Tony Award for Best Revival - Definition and Overview

The Tony Award for Best Revival was presented from 1977 until 1994, when it was split up int the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical and the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. If there are few enough revivals, it is possible under the current Tony rules for the "Best Revival of a Play or Musical" award to return. Any time there are three play revivals and three musical revivals, the categories are automatically separated; if there are fewer, the Tony Awards Administration Committee may still choose to split up the categories.

The award was given to the best play, musical or non-musical, which had already appeared on Broadway in a previous production.

• 1977 (The award was called Most Innovative Production of a Revival)
• Porgy and Bess
  • Guys and Dolls
  • The Cherry Orchard
  • Threepenny Opera

• 1978 Dracula
  • Tartuffe
  • Timbuktu!
  • A Touch of the Poet

No award was presented in 1979.

• 1980 (The award was called Reproduction (Play or Musical))
• Morning's at Seven
  • Major Barbara
  • Peter Pan
  • West Side Story

• 1981 The Pirates of Penzance
  • Brigadoon
  • Camelot
  • The Little Foxes

• 1982 Othello
  • A Taste of Honey
  • My Fair Lady

• 1983 On Your Toes
  • All's Well That Ends Well
  • A View From the Bridge
  • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

• 1984 Death of a Salesman
  • American Buffalo
  • Heartbreak House
  • A Moon for the Misbegotten

• 1985 Joe Egg
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Much Ado about Nothing
  • Strange Interlude

• 1986 Sweet Charity
  • Hay Fever
  • The Iceman Cometh
  • Loot

• 1987 (The award was called Best Revival)
• All My Sons
  • The Front Page
  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
  • Pygmalion

• 1988 Anything Goes
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Cabaret
  • Dreamgirls

• 1989 Our Town
  • Ah, Wilderness!
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • Cafe Crown

• 1990 Gypsy
  • Sweeney Todd
  • The Circle
  • The Merchant of Venice

• 1991 Fiddler on the Roof
  • The Miser
  • Peter Pan

• 1992 Guys and Dolls
  • The Most Happy Fella
  • On Borrowed Time
  • The Visit

• 1993 Anna Christie
  • St. Joan
  • The Price
  • Wilder, Wilder, Wilder