(l) Jason Veasey, James Jackson, Jr., Jaquel Spivey, L Morgan Lee and Antwayn Hopper in “A Strange Loop.”
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(l) Jason Veasey, James Jackson, Jr., Jaquel Spivey, L Morgan Lee and Antwayn Hopper in “A Strange Loop.”
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Monday morning, nominations for the 75the The annual Tony Awards have been announced online. For the first time since the pandemic, Broadway presented a full season, albeit with many postponements and pauses, due to the Delta and Omicron variants of COVID-19, with 34 shows competing for Broadway’s highest honors.
Leading the pack is Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael R. Jackson a strange loop. The show, about a queer black Broadway usher who writes a musical about a queer black Broadway usher, received 11 nominations, including best musical and best score and book for Mr. Jackson.
A different Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is another big contender. MJ, the biographical musical about superstar Michael Jackson, has 10 nominations, including best musical. Lynn Nottage, who wrote the book for the show, is also nominated for best play, for clyde.
Completing the category of best musical is paradise squarea look at the black and Irish communities in New York during the Civil War, with 10 nominations; SIX: The Musicala pop concert about the wives of Henry VIII, with eight nominations; north country girl, a Bob Dylan jukebox show set during the Depression, with seven nominations; Y mr saturday night, Billy Crystal’s adaptation of his own movie about an older comedian trying to make a comeback, with five nominations. Crystal himself is nominated for two awards: Best Actor in a Musical and Best Book of a Musical. (Click for a full list of nominations.)
The best game leader is a story of a financial empire.
(l) Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester in The Lehman Trilogy
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(l) Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester in The Lehman Trilogy
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The favorite for the best work is Stefano Massimi The Lehman Trilogy, adapted by Ben Power, which received eight nominations. The story of the Lehman Brothers, immigrants from 19the Twentieth-century Germany, which built a financial empire, was a mini-epic, with three actors in a revolving glass box. It is nominated for best play, and all three performers are nominated for best actor in a play.
Other nominees for best play include clydeLynn Nottage’s look at five formerly incarcerated people who work in a sandwich shop, with five nominations; executionersMartin McDonagh’s black comedy about the last hangman in England, also with five; skeleton crew, Dominique Morriseau’s look at Detroit autoworkers facing cutbacks, with three nominations; and Tracy Letts’ The minutesa play about a controversial town hall meeting, which reveals some dark secrets.
Although four musicals were eligible to be nominated for best revival, only three got the nod. A revival of funny girlstarring Beanie Feldstein was passed over except for one outstanding actor nominee.
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The gender-reversed revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth Business, a groundbreaking 1970 musical about marriage and a 35-year-old bachelor, received 9 nominations. The revival that pleased the crowd and sold out the music man, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, received six nominations, including for the two leads. Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori Caroline or change opt for three prizes.
Five works are nominated for best revival. Ntozake Shange’s for girls of color who have thought about suicide/when the rainbow is enough it received seven nominations. Despite favorable reviews, the 1975 choreopoem has struggled to find an audience and announced an early closing date.
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by Richard Greenberg ask me outabout a baseball superstar who comes out as gay, has four nominations, the same number as Alice Childress’s 1955 play problems in Mindon racism in Broadway theater and that of David Mamet american buffalo, about three would-be thieves. Paula Vogel’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a girl who is sexually abused by her uncle, how i learned to drive, received three nominations. Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, reprising their roles from the original production, are nominated for Best Performance Awards.
Several shows were completely overlooked.
Every year the shows and the actors are snubbed. In addition to funny girl, several other productions did not receive much love from the nominators. The musical adaptation of the film. Madam. Doubtfire received only one nomination, for lead actor Rob McClure, while flying over the sunset, the original musical about three 1950s celebrities who experiment with LSD, received four nominations but was not nominated for best musical. Daniel Craig, who heads up a revival of Macbeth did not receive a nod, although co-star Ruth Negga did. The sold-out revival of Neil Simon’s Square Suite It earned a costume design nomination, but neither of its stars, Sarah Jessica Parker or Matthew Broderick, are nominated for an award. And several shows were completely overlooked: the new works Chicken and Biscuits, Thoughts of a colored man, Is this a room, Birthday candles Y Ignore.
In a sign that things are getting back to normal a bit, the Tony Awards ceremony will take place at Radio City Music Hall on June 12. Ariana DeBose, the Oscar-winning actress from West Side Story and a veteran of several Broadway shows, will host. At 7 pm ET, exclusive content will air on Paramount+. From 8 to 11 pm ET, the awards ceremony will air on CBS.
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