Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year.

It was first presented to Paul Hartman at the 2nd Tony Awards for his portrayal of various characters in Angel in the Wings.

John Cullum, Brian d'Arcy James and Raul Julia are tied with the most nominations, with a total of four.

In the original 1962 Broadway production and the 1998 revival, Sid Caesar and Martin Short (respectively) played Noble Eggleston, Amos Pinchley, Val du Val, Fred Poitrine, Otto Schnitzler, and Prince Cherney.

In the 1981 revival, the lead roles were split among James Coco and Victor Garber with Garber playing Noble Eggleston, Val du Val, Fred Poitrine, and Noble Junior.

Ray Bolger won for Where's Charley? (1949)
Phil Silvers won twice for Top Banana (1952) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1972)
Thomas Mitchell won for Hazel Flagg (1953)
Rex Harrison for My Fair Lady (1957)
Robert Preston won twice for The Music Man (1958) and I Do! I Do! (1967)
Jackie Gleason won for Take Me Along (1960)
Richard Burton won for Camelot (1961)
Robert Morse won for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962)
Zero Mostel won twice for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1963) and Fiddler on the Roof (1965)
Robert Goulet won for The Happy Time (1968)
Jerry Orbach won for Promises, Promises (1969)
Cleavon Little won for Purlie (1970)
Christopher Plummer won for Cyrano (1974)
Len Cariou won for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)
Kevin Kline won for The Pirates of Penzance (1981)
Tommy Tune won for My One and Only (1983)
Jason Alexander won for Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989)
Jonathan Pryce won for Miss Saigon (1991)
Gregory Hines won for Jelly's Last Jam (1992)
Matthew Broderick won for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1996)
Nathan Lane won twice for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996) and The Producers (2001)
Alan Cumming won for Cabaret (1998)
Martin Short won for Little Me (1999)
Brian Stokes Mitchell won for Kiss, Me Kate (2000)
John Lithgow won for Sweet Smell of Success (2002)
Harvey Fierstein won Hairspray (2003)
Hugh Jackman won for The Boy from Oz (2004)
Norbert Leo Butz won for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2004) and for Catch Me If You Can (2011)
David Hyde Pierce won for Curtains (2007)
Billy Porter won for Kinky Boots (2013)
Neil Patrick Harris won for Hedwig and Angry Inch (2014)
Leslie Odom Jr. won for Hamilton (2016)
Ben Platt won for Dear Evan Hansen (2017)
Tony Shalhoub won for The Band's Visit (2018)
Aaron Tveit won for Moulin Rouge! (2020)
J. Harrison Ghee won for Some Like it Hot (2023)
Jonathan Groff won for Merrily We Roll Along (2024)