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.
- 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 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 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 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 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 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 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"