| Musical That Was Beaten | Musical That Won | Year |
| Peter Pan | |
| Pipe Dreams | |
| Bells Are Ringing | |
| West Side Story | |
| Flower Drum Song | |
| Gyspy | |
| Do Re Mi | |
| No Strings | |
| Oliver! | |
| Funny Girl | |
| Golden Boy | |
| Sweet Charity | |
| The Apple Tree | |
| The Happy Time | |
| Hair | |
| Purlie | |
| The Rothschilds | |
| Follies; Grease | |
| Pippin | |
| Seesaw | |
| Mack and Mabel | |
| Chicago | |
| Side by Side by Sondheim | |
| On the Twentieth Century | |
| The Best Little****house in Texas | |
| Barnum | |
| Woman of the Year | |
| Dreamgirls | |
| | Musical That Was Beaten | Musical That Won | Year |
| My One and Only | |
| Sunday in the Park with George | |
| Quilters | |
| Song and Dance | |
| Starlight Express | |
| Into the Woods | |
| Black and Blue | |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | |
| Miss Saigon; The Secret Garden | |
| Falsettos | |
| The Who's Tommy | |
| Beauty and the Beast | |
| Smokey Joe's Cafe | |
| Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk | |
| Steel Pier | |
| Ragtime | |
| Parade | |
| The Wild Party | |
| The Full Monty | |
| Mamma Mia! | |
| Movin' Out | |
| Wicked | |
| The Light in the Piazza | |
| The Drowsy Chaperone | |
| Curtains | |
| Xanadu | |
| Next to Normal | |
| Fela! | |
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