Video Clips of the Tony Award Nominees for Best Musical – The 70s and 80s
My journey through the decades continues, searching for clips of each of the musicals nominated for the Best Musical Tony Award. This installment covers the 70s and 80s where video opportunities are far more plentiful, including the Tony Award telecasts themselves. I hope you continue to revel in these classic clips of the Best of Broadway over the years.
1970 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Applause – Winner
Coco
Purlie
1971 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Company – Winner
The Me Nobody Knows
The Rothschilds
1972 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Two Gentlemen of Verona – Winner
Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death
Follies
Grease
1973 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
A Little Night Music – Winner
Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope
Pippin
Sugar
1974 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Raisin – Winner
Over Here!
Seesaw
1975 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
The Wiz – Winner
Mack & Mabel
The Lieutenant
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Shenandoah
1976 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
A Chorus Line – Winner
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Chicago
Pacific Overtures
1977 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Annie – Winner
Happy End
I Love My Wife
Side By Side By Sondheim
1978 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Aint Misbehavin’ – Winner
Dancin’
On the Twentieth Century
Runaways
1979 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Winner
Ballroom
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
They’re Playing Our Song
1980 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Evita – Winner
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
Barnum
Sugar Babies
1981 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
42nd Street – Winner
Sophisticated Ladies
Tintypes
Woman of the Year
1982 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Nine – Winner
Dreamgirls
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Pump Boys and Dinettes
1983 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Cats– Winner
Blues in the Night
Merlin
My One and Only
1984 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
La Cage aux Folles – Winner
Baby
Sunday in the Park with George
The Tap Dance Kid
1985 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Big River – Winner
Grind
Leader of the Pack
Quilters
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1986 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Winner
Big Deal
Song & Dance
Tango Argentino
1987 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Les Misérables– Winner
Me and My Girl
Rags
Starlight Express
1988 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
The Phantom of the Opera – Winner
Into the Woods
Romance/Romance
Sarafina!
1989 Tony Awards – Best Musical Nominees
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway – Winner
Black and Blue
Starmites
Stay tuned for the next installment: 1990s and 2000s!
