Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show
The Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Male Dancer in a Broadway Show was an annual award presented to a male dancer for their work on a Broadway production. The award was included when the awards began in 1982, as the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards.
The award was separated from Off-Broadway productions, which received its own category, in 2017, when the awards were renamed in honor of Chita Rivera. The award was replaced by the gender-neutral Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Dancers in a Broadway Show in 2023.
Gregg Burge, Norbert Leo Butz, Jared Grimes and Tony Yazbeck each won the award two times, the most of any performer. Hugh Jackman, Butz, Ephraim Sykes and Yazbeck hold the record for most nominations in the category, with three each.
Winners and nominees
1980s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
1982 |
Don Correia |
Little Me |
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1983 |
Charles 'Honi' Coles |
My One and Only |
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1984 |
Hinton Battle |
The Tap Dance Kid |
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1985 |
No award given. |
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1986 |
Gregg Burge |
Song and Dance |
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1987 |
Robert Lindsay |
Me and My Girl |
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1988 |
Herbert Rawlings |
Dreamgirls |
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1989 |
No award given. |
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1990s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
1990 |
Robert Lambert |
Gypsy |
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1991 |
Gregg Burge, Stanley Wayne Mathis and Kevin Ramsey |
Oh, Kay! |
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1992 |
Gregory Hines |
Jelly's Last Jam |
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1993 |
No award given. |
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1994 |
Scott Wise |
Damn Yankees |
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1995 |
No award given. |
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1996 |
Savion Glover |
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk |
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1997 |
No award given. |
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1998 |
No award given. |
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1999 |
Adam Cooper |
Swan Lake |
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2000s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
2000 |
Clyde Alves |
The Music Man |
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2001 |
Michael Arnold |
42nd Street |
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2002 |
Justin Bohon |
Oklahoma! |
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2003 |
John Sely |
Movin' Out |
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2004 |
Hugh Jackman |
The Boy From Oz |
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2005 |
Norbert Leo Butz |
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels |
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2006 |
No award given. |
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2007 |
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2008 |
Spencer Liff |
Cry-Baby |
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2009 |
David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish |
Billy Elliot |
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2010s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
2010 |
Charlie Neshyba-Hodge |
Come Fly Away |
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Keith Roberts |
Come Fly Away |
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John Selya |
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy |
Burn the Floor |
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Ensemble Dancers |
Memphis |
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2011 |
Norbert Leo Butz |
Catch Me If You Can |
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Nick Adams |
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
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Colman Domingo |
The Scottsboro Boys |
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Joshua Henry |
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Colin Donnell |
Anything Goes |
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Josh Gad |
The Book of Mormon |
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Daniel Radcliffe |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
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Aaron Tveit |
Catch Me If You Can |
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2012 |
Leslie Odom Jr. |
Leap of Faith |
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Matthew Broderick |
Nice Work If You Can Get It |
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Robert Hartwell |
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Jeremy Jordan |
Disney's Newsies |
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Ephraim Sykes |
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Ryan Breslin |
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Thayne Jasperson |
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Ryan Steele |
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Jason Tam |
Lysistrata Jones |
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Danny Burstein |
Follies |
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Ricky Martin |
Evita |
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Hugh Jackman |
Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway |
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2013 |
Eric LaJuan Summers |
Motown |
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Rob McClure |
Chaplin |
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Andy Mills |
Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella |
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Billy Porter |
Kinky Boots |
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Charlie Sutton |
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2014 |
Jared Grimes |
After Midnight |
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Julius Chisolm |
After Midnight |
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Virgil Gadson |
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Desmond Richardson |
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Nick Cordero |
Bullets Over Broadway |
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Neil Patrick Harris |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
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James Monroe Iglehart |
Aladdin |
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Andy Karl |
Rocky |
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2015 (tie) |
Robert Fairchild |
An American in Paris |
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Tony Yazbeck |
On The Town |
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Clyde Alves |
On The Town |
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Jay Armstrong Johnson |
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Phillip Attmore |
On the Twentieth Century |
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Rick Faugno |
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Drew King |
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Richard Riaz Yoder |
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Christian Borle |
Something Rotten! |
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Alex Sharp |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
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2016 |
Phillip Attmore |
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed |
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Alex Brightman |
School of Rock |
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Daveed Diggs |
Hamilton |
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Carlos Gonzalez |
On Your Feet! |
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Luis Salgado |
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Curtis Holland |
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed |
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Kendrick Jones |
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2017 |
Corbin Bleu |
Holiday Inn |
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John Bolton |
Anastasia |
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Max Clayton |
Bandstand |
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Ryan Kasprzak |
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Ricky Ubeda |
Cats |
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Tyler Hanes |
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2018 |
Tony Yazbeck |
Prince of Broadway |
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Norbert Leo Butz |
My Fair Lady |
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Andrei Chagas |
Carousel |
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Amar Ramasar |
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Gavin Lee |
SpongeBob SquarePants |
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2019 |
Ephraim Sykes |
Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations |
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Corbin Bleu |
Kiss Me, Kate |
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Rick Faugno |
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James T. Lane |
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Jeremy Pope |
Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations |
2020s
Year |
Recipient |
Production |
Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
2020 |
No awards ceremony held due to COVID-19 pandemic. |
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2021 |
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2022 (tie) |
Myles Frost |
MJ |
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Jared Grimes |
Funny Girl |
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Sidney DuPont |
Paradise Square |
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A.J. Shively |
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Hugh Jackman |
The Music Man |
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Tony Yazbeck |
Flying Over Sunset |
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Multiple wins
- 2 wins
- Gregg Burge
- Norbert Leo Butz
- Jared Grimes
- Tony Yazbeck
Multiple nominations
- 3 nominations
- Hugh Jackman
- Norbert Leo Butz
- Ephraim Sykes
- Tony Yazbeck
- 2 nominations
- Gregg Burge
- Clyde Alves
- John Selya
- Jared Grimes
- Phillip Attmore
- Corbin Bleu