A gender-flipped revival of Stephen Sondheim’s basic 1970 musical Firm and the brand new play The Lehman Trilogy every received 5 awards on the 2022 Tony Awards. The awards have been held at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York on Sunday (June 12).
MJ, a jukebox musical constructed across the music of Michael Jackson, received 4 awards. Myles Frost received greatest efficiency by an actor in a number one function in a musical for enjoying the famous person. He’s the third performer in 4 years to win a Tony for enjoying a pop icon, following Stephanie J. Block as Star (Cher) in The Cher Present and Adrienne Warren as Tina Turner in Tina. The stronger-than-expected exhibiting for MJ got here in the identical venue the place Jackson skilled certainly one of his greatest skilled disappointments – when he went 0-4 on the thirtieth Annual Grammy Awards in March 1988 with Dangerous, his follow-up to the Grammy-sweeping Thriller.
A Unusual Loop received simply two awards, however one was the evening’s greatest award, greatest musical. Michael R. Jackson wrote the e book, music and lyrics for A Unusual Loop, which payments itself as “The Large, Black & Queer American Musical.” Jackson is simply the fifth particular person to single-handedly write the e book, music and lyrics for a Tony winner for greatest musical for the reason that inception of the class in 1949. The earlier people to attain this feat have been Rupert Holmes (The Thriller of Edwin Drood, 1986), Jonathan Larson (Hire, 1996), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, 2016) and Anaïs Mitchell (Hadestown, 2019). As you possibly can see, the incidence of Tony successful musicals that have been the artistic output of only one particular person are sharply on the rise.
A Unusual Loop received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hire and Hamilton additionally received that award, as have simply 4 different Tony winners for greatest musical – South Pacific (1950), Fiorello! (1960), How you can Reach Enterprise With out Actually Attempting (1962) and A Refrain Line (1976).
Jennifer Hudson was certainly one of 44 people or entities who acquired a producer’s credit score (and thus a Tony Award) for A Unusual Loop. With this award, she turns into the seventeenth particular person to develop into an EGOT. She is the third-youngest individual to finish the awards sweep (trailing Robert Lopez and John Legend) and the third Black EGOT (following Whoopi Goldberg and Legend). Different credited producers of the present included such bold-faced names as RuPaul, Don Cheadle, Alan Cumming, Mindy Kaling and Billy Porter.
Firm received greatest revival of a musical for a second time. A 2007 revival additionally received that award. Firm is the third musical to win greatest revival of a musical twice. Revivals of The King and I and La Cage Aux Folles have been additionally received that award twice. All three of those reveals received greatest musical of their authentic incarnations.
Two actors from Firm received Tonys. (No actors in earlier productions of the present had received Tonys.) Broadway legend Patti LuPone received greatest featured actress for enjoying Joanne, a job originated by one other Broadway legend, Elaine Stritch. Matt Doyle received greatest featured actor for enjoying Jamie, the gender-switched function originated by Beth Howland (as Amy). This was the third Tony win for LuPone, who received greatest actress in a musical in Evita and Gypsy.
Marianne Elliott received greatest path in a musical for Firm. She beforehand received two Tonys for greatest path in a play for co-directing Conflict Horse (2011) and directing The Curious Incident of the Canine within the Night time-time (2015). Elliott, 55, is the primary lady to win in each of those classes.
Simon Hale received greatest orchestrations for his work on Woman from The North Nation, a musical of Bob Dylan songs. Hale was nominated in the identical class three years in the past for Tootsie.
Sam Mendes received greatest path of a play for The Lehman Trilogy. Mendes received that very same award three years in the past for The Ferryman. Mendes received an Oscar for greatest director for 1999’s American Magnificence.
Take Me Out received greatest revival of a drama. Richard Greenberg’s play received greatest play in 2003.
for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, which acquired seven nods, and The Music Man, which acquired six nods, have been each shut out.
Bernadette Peters sang “Kids Will Hear” from Into the Wooden (1987) in tribute to Stephen Sondheim, who died in November. That is the second main awards present to pay tribute to Sondheim. On the Grammys in April, Cynthia Erivo, Ben Platt, Leslie Odom Jr. and Rachel Zegler sang three Sondheim songs (“Not a Day Goes By,” “Ship within the Clowns” and “Someplace”) as a part of the In Memoriam phase.
Billy Porter sang “On the Avenue The place You Stay” from My Honest Woman (1956) over the In Memoriam spot – an sudden however apt alternative. The heartfelt ballad from the Lerner & Loewe basic gave the spot added poignance.
Angela Lansbury, a five-time Tony winner who hosted the Tony telecast 5 instances (greater than anybody else), acquired a lifetime achievement award. Lansbury, 96, was not current to simply accept the award in individual.
The seventy fifth Annual Tony Awards, hosted by latest Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, have been broadcast stay coast-to-coast on CBS on Sunday, June 12, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET/5 p.m. to eight p.m. PT. This marked the primary time in Tony historical past that the present aired stay coast-to-coast. (Yeah!) Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss produced the present, with Weiss additionally directing.
The Tonys have been preceded by a one-hour particular on Paramount+, “The Tony Awards: Act One,” co-hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough.
The 2021-22 eligibility season ran from Aug. 1, 2021 to Could 4, 2022. The Tony Awards are introduced by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
Right here’s a whole listing of 2022 Tony nominees (with winners marked and bolded). Musical classes are listed first, adopted by performs:
Greatest Musical
Woman From The North Nation, Producers: Tristan Baker & Charlie Parsons for Runaway Leisure, Steven Lappin, Sony Music Leisure/Sony ATV, David Mirvish, Len Blavatnik, The Dodgers, Eric & Marsi Gardiner, Dianne Roberts, John Gore Group, Nederlander Shows, Inc., Tommy Mottola, Impartial Presenters Community, Rod Kaats, Diana DiMenna, Mary Beth O’Connor, Barbara H. Freitag, Patrick Catullo, Aaron Lustbader, The Outdated Vic, Matthew Warchus, Kate Varah, Georgia Gatti, The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Patrick Willingham, Mandy Hackett
MJ, Producers: Lia Vollack, John Branca, John McClain, Sony Photos Leisure, Sony Music Entertaiment, Roy Furman, Cue to Cue Productions, James L. Nederlander, Kumiko Yoshii, Naoya Kinoshita, Latitude Hyperlink, Sweet Spelling, Stephen C. Byrd, John Gore Group, Sandy Robertson, Ed Walson, Peter W. Could, CJ ENM, Martin Bandier, Michael Cassel Group, Albert Nocciolino, Playful Productions, Ken Schur, Willette & Manny Klausner, Doug Morris, Michael David, Property of Michael Jackson
Mr. Saturday Night time, Producers: James L. Nederlander, Face Productions, Inc., Hunter Arnold, Michael Cohl, TEG Dainty, Sweet Spelling, Steve Traxler, Marc David Levine, Caiola Productions, Crossroads Stay, Jamie deRoy, Roy Furman, Arny Granat, Grove Leisure, John Gore Group, Wolf Gutterman, Van Kaplan, Larry Magid, Peter Could, Carl Moellenberg, Beth W. Newburger, Albert Nocciolino, Eva Value, Iris Smith, The Shubert Group, Howard Tenenbaum, Barry and Fran Weissler
Paradise Sq.
Producers: Garth H. Drabinsky, Peter LeDonne, Jeffrey A. Sine, Matthew C. Clean, Joe Crowley, RSR Finance LLC, Hunter & Mariana Milborne, Len Blavatnik, Joseph Coffey, Sherry Wright & Craig Haffner, Bernard Abrams, James Scrivanich, Rick Chad, Arthur M. Kraus, Broadway & Past Theatricals, Brian Luborsky, Gilbert & Elisa Palter, The Shubert Group, Terry Schnuck, City One, Inc., Robert Wolf, Richard Stursberg, Mark W. Everson, Sanjay Govil, Jeremiah J. Harris, Amabel James, Sheila C. Johnson,
Dennis Mehiel, Louise H. & John G. Beard, Henry R. Muñoz, III & Kyle Ferari Muñoz, Walter Swett, Zachary Florence, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
SIX: The Musical, Producers: Kenny Wax, Wendy & Andy Barnes, George Stiles, Kevin McCollum, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
WINNER: A Unusual Loop
Producers: Barbara Whitman, Pasek, Paul & Stafford, Hunter Arnold, Marcia Goldberg, Alex Levy & James Achilles, Osh Ashruf, A Choir Full Productions, Don Cheadle & Bridgid Coulter Cheadle, Paul Oakley Stovall, Jimmy Wilson, Annapurna Theatre, Robyn Coles, Artistic Companions Productions, Robyn Gottesdiener, Kayla Greenspan, Grove Leisure, Kuhn, Lewis & Scott, Frank Marshall, Most Effort Productions Inc., Joey Monda, Richard Mumby, Phenomenal Media & Meena Harris, Marc Platt & Debra Martin Chase, Laurie Tisch, Yonge Avenue Theatricals, Dodge Corridor Productions/JJ Malley, Cody Renard Richard, John Gore Group, James L. Nederlander, The Shubert Group, RuPaul Charles, Alan Cumming, Ilana Glazer, Jennifer Hudson, Mindy Kaling, Billy Porter, Web page 73 Productions, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Firm, Playwrights Horizons
Greatest Revival of a Musical
Caroline, or Change, Producers: Roundabout Theatre Firm, Todd Haimes, Julia C. Levy, Sydney Beers, Steve Dow, Lot’s Spouse, Hunter Arnold, Caiola Productions/Willette & Manny Klausner, Chambers -D’Angora/Joseph & Alyson Graci
WINNER: Firm, Producers: Elliott & Harper Productions, The Shubert Group, Catherine Schreiber, Nederlander Shows, Inc., Crossroads Stay, Anapurna Theatre, Hunter Arnold, No Ensures, Jon B. Platt, Michael Watt, John Gore Group, Tim Levy, Grove – REG, Hornos – Mollenberg, Levine – Federman – Adler, Beard – Merrie – Robbins, LD Leisure/Madison Wells Stay, Benjamin Lowy/Roben Alive, Daryl Roth/Tom Tuft, Salmira Productions/Caiola Productions, Aged in Wooden/Lee – Sachs, Berinstein – Lane/forty second.membership, Boyett – Miller/Hodges – Kukieiski, Finn – DeVito/Impartial Presenters Community, Armstrong – Ross/Gilad – Rogowsky, Boardman – Koenigsberg/Zell – Seriff, Harmony Theatricals – Scott Sanders Productions/Abrams – Could, deRoy – Brunish/Jenen – Rubin, Fakston Productions/Sabi – Lerner – Ketner, Maggio – Abrams/Hopkins – Tackel, Levy & Chauviere, Jujamcyn Theaters
The Music Man
Producers: Barry Diller, David Geffen, Kate Horton, Fictionhouse
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Function in a Musical
Billy Crystal, Mr. Saturday Night time
WINNER: Myles Frost, MJ
Hugh Jackman, The Music Man
Rob McClure, Mrs. Doubtfire
Jaquel Spivey, A Unusual Loop
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Function in a Musical
Sharon D Clarke, Caroline, or Change
Carmen Cusack, Flying Over Sundown
Sutton Foster, The Music Man
WINNER: Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Sq.
Mare Winningham, Woman From the North Nation
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Function in a Musical
WINNER: Matt Doyle, Firm
Sidney DuPont, Paradise Sq.
Jared Grimes, Humorous Woman
John-Andrew Morrison, A Unusual Loop
A.J. Shively, Paradise Sq.
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Function in a Musical
Jeannette Bayardelle, Woman From the North Nation
Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night time
Jayne Houdyshell, The Music Man
L Morgan Lee, A Unusual Loop
WINNER: Patti LuPone, Firm
Jennifer Simard, Firm
Greatest Route of a Musical
Stephen Brackett, A Unusual Loop
WINNER: Marianne Elliott, Firm
Conor McPherson, Woman From the North Nation
Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage, SIX: The Musical
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ
Greatest Ebook of a Musical
Woman From the North Nation, Conor McPherson
MJ, Lynn Nottage
Mr. Saturday Night time, Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel
Paradise Sq., Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas & Larry Kirwan
WINNER: A Unusual Loop, Michael R. Jackson
Greatest Authentic Rating (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Flying Over Sundown, Music: Tom Kitt, Lyrics: Michael Korie
Mr. Saturday Night time, Music: Jason Robert Brown, Lyrics: Amanda Inexperienced
Paradise Sq., Music: Jason Howland, Lyrics: Nathan Tysen & Masi Asare
WINNER: SIX: The Musical, Music and Lyrics: Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss
A Unusual Loop, Music & Lyrics: Michael R. Jackson
Greatest Choreography
Camille A. Brown, for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Warren Carlyle, The Music Man
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, SIX: The Musical
Invoice T. Jones, Paradise Sq.
WINNER: Christopher Wheeldon, MJ
Greatest Orchestrations
David Cullen, Firm
Tom Curran, SIX: The Musical
WINNER: Simon Hale, Woman from The North Nation
Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg, MJ
Charlie Rosen, A Unusual Loop
Greatest Scenic Design of a Musical
Beowulf Boritt and 59 Productions, Flying Over Sundown
WINNER: Bunny Christie, Firm
Arnulfo Maldonado, A Unusual Loop
Derek McLane and Peter Nigrini, MJ
Allen Moyer, Paradise Sq.
Greatest Costume Design of a Musical
Fly Davis, Caroline, or Change
Toni-Leslie James, Paradise Sq.
William Ivey Lengthy, Diana, The Musical
Santo Loquasto, The Music Man
WINNER: Gabriella Slade, SIX: The Musical
Paul Tazewell, MJ
Greatest Lighting Design of a Musical
Neil Austin, Firm
Tim Deiling, SIX: The Musical
Donald Holder, Paradise Sq.
WINNER: Natasha Katz, MJ
Bradley King, Flying Over Sundown
Jen Schriever, A Unusual Loop
Greatest Sound Design of a Musical
Simon Baker, Woman From The North Nation
Paul Gatehouse, SIX: The Musical
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Firm
Drew Levy, A Unusual Loop
WINNER: Gareth Owen, MJ
Greatest Play
Clyde’s
Creator: Lynn Nottage; Producers: Second Stage Theater, Carole Rothman, Khady Kamara
Hangmen
Creator: Martin McDonagh; Producers: Robert Fox, Jean Doumanian, Elizabeth I. McCann, Craig Balsam, Atlantic Theater Firm, Jon B. Platt, Len Blavatnik, Richard Fishman, John Gore Group, Stephanie P. McClelland, David Mirvish, The Shubert Group, Jamie deRoy/Sandy Robertson, Patrick Myles/Alexander ‘Sandy’ Marshall, M. Kilburg Reedy/Excelsior Leisure, Playful Productions, The Royal Court docket Theatre
WINNER: The Lehman Trilogy, Creator: Stefano Massini, Ben Energy; Producers: Nationwide Theatre, Neal Avenue Productions, Barry Diller, David Geffen, Kash Bennett, Lisa Burger, Caro Newling, Ambassador Theatre Group, Stephanie P. McClelland, Annapurna Theatre, Delman Whitney, Craig Balsam/Heni Koenigsberg/John Yonover, Fiery Angel/Seth A. Goldstein, Starry
Night time Leisure, Gavin Kalin Productions, Paul & Selina Burdell/Invoice Damaschke, forty second.membership/Phil & Claire Kenny, CatWenJam Productions, Amanda Dubois, Glass Half Full Productions, Dede Harris/Linda B. Rubin, Kallish Weinstein Artistic, Kors Le Pere Theatricals LLC, James L. Nederlander, No Ensures, Mark Pigott KBE, KStJ, Enjoying Subject, Catherine Schreiber/Adam Zell, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Richard Winkler/Alan Shorr/Daybreak Smalberg, The Shubert Group, Impartial Presenters Community, John Gore Group, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Jillian Robbins
The Minutes, Creator: Tracy Letts; Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Gold, Carl Moellenberg, Spencer Ross, Louise Gund, Elizabeth Armstrong, Blakeman Leisure, HornosBerger, Throughout the River Productions, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley/Leah Lane, Jayne Baron Sherman, Kathleen Ok. Johnson, Emily Dobbs, Robert Flicker, Jacob Soroken Porter, The Shubert Group, Steppenwolf Theatre Firm
Skeleton Crew, Creator: Dominique Morisseau; Producers: Manhattan Theatre Membership, Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove
Greatest Revival of a Play
American Buffalo, Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Steve Traxler, Stephanie P. McClelland, GFour Productions, Spencer Ross, Gemini Theatrical, Chris and Ashlee Clarke, Suna Mentioned Maslin, Ted & Richard Liebowitz/Cue to Cue Productions, Patty Baker/Good Productions, Brad Blume, Caiola Productions, Joanna Carson, Arthur Kern, Willette Klausner, Jeremiah J. Harris and Darren P. Deverna, Van Kaplan, Patrick Myles/David Luff, Alexander Marshall, Ambassador Theatre Group, Kathleen Ok. Johnson, Diego Kolankowsky, Steve and Jacob Levy, Morwin Schmookler, Brian Moreland, Jacob Soroken Porter, The Shubert Group
for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Producers: Nelle Nugent, Ron Simons, Kenneth Teaton, Ellen Ferguson and Vivian Phillips, Willette and Manny Klausner, Hunter Arnold, Dale Franzen, Valencia Yearwood, One Group, Audible, Dennis Grimaldi, Terry Nardozzi and Tracey Knight Narang, Grace Nordhoff/Mickalene Thomas, Angelina Fiordellisi/Caiola Productions, The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Patrick Willingham, Mandy Hackett
How I Discovered to Drive, Creator: Paula Vogel; Producers: Manhattan Theatre Membership, Lynne Meadow, Barry Grove, Daryl Roth, Cody Lassen, Winery Theatre
WINNER: Take Me Out, Producers: Second Stage Theater, Carole Rothman, Khady Kamara
Bother in Thoughts, Producers: Roundabout Theatre Firm, Todd Haimes, Julia C. Levy, Sydney Beers, Steve Dow
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Function in a Play
WINNER: Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy
Adam Godley, The Lehman Trilogy
Adrian Lester, The Lehman Trilogy
David Morse, How I Discovered to Drive
Sam Rockwell, American Buffalo
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues
David Threlfall, Hangmen
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Function in a Play
Gabby Beans, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
LaChanze, Bother in Thoughts
Ruth Negga, Macbeth
WINNER: Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.
Mary-Louise Parker, How I Discovered to Drive
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Function in a Play
Alfie Allen, Hangmen
Chuck Cooper, Bother in Thoughts
WINNER: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out
Ron Cephas Jones, Clyde’s
Michael Oberholtzer, Take Me Out
Jesse Williams, Take Me Out
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Function in a Play
Uzo Aduba, Clyde’s
Rachel Dratch, POTUS: Or, Behind Each Nice Dumbass are Seven Girls Attempting to Hold Him Alive
Kenita R. Miller, for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
WINNER: Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Julie White, POTUS: Or, Behind Each Nice Dumbass are Seven Girls Attempting to Hold Him Alive
Kara Younger, Clyde’s
Greatest Route of a Play
Lileana Blain-Cruz, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
Camille A. Brown, for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
WINNER: Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
Neil Pepe, American Buffalo
Les Waters, Dana H.
Greatest Scenic Design of a Play
Beowulf Boritt, POTUS: Or, Behind Each Nice Dumbass are Seven Girls Attempting to Hold Him Alive
Michael Carnahan and Nicholas Hussong, Skeleton Crew
WINNER: Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
Anna Fleischle, Hangmen
Scott Pask, American Buffalo
Adam Rigg, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
Greatest Costume Design of a Play
WINNER: Montana Levi Blanco, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
Sarafina Bush, for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Emilio Sosa, Bother in Thoughts
Jane Greenwood, Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite
Jennifer Moeller, Clyde’s
Greatest Lighting Design of a Play
Joshua Carr, Hangmen
Jiyoun Chang, for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
WINNER: Jon Clark, The Lehman Trilogy
Jane Cox, Macbeth
Yi Zhao, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
Greatest Sound Design of a Play
Justin Ellington, for coloured ladies who’ve thought-about suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
WINNER: Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.
Palmer Hefferan, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey, The Lehman Trilogy
Mikaal Sulaiman, Macbeth
