Tony Award for Lyrics?

[TheTriangularWater]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 12:22pm

So at the 25th Tony Awards they split the score award into Lyrics and Music, and the Drama Desk Awards also have this distinction.

So my question is have there been any best score tony winners that would've only won one of the two awards?

Personally I think that last year if there was that spilt in the Tony award for score that Six would've won Music but A Strange Loop would've won Lyrics.

What do you guys think?

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 12:28pm

I really don't think you can divorce the two, but if we are playing this game maybe the following would have happened in the past decade:

2022 – lyrics: Strange Loop; music: Six
2021 – ...I suppose Lightning Thief wins lyrics by default because it was the only show with lyrics?
2019 – lyrics: Tootsie; music: Hadestown
2014 – lyrics: Gents Guide; music: Bridges
2013 – lyrics: Matilda; music: Kinky Boots
 

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 4/26/23 at 1:34pm

I can see Phantom winning Music and Into the Woods winning Lyrics. Same split with La Cage and Sunday. Sondheim would have won more Tonys and would have dominated the Lyrics category.

Updated On: 4/26/23 at 01:34 PM