El Premi Tony a la Millor Actriu Protagonista de Musical és atorgat a l'actriu escollida com a millor actriu en una obra musical, tant és que sigui una nova producció o un revival. El premi es concedeix des de 1948, però els nominats només van ser també anunciats des de 1956.Gelb, Arthur. "Popularizing the 'Tony' Awards", The New York Times, April 1, 1956, p.93
Premis i nominacions
1940s Any Actriu Musical Personatge 1947 <center> no es lliurà 1948 Grace Hartman Angel in the Wings Nettie / Mrs. Blodgett / Ruth / Mrs. Hutchinson 1949 Nanette Fabray Love Life Susan Cooper
1950s Any Actriu Musical Personatge 1950 Mary Martin South Pacific Ensign Nellie Forbush 1951 Ethel Merman Call Me Madam Sally Adams 1952 Gertrude Lawrence The King and I Anna Leonowens 1953 Rosalind Russell Wonderful Town Ruth Sherwood 1954 Dolores Gray Carnival in Flanders Cornelia 1955 Mary Martin Peter Pan Peter Pan 1956 Gwen Verdon Damn Yankees Lola Carol Channing The Vamp Flora Weems Nancy Walker Phoenix '55 Various Characters 1957 Judy Holliday Bells Are Ringing Ella Peterson Julie Andrews My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle Ethel Merman Happy Hunting Liz Livingstone 1958 Thelma Ritter New Girl in Town Marthy Owen Gwen Verdon Anna Christopherson Lena Horne Jamaica Savannah Beatrice Lillie Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 Various Characters 1959 Gwen Verdon Redhead Essie Whimple Miyoshi Umeki Flower Drum Song Mei-Li
1960s Any Actriu Musical Personatge 1960 Mary Martin The Sound of Music Maria von Trapp Carol Burnett Once Upon a Mattress Princess Winnifred Dolores Gray Destry Rides Again Frenchy Eileen Herlie Take Me Along Lily Miller Ethel Merman Gypsy Mama Rose 1961 Elizabeth Seal Irma La Douce Irma La Douce Julie Andrews Camelot Guenevere Carol Channing Show Girl Various Characters Nancy Walker Do Re Mi Kay Cram 1962 Anna Maria Alberghetti Carnival! Lili Daurier Diahann Carroll No Strings Barbara Woodruff Molly Picon Milk and Honey Clara Weiss Elaine Stritch Sail Away Mimi Paragon 1963 Vivien Leigh Tovarich Tatiana Georgia Brown Oliver! Nancy Nanette Fabray Mr. President Nell Henderson Sally Ann Howes Brigadoon Fiona MacLaren 1964 Carol Channing Hello, Dolly! Dolly Gallagher Levi Beatrice Lillie High Spirits Madame Arcati Barbra Streisand Funny Girl Fanny Brice Inga Swenson 110 in the Shade Lizzie Curry 1965 Liza Minnelli Flora the Red Menace Flora Mezaros Elizabeth Allen Do I Hear a Waltz? Leona Samish Nancy Dussault Bajour | Emily Kirsten |- | Inga Swenson | Baker Street Irene Adler 1966 Angela Lansbury Mame Mame Dennis Barbara Harris On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Daisy Gamble / Melinda Wells Julie Harris Skyscraper Georgina Allerton Gwen Verdon Sweet Charity Charity Hope Valentine 1967 Barbara Harris The Apple Tree Eve / Princess Barbara / Ella and Passionella Lotte Lenya Cabaret Fraulein Schneider Mary Martin I Do! I Do! She (Agnes) Louise Troy Walking Happy Maggie Hobson 1968 Patricia Routledge Darling of the Day Alice Challice Leslie Uggams Hallelujah, Baby! Georgina Melina Mercouri Illya Darling Illya Brenda Vaccaro How Now, Dow Jones Cynthia Pike 1969 Angela Lansbury Dear World Countess Aurelia Maria Karnilova Zorba Madame Hortense Dorothy Loudon The Fig Leaves Are Falling Lillian Stone Jill O'Hara Promises, Promises Fran Kubelik
1970s Any Actriu Musical Personatge 1970 Lauren Bacall Applause Margo Channing Katharine Hepburn Coco Coco Chanel Dilys Watling Georgy | Georgina "Georgy" Parkin |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1971 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Helen Gallagher | No, No, Nanette| Lucille Early |- | Sandy Duncan | The Boy Friend| Maisie |- | Susan Browning | rowspan=2| Company| April |- | Elaine Stritch | Joanne |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1972 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Alexis Smith | Follies| Phyllis Rogers Stone |- | Jonelle Allen | Two Gentlemen of Verona| Silvia |- | Dorothy Collins | Follies| Sally Durant Plummer |- | Mildred Natwick | 70, Girls, 70| Ida Dodd |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1973 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Glynis Johns | A Little Night Music| Desiree Armfeldt |- | Leland Palmer | Pippin| Fastrada |- | Debbie Reynolds | Irene| Irene O'Dare |- | Marcia Rodd |Shelter|Maud |- | rowspan=4 align=center| 1974 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Virginia Capers | Raisin| Lena Younger |- | Carol Channing | Lorelei| Lorelei Lee |- | Michele Lee | Seesaw| Gittel Mosca |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1975 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Angela Lansbury | Gypsy| Mama Rose |- | Lola Falana | Doctor Jazz| Edna Mae Sheridan |- | Bernadette Peters | Mack & Mabel| Mabel Normand |- | Ann Reinking | Goodtime Charley| Joan of Arc |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1976 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Donna McKechnie | A Chorus Line| Cassie Ferguson |- | Vivian Reed | Bubbling Brown Sugar| Marsha / Young Irene |- | Chita Rivera | rowspan=2| Chicago| Velma Kelly |- | Gwen Verdon | Roxie Hart |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1977 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Dorothy Loudon | Annie| Miss Hannigan |- | Clamma Dale | Porgy and Bess| Bess |- | Ernestine Jackson | Guys and Dolls| Sarah Brown |- | Andrea McArdle | Annie| Annie |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1978 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Liza Minnelli | The Act| Michelle Craig |- | Madeline Kahn | On the Twentieth Century| Lily Garland / Mildred Plotka |- | Eartha Kitt | Timbuktu!| Shaleem La Lume |- | Frances Sternhagen | Angel| Eliza Gant |- | rowspan=5 align=center| 1979 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Angela Lansbury | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street| Mrs. Lovett |- | Tovah Feldshuh | Sarava| Flor |- | Dorothy Loudon | Ballroom| Bea Asher |- | Alexis Smith | Platinum| Lila Halliday
1980s Any Actriu Musical Personatge 1980 Patti LuPone Evita Eva Perón Christine Andreas Oklahoma! Laurey Williams Sandy Duncan Peter Pan Peter Pan Ann Miller Sugar Babies Ann 1981 Lauren Bacall Woman of the Year Tess Harding Meg Bussert Brigadoon Fiona MacLaren Chita Rivera Bring Back Birdie Rosie Alvarez Linda Ronstadt The Pirates of Penzance Mabel 1982 Jennifer Holliday Dreamgirls Effie White Lisa Mordente Marlowe Emelia Bossano Mary Gordon Murray Little Me Belle Poitrine Sheryl Lee Ralph Dreamgirls Deena Jones 1983 Natalia Makarova On Your Toes Vera Barnova Lonette McKee Show Boat Julie LaVerne Chita Rivera Merlin The Queen Twiggy My One and Only Edith Herbert 1984 Chita Rivera The Rink Anna Rhetta Hughes Amen Corner Sister Margaret Alexander Liza Minnelli The Rink Angel Bernadette Peters Sunday in the Park with George Dot / Marie 1985 <center>no es lliurà 1986 Bernadette Peters Song and Dance Emma Debbie Allen Sweet Charity Charity Hope Valentine Cleo Laine The Mystery of Edwin Drood Angela Prysock / The Princess Puffer Chita Rivera Jerry's Girls Various Characters 1987 Maryann Plunkett Me and My Girl Sally Smith Catherine Cox Oh, Coward! Various Characters Teresa Stratas Rags Rebecca Hershkowitz 1988 Joanna Gleason Into the Woods The Baker's Wife Alison Fraser Romance/Romance Josefine Weninger / Monica Judy Kuhn Chess Florence Vassy Patti LuPone Anything Goes Reno Sweeney 1989 Ruth Brown Black and Blue Various Characters Charlotte d'Amboise Jerome Robbins' Broadway Anita / Peter Pan / Company Linda Hopkins Black and Blue Various Characters Sharon McNight Starmites Diva / Mother
1990s Any Actriu Musical Personatge 1990 Tyne Daly Gypsy Mama Rose Georgia Brown The Threepenny Opera Celia Peachum Beth Fowler Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Mrs. Lovett Liliane Montevecchi Grand Hotel Elizaveta Grushinskaya 1991 Lea Salonga Miss Saigon Kim June Angela Shōgun: The Musical Lady Mariko Dee Hoty The Will Rogers Follies Betty Blake Cathy Rigby Peter Pan Peter Pan 1992 Faith Prince Guys and Dolls Miss Adelaide Jodi Benson Crazy for You Polly Baker Josie de Guzman Guys and Dolls Sarah BrownSophie Hayden The Most Happy Fella Rosabella 1993 Chita Rivera Kiss of the Spider Woman Aurora / Spider Woman Ann Crumb Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Stephanie Lawrence Blood Brothers Mrs. Johnstone Bernadette Peters The Goodbye Girl Paula McFadden 1994 Donna Murphy Passion Fosca Susan Egan Beauty and the Beast Belle Dee Hoty The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public Mona Stangley Judy Kuhn She Loves Me Amalia Balash 1995 Glenn Close Sunset Boulevard Norma Desmond Rebecca Luker Show Boat Magnolia Hawks 1996 Donna Murphy The King and I Anna Leonowens Julie AndrewsViagas, Robert. "Julie Andrews Declines Tony Nomination" playbill.com, May 8, 1996 Victor/Victoria Victoria Grant Crista Moore Big: the musical Susan Lawrence Daphne Rubin-Vega Rent Mimi Marquez 1997 Bebe Neuwirth Chicago Velma Kelly Pamela Isaacs The Life Queen Tonya Pinkins Play On Lady Liv Karen Ziemba Steel Pier Rita Racine 1998 Natasha Richardson Cabaret Sally Bowles Betty Buckley Triumph of Love Hesione Marin Mazzie Ragtime Mother Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner Side Show Violet and Daisy Hilton 1999 Bernadette Peters Annie Get Your Gun Annie Oakley Carolee Carmello Parade Lucille Frank Dee Hoty Footloose Vi Moore Siân Phillips Marlene Marlene Dietrich
2000s {|class=wikitable style="width:98%;" |- style="background:#bebebe;" ! style="width:11%;"| Any ! style="width:27%;"| Actriu ! style="width:33%;"| Musical ! style="width:29%;"| Personatge |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2000 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Heather Headley | Aida| Aida |- | Toni Collette | The Wild Party| Queenie |- | Rebecca Luker | The Music Man| Marian Paroo |- | Marin Mazzie | Kiss Me, Kate| Lilli Vanessi / Katherine |- | Audra McDonald | Marie Christine| Marie Christine L'Adrese |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2001 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Christine Ebersole | 42nd Street| Dorothy Brock |- | Blythe Danner | Follies| Phyllis Rogers Stone |- | Randy Graff | A Class Act| Sophie |- | Faith Prince | Bells Are Ringing| Ella Peterson |- | Marla Schaffel | Jane Eyre| Jane Eyre |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2002 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Sutton Foster | Thoroughly Modern Millie| Millie Dillmount |- | Louise Pitre | Mamma Mia!| Donna Sheridan |- | Nancy Opel | rowspan=2| Urinetown| Penelope Pennywise |- | Jennifer Laura Thompson | Hope Cladwell |- | Vanessa Williams | Into the Woods| The Witch |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2003 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Hairspray| Tracy Turnblad |- | Melissa Errico | Amour| Isabella |- | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Man of La Mancha| Aldonza / Dulcinea |- | Elizabeth Parkinson | Movin' Out| Brenda |- | Bernadette Peters | Gypsy| Mama Rose |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2004 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Idina Menzel | Wicked| Elphaba |- | Kristin Chenoweth | Wicked| Glinda |- | Stephanie D'Abruzzo | Avenue Q| Kate Monster / Lucy the Slut / Company |- | Donna Murphy | Wonderful Town| Ruth Sherwood |- | Tonya Pinkins | Caroline, or Change| Caroline Thibodeaux |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2005 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | Victoria Clark | The Light in the Piazza| Margaret Johnson |- | Christina Applegate | Sweet Charity| Charity Hope Valentine |- | Erin Dilly | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang| Truly Scrumptious |- | Sutton Foster | Little Women| Josephine 'Jo' March |- | Sherie Rene Scott | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels| Christine Colgate |- | rowspan=6 align=center| 2006 |- style="background:#B0C4DE" | LaChanze | The Color Purple| Celie Harris Johnson |- | Sutton Foster