Rarest Tony Award for Best Musical Winner — All 65 Answers Ranked by Rarity

65 answers are accepted for “Name a Tony Award for Best Musical winner”. Sam Spewack is the rarest Tony Award for Best Musical winner in this ranking, with 219 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Bella Spewack is the second-rarest with 330 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.51× the figure for Sam Spewack. Hadestown is the most common Tony Award for Best Musical winner in this ranking, with 1,618,985 monthly Wikipedia views, 7,393× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 65 answers: 11,441,007. Sam Spewack is under 0.1% of that total. 13 answers are Epic or Legendary: Sam Spewack (Legendary), Bella Spewack (Legendary), Jack Weinstock (Legendary), and 10 more.

Quick answer

Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).

Ranked answers

65 answers to “Name a Tony Award for Best Musical winner”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this prompt.
Rank	Answer	Tier	Rarity	Monthly Wikipedia views
1	Sam Spewack on Wikipedia	Legendary	1.000	219
2	Bella Spewack on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.984	330
3	Jack Weinstock on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.969	803
4	Willie Gilbert on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.953	1,186
5	Jerome Chodorov on Wikipedia	Legendary	0.938	1,529
6	Robert Wright on Wikipedia	Epic	0.922	1,789
7	Michael J. Moritz Jr. on Wikipedia	Epic	0.906	2,137
8	Franklin Lacey on Wikipedia	Epic	0.891	2,164
9	Richard Pike Bissell on Wikipedia	Epic	0.875	2,196
10	Douglass Wallop on Wikipedia	Epic	0.859	2,305
11	George Forrest on Wikipedia	Epic	0.844	2,544
12	Joseph Fields on Wikipedia	Epic	0.828	2,993
13	Burt Shevelove on Wikipedia	Epic	0.813	3,012
14	Herbert Fields on Wikipedia	Rare	0.797	3,118
15	Jerome Weidman on Wikipedia	Rare	0.781	3,542
16	Luther Davis on Wikipedia	Rare	0.766	4,074
17	Joe Darion on Wikipedia	Rare	0.750	4,259
18	Jerry Ross on Wikipedia	Rare	0.734	6,841
19	Michael Stewart on Wikipedia	Rare	0.719	9,073
20	Howard Lindsay on Wikipedia	Rare	0.703	9,729
21	Sherman Edwards on Wikipedia	Rare	0.688	10,826
22	Lee Adams on Wikipedia	Rare	0.672	11,152
23	Jo Swerling on Wikipedia	Rare	0.656	11,858
24	Betty Comden on Wikipedia	Rare	0.641	21,738
25	Big River on Wikipedia	Rare	0.625	23,620
26	Dorothy Fields on Wikipedia	Rare	0.609	25,072
27	George Abbott on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.594	25,438
28	Jerry Bock on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.578	26,085
29	Albert Hague on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.563	26,166
30	Sheldon Harnick on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.547	26,865
31	Russel Crouse on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.531	29,429
32	Charles Lederer on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.516	29,913
33	Richard Adler on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.500	31,851
34	Frederick Loewe on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.484	33,299
35	Adolph Green on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.469	33,649
36	Charles Strouse on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.453	33,749
37	Joshua Logan on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.438	34,984
38	Jerry Herman on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.422	39,002
39	Abe Burrows on Wikipedia	Uncommon	0.406	41,715
40	Frank Loesser on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.391	57,082
41	Larry Gelbart on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.375	59,305
42	Aladdin on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.359	61,090
43	Alan Jay Lerner on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.344	63,413
44	Meredith Willson on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.328	75,896
45	Alexander Borodin on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.313	77,397
46	A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.297	82,114
47	A Strange Loop on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.281	86,850
48	LaChanze on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.266	96,854
49	Damn Yankees on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.250	99,754
50	Man of La Mancha on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.234	131,497
51	Sidney Sheldon on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.219	132,098
52	Oscar Hammerstein II on Wikipedia	Familiar	0.203	282,493
53	Billy Porter on Wikipedia	Common	0.188	307,603
54	Cole Porter on Wikipedia	Common	0.172	383,524
55	Richard Rodgers on Wikipedia	Common	0.156	395,497
56	The Sound of Music on Wikipedia	Common	0.141	408,514
57	Leonard Bernstein on Wikipedia	Common	0.125	496,982
58	Dear Evan Hansen on Wikipedia	Common	0.109	501,551
59	Rent on Wikipedia	Common	0.094	554,705
60	Stephen Sondheim on Wikipedia	Common	0.078	656,732
61	Les Misérables on Wikipedia	Common	0.063	779,337
62	The Book of Mormon on Wikipedia	Common	0.047	910,944
63	Jennifer Hudson on Wikipedia	Common	0.031	1,163,962
64	Hamilton on Wikipedia	Common	0.016	1,376,574
65	Hadestown on Wikipedia	Common	0.000	1,618,985

FAQ

What is the rarest Tony Award for Best Musical winner?

Sam Spewack is the rarest Tony Award for Best Musical winner in this ranking, with 219 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).

How many Tony Award for Best Musical winners are there?

There are 65 Tony Award for Best Musical winners in this ranking, from Sam Spewack (rarest) to Hadestown (most common).

What is the most common Tony Award for Best Musical winner?

Hadestown is the most common Tony Award for Best Musical winner in this ranking, with 1,618,985 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).

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Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.