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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Drama Desk Award |
| for Outstanding Revival | |
| awarded_for | Outstanding Revival of a Musical |
| presenter | Drama Desk |
| location | New York City |
| country | United States |
| year | 1994 |
| holder | Gypsy (2025) |
| website |
for Outstanding Revival The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. The award was first presented at the 1994 ceremony, after Drama Desk retired the Outstanding Revival category (1955–1992), a singular award covering achievement by either a play or a musical production. The accompanying Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play was also created, though it was first presented at the 1993 ceremony.
She Loves Me, The King and I, La Cage aux Folles and Company are the only shows to win the award more than once, with two wins each. Meanwhile, Into the Woods, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street each hold the record for most nominations, with three each.
Winners and nominees
;Key
1990s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| She Loves Me | Joe Masteroff | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | ||||||||
| Carousel | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||
| Damn Yankees | George Abbott and Douglass Wallop | Richard Adler | Jerry Ross | ||||||||
| My Fair Lady | Alan Jay Lerner | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | ||||||||
| colspan="4" | |||||||||||
| The King and I | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||
| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||
| I Do! I Do! | Tom Jones | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | ||||||||
| Chicago | Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||
| Candide | Lillian Hellman and Hugh Wheeler | Leonard Bernstein | Various | ||||||||
| Juan Darién | Elliot Goldenthal | ||||||||||
| Cabaret | Joe Masteroff | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||
| 1776 | Peter Stone | Sherman Edwards | |||||||||
| You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | John Gordon | Clark Gesner | |||||||||
| Annie Get Your Gun | Herbert and Dorothy Fields | Irving Berlin |
2000s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiss Me, Kate | Samuel and Bella Spewack | Cole Porter | |||||||||||||
| The Music Man | Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey | Meredith Willson | |||||||||||||
| 42nd Street | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Harry Warren | Al Dubin | ||||||||||||
| Bells Are Ringing | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Jule Styne | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | ||||||||||||
| Follies | James Goldman | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| The Rocky Horror Show | Richard O'Brien | ||||||||||||||
| Into the Woods | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Oklahoma! | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||||||
| Nine | Arthur Kopit | Maury Yeston | |||||||||||||
| Gypsy | Arthur Laurents | Jule Styne | Stephen Sondheim | ||||||||||||
| La bohème | Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa | Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa | ||||||||||||
| Man of La Mancha | Dale Wasserman | Mitch Leigh | Joe Darion | ||||||||||||
| Assassins | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Big River | William Hauptman | Roger Miller | |||||||||||||
| Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | ||||||||||||
| Finian's Rainbow | E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy | Burton Lane | E.Y. Harburg | ||||||||||||
| First Lady Suite | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||||
| Wonderful Town | Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | ||||||||||||
| La Cage aux Folles | Harvey Fierstein | Jerry Herman | |||||||||||||
| Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death | Melvin Van Peebles | ||||||||||||||
| On Second Avenue | Various | ||||||||||||||
| Sweet Charity | Neil Simon | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields | ||||||||||||
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| *Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and | |||||||||||||||
| Living in Paris* | Eric Blau and Mort Shuman | Jacques Brel | Jacques Brel, Eric Blau and | ||||||||||||
| Mort Shuman | |||||||||||||||
| The Pajama Game | George Abbott and Richard Bissell | Richard Adler and Jerry Ross | |||||||||||||
| Company | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| 110 in the Shade | N. Richard Nash | Harvey Schmidt | Tom Jones | ||||||||||||
| The Apple Tree | Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | ||||||||||||
| Di Yam Gazlonim! | W. S. Gilbert | Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | ||||||||||||
| H.M.S. Pinafore | W. S. Gilbert | Arthur Sullivan | W. S. Gilbert | ||||||||||||
| Les Misérables | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Herbert Kretzmer | ||||||||||||
| South Pacific | Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||||||
| Black Nativity | Langston Hughes | Various | |||||||||||||
| Gypsy | Arthur Laurents | Jule Styne | Stephen Sondheim | ||||||||||||
| Sunday in the Park with George | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Take Me Along | Joseph Stein and Robert Russell | Bob Merrill | |||||||||||||
| Hair | James Rado and Gerome Ragni | Galt MacDermot | James Rado and Gerome Ragni | ||||||||||||
| Pal Joey | John O'Hara | Richard Rodgers | Lorenz Hart | ||||||||||||
| West Side Story | Arthur Laurents | Leonard Bernstein | Stephen Sondheim |
2010s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Cage aux Folles | Harvey Fierstein | Jerry Herman | |||||||||||||
| A Little Night Music | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Finian's Rainbow | E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy | Burton Lane | E.Y. Harburg | ||||||||||||
| Promises, Promises | Neil Simon | Burt Bacharach | Hal David | ||||||||||||
| Ragtime | Terrence McNally | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| Anything Goes | Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse | Cole Porter | |||||||||||||
| Hello Again | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||||||
| *How to Succeed in Business Without | |||||||||||||||
| Really Trying* | Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert | Frank Loesser | |||||||||||||
| Follies | James Goldman | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Carrie | Lawrence D. Cohen | Michael Gore | Dean Pitchford | ||||||||||||
| Evita | Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice | ||||||||||||
| Jesus Christ Superstar | Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice | ||||||||||||
| Porgy and Bess | DuBose Heyward | George Gershwin | DuBose Heyward and | ||||||||||||
| Ira Gershwin | |||||||||||||||
| The Threepenny Opera | Bertolt Brecht | Kurt Weill | Bertolt Brecht | ||||||||||||
| Pippin | Roger O. Hirson | Stephen Schwartz | |||||||||||||
| The Golden Land | Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld | ||||||||||||||
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Rupert Holmes | ||||||||||||||
| Passion | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella | Oscar Hammerstein II and | ||||||||||||||
| Douglas Carter Beane | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | |||||||||||||
| Working | Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso | Various | |||||||||||||
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | Stephen Trask | |||||||||||||
| Les Misérables | Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Herbert Kretzmer | ||||||||||||
| Violet | Brian Crawley | Jeanine Tesori | Brian Crawley | ||||||||||||
| The King and I | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||||||
| Into the Woods | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| On the Town | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | ||||||||||||
| On the Twentieth Century | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Cy Coleman | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | ||||||||||||
| Pageant | Bill Russell and Frank Kelly | Albert Evans | Bill Russell and Frank Kelly | ||||||||||||
| Side Show | Bill Russell | Henry Krieger | Bill Russell | ||||||||||||
| She Loves Me | Joe Masteroff | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | ||||||||||||
| The Color Purple | Marsha Norman | Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray | |||||||||||||
| The Golden Bride | Frieda Freiman | Joseph Rumshinsky | Louis Gilrod | ||||||||||||
| Fiddler on the Roof | Joseph Stein | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | ||||||||||||
| Spring Awakening | Steven Sater | Duncan Sheik | Steven Sater | ||||||||||||
| *Hello, Dolly!* | Michael Stewart | Jerry Herman | |||||||||||||
| Falsettos | James Lapine and William Finn | William Finn | |||||||||||||
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Sweet Charity | Neil Simon | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields | ||||||||||||
| Tick, Tick... Boom! | Jonathan Larson and David Auburn | Jonathan Larson | |||||||||||||
| My Fair Lady | Alan Jay Lerner | Frederick Loewe | Alan Jay Lerner | ||||||||||||
| Amerike – The Golden Land | Moishe Rosenfeld and Zalmen Mlotek | ||||||||||||||
| Carousel | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||||||
| Once On This Island | Lynn Ahrens | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||||||
| Pacific Overtures | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| *Fiddler on the Roof (Fidler Afn Dakh)* | Joseph Stein | Jerry Bock | Sheldon Harnick | ||||||||||||
| Carmen Jones | Oscar Hammerstein II | Georges Bizet | Oscar Hammerstein II | ||||||||||||
| Kiss Me, Kate | Bella and Samuel Spewack | Cole Porter | |||||||||||||
| Merrily We Roll Along | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||||||
| Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II |
2020s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics | Ref. | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| *Little Shop of Horrors* | Howard Ashman | Alan Menken | Howard Ashman | ||||||||
| The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Richard Morris | Meredith Willson | |||||||||
| West Side Story | Arthur Laurents | Leonard Bernstein | Stephen Sondheim | ||||||||
| No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City}} | |||||||||||
| *Company* | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||
| Assassins | John Weidman | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||
| Baby | Sybille Pearson | David Shire | Richard Maltby Jr. | ||||||||
| Caroline, or Change | Tony Kushner | Jeanine Tesori | Tony Kushner | ||||||||
| *Parade* | Alfred Uhry | Jason Robert Brown | |||||||||
| A Man of No Importance | Terrence McNally | Stephen Flaherty | Lynn Ahrens | ||||||||
| Into the Woods | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||
| Merrily We Roll Along | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim | |||||||||
| *I Can Get It for You Wholesale* | Jerome Weidman | Harold Rome | |||||||||
| Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club | Joe Masteroff | John Kander | Fred Ebb | ||||||||
| Gutenberg! The Musical! | Scott Brown and Anthony King | ||||||||||
| Gypsy | Arthur Laurents | Jule Styne | Stephen Sondheim | ||||||||
| Cats: "The Jellicle Ball | T. S. Eliot | Andrew Lloyd Webber | T. S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn, and Richard Stilgoe | ||||||||
| Floyd Collins | Tina Landau | Adam Guettel | |||||||||
| Once Upon a Mattress | Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller, and Amy Sherman-Palladino | Mary Rodgers | Marshall Barer | ||||||||
| See What I Wanna See | Michael John LaChiusa | ||||||||||
| Sunset Blvd. | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
Shows with multiple wins
;2 wins
- She Loves Me
- The King and I
-
- La Cage aux Folles*
- Company
Shows with multiple nominations
;3 nominations
- Into the Woods
- Gypsy
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
;2 nominations
- She Loves Me
- Carousel
- My Fair Lady
- The King and I
- Cabaret
- Kiss Me, Kate
- Follies
- Oklahoma!
-
- Assassins*
- Finian's Rainbow
-
- La Cage aux Folles*
- Sweet Charity
- Company
- Les Misérables
- West Side Story
- Merrily We Roll Along
References
References
- "1994 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- "1996 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Robert Viagas. (May 20, 1996). "Drama Desk Awards to Rent, Master Class".
- "1997 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (May 13, 1997). "Drama Desk Picks Performers, Presenters & Venue, May 18".
- (May 1997). "Chicago Tops Drama Desks". Variety.
- "1998 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (May 17, 1998). "Ragtime, Beauty Queen Win Drama Desk Awards".
- "1999 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (May 9, 1999). "List of 1999 Drama Desk Winners".
- (May 9, 1999). "1999 Drama Desk Winners: Not About Nightingales Design Trio".
- "2000 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Kenneth Jones. (May 14, 2000). "2000 Drama Desk Winners Are Real Thing, Kate, Copenhagen & Contact".
- "2001 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Kenneth Jones, Robert Simonson. (May 20, 2001). "2001 Drama Desk Winners Include Producers, Proof and Mnemonic".
- "2002 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Robert Simonson. (May 20, 2002). "Drama Desk Awards Announced; Goat, Metamorphoses Tie for Best Play, Millie Scores".
- "2003 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Robert Simonson. (May 1, 2003). "Hairspray Leads 2003 Drama Desk Award Nominations".
- (May 19, 2003). "Hairspray Wins 10 Drama Desk Awards". The New York Times.
- "2004 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (April 29, 2004). "Wicked Leads Drama Desk Nominations". The New York Times.
- Andrew Gans, Robert Simonson. (May 16, 2004). "Wicked, Assassins, Henry IV, Wife Win Drama Desk Awards".
- "2005 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (May 23, 2005). "2005 Drama Desk Award winners announced".
- "2006 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Andrew Gans. (May 22, 2006). "Drowsy Chaperone and History Boys Big Winners at the 2006 Drama Desk Awards".
- "2007 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- New York Theatre Guide Staff. (May 20, 2007). "Drama Desk Awards 2006–2007 Winners Announced".
- Andrew Gans. (May 20, 2007). "52nd Annual Drama Desk Awards Presented May 20".
- "2008 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (May 19, 2008). "Arts: Drama Desk’s Awards". The New York Times.
- New York Theatre Guide Staff. (October 19, 2017). "Drama Desk Awards 2008 Winners Announced".
- "2009 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (May 17, 2009). "Drama Desk Awards Announced". The New York Times.
- Andrew Gans. (May 18, 2009). "Ruined and Billy Elliot Win Top Honors at Drama Desk Awards".
- "2010 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- "2011 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Kenneth Jones. (May 24, 2011). "Drama Desk Awards Go to Book of Mormon, Normal Heart, War Horse, Sutton Foster, Norbert Leo Butz".
- David Rooney. (May 23, 2011). "Book of Mormon, Anything Goes Top Drama Desk Awards". Variety.
- "2012 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- (June 4, 2012). "Drama Desk Awards". The New York Times.
- New York Theatre Guide Staff. (June 3, 2012). "The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards".
- "2013 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Michael Paulson. (May 20, 2013). "Matilda Wins Big at Drama Desk Awards". The New York Times.
- "2014 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- New York Theatre Guide Staff. (June 1, 2014). "The 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards".
- Jesse Green. (June 1, 2014). "Drama Desk Embraces a Gentleman’s Guide". The New York Times.
- "2015 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Gordon Cox. (May 31, 2015). "2015 Drama Desk Awards Winners (FULL LIST): 'Hamilton' Takes 7".
- "2016 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Gordon Cox. (June 5, 2016). "2016 Drama Desk Awards (FULL LIST): 'Shuffle Along,' 'The Humans'".
- "2017 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Variety Staff. (June 5, 2017). "Drama Desk Awards 2017: Full List of Winners".
- "2018 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Playbill Staff. (June 3, 2018). "SpongeBob SquarePants Leads 2018 Drama Desk Awards".
- "2019 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Ruthie Fierberg. (June 2, 2019). "Tootsie, Hadestown, and The Ferryman Lead 2019 Drama Desk Award Winners".
- "2020 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Dan Meyer. (June 13, 2020). "A Strange Loop, The Inheritance, Moulin Rouge! Win Big at 2020 Drama Desk Awards".
- Evans, Greg. (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". [[Deadline Hollywood]].
- "2022 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Chloe Rabinowitz. (June 8, 2022). "COMPANY, SIX & More Win 2022 Drama Desk Awards – See the Full List!".
- Gillian Russo. (June 8, 2022). "2022 Drama Desk Award winners announced".
- "2023 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Logan Culwell-Block. (May 31, 2023). "Some Like It Hot Dominates 2023 Drama Desk Awards; See the Full List of Winners".
- (2024-06-10). "Stereophonic Leads 2024 Drama Desk Awards with 7 Wins Including Outstanding Play - Playbill.com".
- "2024 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Logan Culwell-Block. (June 10, 2024). "Stereophonic Leads 2024 Drama Desk Awards With 7 Wins Including Outstanding Play".
- Culwell-Block, Logan. (April 30, 2025). "Boop! Leads 2025 Drama Desk Award Nominations With 11 Nods Including Outstanding Musical; Read the Full List Here".
- "2025 Awards – Nominees and Recipients".
- Logan Culwell-Block. (June 1, 2025). "Drama Desk Award Winners 2025: The Full List".
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