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Tony Award for Best Musical winners

Order by the year of the Tony Awards ceremony at which each show won Best Musical. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the Tony Best Musical winners timeline game works

Each card is a Broadway show that won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and you order them by the year of the ceremony where it took the prize. The composer, songwriting team or writer behind the score is printed under the title. One winner starts out on the line with its year shown. Every card after that needs a gap: decide which shows it came after and which it came before. Correct placements show the year; mistakes still put the show in its real spot but take a life, and losing all three ends the game.

The winners run from the golden age of the book musical through concept shows and the British megamusical invasion to rock scores, jukebox shows and hip-hop. Some songwriters won more than once, so the name under the title narrows things down but rarely settles them. Each ceremony honors the season just ended, so a show is dated by the spring after its opening night. Film versions are the big trap: many of these musicals are best known from movies made years or even decades later.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Kiss Me, Kate Cole Porter
  • South Pacific Rodgers & Hammerstein
  • Guys and Dolls Frank Loesser
  • My Fair Lady Lerner & Loewe
  • The Music Man Meredith Willson
  • How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Frank Loesser
  • Hello, Dolly Jerry Herman
  • Cabaret Kander & Ebb
  • Company Stephen Sondheim
  • The Wiz Charlie Smalls
  • Annie Strouse & Charnin
  • Sweeney Todd Stephen Sondheim
  • Cats Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • La Cage aux Folles Jerry Herman
  • The Phantom of the Opera Lloyd Webber & Hart
  • Crazy for You George & Ira Gershwin
  • Sunset Boulevard Lloyd Webber, Black & Hampton
  • The Lion King Elton John & Tim Rice
  • The Producers Mel Brooks
  • Avenue Q Lopez & Marx
  • Jersey Boys Gaudio & Crewe
  • The Book of Mormon Parker, Stone & Lopez
  • Kinky Boots Cyndi Lauper
  • Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Hadestown Anaïs Mitchell
  • Moulin Rouge: The Musical Jukebox score, book by John Logan
  • The Outsiders Jamestown Revival & Justin Levine
  • Maybe Happy Ending Aronson & Park

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