Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical is awarded to librettists of the spoken, non-sung dialogue, and storyline of a musical play. Eligibility is restricted to works with original narrative framework; plotless revues and revivals are ineligible. This award was originally called the Tony Award for Best Author, until musicals were split off from dramas.
Winners and nominees
2010s
Award records
;3 Wins;2 Wins
Nomination records
;5 Nominations;4 Nominations
;3 Nominations
- Chad Beguelin
- Harvey Fierstein
- Michael John LaChiusa
- David Thompson
- George C. Wolfe
- Betty Comden
- Adolph Green
- Craig Lucas
- John Weidman
- Walter Bobbie
- Alain Boublil
- Mark Bramble
- Leslie Bricusse
- Alfred Uhry
- Joe DiPietro
- Rick Elice
- Bob Fosse
- Larry Gelbart
- John Guare
- Rupert Holmes
- Robert Horn
- Jim Lewis
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- Bob Martin
- Itamar Moses
- Marsha Norman
- Tim Rice
- Dick Scanlan
- Claude-Michel Schönberg
- Neil Simon
- Joseph Stein
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Mark O'Donnell