Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical

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.

Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical
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

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour.

• Source:^[2][3]

2000s

Year	Actor	Production	Character(s)
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)
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

• Helpmann Awards

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]