "Arthur Kipps"
1966 Richard Kiley a Man of La Mancha com "Don Quixot" / "Cervantes" Jack Cassidy a It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's Superman com "Max Mencken" John Cullum a On a Clear Day You Can See Forever com "Dr. Mark Bruckner" Harry Secombe a Pickwick com "Pickwick"
1967 Robert Preston a I Do! I Do! com "Michael" Alan Alda a The Apple Tree com "Adam" / "Captain Sanjar" / "Flip, the Prince Charming" Jack Gilford a Cabaret com "Herr Schultz" Norman Wisdom a Walking Happy com "Will Mossop
1968 Robert Goulet a The Happy Time com "Jacques Bonnard" Robert Hooks a Hallelujah, Baby! com "Clem" Tony Roberts a How Now, Dow Jones com "Charley" David Wayne a The Happy Time com "Grandpere Bonnard"
1969 Jerry Orbach a Promises, Promises com "Chuck Baxter " Herschel Bernardi a Zorba com "Zorba" Jack Cassidy a Maggie Flynn com "The Clown" Joel Grey a George M! com "George M. Cohan"
1970
1970 Cleavon Little a Purlie com "Purlie" Len Cariou a Applause com "Bill Sampson" Robert Weede a Cry for Us All com "Edward Quinn"
1971 Hal Linden a The Rothschilds com "Mayer Rothschild" David Burns a Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen com "Col. Wainwright Purdy III" Larry Kert a Company com "Bobby" Bobby Van a No, No, Nanette com "Billy Early"
1972 Phil Silvers a Golfus de Roma com "Pseudolus" Clifton Davis a Two Gentlemen of Verona com "Valentine" Barry Bostwick a Grease com "Danny Zuko" Raúl Juliá a Two Gentlemen of Verona com "Proteus"
1973 Ben Vereen a Pippin com "The Leading Player" Len Cariou a A Little Night Music com "Frederick Egerman" Robert Morse a Sugar com "Jerry" Brock Peters a Lost a the Stars com "Stephen Kumalo"
1974 Christopher Plummer a Cyrano com "Cyrano de Bergerac" Alfred Drake a Gigi com "Honore Lachailles" Joe Morton a Raisin com "Walter Lee Younger" Lewis J. Stadlen a Candide com "Dr. Pangloss" / "Governor" / "Host" / "Sage"/ "Voltaire"
1975 John Cullum a Shenandoah com "Charlie Anderson" Joel Grey a Goodtime Charley com "Charley" Raúl Juliá a Where's Charley? com "Charley Wykeham" Eddie Mekka a The Lieutenant com "Lieutenant" Robert Preston a Mack & Mabel com "Mack Sennett"
1976 George Rose a My Fair Lady com "Alfred P. Doolittle" Makoto Iwamatsu a Pacific Overtures com "Jonathan Goble" / "Reciter" / "Shogun" Jerry Orbach a Chicago com "Billy Flynn" Ian Richardson a My Fair Lady com "Henry Higgins"
1977 Barry Bostwick a The Robber Bridegroom com "Jamie Lockhart" Robert Guillaume a Guys and Dolls com "Nathan Detroit" Raúl Juliá a The Threepenny Opera com "Macheath" Reid Shelton a Annie com "Oliver Warbucks"
1978 John Cullum a On the Twentieth Century com "Oscar Jaffee" Eddie Bracken a Hello, Dolly! com "Horace Vandergelder" Barry Nelson a The Act com "Dan Conners" Gilbert Price a Timbuktu! com "The Mansa of Mali"
1979 Len Cariou a Sweeney Todd com "Sweeney Todd" Vincent Gardenia a Ballroom com "Alfred Rossi" Joel Grey a The Grand Tour com "S. L. Jacobowsky" Robert Klein a They're Playing Our Song com "Vernon Gersch"
1980
1980 Jim Dale a Barnum com "P. T. Barnum" Gregory Hines a Comin' Uptown com "Scrooge" Mickey Rooney a Sugar Babies com "Mickey" Giorgio Tozzi a The Most Happy Fella com "Tony"
1981 Kevin Kline a The Pirates of Penzance com "The Pirate King" Gregory Hines a Sophisticated Ladies com "Performer" George Rose a The Pirates of Penzance com "Major-General Stanley" Martin Vidnovic a Brigadoon com "Tommy Albright"
1982 Ben Harney a Dreamgirls com "Curtis Taylor Jr." Herschel Bernardi a Fiddler on the Roof com "Tevye" Victor Garber a Little Me com "Fred Poitrine" / "Noble Eggleston" / "Noble Junior" / "Val du Val" Raúl Juliá a Nine com "Guido Contini"
1983 Tommy Tune a My One and Only com "Captain Billy Buck Chandler" Al Green a Your Arms Too Short to Box with God com "Performer" George Hearn a A Doll's Life com "Actor" / "Johan" / "Torvald" Michael V. Smartt a Porgy and Bess com "Porgy"
1984 George Hearn a La Cage aux Folles com "Albin" Gene Barry a La Cage aux Folles com "Georges' Ron Moody a Oliver! com "Fagin" Mandy Patinkin a Sunday a the Park with George com "George"
1985 -No es concediren 1986 George Rose a The Mystery of Edwin Drood com "Mayor Thomas Sapsea" / "William Cartwright" Don Correia a Singin' a the Rain com "Don Lockwood" Cleavant Derricks a Big Deal com "Charley" Maurice Hines a Uptown... It's Hot! com "Performer"
1987 Robert Lindsay a Me and My Girl com "Bill Snibson" Roderick Cook a Oh Coward! com "Performer" Terrence Mann a Les Misérables com "Inspector Javert" Colm Wilkinson a Les Misérables com "Jean Valjean"
1988 Michael Crawford a The Phantom of the Opera com "The Phantom" Scott Bakula a Romance/Romance com "Alfred Von Wilmers" / "Sam" David Carroll a Chess com "Anatoly" Howard McGillin a Anything Goes com "Billy Crocker"
1989 Jason Alexander a Jerome Robbins' Broadway com "Cigar" / "Emcee" / "Floy" / "Pa" / "Pseudolus" / "Tevye" / "The Settler" Gabriel Barre a Starmites com "Trinkulus" Brian Lane Green a Starmites com "Spacepunk" Robert La Fosse a Jerome Robbins' Broadway com "3rd Dancer" / "Gaby" / "Tony" / "Company Member of '...Forum'"
1990
1990 James Naughton a City of Angels com "Stone" David Carroll a Grand Hotel com "Felix Von Gaigern" Gregg Edelman a City of Angels com "Stine" Bob Gunton a Sweeney Todd com "Sweeney Todd"
1991 Jonathan Pryce a Miss Saigon com "The Engineer" Keith Carradine a The Will Rogers Follies com "Will Rogers" Paul Hipp a Buddy com "Buddy Holly" Topol a Fiddler on the Roof com "Tevye"
1992 Gregory Hines a Jelly's Last Jam com "Jelly Roll Morton" Harry Groener a Crazy for You com "Bobby Child" Nathan Lane a Guys and Dolls com "Nathan Detroit" Michael Rupert a Falsettos com "Marvin"
1993 Brent Carver a Kiss of the Spider Woman com "Molina" Tim Curry a My Favorite Year com "Alan Swann" Con O'Neill a Blood Brothers com "Mickey" Martin Short a The Goodbye Girl com "Elliot"
1994 Boyd Gaines a She Loves Me com "Georg Nowack"' Victor Garber a Damn Yankees com "Mr. Applegate" Terrence Mann a Beauty and the Beast com "The Beast" Jere Shea a Passion com "Giorgio"
1995 Matthew Broderick a How to Succeed a Business Without Really Trying com "J. Pierrepont Finch" Alan Campbell a Sunset Boulevard com "Joe Gillis" Mark Jacoby a Show Boat com "Gaylord Ravenal" John McMartin a Show Boat com "Cap'n Andy"
1996 Nathan Lane a Golfus de Roma com "Pseudolus" Savion Glover a Bring a 'da Noise, Bring a 'da Funk com "'da Beat" / "Lil' Dahlin'" Adam Pascal a Rent com "Roger Davis" Lou Diamond Phillips a The King and I com "The King of Siam"
1997 James Naughton a Chicago com "Billy Flynn" Robert Cuccioli a Jekyll & Hyde com "Dr. Henry Jekyll" / "Edward Hyde" Jim Dale a Candide com "2nd Gambler" / "Businessman"/ "Dr. Pangloss" / "Governor" / "Sage" / "Voltaire" Daniel McDonald a Steel Pier com "Bill Kelly"
1998 Alan Cumming a Cabaret com "The Master of Ceremonies" Peter Friedman a Ragtime com "Tateh" Brian Stokes Mitchell a Ragtime com "Coalhouse Walker, Jr." Douglas Sills a The Scarlet Pimpernel com "Percy Blakeney"
1999 Martin Short a Little Me com "Noble Eggleston" / "Amos Pinchley" / "Benny Buchsbaum" / "Val du Val" / "Fred Poitrine" / "Otto Schnitzler" / "Prince Cherney" / "The Drunk" Brent Carver a Parade com "Leo Frank" Adam Cooper a Swan Lake com "Dancer" Tom Wopat a Annie Get Your Gun com "Frank Butler"
2000
2000 Brian Stokes Mitchell a Kiss Me, Kate com "Fred Graham" / "Petruchio" Craig Bierko a The Music Man com "Harold Hill" George Hearn a Putting It Together com "The Husband" Mandy Patinkin a The Wild Party com "Burrs" Christopher Walken a The Dead com "Gabriel Conroy"
2001 Nathan Lane a The Producers com "Max Bialystock" Matthew Broderick a The Producers com "Leo Bloom" Kevin Chamberlin a Seussical com "Horton the Elephant" Tom Hewitt a The Rocky Horror Show com "Frank N Furter" Patrick Wilson a The Full Monty com "Jerry Lukowski"
2002 John Lithgow a Sweet Smell of Success com "J.J. Hunsecker" Gavin Creel a Thoroughly Modern Millie com "Jimmy Smith" John McMartin a Into the Woods com "Narrator" / "Mysterious Man" Patrick Wilson a Oklahoma! com "Curly" John Cullum a Urinetown The Musical com "Caldwell B. Cladwell"
2003 Harvey Fierstein a Hairspray com "Edna Turnblad" Antonio Banderas a Nine, The Musical com "Guido Contini" Malcolm Gets a Amour com "Dusoleil" Brian Stokes Mitchell a Man of La Mancha com "Don Quixot" / "Cervantes" John Selya a Movin' Out com "Eddie"
2004 Hugh Jackman a The Boy from Oz com "Peter Allen" Hunter Foster a Little Shop of Horrors com "Seymour" Alfred Molina a Fiddler on the Roof com "Tevye" Euan Morton a Taboo com "George" John Tartaglia a Avenue Q com "Princeton" / "Rod"
2005 Norbert Leo Butz a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels com "Freddy Benson" Hank Azaria a Monty Python's Spamalot com "Sir Lancelot" / "The French Taunter" / "Knight of Ni" / "Tim the Enchanter" Gary Beach a La Cage aux Folles com "Albin" Tim Curry a Monty Python's Spamalot com "King Arthur" John Lithgow a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels com "Lawrence Jameson"
2006 John Lloyd Young a Jersey Boys com "Frankie Valli" Michael Cerveris a Sweeney Todd com "Sweeney Todd" Harry Connick Jr. a The Pajama Game com "Sid Sorokin"