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The Tony Award for Best Original Score is the Tony Award given to the composers and lyricists of the best original score written for a musical or play in that year. The score consists of music and/or lyrics.
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Stephen Sondheim holds the record for most Tony wins of any composer, with five awards for Best Original Score, one each for Best Composer and Best Lyricist (for Company, before the two categories were combined as Best Original Score) and one special Tony Award. Bob Fosse won the most Tonys for Best Choreography, with eight.
The First Tony Awards, more formally known as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, were held on April 6, 1947, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. [1]
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The Tony Award for Best Original Score is the Tony Award given to the composers and lyricists of the best original score written for a musical or play in that year. The score consists of music and/or lyrics.
Jun 11, 2023 · Tony Awards Kimberly Akimbo Wins 2023 Tony for Best Original Score, Making Jeanine Tesori the Winningest Female Composer. Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire take the first prize of the evening....
Jun 12, 2023 · Best Original Score. Winner: Kimberly Akimbo, music by Jeanine Tesori; lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
The Tony Award® for Best Original Score is given to the composers and lyricists of the best original score written for a musical in that year. The score consists of music and lyrics. The award has undergone a number of minor changes. In 1947, 1950, 1951, and 1962, the award went to the composer only.
