WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Musical
WhatsOnStage Award for Best Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Musical | |
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Awarded for | Excellence in a leading role in a musical |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | WhatsOnStage.com |
First awarded | 2001 |
Currently held by | Eddie Redmayne (2022) |
The WhatsOnStage Award for Best Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Musical is an annual award presented by WhatsOnStage.com as part of the annual WhatsOnStage Awards. Founded in 2001 as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, the WhatsOnStage Awards are based on a popular vote recognising performers and productions in London's West End theatre.
This award is given to a person who has performed a leading male identifying role in a musical during the eligibility year. Introduced in 2001 as the award for Best Actor in a Musical, the category was renamed in 2022 in an effort to be more inclusive. The category was discontinued following the 2022 ceremony and was replaced with the gender-neutral WhatsOnstage Award for Best Performer in a Musical.
First presented to Daniel Evans at the inaugural ceremony, Michael Ball is the only performer to win the award twice. Julian Ovenden holds the record for most nominations without a win in this category, with four.
Winners and nominees
2000s
Year | Performer | Musical | Male Identifying Character |
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2001[1] | Daniel Evans | Merrily We Roll Along | Charley Kringas |
2002[2] | Craig Purnell | Songs for a New World | Man 1 |
Brent Barrett | Kiss Me, Kate | Fred Graham | |
Cameron Blakely | Where's Charley? | Charley Wykeham | |
Paul Keating | Closer to Heaven | Straight Dave | |
Philip Quast | The Secret Garden | Dr. Neville Craven | |
Jonathan Pryce | My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins | |
2003[3] | |||
Tony Vincent | We Will Rock You | Galileo Figaro | |
Michael Ball | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Caractacus Pott | |
Jarrod Emick | The Full Monty | Jerry Lukowski | |
Michael Jibson | Our House | Joe Casey | |
Philip Quast | South Pacific | Emile de Becque | |
Euan Morton | Taboo | Boy George | |
2004[4] | John Barrowman | Anything Goes | Billy Crocker |
David Bedella | Jerry Springer: The Opera | Jonathan Weiruss/Satan | |
Graham Bickley | Ragtime | Tateh | |
Michael Brandon | Jerry Springer: The Opera | Jerry Springer | |
Adam Cooper | On Your Toes | Junior Dolan | |
Tim Howar | Tonight's the Night | Stuart Clutterbuck | |
2005[5] | |||
Nathan Lane | The Producers | Max Bialystock | |
Desmond Barrit | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Pseudolus | |
Martin Crewes | The Woman in White | Walter Hartright | |
Lee Evans | The Producers | Leo Bloom | |
Deven May | Bat Boy: The Musical | Bat Boy | |
Julian Ovenden | Grand Hotel | Baron Felix Von Gaigern | |
2006[6] | Ewan McGregor | Guys & Dolls | Sky Masterson |
Daniel Evans | Sunday in the Park with George | Georges Seurat | |
Neil Patrick Harris | Tick, Tick... Boom! | Jon | |
Douglas Hodge | Guys & Dolls | Nathan Detroit | |
Gavin Lee | Mary Poppins | Bert | |
James Lomas George Maguire Liam Mower | Billy Elliot the Musical | Billy Elliot | |
2007[7] | Tim Curry | Spamalot | King Arthur |
James Dreyfus | Cabaret | The Emcee | |
Daniel Evans | Sunday in the Park with George | Georges Seurat | |
Alexander Hanson | The Sound of Music | Georg von Trapp | |
Philip Quast | Evita | Juan Perón | |
Clarke Peters | Porgy and Bess | Porgy | |
2008[8] | Michael Ball | Hairspray | Edna Turnblad |
Bertie Carvel | Parade | Leo Frank | |
Henry Goodman | Fiddler on the Roof | Tevye | |
Paul Keating | Little Shop of Horrors | Seymour Krelborn | |
James Loye | Lord of the Rings | Frodo Baggins | |
Lee Mead | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Joseph | |
2009[9] | Ryan Molloy | Jersey Boys | Frankie Valli |
Rolan Bell | The Harder They Come | Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin | |
Darius Danesh | Gone with the Wind | Rhett Butler | |
Douglas Hodge | La Cage aux Folles | Albin | |
Julian Ovenden | Marguerite | Armand | |
Matt Rawle | Zorro | Zorro |
2010s
Year | Performer | Musical | Male Identifying Character |
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2010[10] | Rowan Atkinson | Oliver! | Fagin |
Aneurin Barnard | Spring Awakening | Melchior Gabor | |
Jason Donovan | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Anthony "Tick" Belrose | |
Alexander Hanson | A Little Night Music | Fredrik Egerman | |
Julian Ovenden | Annie Get Your Gun | Frank Butler | |
Tony Sheldon | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Bernadette Bassenger | |
2011[11] | Ramin Karimloo | Love Never Dies | The Phantom |
Michael Arden | Aspects of Love | Alex Dillingham | |
Alex Gaumond | Legally Blonde | Emmett Forrest | |
Sahr Ngaujah | Fela! | Fela Kuti | |
John Owen-Jones | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | |
Mark Umbers | Sweet Charity | Charlie, Vittorio and Oscar | |
2012[12][13] | Richard Fleeshman | Ghost | Sam Wheat |
Bertie Carvel | Matilda the Musical | Miss Trunchbull | |
Nigel Lindsay | Shrek The Musical | Shrek | |
Sean Palmer | Crazy for You | Bobby Child | |
Reece Shearsmith | Betty Blue Eyes | Gilbert Chilvers | |
Oliver Tompsett | Rock of Ages | Drew Boley | |
2013[14] | Michael Ball | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sweeney Todd |
Alex Bourne | Kiss Me, Kate | Fred Graham | |
Tom Chambers | Top Hat | Jerry Travers | |
Adam Cooper | Singin' in the Rain | Don Lockwood | |
Lloyd Owen | The Bodyguard | Frank Farmer | |
Mark Umbers | Merrily We Roll Along | Franklin Shepard | |
2014[15] | Gavin Creel | The Book of Mormon | Elder Price |
Declan Bennett | Once | Guy | |
Killian Donnelly | The Commitments | Deco | |
Douglas Hodge | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Willy Wonka | |
Robert Lonsdale | From Here to Eternity | Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt | |
2015[16] | Jon Jon Briones | Miss Saigon | The Engineer |
Alistair Brammer | Miss Saigon | Chris | |
Killian Donnelly | Memphis | Huey Calhoun | |
Robert Lindsay | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Lawrence Jameson | |
Marti Pellow | Evita | Che | |
2016[17] | Matt Henry | Kinky Boots | Lola |
Michael Ball | Mack and Mabel | Mack Sennett | |
Killian Donnelly | Kinky Boots | Charlie Price | |
Ben Forster | Elf | Buddy | |
Sam Mackay | In the Heights | Usnavi De La Vega | |
2017[18] | Charlie Stemp | Half a Sixpence | Arthur Kipps |
Michael C. Hall | Lazarus | Thomas Jerome Newton | |
Ramin Karimloo | Murder Ballad | Tom | |
Andy Karl | Groundhog Day | Phil Connors | |
Michael Xavier | Sunset Boulevard | Joe Gillis | |
2018[19] | John McCrea | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Jamie New |
Hadley Fraser | Young Frankenstein | Frederick Frankenstein | |
Tom Lister | 42nd Street | Julian Marsh | |
Danny Mac | Sunset Boulevard | Joe Gillis | |
Andrew Polec | Bat Out of Hell: The Musical | Strat | |
2019[20] | Jamael Westman | Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton |
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith | Tina | Ike Turner | |
Rob Houchen | Eugenius! | Eugene | |
Jamie Muscato | Heathers: The Musical | Jason "J.D." Dean | |
Giles Terera | Hamilton | Aaron Burr |
2020s
Year | Performer | Musical | Male Identifying Character |
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2020[21] | Sam Tutty | Dear Evan Hansen | Evan Hansen |
David Hunter | Waitress | Dr. Jim Pomatter | |
Charlie Stemp | Mary Poppins | Bert | |
Oliver Tompsett | & Juliet | William Shakespeare | |
Jac Yarrow | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Joseph | |
2021 | Not presented due to impact on theatres of COVID-19 pandemic | ||
2022[22] | |||
Eddie Redmayne | Cabaret | Emcee | |
Roger Bart | Back to the Future: The Musical | Emmett "Doc" Brown | |
Olly Dobson | Marty McFly | ||
Arinzé Kene | Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical | Bob Marley | |
Julian Ovenden | South Pacific | Emile de Becque | |
Ivano Turco | Cinderella | Prince Sebastian |
Multiple wins and nominations
Wins
- 2 wins
Nominations
- 4 nominations
- Michael Ball
- Julian Ovenden
- 3 nominations
- Killian Donnelly
- Daniel Evans
- Douglas Hodge
- Philip Quast
- 2 nominations
- Bertie Carvel
- Adam Cooper
- Ramin Karimloo
- Paul Keating
- Charlie Stemp
- Oliver Tompsett
- Mark Umbers
References
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- ^ "Full list: Winners announced of the 2013 Whatsonstage.com Awards". Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ "Full List: Winners of the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards". Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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- ^ "Nominees for 22nd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards announced". Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
External links
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- Best Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Musical
- Best Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Musical
- Best Performer in a Male Identifying Role in a Play
- Best Performer in a Female Identifying Role in a Play