During his stint as Uncle Wally on Sesame Street, Bill McCutcheon won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Gregory Hines congratulating Savion Glover for his Tony Award for Best Choreography, a year after Savion left the street.
Many winners of Tony Awards have worked on Muppet projects. In particular, since Broadway and Sesame Street are both in New York City, talent rosters have frequently overlapped.
1951[]
- Ethel Merman, Best Actress in a Musical, Call Me Madam
1952[]
- José Ferrer, Best Actor in a Play, The Shrike
1961[]
- Zero Mostel, Best Actor in a Play, Rhinoceros
- Dick Van Dyke, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Bye Bye Birdie
- John Gielgud, Best Director of a Play, Big Fish, Little Fish
1962[]
- Paul Scofield, Best Actor in a Play, A Man for All Seasons
1963[]
- Zero Mostel, Best Actor in a Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Alan Arkin, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Enter Laughing
- Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, and others, Special Award for Beyond the Fringe
1964[]
- Carol Channing, Best Actress in a Musical, Hello, Dolly!
- Anne Revere, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Toys in the Attic
1965[]
- Zero Mostel, Best Actor in a Musical, Fiddler on the Roof
- Liza Minnelli, Best Actress in a Musical, Flora, The Red Menace
1967[]
- Joel Grey, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Cabaret
- Ian Holm, Best Featured Actor in a Play, The Homecoming
1968[]
- Leslie Uggams, Best Actress in a Musical, Hallelujah, Baby!
1969[]
- James Earl Jones, Best Actor in a Play, The Great White Hope
1970[]
- Fritz Weaver, Best Actor in a Play, Child's Play
- Cleavon Little, Best Actor in a Musical, Purlie
1971[]
- Hal Linden, Best Actor in a Musical, The Rothschilds
1973[]
- John Lithgow, Best Featured Actor in a Play, The Changing Room
1974[]
- Frances Sternhagen, Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Good Doctor
1975[]
- Geoffrey Holder, Best Direction of a Musical/Best Costume Design, The Wiz
- Ted Ross, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, The Wiz
- Frank Langella, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Seascape
- Rita Moreno, Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Ritz
1976[]
- John Wood, Best Actor in a Play, Travesties
1978[]
- Nell Carter, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Ain't Misbehavin'
1980[]
- Mandy Patinkin, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Evita
1981[]
- Ian McKellen, Best Actor in a Play, Amadeus
- Kevin Kline, Best Actor in a Musical, The Pirates of Penzance
1982[]
- Ben Harney, Best Actor in a Musical, Dreamgirls
- Michael Peters (with Michael Bennett), Best Choreography, Dreamgirls
1983[]
- Harvey Fierstein, Best Actor in a Play/Best Play (author), Torch Song Trilogy
- Judith Ivey, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Steaming
1984[]
- Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Play, The Real Thing
- Jeremy Irons, Best Actor in a Play, The Real Thing
- Harvey Fierstein, Best Book of a Musical, La Cage aux Folles
1985[]
- Derek Jacobi, Best Actor in a Play, Much Ado About Nothing
- Judith Ivey, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Hurly Burly
- Roger Miller, Best Original Score, Big River
1986[]
- Bernadette Peters, Best Actress in a Musical, Song and Dance
- Judd Hirsch, Best Actor in a Play, I'm Not Rappaport
- Lily Tomlin, Best Actress in a Play, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
- Bebe Neuwirth, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Sweet Charity
1987[]
- James Earl Jones, Best Actor in a Play, Fences
- Linda Lavin, Best Actress in a Play, Broadway Bound
1988[]
- Bill McCutcheon, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Anything Goes
- B. D. Wong, Best Featured Actor in a Play, M. Butterfly
1989[]
- Jason Alexander, Best Actor in a Musical, Jerome Robbins' Broadway
1990[]
- Tyne Daly, Best Actress in a Musical, Gypsy
- Charles Durning, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Michael Jeter, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Grand Hotel
1991[]
- Lea Salonga, Best Actress in a Musical, Miss Saigon
- Jonathan Pryce, Best Actor in a Musical, Miss Saigon
1992[]
- Gregory Hines, Best Actor in a Musical, Jelly's Last Jam
- Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Play, Death and the Maiden
- Judd Hirsch, Best Actor in a Play, Conversations with My Father
1993[]
- Andrea Martin, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, My Favorite Year
1994[]
- Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Carousel
1995[]
- Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Musical, Sunset Boulevard
- Frances Sternhagen, Best Featured Actress in a Play, The Heiress
- John Glover, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Love! Valour! Compassion!
1996[]
- Nathan Lane, Best Actor in a Musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Master Class
- Jonathan Larson, Best Book/Original Score, Rent
- Savion Glover, Best Choreography, Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
1997[]
- Bebe Neuwirth, Best Actress in a Musical, Chicago
- Lynne Thigpen, Best Featured Actress in a Play, American Daughter
- Lillias White, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, The Life
1998[]
- Alan Cumming, Best Actor in a Musical, Cabaret
- Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Ragtime
1999[]
- Martin Short, Best Actor in a Musical, Little Me
- Bernadette Peters, Best Actress in a Musical, Annie Get Your Gun
- Roger Bart, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Kristin Chenoweth, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
- Jason Robert Brown, Best Original Score, Parade
- Ralph Burns, Best Orchestrations, Fosse
2000[]
- Brian Stokes Mitchell, Best Actor in a Musical, Kiss Me Kate
- Heather Headley, Best Actress in a Musical, Aida
- Elton John, Best Original Score (composer), Aida
- Don Sebesky, Best Orchestrations, Kiss Me Kate
2001[]
- Mel Brooks, Best Book for a Musical/Original Score, The Producers
- Nathan Lane, Best Actor in a Musical, The Producers
2002[]
- Sutton Foster, Best Actress in a Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Lindsay Duncan, Best Actress in a Play, Private Lives
- Ralph Burns, Best Orchestrations, Thoroughly Modern Millie
2003[]
- Harvey Fierstein, Best Actor in a Musical, Hairspray
- Marissa Jaret Winokur, Best Actress in a Musical, Hairspray
- Jane Krakowski, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Nine
2004[]
- Hugh Jackman, Best Actor in a Musical, The Boy from Oz
- Idina Menzel, Best Actress in a Musical, Wicked
- Audra McDonald, Best Actress in a Play, A Raisin in the Sun
- Bobby Lopez and Jeff Marx, Best Original Score, Avenue Q
2005[]
- Bill Irwin, Best Actor in a Play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Sara Ramirez, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Spamalot
- Liev Schreiber, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross
2006[]
- Richard Griffiths, Best Actor in a Play, The History Boys
2007[]
- David Hyde Pierce, Best Actor in a Musical, Curtains
- Frank Langella, Best Actor in a Play, Frost/Nixon
2008[]
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Best Original Score, In the Heights
- Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Choreography, In the Heights
- Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, Best Orchestrations, In the Heights
2009[]
- Tom Kitt, Best Original Score/Best Orchestrations, Next to Normal
2010[]
- Denzel Washington, Best Actor in a Play, Fences
- Viola Davis, Best Actress in a Play, Fences
2011[]
- Sutton Foster, Best Actress in a Musical, Anything Goes
- Bobby Lopez (with Trey Parker and Matt Stone), Best Original Score, The Book of Mormon
2012[]
- Audra McDonald, Best Actress in a Musical, Porgy and Bess
- James Corden, Best Actor in a Play, One Man, Two Guvnors
- Jack Feldman and Alan Menken, Best Original Score, Newsies
- Christopher Gattelli, Best Choreography, Newsies
2013[]
- Billy Porter, Best Actor in a Musical, Kinky Boots
- Andrea Martin, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Pippin
- Cyndi Lauper, Best Original Score, Kinky Boots
2014[]
- Neil Patrick Harris, Best Actor in a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- James Monroe Iglehart, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Aladdin
- Audra McDonald, Best Actress in a Play, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
- Jason Robert Brown, Best Original Score/Orchestrations, The Bridges of Madison County
2016[]
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Best Book/Best Original Score, Hamilton
- Leslie Odom Jr., Best Actor in a Musical, Hamilton
- Cynthia Erivo, Best Actress in a Musical, The Color Purple
- Renée Elise Goldsberry, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Hamilton
- Daveed Diggs, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Hamilton
- Frank Langella, Best Actor in a Play, The Father
- Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Choreography, Hamilton
- Alex Lacamoire, Best Orchestrations, Hamilton
2017[]
- Kevin Kline, Best Actor in a Play, Present Laughter
- Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Best Original Score, Dear Evan Hansen
- Alex Lacamoire, Best Orchestrations, Dear Evan Hansen
- Andy Blankenbuehler, Best Choreography, Bandstand
2018[]
- Tony Shalhoub, Best Actor in a Musical, The Band's Visit
- Glenda Jackson, Best Actress in a Play, Three Tall Women
- Nathan Lane, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Angels in America
- David Yazbek, Best Original Score, The Band's Visit
- Jamshied Sharifi, Best Orchestrations, The Band's Visit
2019[]
- Santino Fontana, Best Actor in a Musical, Tootsie
- André De Shields, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Hadestown
- Ali Stroker, Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Oklahoma!
2020[]
- David Alan Grier, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Take Me Out
2022[]
- Simon Russell Beale, Best Lead Actor in a Play, The Lehman Trilogy
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Best Featured Actor in a Play, Take Me Out
2023[]
- Sean Hayes, Best Lead Actor in a Play, Good Night, Oscar
2024[]
- Shaina Taub, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, Suffs