At the 2019 Grammy Awards, the Tony-winning musical The Band's Visit took home the award for Best Musical Theater Album, in a category of nominees that included Carousel, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, My Fair Lady, and Once On This Island.
To celebrate, we're taking a look back at the history of the award for Best Musical Theater Album—spanning all the way back to 1959, when Meredith Wilson's The Music Man became the award's first ever recipient at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards.
Can you name all 62 winning albums?
The Music Man (1950)
Gypsy and Redhead (1960)
The Sound of Music (1961)
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962)
No Strings (1963)
She Loves Me (1964)
Funny Girl (1965)
On a Clear Day You Cant See Forever (1966)
Mame (1967)
Cabaret (1968)
Hair (1969)
Promises, Promises (1970)
Company (1971)
Godspell (1972)
Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (1973)
A Little Night Music (1974)
Raisin (1975)
The Wiz (1976)
Bubbling Brown Sugar (1977)
Annie (1978)
Ain't Misbehavin' (1979)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1980)
Evita (1981)
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1982)
Dreamgirls (1983)
Cats (1984)
Sunday in the Park with George (1985)
West Side Story (1986)
Follies In Concert (1987)
Les Miserables (1988)
Into the Woods (1989)
Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1990)
Les Miserables: The Complete Symphonic Recording (1991)
The Will Rogers Follies (1992)
Guys and Dolls (1993)
The Who's Tommy (1994)
Passion (1995)
Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller (1996)
Riverdance (1997)
Chicago: The Musical (1998)
The Lion King (1999)
Annie Get Your Gun (2000)
Aida (2001)
The Producers (2002)
Hairspray (2003)
Gypsy (2004)
Wicked (2005)
Monty Python's Spamalot (2006)
Jersey Boys (2007)
Spring Awakening (2008)
In the Heights (2009)
West Side Story (2010)
American Idiot (2011)
The Book of Mormon (2012)
Once (2013)
Kinky Boots (2014)
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (2015)
Hamilton (2016)
The Color Purple (2017)
Dear Evan Hansen (2018)
The Band's Visit (2019)
