21.   The production received four Tony nominations, including one for best musical.

22.   The script won the Writers Guild Award for best American musical.

23.   The Tony contest for best musical.

24.   The Tony Award for best musical seems all but ordained.

25.   There is also a strong consensus about the category of best musical and several smaller awards.

26.   This left the subsequent two-hour CBS broadcast to distribute the awards for best play, best musical, best revivals and all of the acting awards.

27.   Winning best musical or best play, they say, means money in the bank.

28.   Authors and producers originally shared the Tony for best musical.

29.   Authors and producers originally shared the Tony Award for best musical.

30.   Both shows won Tony Awards for best musical.