Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
1970s
Table:
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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