The Green Room Award for Male Actor in a Leading Role (Music Theatre) is an annual award recognising excellence in the performing arts in Melbourne. The peer-based Green Room Awards were first presented in February 1984, for productions in 1983.[1]
Winners are in bold; nominees are provided when all nominees in that year are known.
| Year | Actor | Production | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 1st | |||
| 1984 2nd | |||
| Jon English | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirate King | |
| 1985 3rd | |||
| Jon Ewing | La Cage Aux Folles | Albin | |
| 1986 4th | |||
| Peter Adams | Guys and Dolls | Nathan Detroit | |
| 1987 5th | |||
| David Atkins | Dancin' Man | ||
| 1988 6th | |||
| Lewis Fiander | My Fair Lady | Henry Higgins | |
| 1989 7th | |||
| Simon Burke | Anything Goes | Billy Crocker | |
| Geoffrey Chard | Man of La Mancha | Cervantes/Don Quixote | |
| Cameron Daddo | Big River | Huckleberry Finn | |
| Michael Edward-Stevens | Big River | Jim | |
| D.J. Foster | Pastrana | Charles Lent | |
| Year | Actor | Production | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 8th | |||
| Rob Guest | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | |
| 1991 9th | |||
| Anthony Warlow | The Phantom of the Opera | Phantom | |
| Nick Carrafa | Hair | Claude | |
| Cameron Daddo | The Wizard of Oz | Scarecrow | |
| Drew Forsythe | The Venetian Twins | Zanetto/Tonino | |
| David Whitney | The Wizard of Oz | Tin Man | |
| 1992 10th | |||
| John Waters | Looking Through a Glass Onion | John Lennon | |
| Jeffrey Black | The Pirates of Penzance | Pirate King | |
| Marty Fields | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | ||
| Rhys Muldoon | Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down | ||
| D.J. Foster | Return to the Forbidden Planet | Dr Prospero | |
| John Wood | King of Country | Chook Fowler | |
| 1993 11th | |||
| Keith Michell | Scrooge | Ebenezer Scrooge | |
| 1994 12th | |||
| Derek Metzger | Me and My Girl | Bill Snibson | |
| Michael Cormick | Falsettos | Whizzer | |
| John O'May | Falsettos | Marvin | |
| Merfyn Owen | Rigoletto: A Perversion | ||
| 1995 13th | |||
| Drew Forsythe | The Mikado | Ko-Ko | |
| David Gould | The Mikado | The Mikado | |
| Bruce Myles | Assassins | ||
| John O'May | Assassins | John Wilkes Booth | |
| Grant Smith | Beauty and the Beast | Lumiere | |
| 1996 14th | |||
| No award given | |||
| 1997 15th[2] | |||
| John O'May | A Little Night Music | Fredrik Egerman | |
| Paul Blackwell | The Venetian Twins | Zanetto/Tonino | |
| Philip Gould | Crazy for You | Bobby Child | |
| Derek Metzger | Chess | Anatoly | |
| Jeremy Stanford | Sweet Charity | Oscar Lindquist | |
| 1998 16th | |||
| Topol | Fiddler on the Roof | Tevye | |
| Kanen Breen | Vincent an a cappella opera | ||
| Michael McCarthy | Les Misérables | Javert | |
| Timothy Shew | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | |
| 1999 17th[3] | |||
| Todd McKenney | The Boy From Oz | Peter Allen | |
| Philip Gould | Show Boat | Gaylord Ravenal | |
| Barry Otto | Show Boat | Cap'n Andy | |
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