Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical

;Key 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Artists with multiple wins==

;4 wins • Stephen Sondheim ;3 wins • Thomas Meehan • Cy Coleman • James Lapine ;2 wins • Terrence McNally • Jeanine Tesori • Marc Shaiman • Scott Wittman • Bob Martin ==Artists with multiple nominations==

;8 nominations • Stephen Sondheim ;7 nominations • Andrew Lloyd Webber • Alan Menken • Terrence McNally • Jeanine Tesori ;6 nominations • Lynn Ahrens • John Kander • Fred Ebb • Michael John LaChiusa ;5 nominations • Thomas Meehan • Cy Coleman • Stephen Flaherty • George Gershwin • Ira Gershwin • Tim Rice • David Yazbek ;4 nominations • John Weidman • Alfred Uhry • James Lapine • Susan Birkenhead • Jason Robert Brown ;3 nominations • Marvin Hamlisch • Michael Stewart • Stephen Schwartz • Howard Ashman • Peter Stone • Don Black • George C. Wolfe • Bob Martin • Chad Beguelin • Glenn Slater • Michael R. Jackson ;2 nominations • Robert Waldman • Kurt Weill • Oscar Hammerstein II • Eubie Blake • Michel Legrand • Mark Bramble • Arthur Kopit • Maury Yeston • Sybille Pearson • David Shire • Richard Maltby, Jr. • Rupert Holmes • Polly Pen • Richard Stilgoe • Charles Hart • Marsha Norman • Jonathan Larson • Jim Lewis • Adam Guettel • David Thompson • Elton John • William Finn • Frank Wildhorn • Andrew Lippa • Laurence O'Keefe • Dick Scanlan • Marc Shaiman • Scott Wittman • Robert Lopez • Craig Lucas • Doug Wright • Marshall Brickman • Rick Elice • Matthew Sklar • Duncan Sheik • Lin-Manuel Miranda • Nell Benjamin • Julian Fellowes • Harvey Fierstein • Douglas Carter Beane • David Lindsay-Abaire • Joe DiPietro • Dave Malloy • Sara Bareilles • Itamar Moses • Joe Tracz • Lynn Nottage • Robert Horn ==See also==