Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical

Drama Desk Award
for Outstanding Scenic Design
Drama Desk Award ; for Outstanding Scenic Design
Awarded for	Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical
Location	New York City
Country	United States
Presented by	Drama Desk
First awarded	1996
Currently held by	Paul Tate DePoo III for The Great Gatsby (2024)
Website	dramadesk.org (defunct)

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

The award was established in 1969, with the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design being presented each year to any play or musical production. Starting in 1996, the singular award was replaced by separate play and musical categories, but then merged again from 2010 to 2015; the separate play and musical categories have again co-existed since 2016.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Year	Designer	Production
1996
	Brian Thomson	*The King and I*
	G.W. Mercier	Bed and Sofa
	Christina Poddubiuk, James Noone and Robin Wagner	Big: the musical
	Robin Wagner	Victor/Victoria
1997
	Robin Phillips	Jekyll & Hyde
	Clarke Dunham	Candide
	G.W. Mercier and Julie Taymor	Juan Darien
	James Morgan	No Way to Treat a Lady
	Tony Walton	Steel Pier
	Wendall K. Harrington	Steel Pier
1998
	Richard Hudson	*The Lion King*
	Robert Brill	Cabaret
	Eugene Lee	Ragtime
	Wendall K. Harrington	Ragtime
1999
	Lez Brotherston	Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
	David Gallo	You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
	Riccardo Hernandez	Parade
	G.W. Mercier and Jan Hartley	Dream True

2000s

Year	Designer	Production
2000
	Robin Wagner	*Kiss Me, Kate*
	Julian Crouch and Graeme Gilmour	Shockheaded Peter
	David Gallo	The Wild Party
	Thomas Lynch	Contact
	Thomas Lynch	The Music Man
2001
	Robin Wagner	*The Producers*
	Heidi Ettinger	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
	Richard Hoover and Bryan Johnson	Bat Boy: The Musical
	David Rockwell	The Rocky Horror Show
	Douglas Schmidt	42nd Street
2002
	Douglas Schmidt	*Into the Woods*
	Beowulf Boritt	The Last Five Years
	Bob Crowley	Sweet Smell of Success
	David Gallo	Thoroughly Modern Millie
	Anthony Ward	Oklahoma!
2003
	Catherine Martin	*La Bohème*
	Riccardo Hernandez	Radiant Baby
	Scott Pask	Amour
	David Rockwell	Hairspray
	Stéphane Roy	Cirque du Soleil: Varekai
2004
	Eugene Lee	*Wicked*
	John Lee Beatty	Wonderful Town
	Robert Brill	Assassins
	Tom Pye	Fiddler on the Roof
	Mark Thompson	Bombay Dreams
2005
	Michael Yeargan	*The Light in the Piazza*
	Lez Brotherston	Play Without Words
	Tim Hatley	Monty Python's Spamalot
	Scott Pask	Sweet Charity
	David Rockwell	All Shook Up
	Anthony Ward	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
2006
	David Gallo	*The Drowsy Chaperone*
	Michael Bottari and Ronald Case	Fanny Hill
	John Doyle	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Thomas Lynch	See What I Wanna See
	Allen Moyer	Grey Gardens
	Scott Pask	The Wedding Singer
2007
	Bob Crowley	*Mary Poppins*
	Beowulf Boritt	LoveMusik
	Anna Louizos	In the Heights
	Anna Louizos	Curtains
	David Rockwell	Legally Blonde
	Kris Stone	Brundibar/But the Giraffe
2008
	Michael Yeargan	*South Pacific*
	David Gallo	A Catered Affair
	Takeshi Kata	Adding Machine
	Derek McLane	10 Million Miles
	George Tsypin	The Little Mermaid
	Robin Wagner	Young Frankenstein
2009
	Tim Hatley	Shrek the Musical
	Anna Louizos	Irving Berlin's White Christmas
	Thomas Lynch	Happiness
	Scott Pask	9 to 5
	Scott Pask	Hair
	Basil Twist	Arias with a Twist

2010s

Year	Designer	Production
2016
	David Rockwell	*She Loves Me*
	Es Devlin	American Psycho
	Emily Orling, Matt Saunders and Eric Farber	Futurity
2017
	Mimi Lien	*Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812*
	Les Brotherson	946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
	Simon Kenny	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
	Santo Loquasto	Hello, Dolly!
	Jason Sherwood	The View UpStairs
2018
	David Zinn	*SpongeBob SquarePants*
	Louisa Adamson and Christian Barry	Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
	Beowulf Boritt	Prince of Broadway
	Dane Laffrey	Once on This Island
	Santo Loquasto	Carousel
2019
	David Korins	*Beetlejuice*
	Rachel Hauck	Hadestown
	Laura Jellinek	Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
	Laura Jellinek	Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future
	Rae Smith	Girl from the North Country

2020s

Year	Designer	Production
2020
	Derek McLane	Moulin Rouge!
	Julian Crouch	Little Shop of Horrors
	Anna Louizos	Scotland, PA
	Clint Ramos	Soft Power
	Amy Rubin and Brittany Vasta	Octet
2021	No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City^[1]
2022
	Beowulf Boritt	Flying Over Sunset
	Emma Bailey	Six
	Bunny Christie	Company
	David Zinn	Kimberly Akimbo
2023
	Beowulf Boritt	New York, New York
	David Korins	Only Gold
	Scott Pask	Shucked
	Walt Spangler & Brendan McCann (production props)	Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical
	Michael Yeargan	Camelot
2024
	Paul Tate DePoo III	The Great Gatsby
	AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian	The Outsiders
	Riccardo Hernández	Suffs
	Arnulfo Maldonado	Dead Outlaw
	Grace Smart	Good Vibrations: A Punk Rock Musical

References

^ Evans, Greg (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-12-03.

External links

[1] Evans, Greg (2021-05-05). "Broadway To Reopen Sept. 14, Says Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Broadway League "Cautiously Optimistic"". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-12-03.

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