Here are the highlights from this year’s Tony Awards.
The 79th Tony Awards, celebrated at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday night, spread the wealth this year. “Death of a Salesman” collected the most statuettes with six wins, including for best play revival. “Ragtime,” “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each took home four wins. And “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” earned three.
Bess Wohl’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Liberation” was awarded the Tony for best play; “Schmigadoon!” won best new musical; and “Ragtime” won best musical revival.
At 80, John Lithgow became one of the oldest Tony Award winners for his role as the cantankerous, antisemitic children’s author Roald Dahl in “Giant.” Lesley Manville, 70, took home the trophy for best actress in a play for “Oedipus.” And several performers celebrated their first Tony wins: Caissie Levy and Joshua Henry for “Ragtime”; Alden Ehrenreich for “Becky Shaw,” and Shoshana Bean for “The Lost Boys.”
The Tonys arrived after a year of shrinkflation, as Helen Shaw, our chief theater critic put it. Just 11 musicals, both new and revivals, opened this season, compared to 21 in the previous year. Still, the slate of offerings also amounted to an “embarrassment of riches,” she wrote. There was a glittering array of scene-stealing moments in this year’s shows. And productions keep getting starrier as they bet on celebrities to boost ticket sales, both onstage and behind the scenes as co-producers.
The ceremony was hosted by the pop singer-songwriter Pink, who, suspended in air, flipped upside down as Peter Pan, dazzled in feathers for an opening number of “Lady Marmalade” and performed as a vamping Velma Kelly in a “Chicago” anniversary act.
Here is the full list of winners.
Best New Musical
“Schmigadoon!”
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Nominees in this category: “The Lost Boys”; “Titaníque”; “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”
Best New Play
“Liberation”
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Nominees in this category: “The Balusters”; “Giant”; “Little Bear Ridge Road”
Best Musical Revival
“Ragtime”
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Nominees in this category: “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”; “The Rocky Horror Show”
Best Play Revival
“Death of a Salesman”
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Nominees in this category: “Becky Shaw”; “Every Brilliant Thing”; “Fallen Angels”; “Oedipus”
Best Leading Actor in a Musical
Joshua Henry, “Ragtime”
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Nominees in this category: Nicholas Christopher, “Chess”; Luke Evans, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Sam Tutty, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”; Brandon Uranowitz, “Ragtime”
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
Caissie Levy, “Ragtime”
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Nominees in this category: Sara Chase, “Schmigadoon!”; Stephanie Hsu, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Marla Mindelle, “Titaníque”; Christiani Pitts, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”
Best Leading Actor in a Play
John Lithgow, “Giant”
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Nominees in this category: Will Harrison, “Punch”; Nathan Lane, “Death of a Salesman”; Daniel Radcliffe, “Every Brilliant Thing”; Mark Strong, “Oedipus”
Best Leading Actress in a Play
Lesley Manville, “Oedipus”
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Nominees in this category: Rose Byrne, “Fallen Angels”; Carrie Coon, “Bug”; Susannah Flood, “Liberation”; Kelli O’Hara, “Fallen Angels”
Best Direction of a Musical
Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Nominees in this category: Michael Arden, “The Lost Boys”; Lear deBessonet, “Ragtime”; Christopher Gattelli, “Schmigadoon!”; Tim Jackson, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”
Best Direction of a Play
Joe Mantello, “Death of a Salesman”
Nominees in this category: Nicholas Hytner, “Giant”; Robert Icke, “Oedipus”; Kenny Leon, “The Balusters”; Whitney White, “Liberation”
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Alden Ehrenreich, “Becky Shaw”
Nominees in this category: Christopher Abbott, “Death of a Salesman”; Danny Burstein, “Marjorie Prime”; Brandon J. Dirden, “Waiting for Godot”; Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”; Richard Thomas, “The Balusters”
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Laurie Metcalf, “Death of a Salesman”
Nominees in this category: Betsy Aidem, “Liberation”; Marylouise Burke, “The Balusters”; Aya Cash, “Giant”; June Squibb, “Marjorie Prime”
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Ali Louis Bourzgui, “The Lost Boys”
Nominees in this category: André De Shields, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”; Bryce Pinkham, “Chess”; Ben Levi Ross, “Ragtime”; Layton Williams, “Titaníque”
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Shoshana Bean, “The Lost Boys”
Nominees in this category: Hannah Cruz, “Chess”; Rachel Dratch, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Ana Gasteyer, “Schmigadoon!”; Nichelle Lewis, “Ragtime”
Best Book of a Musical
“Schmigadoon!,” Cinco Paul
Nominees in this category: “The Lost Boys,” David Hornsby and Chris Hoch; Cinco Paul; “Titaníque,” Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli and Tye Blue; “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Chloe Lamford, “Death of a Salesman”
Nominees in this category: Hildegard Bechtler, “Oedipus”; Takeshi Kata, “Bug”; David Korins, “Dog Day Afternoon”; David Rockwell, “Fallen Angels”
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Dane Laffrey, “The Lost Boys”
Nominees in this category: dots, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Soutra Gilmour, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”; Rachel Hauck, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”; Scott Pask, “Schmigadoon!”
Best Costume Design of a Play
Jeff Mahshie, “Fallen Angels”
Nominees in this category: Brenda Abbandandolo, “Dog Day Afternoon”; Qween Jean, “Liberation”; Emilio Sosa, “The Balusters”; Paul Tazewell, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Qween Jean, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Nominees in this category: Linda Cho, “Ragtime”; Linda Cho, “Schmigadoon!”; Ryan Park, “The Lost Boys”; David I. Reynoso, “The Rocky Horror Show”
Best Original Score
“Schmigadoon!,” Cinco Paul
Nominees in this category: “Death of a Salesman,” Caroline Shaw; “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Steve Bargonetti; “The Lost Boys,” the Rescues; “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” Jim Barne and Kit Buchan
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jack Knowles, “Death of a Salesman”
Nominees in this category: Isabella Byrd, “Dog Day Afternoon”; Natasha Chivers, “Oedipus”; Stacey Derosier, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”; Heather Gilbert, “Bug”; Heather Gilbert, “The Fear of 13”
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, “The Lost Boys”
Nominees in this category: Kevin Adams, “Chess”; Jane Cox, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Donald Holder, “Schmigadoon!”; Adam Honoré, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”; Adam Honoré and Donald Holder (lighting design) and 59 Studio (projection design),“Ragtime”
Best Sound Design of a Play
Mikaal Sulaiman, “Death of a Salesman”
Nominees in this category: Justin Ellington, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”; Tom Gibbons, “Oedipus”; Lee Kinney, “The Fear of 13”; Josh Schmidt, “Bug”
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Kai Harada, “Ragtime”
Nominees in this category: Kai Harada, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”; Adam Fisher, “The Lost Boys”; Brian Ronan, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Walter Trarbach, “Schmigadoon!”
Best Choreography
Arturo Lyons and Omari Wiles, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Nominees in this category: Christopher Gattelli, “Schmigadoon!”; Ellenore Scott, “Ragtime”; Ani Taj, “The Rocky Horror Show”; Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant, “The Lost Boys”
Best Orchestrations
Doug Besterman and Mike Morris, “Schmigadoon!”
Nominees in this category: Ethan Popp, Kyler England, Adrianne “AG” Gonzalez and Gabriel Mann, “The Lost Boys”; Lux Pyramid, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)”; Brian Usifer, “Chess”; Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Wilson, Trevor Holder and Doug Schadt, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Mary-Mitchell Campbell
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
André Bishop, Jules Fisher and James Lapine
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