Video Clips of the Tony Award Nominees for Best Musical – The 90s and 2000s
As the millennium approached and passed, musical theatre continues to evolve, stretch, and prosper. Here are the Tony nominees for Best Musical from 1990 to 2009.
1990 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
City of Angels - Winner
Aspects of Love
Grand Hotel
Meet Me in St. Louis
1991 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
The Will Rogers Follies - Winner
Miss Saigon
Once on this Island
The Secret Garden
1992 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Crazy For You - Winner
Falsettos
Five Guys Named Moe
Jelly’s Last Jam
1993 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Kiss of the Spider Woman - Winner
Blood Brothers
The Goodbye Girl
The Who’s Tommy
1994 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Passion - Winner
A Grand Night for Singing
Beauty and the Beast
Cyrano: The Musical
1995 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Sunset Boulevard - Winner
Smokey Joe’s Café
1996 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Rent - Winner
Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk
Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Swinging on a Star
1997 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Titanic - Winner
Juan Darien: A Carnival Mass
Steel Pier
The Life
1998 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
The Lion King - Winner
Side Show
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Ragtime
1999 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Fosse - Winner
The Civil War
It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues
Parade
2000 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Contact - Winner
James Joyce’s The Dead
Swing!
The Wild Party
2001 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
The Producers - Winner
A Class Act
The Full Monty
Jane Eyre
2002 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Thoroughly Modern Millie - Winner
Mamma Mia!
Sweet Smell of Success
Urinetown
2003 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Hairspray - Winner
Amour
A Year with Frog and Toad
Movin’ Out
2004 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Avenue Q - Winner
The Boy from Oz
Caroline or Change
Wicked
2005 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Spamalot - Winner
The Light in the Piazza
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
2006 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Jersey Boys - Winner
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Wedding Singer
2007 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Spring Awakening - Winner
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins
2008 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
In the Heights - Winner
Cry-Baby
Passing Strange
Xanadu
2009 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Billy Elliott - Winner
Next to Normal
Rock of Ages
Shrek: The Musical
And, of course, my next installment will bring us up to date, 2010 – 2017, on the cusp of the Tony Awards. Who will be the 2018 Best Musical winner?
