‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ ‘Just in Time’ & More 2026 Grammy Front-Runners for Best Musical Theater Album

Maybe Happy Ending had a large nighttime astatine the Tony Awards successful June, winning six awards (more than immoderate different amusement this year), including champion philharmonic and champion archetypal score. The show’s stars, Darren Criss and Helen J. Shen, performed “Chasing Fireflies” and “Never Fly Away” connected the telecast. Will that construe into a Grammy triumph for champion philharmonic theatre medium erstwhile the 68th yearly Grammy Awards are presented connected Feb. 1?

If the medium wins, Criss, who won a Tony for champion pb histrion successful a musical, volition beryllium three-quarters of his mode to an EGOT. He won a Primetime Emmy successful 2018 for outstanding pb histrion successful a constricted oregon anthology bid oregon movie for playing spree slayer Andrew Cunanan successful The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. (That’s what you telephone range.) Criss would stock the Grammy for Maybe Happy Ending with Hue Park and Will Aronson, who collaborated connected the score.

First, Maybe Happy Ending indispensable beryllium nominated. Grammy nominations volition beryllium announced connected Nov. 7. The field, arsenic ever successful this category, is packed with cast albums from some caller shows and revivals; from Broadway, off-Broadway and London’s West End, successful summation to immoderate workplace formed recordings.

Buena Vista Social Club and Death Becomes Her, which tied with Maybe Happy Ending for the astir Tony nominations of immoderate shows this twelvemonth (10), are besides apt to beryllium nominated. All 3 shows are inactive moving connected Broadway.

Buena Vista Social Club features euphony by Buena Vista Social Club, whose landmark 1997 medium of the aforesaid sanction won a Grammy for champion accepted tropical Latin medium and a Billboard Latin Music Award for tropical/salsa medium of the twelvemonth by a group. In 2022, the medium was voted into the National Recording Registry. Two years aboriginal it was voted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The Buena Vista Social Club ensemble performed “Candela” connected the Tony telecast.

Death Becomes Her prima Megan Hilty performed the entertaining “For the Gaze” connected the telecast. Noel Carey and Julia Mattison collaborated connected the score.

Sunset Blvd: The Album is besides a beardown contender. The revival of the amusement by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber won 3 Tonys, including 1 for Nicole Scherzinger, who managed to bushed the all-time Tony winner, Audra McDonald, for champion pb ...