Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical
Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical | |
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Awarded for | Best Male Actor in a Musical |
Location | Australia |
Presented by | Live Performance Australia |
Currently held by | Callum Francis for Kinky Boots (2017) |
Website | HelpmannAwards.com.au |
The Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical is a musical award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2001.[1] This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour.
- Source:[2][3]
2000s
Year | Actor | Production | Character(s) |
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2001 (1st) | |||
Todd McKenney | The Boy from Oz | Peter Allen | |
Anthony Warlow | Annie | Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks | |
David Campbell | Shout! The Legend of the Wild One | Johnny O'Keefe | |
Rob Guest | Jolson | Al Jolson | |
2002 (2nd) | |||
Peter Coleman-Wright | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sweeney Todd | |
Martin Crewes | Oh! What a Night | Rik | |
Robert Grubb | Mamma Mia! | Harry Bright | |
Wayne Scott Kermond | Singin' in the Rain | Cosmo Brown | |
2003 (3rd) | |||
Toby Allen | Cabaret | The Emcee | |
Paul McDermott | The Witches of Eastwick | Darryl van Horne | |
Anthony Warlow | Man of La Mancha | Don Quixote | |
John Waters | Oliver! | Fagin | |
2004 (4th) | |||
Matt Hetherington | The Full Monty | Jerry | |
Peter Carroll | The Republic of Myopia | President of Myopia and Maximilian Sault | |
Michael Falzon | We Will Rock You | Galileo | |
Tony Harvey | The Lion King | Scar | |
2005 (5th) | |||
Mitchell Butel | The Venetian Twins | Zanetto | |
Kane Alexander | Urinetown | Bobby Strong | |
Shane Bourne | Urinetown | Officer Lockstock | |
Reg Livermore | The Producers | Max Bialystock | |
2006 (6th) | |||
David Campbell | Sunset Boulevard | Joe | |
David Campbell | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | Chip Tolentino | |
Ian Stenlake | Oklahoma! | Curly McLain | |
Chaim Topol | Fiddler on the Roof | Tevye | |
2007 (7th) | |||
iOTA | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig | |
David Harris | Miss Saigon | Chris | |
Hugh Jackman | The Boy from Oz | Peter Allen | |
Tony Sheldon | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Bernadette | |
2008 (8th) | |||
Lochlan Denholm, Nick Twiney, Rarmian Newton and Rhys Kosakowski | Billy Elliot the Musical | Billy Elliot | |
iOTA | The Rocky Horror Show | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | |
Mitchell Butel | Little Me | Various[A] | |
Anthony Warlow | The Phantom of the Opera | The Phantom | |
2009 (9th) | |||
Bille Brown | Monty Python's Spamalot | King Arthur | |
Reg Livermore | My Fair Lady | Professor Henry Higgins | |
Todd McKenney | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Tick | |
Eddie Perfect | Shane Warne: The Musical | Shane Warne |
2010s
Year | Actor | Production | Character(s) |
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2010 (10th) | |||
Mitchell Butel | Avenue Q | Princeton | |
Michael Cormick | Mamma Mia! | Sam Carmichael | |
Bobby Fox | Jersey Boys | Frankie Valli | |
Geoffrey Rush | The Drowsy Chaperone | Man in Chair | |
2011 (11th) | |||
Matt Lee | Mary Poppins | Bert | |
David Harris | Wicked | Fiyero | |
Ben Lewis | Love Never Dies | The Phantom | |
Anthony Warlow | Doctor Zhivago | Yuri Zhivago | |
2012 (12th) | |||
Mitchell Butel | The Mikado | Ko-Ko | |
Trevor Ashley | Fat Swan | Natalie Portly | |
Justin Burford | Rock of Ages | Drew Boley | |
Anthony Warlow | Annie | Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks | |
2013 (13th) | |||
Geoffrey Rush | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Pseudolus | |
David Harris | Legally Blonde | Emmett Forrest | |
Wayne Scott Kermond | The Producers | Max Bialystock | |
John Waters | The Addams Family | Gomez Addams | |
2014 (14th) | |||
Craig McLachlan | Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | |
Matt Hetherington | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Freddy Benson | |
Martin Crewes | Sweet Charity | Charlie, Vittorio and Oscar | |
Josh Quong Tart | The Lion King | Scar | |
2015 (15th) | |||
Simon Gleeson | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | |
Todd McKenney | La Cage aux Folles | Albin | |
Anything Goes | Lord Evelyn Oakleigh | ||
Hayden Tee | Les Misérables | Javert | |
2016 (16th) | |||
James Millar | Matilda the Musical | Miss Trunchbull | |
Rob Mills | Ghost the Musical | Sam Wheat | |
Anthony Warlow | Fiddler on the Roof | Tevye | |
Brent Hill | Little Shop of Horrors | Seymour | |
2017 (17th) | |||
Callum Francis | Kinky Boots | Lola | |
Charles Edwards | My Fair Lady | Henry Higgins | |
AJ Holmes | The Book of Mormon | Elder Cunningham | |
Ainsley Melham | Aladdin | Aladdin | |
2018 (18th) | |||
David Campbell | Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical | Bobby Darin | |
Ian Stenlake | Mamma Mia! | Sam Carmichael | |
David Campbell | Assassins | John Wilkes Booth | |
David Harris | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Tick | |
Euan Doidge | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Felicia | |
2019 (19th)[4] | |||
Brent Hill | School of Rock the Musical | Dewey | |
Paul Slade Smith | Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Willy Wonka | |
Alexander Lewis | Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: West Side Story | Tony | |
Blake Bowden | The Book of Mormon | Elder Price |
See also
Notes
- A^ : In Little Me, Mitchell Butel plays all the men in the life of character Belle Poitrine, including: Noble Eggleston, Mr. Pinchley, Benny and Bernie Buchsbaum, Val du Val, Fred Poitrine, Otto Schnitzler, Mr. Worst and Prince Cherney.[5]
References
- ^ "About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees". Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2003. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
- ^ "q broadway: The Production Comp". Q Magazine. 2007.
External links
- The official Helpmann Awards website
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Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical
- Todd McKenney (2001)
- Peter Coleman-Wright (2002)
- Toby Allen (2003)
- Matt Hetherington (2004)
- Mitchell Butel (2005)
- David Campbell (2006)
- iOTA (2007)
- Lochlan Denholm, Nick Twiney, Rarmian Newton, Rhys Kosakowski (2008)
- Bille Brown (2009)
- Mitchell Butel (2010)
- Matt Lee (2011)
- Mitchell Butel (2012)
- Geoffrey Rush (2013)
- Craig McLachlan (2014)
- Simon Gleeson (2015)
- James Millar (2016)
- Callum Francis (2017)
- David Campbell (2018)
- Brent Hill (2019)