Tony Award for Best Original Score

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The Tony Award for Best Original Score is a prestigious Broadway theater honor recognizing the composers and lyricists of the most outstanding new musical score in an eligible play or musical each season.

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instanceOf Tony Award
music award
theatre award
alsoKnownAs Tony Award for Best Original Score
surface form: Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Tony Award for Best Original Score
surface form: Tony Award for Best Score
awardFor best original score
outstanding new musical score
categoryType creative award
writing award
ceremonyLanguage English
country United States of America
surface form: United States
eligibilityCriterion new score in a season
original music and/or lyrics
eligibleWorks Broadway musicals
Broadway plays
field Broadway theater
surface form: Broadway theatre

musical theatre
firstAwardedFor 1947 Broadway season
focus music composition
song lyrics
frequency annual
hasComponent nominees list each season
single winner each season
hasSubcriterion score must be substantially original
score must be written specifically for the theatre
honours composer
lyricist
inception 1947
industry Broadway
location New York City
medium live theatre
namedAfter Antoinette Perry
organisedBy Tony Awards Administration Committee
partOf Tony Award
surface form: Tony Awards
presentedAt Tony Awards telecasts
surface form: Tony Awards ceremony
presentedBy American Theatre Wing
The Broadway League
region Broadway Theatre District
surface form: Broadway in Manhattan
relatedTo Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Musical
scope commercial Broadway productions
selectionMethod voted on by Tony Awards voters
significance one of the major creative Tony categories
typicalAnnouncementTime late spring
website https://www.tonyawards.com

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