Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

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Grammy Award category music award theatre award

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding cast recordings of musical theater productions.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album canonical	28
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album	2
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album (as part of Hamilton cast)	2
Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album	2
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album (1974–1975)	1
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album (Original Cast) (1976–1986)	1
Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Show Album (1987–1991)	1
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album (as part of In the Heights cast)	1
Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album (1959–1961)	1
Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album (1962–1963)	1
Grammy Award for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album	1
Grammy Award for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album (1964–1973)	1
Grammy Award for Hairspray (cast recording)	1
Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206194 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
Context triple: [Jennifer Hudson, awardReceived, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album]

A. Grammy Award for Song of the Year
The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is a major annual music industry honor recognizing outstanding songwriting for a single track.
B. Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding original songs composed specifically for films, television, video games, or other visual media.
C. Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in the music industry, recognizing the overall artistic achievement and production excellence of a full album across all genres.
D. Tony Award
The Tony Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing excellence in live Broadway theatre.
E. Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing excellence in spoken word recordings, including audiobooks, poetry, and storytelling performances.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding cast recordings of musical theater productions.

A. Grammy Award for Song of the Year
The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is a major annual music industry honor recognizing outstanding songwriting for a single track.
B. Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding original songs composed specifically for films, television, video games, or other visual media.
C. Grammy Award for Album of the Year
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is one of the most prestigious honors in the music industry, recognizing the overall artistic achievement and production excellence of a full album across all genres.
D. Tony Award
The Tony Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing excellence in live Broadway theatre.
E. Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing excellence in spoken word recordings, including audiobooks, poetry, and storytelling performances.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grammy Award category ⓘ music award ⓘ theatre award ⓘ
administeredBy	Recording Academy ⓘ surface form: National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
alsoKnownAs	Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album ⓘ surface form: Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album
awardFor	best musical theater cast recording ⓘ outstanding musical theater album ⓘ
awardLevel	national ⓘ
ceremonyFrequency	annual ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
currentNameEffectiveFrom	2012 ⓘ
eligibility	commercially released recordings ⓘ recordings released within the Grammy eligibility year ⓘ
field	musical theatre ⓘ recorded music ⓘ
firstPresentedAt	2nd Annual Grammy Awards ⓘ
genreFocus	Broadway cast recordings ⓘ West End cast recordings ⓘ other professional musical theater recordings ⓘ
hasCategoryType	genre-specific recording award ⓘ
hasNameInPeriod	Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album (1974–1975) Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album (Original Cast) (1976–1986) Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Show Album (1987–1991) Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album (1959–1961) Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album (1962–1963) Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Score from an Original Cast Show Album (1964–1973)
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.grammy.com ⓘ
inception	1959 ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
medium	album ⓘ
notableWinner	Dear Evan Hansen ⓘ surface form: Dear Evan Hansen (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Hamilton (musical) ⓘ surface form: Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Les Misérables (Original Broadway Cast Recording) ⓘ The Lion King (stage musical) ⓘ surface form: The Lion King (Original Broadway Cast Recording) The Phantom of the Opera ⓘ surface form: The Phantom of the Opera (Original London Cast Recording) Wicked (musical) ⓘ surface form: Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
originalName	Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album
partOf	Grammy Award ⓘ surface form: Grammy Awards
presentedBy	Recording Academy ⓘ surface form: The Recording Academy
prestige	major American music award ⓘ
recordingType	cast recording ⓘ
relatedTo	Tony Award for Best Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Original Score ⓘ
selectionProcess	voted on by members of The Recording Academy ⓘ
typicalRecipients	album producers ⓘ principal composer ⓘ principal lyricist ⓘ principal vocalists ⓘ

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Referenced by (44)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jennifer Hudson → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album ⓘ

Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album → originalName → Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album