Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
1970s

Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

Section Title: 1970s
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Year	Actor	Musical	Character

1970 24th Tony Awards

Cleavon Little	Purlie	Purlie

Len Cariou	Applause	Bill Sampson

Robert Weede	Cry for Us All	Edward Quinn

1971 25th Tony Awards

Hal Linden	The Rothschilds	Mayer Rothschild

David Burns	Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen	Col. Wainwright Purdy III

Larry Kert	Company	Bobby

Bobby Van	No, No, Nanette	Billy Early

1972 26th Tony Awards

Phil Silvers	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Pseudolus

Clifton Davis	Two Gentlemen of Verona	Valentine

Raúl Juliá	Proteus

Barry Bostwick	Grease	Danny Zuko

1973 27th Tony Awards

Ben Vereen	Pippin	The Leading Player

Len Cariou	A Little Night Music	Frederick Egerman

Robert Morse	Sugar	Jerry

Brock Peters	Lost in the Stars	Stephen Kumalo

1974 28th Tony Awards

Christopher Plummer	Cyrano	Cyrano de Bergerac

Alfred Drake	Gigi	Honore Lachailles

Joe Morton	Raisin	Walter Lee Younger

Lewis J. Stadlen	Candide	Various Characters

1975 29th Tony Awards

John Cullum	Shenandoah	Charlie Anderson

Joel Grey	Goodtime Charley	Charley

Raúl Juliá	Where's Charley?	Charley Wykeham

Eddie Mekka	The Lieutenant	Lieutenant

Robert Preston	Mack & Mabel	Mack Sennett

1976 30th Tony Awards

George Rose	My Fair Lady	Alfred P. Doolittle

Mako	Pacific Overtures	Various Characters

Jerry Orbach	Chicago	Billy Flynn

Ian Richardson	My Fair Lady	Henry Higgins

1977 31st Tony Awards

Barry Bostwick	The Robber Bridegroom	Jamie Lockhart

Robert Guillaume	Guys and Dolls	Nathan Detroit

Raúl Juliá	The Threepenny Opera	Macheath

Reid Shelton	Annie	Oliver Warbucks

1978 32nd Tony Awards

John Cullum	On the Twentieth Century	Oscar Jaffee

Eddie Bracken	Hello, Dolly!	Horace Vandergelder

Barry Nelson	The Act	Dan Conners

Gilbert Price	Timbuktu!	The Mansa of Mali

1979 33rd Tony Awards

Len Cariou	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Sweeney Todd

Vincent Gardenia	Ballroom	Alfred Rossi

Joel Grey	The Grand Tour	S. L. Jacobowsky

Robert Klein	They're Playing Our Song	Vernon Gersch

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