Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical was an award presented annually at the Lucille Lortel Awards to honor an actor for excellence in a leading role in an Off-Broadway musical production. The categories for lead performance were split into Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical in 2014, before being retired in favor of gender-neutral categories in 2021.
Before the categories were split, several musical performers won or received nominations for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. Winners include Boyd Gaines (2000 for Contact) and Joel Hatch (2008 for The Adding Machine), and nominees include Deven May (2001 for Bat Boy: The Musical), Norbert Leo Butz (2002 for The Last Five Years), Hunter Foster (also 2002 for Urinetown) and Josh Grisetti and Sahr Ngaujah (both 2009 for Enter Laughing The Musical and Fela! respectively).
Conrad Ricamora was the only performer to receive multiple nominations in the category, nominated for both Here Lies Love in 2014 and Soft Power in 2020.
Award winners
- Key
2010s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 |
Michael Cerveris |
Fun Home |
Bruce Bechdel |
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Kyle Riabko |
What's it All About? Bacharach Reimagined |
Performer |
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Jeff Blumenkrantz |
Murder For Two |
All Suspects |
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Jose Llana |
Here Lies Love |
President Ferdinand Marcos |
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Conrad Ricamora |
Ninoy Aquino |
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2015 |
Lin-Manuel Miranda |
Hamilton |
Alexander Hamilton |
|
Claybourne Elder |
Allegro |
Joe Taylor, Jr. |
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Leslie Odom, Jr. |
Hamilton |
Aaron Burr |
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Ben Steinfeld |
Into the Woods |
Baker |
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Adam Chanler-Berat |
The Fortress of Solitude |
Dylan Ebdus |
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2016 |
Steven Pasquale |
The Robber Bridegroom |
Jamie Lockhart |
|
Maurice Hines |
Maurice Hines Tappin' Thru Life |
Himself |
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Gabriel Ebert |
Preludes |
Rach |
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Michael C. Hall |
Lazarus |
Thomas Newton |
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Michael Luwoye |
Invisible Thread |
Jacob |
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2017 |
Ben Platt |
Dear Evan Hansen |
Evan Hansen |
|
Patrick Page |
Hadestown |
Hades |
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Jeremy Secomb |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
Sweeney Todd |
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Ato Blankson-Wood |
The Total Bent |
Marty Roy |
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Shuler Hensley |
Sweet Charity |
Oscar Lindquist |
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2018 |
Damon Daunno |
The Lucky Ones |
Kai |
|
Terrence Mann |
Jerry Springer: The Opera |
Jerry Springer |
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Wade McCollum |
Ernest Shackleton Loves Me |
Ernest Shackleton |
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James Seol |
KPOP |
Jerry |
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Steven Eng |
Pacific Overtures |
Kayama Yesaemon |
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2019 |
Steven Skybell |
Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish |
Tevye |
|
Clifton Alphonzo Duncan |
Carmen Jones |
Joe |
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Andrew Butler |
Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future |
Rags Parkland |
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Sam Bolen |
Midnight at the Never Get |
Performer |
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Jeremy Cohen |
2020s
Year |
Actress |
Play |
Role |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 |
Larry Owens |
A Strange Loop |
Usher |
|
Conrad Ricamora |
Soft Power |
Xuē Xíng |
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Joshua Henry |
The Wrong Man |
Duran |
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Jonathan Groff |
Little Shop of Horrors |
Seymour Krelborn |
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Francis Jue |
Soft Power |
DHH |
Multiple nominations
- 2 nominations
- Conrad Ricamora