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 – The Most Happy Fella Samuel Krachmalnick – Candide 1958: Herbert Greene – 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