Tony Award za najbolju glavnu glumicu u mjuziklu

Tony Award za najbolju glavnu glumicu u mjuziklu (en: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical) dodeljuje se od 1948. godine, a lista nominovanih glumica objavljuje se od 1956.

1940-e

• 1948 Grace Hartman u Angel in the Wings uloga: "Nettie / Mrs. Blodgett / Ruth / Mrs. Hutchinson"
• 1949 Nanette Fabray u Love Life uloga: "Susan Cooper"

1950-e

• 1950 Mary Martin u South Pacific uloga: "Nellie Forbush"
• 1951 Ethel Merman u Call Me Madam uloga: "Sally Adams"
• 1952 Gertrude Lawrence u The King and I uloga: "Anna Leonowens"
• 1953 Rosalind Russell u Wonderful Town uloga: "Ruth Sherwood"
• 1954 Dolores Gray u Carnival in Flanders uloga: "Cornelia"
• 1955 Mary Martin u Peter Pan uloga: "Peter Pan"
• 1956 Gwen Verdon u Damn Yankees uloga: "Lola"
  • Carol Channing u The Vamp uloga: "Flora Weems"
  • Nancy Walker u Phoenix '55 uloga: ""A Funny Heart" Performer / "Down to the Sea" Performer / "Finale" Performer / "Tomorrow Is Here" Performer / Annie Snodgrass / Chickie Popjoy / Millie Wubble / The Maiden"

• 1957 Judy Holliday u Bells Are Ringing uloga: "Ella Peterson"
  • Julie Andrews u My Fair Lady uloga: "Eliza Doolittle"
  • Ethel Merman u Happy Hunting uloga: "Liz Livingstone"

• 1958 (tie) Thelma Ritter u New Girl In Town uloga: "Marthy"; Gwen Verdon u New Girl In Town uloga: "Anna"
  • Lena Horne u Jamaica uloga: "Savannah"
  • Beatrice Lillie u Ziegfeld Follies uloga: "Hostess / Kabuki Lil / Lucille / Singer / The Lady / The Original Cast / The Rajah's Favorite"

• 1959 Gwen Verdon u Redhead uloga: "Essie Whimple"
  • Miyoshi Umeki u Flower Drum Song uloga: "Mei-Li"

1960-e

• 1960 Mary Martin u The Sound of Music uloga: "Maria Rainer"
  • Carol Burnett u Once Upon a Mattress uloga: "Princess Winnifred"
  • Dolores Gray u Destry Rides Again uloga: "Frenchy"
  • Eileen Herlie u Take Me Along uloga: "Lily Miller"
  • Ethel Merman u Gypsy uloga: "Mama Rose"

• 1961 Elizabeth Seal u Irma La Douce uloga: "Irma-La-Douce"
  • Julie Andrews u Camelot uloga: "Guenevere"
  • Carol Channing u Show Girl uloga: ""Calypso Pete" Performer" / ""My Kind of Love" Performer" / ""The Girl in the Show" Performer" / ""The Story of Marie" Performer" / "Carol's Musical Theatre" / "Lynn" / "Naomi" / "Report from Las Vegas" / "The Foreign Star" / "The Inside Story" / "The Palace Theatre"
  • Nancy Walker u Do Re Mi uloga: "Kay Cram"

• 1962 (tie) Anna Maria Alberghetti u Carnival! uloga: "Lili"; Diahann Carroll u No Strings uloga: "Barbara Woodruff"
  • Molly Picon u Milk and Honey uloga: "Clara Weiss"
  • Elaine Stritch u Sail Away uloga: "Mimi Paragon"

• 1963 Vivien Leigh u Tovarich uloga: "Tatiana"
  • Georgia Brown u Oliver! uloga: "Nancy"
  • Nanette Fabray u Mr. President uloga: "Nell Henderson"
  • Sally Ann Howes u Brigadoon uloga: "Fiona MacLaren"

• 1964 Carol Channing. Hello, Dolly! uloga: "Dolly Levi"
  • Beatrice Lillie u High Spirits uloga: "Madame Arcati"
  • Barbra Streisand u Funny Girl uloga: "Fanny Brice"
  • Inga Swenson u 110 in the Shade uloga: "Lizzy Curry"

• 1965 Liza Minnelli u Flora the Red Menace uloga: "Flora"
  • Elizabeth Allen u Do I Hear a Waltz? uloga: "Leona Samish"
  • Nancy Dussault u Bajour uloga: "Emily Kirsten"
  • Inga Swenson u Baker Street uloga: "Irene Adler"

• 1966 Angela Lansbury u Mame uloga: "Mame Dennis"
  • Barbara Harris u On a Clear Day You Can See Forever uloga: "Daisy Gamble" / "Melinda"
  • Julie Harris u Skyscraper uloga: "Georgina"
  • Gwen Verdon u Sweet Charity uloga: "Charity Hope Valentine"

• 1967 Barbara Harris u The Apple Tree uloga: "Eve" / "Princess Barbara" / "Ella" / "Passionella"
  • Lotte Lenya u Cabaret uloga: "Fraulein Schneider"
  • Mary Martin u I Do! I Do! uloga: "She (Agnes)"
  • Louise Troy u Walking Happy uloga: "Maggie Hobson"

• 1968 (dvostruki) Patricia Routledge u Darling of the Day uloga: "Alice Challice"; Leslie Uggams u Hallelujah, Baby! uloga: "Georgina"
  • Melina Mercouri u Illya Darling uloga: "Illya"
  • Brenda Vaccaro u How Now, Dow Jones uloga: "Cynthia"

• 1969 Angela Lansbury u Dear World uloga: "Countess Aurelia"
  • Maria Karnilova u Zorba uloga: "Madame Hortense"
  • Dorothy Loudon u The Fig Leaves Are Falling uloga: "Lillian Stone"
  • Jill O'Hara u Promises, Promises uloga: "Fran Kubelik"

1970-e

• 1970 Lauren Bacall u Applause uloga: "Margo Channing"
  • Katharine Hepburn u Coco uloga: "Coco Chanel"
  • Dilys Watling u Georgy uloga: "Georgy"

• 1971 Helen Gallagher u No, No Nanette uloga: "Lucille Early"
  • Susan Browning u Company uloga: "April"
  • Sandy Duncan u The Boy Friend uloga: "Maisie"
  • Elaine Stritch u Company uloga: "Joanne"

• 1972 Alexis Smith u Follies uloga: "Phyllis Rogers Stone"
  • Jonelle Allen u Two Gentlemen of Verona uloga: "Silvia"
  • Dorothy Collins u Follies uloga: "Sally Durant Plummer"
  • Mildred Natwick u 70, Girls, 70 uloga: "Ida Dodd"

• 1973 Glynis Johns u A Little Night Music uloga: "Desiree Armfeldt"
  • Leland Palmer u Pippin uloga: "Fastrada"
  • Debbie Reynolds u Irene uloga: "Irene O'Dare"
  • Marcia Rodd u Shelter uloga: "Maud"

• 1974 Virginia Capers u Raisin uloga: "Lena Younger"
  • Carol Channing u Lorelei uloga: "Dessert" / "Lorelei Lee"
  • Michele Lee u Seesaw uloga: "Gittel Mosca"

• 1975 Angela Lansbury u Gypsy uloga: "Mama Rose"
  • Lola Falana u Doctor Jazz uloga: "Edna Mae Sheridan"
  • Bernadette Peters u Mack and Mabel uloga: "Mabel Normand"
  • Ann Reinking u Goodtime Charley uloga: "Joan of Arc"

• 1976 Donna McKechnie u A Chorus Line uloga: "Cassie"
  • Vivian Reed u Bubbling Brown Sugar uloga: "Marsha" / "Young Irene"
  • Chita Rivera u Chicago uloga: "Velma Kelly"
  • Gwen Verdon u Chicago uloga: "Roxie Hart"

• 1977 Dorothy Loudon u Annie uloga: "Miss Hannigan"
  • Clamma Dale u Porgy and Bess uloga: "Bess"
  • Ernestine Jackson u Guys and Dolls uloga: "Sarah Brown"
  • Andrea McArdle u Annie uloga: "Annie"

• 1978 Liza Minnelli u The Act uloga: "Michelle Craig"
  • Madeline Kahn u On the Twentieth Century uloga: "Lily Garland"
  • Eartha Kitt u Timbuktu! uloga: "Shaleem-La-Lume"
  • Frances Sternhagen u Angel uloga: "Eliza Gant"

• 1979 Angela Lansbury u Sweeney Todd uloga: "Mrs. Lovett"
  • Tovah Feldshuh u Sarava uloga: "Flor"
  • Dorothy Loudon u Ballroom uloga: "Bea Asher"
  • Alexis Smith u Platinum uloga: "Lila Halliday"

1980-e

• 1980 Patti LuPone u Evita uloga: "Eva Peron"
  • Christine Andreas u Oklahoma! uloga: "Laurey"
  • Sandy Duncan u Peter Pan uloga: "Peter Pan"
  • Ann Miller u Sugar Babies uloga: "Ann"

• 1981 Lauren Bacall u Woman of the Year uloga: "Tess Harding"
  • Meg Bussert u Brigadoon uloga: "Fiona MacLaren"
  • Chita Rivera u Bring Back Birdie uloga: "Rose Grant"
  • Linda Ronstadt u The Pirates of Penzance uloga: "Mabel"

• 1982 Jennifer Holliday u Dreamgirls uloga: "Effie Melody White"
  • Lisa Mordente u Marlowe uloga: "Emelia Bossano"
  • Mary Gordon Murray u Little Me uloga: "Belle"
  • Sheryl Lee Ralph u Dreamgirls uloga: "Deena Jones"

• 1983 Natalia Makarova u On Your Toes uloga: "Vera Barnova" / "Princess Zenobia" / "Strip Tease Girl"
  • Lonette McKee u Show Boat uloga: "Julie"
  • Chita Rivera u Merlin uloga: "The Queen"
  • Twiggy u My One and Only uloga: "Edith Herbert"

• 1984 Chita Rivera u The Rink uloga: "Anna"
  • Rhetta Hughes u Amen Corner uloga: "Margaret Alexander"
  • Liza Minnelli u The Rink uloga: "Angel"
  • Bernadette Peters u Sunday in the Park with George uloga: "Dot" / "Marie"

• 1985 - bez nominacija i nagrade

• 1986 Bernadette Peters u Song and Dance uloga: "Emma"
  • Debbie Allen u Sweet Charity uloga: "Charity Hope Valentine"
  • Cleo Laine u The Mystery of Edwin Drood uloga: "The Princess Puffer" / "Miss Angela Prysock"
  • Chita Rivera u Jerry's Girls uloga: "Performer"

• 1987 Maryann Plunkett u Me and My Girl uloga: "Sally Smith"
  • Catherine Cox u Oh Coward! uloga: "Performer"
  • Teresa Stratas u Rags uloga: "Rebecca Hershkowitz"

• 1988 Joanna Gleason u Into the Woods uloga: "The Baker's Wife"
  • Alison Fraser u Romance/Romance uloga: "Josefine Weninger" / "Monica"
  • Judy Kuhn u Chess uloga: "Florence"
  • Patti LuPone u Anything Goes uloga: "Reno Sweeney"

• 1989 Ruth Brown u Black and Blue uloga: "Singer"
  • Charlotte d'Amboise u Jerome Robbins' Broadway uloga: "Anita" / "Company Member of "...Forum"" / "Peter Pan"
  • Linda Hopkins u Black and Blue uloga: "Singer"
  • Sharon McNight u Starmites uloga: "Diva / Mother"

1990-e

• 1990 Tyne Daly u Gypsy uloga: "Mama Rose"
  • Georgia Brown u Threepenny Opera uloga: "Mrs. Peachum"
  • Beth Fowler u Sweeney Todd uloga: "Mrs. Lovett"
  • Liliane Montevecchi u Grand Hotel uloga: "Elizaveta Grushinskaya"

• 1991 Lea Salonga u Miss Saigon uloga: "Kim"
  • June Angela u Shogun: The Musical uloga: "Lady Mariko"
  • Dee Hoty u The Will Rogers Follies uloga: "Betty Blake"
  • Cathy Rigby u Peter Pan uloga: "Peter Pan"

• 1992 Faith Prince u Guys and Dolls uloga: "Miss Adelaide"
  • Jodi Benson u Crazy for You uloga: "Polly Baker"
  • Josie de Guzman u Guys and Dolls uloga: "Sarah Brown"
  • Sophie Hayden u The Most Happy Fella uloga: "Rosabella"

• 1993 Chita Rivera u Kiss of the Spider Woman uloga: "Aurora" / "Spider Woman"
  • Ann Crumb u Anna Karenina uloga: "Anna Karenina"
  • Stephanie Lawrence u Blood Brothers uloga: "Mrs. Johnstone"
  • Bernadette Peters u The Goodbye Girl uloga: "Paula"

• 1994 Donna Murphy u Passion uloga: "Fosca"
  • Susan Egan u Beauty and the Beast uloga: "Belle"
  • Dee Hoty u The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public uloga: "Mona Stangley"
  • Judy Kuhn u She Loves Me uloga: "Amalia Balash"

• 1995 Glenn Close u Sunset Boulevard uloga: "Norma Desmond"
  • Rebecca Luker u Show Boat uloga: "Magnolia"

• 1996 Donna Murphy u The King and I uloga: "Anna Leonowens"
  • Julie Andrews u Victor/Victoria uloga: "Victoria Grant" (did not accept nomination)
  • Crista Moore u Big - The Musical uloga: "Susan"
  • Daphne Rubin-Vega u Rent uloga: "Mimi Marquez"

• 1997 Bebe Neuwirth u Chicago uloga: "Velma Kelly"
  • Pamela Isaacs u The Life uloga: "Queen"
  • Tonya Pinkins u Play On! uloga: "Lady Liv"
  • Karen Ziemba u Steel Pier uloga: "Rita Racine"

• 1998 Natasha Richardson u Cabaret uloga: "Sally Bowles"
  • Betty Buckley u Triumph of Love uloga: "Hesione"
  • Marin Mazzie u Ragtime uloga: "Mother"
  • Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner u Side Show uloga: "Violet Hilton" and "Daisy Hilton"

• 1999 Bernadette Peters u Annie Get Your Gun uloga: "Annie Oakley"
  • Carolee Carmello u Parade uloga: "Lucille Frank"
  • Dee Hoty u Footloose uloga: "Vi Moore"
  • Sian Phillips in Marlene uloga: "Marlene Dietrich"

2000-e

• 2000 Heather Headley u Aida uloga: "Aida"
  • Toni Collette u The Wild Party uloga: "Queenie"
  • Rebecca Luker u The Music Man uloga: "Marian Paroo"
  • Marin Mazzie u Kiss Me, Kate uloga: "Lilli Vanessi" / "Katharine"
  • Audra McDonald u Marie Christine uloga: "Marie Christine L'Adrese"

• 2001 Christine Ebersole u 42nd Street uloga: "Dorothy Brock"
  • Blythe Danner u Follies uloga: "Phyllis Rogers Stone"
  • Randy Graff u A Class Act uloga: "Sophie"
  • Faith Prince u Bells Are Ringing uloga: "Ella Peterson"
  • Marla Schaffel u Jane Eyre uloga: "Jane Eyre"

• 2002 Sutton Foster u Thoroughly Modern Millie uloga: "Millie Dillmount"
  • Louise Pitre u Mamma Mia! uloga: "Donna Sheridan "
  • Vanessa Williams u Into the Woods uloga: "The Witch"
  • Nancy Opel u Urinetown uloga: "Penelope Pennywise"
  • Jennifer Laura Thompson u Urinetown uloga: "Hope Cladwell"

• 2003 Marissa Jaret Winokur u Hairspray uloga: "Tracy Turnblad"
  • Melissa Errico u Amour uloga: "Isabelle"
  • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio u Man of La Mancha uloga: "Aldonza" / "Dulcinea"
  • Elizabeth Parkinson u Movin' Out uloga: "Brenda"
  • Bernadette Peters u Gypsy uloga: "Mama Rose"

• 2004 Idina Menzel u Wicked uloga: "Elphaba"
  • Kristin Chenoweth u Wicked uloga: "Glinda"
  • Stephanie D'Abruzzo u Avenue Q uloga: "Kate Monster" / "Lucy T. Slut"
  • Donna Murphy u Wonderful Town uloga: "Ruth Sherwood"
  • Tonya Pinkins u Caroline, or Change uloga: "Caroline Thibodeaux"

• 2005 Victoria Clark u The Light in the Piazza uloga: "Margaret Johnson"
  • Christina Applegate u Sweet Charity uloga: "Charity Hope Valentine"
  • Erin Dilly u Chitty Chitty Bang Bang "Truly Scrumptious"
  • Sutton Foster u Little Women uloga: "Jo March"
  • Sherie Rene Scott u Dirty Rotten Scoundrels uloga: "Christine Colgate"

• 2006 LaChanze u The Color Purple uloga: "Celie"
  • Sutton Foster u The Drowsy Chaperone uloga: "Janet Van De Graaff"
  • Patti LuPone u Sweeney Todd uloga: "Mrs. Lovett"
  • Kelli O'Hara u The Pajama Game uloga: "Babe Williams"
  • Chita Rivera u Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life uloga: "Chita Rivera"

• 2007 Christine Ebersole u Grey Gardens uloga: "Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale" / "Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale"
  • Laura Bell Bundy u Legally Blonde: The Musical uloga: "Elle Woods"
  • Audra McDonald u 110 in the Shade uloga: "Lizzie Curry"
  • Debra Monk u Curtains uloga: "Carmen Bernstein"
  • Donna Murphy u LoveMusik uloga: "Lotte Lenya"