What is Tony Award for Best Musical?
{{redlinks|date=January 2012}} This is a list of [[win]]ners and [[wikt:nominate|nominations]] for the '''[[Tony Award]] for Best Musical''', first [[award]]ed in 1949. ==Awards and nominations== *'''1949 ''[[Kiss Me, Kate]]'' - Music and lyrics by [[Cole Porter]], book by [[Samuel and Bella Spewack]].''' *'''1950 ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'' - Music by [[Richard Rodgers]], lyrics by [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], book by Oscar Hammerstein II and [[Joshua Logan]].''' *'''1951 ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' - Music and lyrics by [[Frank Loesser]], book by [[Jo Swerling]] and [[Abe Burrows]].''' *'''1952 ''[[The King and I]]'' - Book and lyrics by [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], music by [[Richard Rodgers]].''' *'''1953 ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' - Book by [[Joseph Fields]] and [[Jerome Chodorov]], music by [[Leonard Bernstein]], lyrics by [[Betty Comden]] and [[Adolph Green]].''' *'''1954 ''[[Kismet (musical)|Kismet]]'' - Book by [[Charles Lederer]] and [[Luther Davis]], music by [[Alexander Borodin]], adapted and with lyrics by [[Robert Wright (writer)|Robert Wright]] and [[George Forrest (author)|George Forrest]].''' *'''1955 ''[[The Pajama Game]]'' - Book by [[George Abbott]] and [[Richard Bissell]], music and lyrics by [[Richard Adler]] and [[Jerry Ross (composer)|Jerry Ross]].''' **''[[Fanny]]'' **''[[Peter Pan]]''. Book by [[Jerome Robbins]], music by [[Moose Charlap]] and [[Jule Styne]] and lyrics by [[Carolyn Leigh]], [[Betty Comden]] and [[Adolph Green]] **''[[Plain and Fancy]]''. Book by [[Joseph Stein]] and [[Will Glickman]], music by [[Albert Hague]], and lyrics by [[Arnold Horwitt]]. **''[[Silk Stockings]]''. Book, music abd lyrics by [[Cole Porter]] *'''1956 ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' - Book by [[George Abbott]] and [[Douglass Wallop]], music by [[Richard Adler]] and [[Jerry Ross (composer)|Jerry Ross]].''' **''[[Pipe Dream (musical)|Pipe Dream]]''. Book and lyrics by [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], music by [[Richard Rodgers]]. *'''1957 ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' - Book and lyrics by [[Alan Jay Lerner]], music