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unusual facts about Tony Award for Best Musical


Jim Lewis

Jim Lewis (librettist), nominated for a Tony award in 1996 for the libretto of Chronicle of a Death Foretold


Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre

The Oriental hosted a production of the 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Billy Elliot starring, among others, Cesar Corrales as Billy Elliot from March 18 to November 28, 2010.

Michael Cohl

When Spamalot won the 2005 Drama Desk and Tony Award for Best Musical, Cohl was among the producers who received the awards.

Ramsay Ames

She was married to and later divorced Dale Wasserman, award-winning musical writer.

Rock musical

In 2010, critic Jon Pareles of The New York Times pointed out that all four of the musicals nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical that year could be described as rock musicals.

Will Glickman

The two went on to collaborate on Mrs. Gibbons' Boys, Alive and Kicking, Mr. Wonderful, The Body Beautiful, and Plain and Fancy, which proved to be their biggest success, garnering a Tony nomination for Best Musical.


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