# Green Room Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role (Music Theatre)

The Green Room Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role (Music Theatre) is an annual award recognising excellence in the performing arts in Melbourne. The peer-based Green Room Awards were first presented in February 1984, for productions in 1983.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are in bold; nominees are provided when all nominees in that year are known.

### 1980s

| Year | Actor | Production | Character |
| 1983 1st |
| 1983 1st | John Meehan | Song and Dance | |
| 1984 2nd |
| 1984 2nd | Jon English | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirate King |
| 1985 3rd |
| 1985 3rd | Jon Ewing | La Cage Aux Folles | Albin |
| 1986 4th |
| 1986 4th | Peter Adams | Guys and Dolls | Nathan Detroit |
| 1987 5th |
| 1987 5th | David Atkins | Dancin' Man | |
| 1988 6th |
| 1988 6th | Lewis Fiander | My Fair Lady | Henry Higgins |
| 1989 7th |
| 1989 7th | Simon Burke | Anything Goes | Billy Crocker |
| 1989 7th | Geoffrey Chard | Man of La Mancha | Cervantes/Don Quixote |
| 1989 7th | Cameron Daddo | Big River | Huckleberry Finn |
| 1989 7th | Michael Edward-Stevens | Big River | Jim |
| 1989 7th | D.J. Foster | Pastrana | Charles Lent |

### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Production | Character |
| 1990 8th |
| 1990 8th | Rob Guest | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 1991 9th |
| 1991 9th | Anthony Warlow | The Phantom of the Opera | Phantom |
| 1991 9th | Nick Carrafa | Hair | Claude |
| 1991 9th | Cameron Daddo | The Wizard of Oz | Scarecrow |
| 1991 9th | Drew Forsythe | The Venetian Twins | Zanetto/Tonino |
| 1991 9th | David Whitney | The Wizard of Oz | Tin Man |
| 1992 10th |
| 1992 10th | John Waters | Looking Through a Glass Onion | John Lennon |
| 1992 10th | Jeffrey Black | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirate King |
| 1992 10th | Marty Fields | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | |
| 1992 10th | Rhys Muldoon | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | |
| 1992 10th | D.J. Foster | Return to the Forbidden Planet | Dr Prospero |
| 1992 10th | John Wood | King of Country | Chook Fowler |
| 1993 11th |
| 1993 11th | Keith Michell | Scrooge | Ebenezer Scrooge |
| 1994 12th |
| 1994 12th | Derek Metzger | Me and My Girl | Bill Snibson |
| 1994 12th | Michael Cormick | Falsettos | Whizzer |
| 1994 12th | John O'May | Falsettos | Marvin |
| 1994 12th | Merfyn Owen | Rigoletto: A Perversion | |
| 1995 13th |
| 1995 13th | Drew Forsythe | The Mikado | Ko-Ko |
| 1995 13th | David Gould | The Mikado | The Mikado |
| 1995 13th | Bruce Myles | Assassins | |
| 1995 13th | John O'May | Assassins | John Wilkes Booth |
| 1995 13th | Grant Smith | Beauty and the Beast | Lumiere |
| 1996 14th |
| 1996 14th | No award given | — | — |
| 1997 15th |
| 1997 15th | John O'May | A Little Night Music | Fredrik Egerman |
| 1997 15th | Paul Blackwell | The Venetian Twins | Zanetto/Tonino |
| 1997 15th | Philip Gould | Crazy for You | Bobby Child |
| 1997 15th | Derek Metzger | Chess | Anatoly |
| 1997 15th | Jeremy Stanford | Sweet Charity | Oscar Lindquist |
| 1998 16th |
| 1998 16th | Topol | Fiddler on the Roof | Tevye |
| 1998 16th | Kanen Breen | Vincent an a cappella opera | |
| 1998 16th | Michael McCarthy | Les Misérables | Javert |
| 1998 16th | Timothy Shew | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 1999 17th |
| 1999 17th | Todd McKenney | The Boy From Oz | Peter Allen |
| 1999 17th | Philip Gould | Show Boat | Gaylord Ravenal |
| 1999 17th | Barry Otto | Show Boat | Cap'n Andy |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Production | Character |
| 2000 18th |
| 2000 18th | Craig Urbani | Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story | Buddy Holly |
| 2000 18th | Peter Cousens | Company | Bobby |
| 2001 19th |
| 2001 19th | David Campbell | Shout! The Legend of the Wild One | Johnny O'Keefe |
| 2001 19th | Todd McKenney | Singin' in the Rain | Don Lockwood |
| 2001 19th | Anthony Warlow | Annie | Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks |
| 2001 19th | Wayne Scott Kermond | Singin' in the Rain | Cosmo Brown |
| 2001 19th | Derek Metzger | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | J. Pierrepont Finch |
| 2002 20th |
| 2002 20th | Martin Crewes | Hair | Claude |
| 2002 20th | Paul McDermott | The Witches of Eastwick | Darryl Van Horne |
| 2002 20th | Damien Aylward | I Should Be So Lucky | Scott |
| 2002 20th | Matt Hetherington | Hair | Berger |
| 2002 20th | Martin Crewes | The Man from Snowy River | Jim Ryan (The Man) |
| 2003 21st |
| 2003 21st | Ian Stenlake | They're Playing Our Song | Vernon Gersch |
| 2003 21st | Toby Allen | Cabaret | Emcee |
| 2003 21st | Ian Stenlake | Cabaret | Clifford Bradshaw |
| 2003 21st | Martin Croft | Joe Starts Again | Joe |
| 2004 22nd |
| 2004 22nd | David Campbell | Carousel | Billy Bigelow |
| 2004 22nd | Ian Stenlake | Eureka | Peter Lalor |
| 2004 22nd | Matt Hetherington | The Full Monty | Jerry Lukowski |
| 2004 22nd | Jamie Jackson | Love: A Multiple Choice Question | |
| 2005 23rd |
| 2005 23rd | Ian Stenlake | Oklahoma! | Curly |
| 2005 23rd | Adam Jon Fiorentino | Saturday Night Fever | Tony |
| 2005 23rd | David Campbell | Sunset Boulevard | Joe Gillis |
| 2006 24th |
| 2006 24th | iOTA | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig |
| 2006 24th | Hugh Jackman | The Boy From Oz | Peter Allen |
| 2007 25th |
| 2007 25th | Tony Sheldon | Priscilla Queen of the Desert the musical | Bernadette |
| 2007 25th | Mitchell Butel | Little Me | Noble Egglestone and all the men in Belle's life |
| 2007 25th | Leo Tavarro Valdez | Miss Saigon | The Engineer |
| 2007 25th | Mike McLeish | Keating! | Paul Keating |
| 2007 25th | Bille Brown | Spamalot | King Arthur |
| 2008 26th |
| 2008 26th | Michael Dameski, Joshua Denyer, Rhys Kosakowski, Dayton Tavares, and Joshua Waiss Gates | Billy Elliot the Musical | Billy Elliot |
| 2008 26th | Eddie Perfect | Shane Warne: The Musical | Shane Warne |
| 2008 26th | Richard Piper | Billy Elliot the Musical | Dad |
| 2009 27th |
| 2009 27th | Matt Hetherington | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Freddy Benson |
| 2009 27th | Mitchell Butel | Avenue Q | Princeton/Rod |
| 2009 27th | Bobby Fox | Jersey Boys | Frankie Valli |
| 2009 27th | Scott Johnson | Jersey Boys | Tommy De Vito |
| 2009 27th | James Millar | Gutenberg! The Musical! | Doug Simon |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Production | Character |
| 2010 28th |
| 2010 28th | Geoffrey Rush | The Drowsy Chaperone | Man In Chair |
| 2010 28th | Todd McKenney | The Boy From Oz | Peter Allen |
| 2011 29th |
| 2011 29th | Brent Hill | Rock of Ages | Lonny |
| 2011 29th | Reg Livermore | Turns | Alistair |
| 2012 30th |
| 2012 30th | Wayne Scott Kermond | The Producers | Max Bialystock |
| 2012 30th | Martin Crewes | Chess | Freddy |
| 2012 30th | Simon Gleeson | Chess | Anatoly |
| 2012 30th | Matt Hetherington | Promises, Promises | Chuck Baxter |
| 2012 30th | Geoffrey Rush | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Pseudolus |
| 2013 31st |
| 2013 31st | David Harris | Legally Blonde | Emmett Forrest |
| 2013 31st | Rohan Browne | Singin' in the Rain | Don Lockwood |
| 2013 31st | Bobby Fox | Hot Shoe Shuffle | Spring |
| 2014 32nd |
| 2014 32nd | Tom Parsons | Once | Guy |
| 2014 32nd | Hayden Tee | Les Misérables | Javert |
| 2014 32nd | Simon Burke | La Cage aux Folles | Georges |
| 2014 32nd | Simon Gleeson | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean |
| 2014 32nd | Gareth Keegan | Blood Brothers | Mickey Johnstone |
| 2015 33rd |
| 2015 33rd | Martin Crewes | Sweet Charity | Charlie / Oscar / Vittorio |
| 2015 33rd | Nick Afoa | The Lion King | Simba |
| 2015 33rd | Jordan Pollard | Avenue Q | Princeton / Rod |
| 2015 33rd | Alex Rathgeber | Anything Goes | Billy Crocker |
| 2015 33rd | Nick Simpson-Deeks | Company | Bobby |
| 2016 34th |
| 2016 34th | Callum Francis | Kinky Boots | |
| 2016 34th | Brent Hill | Little Shop of Horrors | |
| 2016 34th | Simon Gleeson | Curtains | |
| 2016 34th | James Millar | Matilda the Musical | |
| 2017 35th |
| 2017 35th | Charles Edwards | My Fair Lady | Henry Higgins |
| 2017 35th | Grant Piro | Hello, Dolly! | Horace Vandergelder |
| 2017 35th | Joel Granger | Ordinary Days | Warren |
| 2017 35th | Ainsley Melham | Aladdin | Aladdin |
| 2017 35th | Michael James Scott | Aladdin | Genie |
| 2018 36th |
| 2018 36th | Brent Hill | School of Rock: The Musical | Dewey |
| 2018 36th | Josh Piterman | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | Gerry Goffin |
| 2018 36th | Euan Doidge | Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert | Felicia |
| 2018 36th | David Harris | Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert | Tick/Mitzi |
| 2018 36th | Kurt Kansley | Evita | Che |