| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding Orchestrations |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Drama Desk |
| First awarded | 1983 |
| Currently held by | Charlie Rosen & Bryan Carter for Some Like It Hot (2023) |
| Website | dramadesk.org (defunct) |
The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in musical theatre across collective Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. This category was eliminated after the 2011 ceremony, only to be reinstated about a week later due to popular and overwhelming demand from much of the Broadway community.
| Year | Orchestrator | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | ||
| Michael Gibson | My One and Only | |
| Hans Spialek | On Your Toes | |
| 1984 | ||
| Michael Starobin | Sunday in the Park with George | |
| Jonathan Tunick | Baby | |
| Jim Tyler | La Cage aux Folles | |
| 1985 | ||
| Steven Margoshes and Danny Troob | Big River | |
| Bill Byers | Grind | |
| Michael Starobin | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | |
| La bohème | ||
| 1986 | ||
| Rupert Holmes | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | |
| Ralph Burns | Sweet Charity | |
| James McElwaine | Goblin Market | |
| 1987 | ||
| John Cameron | Les Misérables | |
| Wally Harper | Barbara Cook: A Concert for the Theatre | |
| Michael Starobin | Rags | |
| Chris Walker | Me and My Girl | |
| 1988 | ||
| David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber | The Phantom of the Opera | |
| Michael Gibson | Anything Goes | |
| Michael Starobin | Birds of Paradise | |
| Jonathan Tunick | Into the Woods | |
| 1989 | — | |
| Year | Orchestrator | Production |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| Tom Kitt | Jagged Little Pill | |
| Alex Lacamoire | The Wrong Man | |
| Or Matias and Dave Malloy | Octet | |
| Danny Troob, John Clancy, and Larry Hochman | Soft Power | |
| Jonathan Tunick | West Side Story | |
| 2021 | No awards: New York theatres shuttered, March 2020 to September 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City[1] | |
| 2022 | ||
| Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg | MJ | |
| Tom Curran | Six | |
| Greg Jarrett | Assassins | |
| Mark Hartman and Yasuhiko Fukuoka | The Streets of New York | |
| 2023 | ||
| Bryan Carter and Charlie Rosen | Some Like It Hot | |
| Bruce Coughlin | A Man of No Importance | |
| Jason Howland | Shucked | |
| Kenny Seymour | The Harder They Come | |
| Daryl Waters and Sam Davis | New York, New York | |
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