No, I am not blogging LIVE from the Tony Awards (which are at the Beacon Theatre in New York), but the 66th Annual Tony Awards air in about ten minutes, once again hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, who won an Emmy for hosting the 63rd Annual Tony Awards in 2010, and could be nominated for another Emmy next month for hosting last year's ceremony. All of the technical Tonys are handed out before the three-hour telecast, so that the more interesting races can be shown, and so that the musical performances can be accommodated into the three hour telecast (When PBS and CBS both aired the Tonys together, PBS aired the first 10 categories, while CBS aired the rest).
Final Predictions:
Best Play- Clybourne Park
Best Musical- Newsies
Best Revival of a Play- Death of a Salesman
Best Revival of a Musical- Follies
Best Actor of a Play- Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Death of a Salesman
Best Actress of a Play- Tracie Bennett, The End of a Rainbow
Best Featured Actor of a Play- Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher
Best Featured Actress of a Play- Judith Light, Other Desert Cities
Best Actor of a Musical- Jeremy Jordan, Newsies
Best Actress of a Musical- Audra McDonald, Porgy and Bess
Best Featured Actor of a Musical- Michael Cerveris, Evita
Best Featured Actress of a Musical- Jayne Houdyshell, Follies
Best Director of a Play- Mike Nichols, Death of a Salesman
Best Director of a Musical- Jeff Calhoun, Newsies
Best Choreography- Christopher Gattelli, Newsies
Best Book- Harvey Fierstein, Newsies
Best Score- Alan Menken and Jack Feldman, Newsies
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7:58PM- One minute-plus and counting....
8PM- LIVE from New York, it's Sunday Night! Elder Price from "The Book of Mormon" goes to Ricky Martin's dressing room, who shuts the door, then Matthew Broderick, Cynthia Nixon, James Earl Jones, Judith Light all shut the door, and the cast of "The Book of Mormon" perform. (The Book of Mormon, written by the creators of the Emmy-winning animated series "South Park" swept the Tonys last year)
8:02PM- "Would you like a free religious book? It's written by Jesus."
8:03PM- "This Host Will Change Your Life..."
8:04PM- "Welcome to the 66th Annual Tony Awards, or as we like to call it, '50 Shades of Gay'."- Neil Patrick Harris, opening the ceremony
8:04PM- "Like with sequels, the third one comes with quality."- NPH
8:06PM- Harris goes out in song
8:07PM- "Crazy Dance Routines..."
8:08PM- Broadway legend Patti LuPone joins Harris in the opening number.
8:09PM- "The role of Cam will now be played by me."- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
8:10PM- The "Big Finish" of the Opening Number
8:11PM- Paul Rudd presents the first category (Featured Actress in a Play). "She's featured in this production, she's in it." (Rudd answering the question of what is a Featured Actress)
8:13PM- Judith Light (remember her from One Life to Live and Who's the Boss?) wins the Tony for Featured Actress in a Play for "Other Desert Cities".
8:15PM- Nick Jonas (really?) introduces the first Musical Nominee of the night, based off the 1992 movie (nominated for 6 Golden Raspberry Awards) based on the 1899 Newspaper Strike- "Newsies".
8:16PM- The cast of "Newsies" performs on stage (and unlike "Once", they are dancing on the stage)
8:20PM- "Once" won for Best Orchestrations
8:20PM- Commercial Break # 1
8:24PM- Christopher Gattelli won the Tony for Choreographing "Newsies".
8:25PM- "There's a trend of making movies into musicals." "The Towering Infer-No, No, Newsies", "The Exor-Sister Act", "Field of Dreamgirls", "Psycho Calcutta", "The Bridge of the River Kwai Baby", "My Left Footloose" ("Think of the Dance Numbers")
8:26PM- Amanda Seyfried (SI-FRED) presents the category for Featured Actor in a Musical.
8:27PM- Michael McGrath pulls off an upset for Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Cookie McGee in "Nice Work If You Can Get It", a category that was between former winner Michael Cerveris and "In Living Color" alum David Alan Grier.
8:29PM- Bernadette Peters introduces the Musical Revival Nominee "Follies" (a 1972 nominee for Best Musical).
8:30PM- Danny Burstein (Best Actor in a Musical nominee) performs "The God Why Don't You Love Me Blues" from "Follies".
8:33PM- Another Commercial Break
8:38PM- A performance from "Ghost the Musical"
8:41PM- John Larroquette presents the Tony for Direction of a Musical (followed by Direction of a Play).
8:42PM- John Tiffany wins the Tony for Directing "Once" in his Broadway directorial debut
8:45PM- Mike Nichols wins the Tony for Directing "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman", which is his record 6th Tony, and he gets a standing ovation.
8:46PM- "You see before me a happy man."- Mike Nichols
8:47PM- "A Salesman has got to dream, it goes with the territory."- Mike Nichols
8:48PM- Ben Vereen presents the next Best Revival of a Musical Nominee, the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" (another 1972 Best Musical Nominee and the first of two Andrew Lloyd Webber revivals nominated tonight).
8:50PM- Josh Young (Featured Actor Nominee) and the cast perform "Superstar" from "Jesus Christ Superstar".
8:58PM- Neil Patrick Harris is hanging down (a la Spiderman) while Angela Lansbury and the President of the American Theater Wing, Theodore S. Chapin are on the stage.
9PM- Jessica Chastain presents the Tony for Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.
9:01PM- Christian Borle (the better half of the Marilyn Monroe musical composing team on "Smash") wins the Tony for Featured Actor in a Play for "Peter and the Starcatcher".
9:03PM- Matthew ("Don't Call Me 'Mr. Shoe'") Morrison presents the next Best Musical Nominee, "Nice Work If You Can Get It", full of extravagant dance numbers, Gershwin tunes, and co-stars Matthew Broderick (and Tony nominee for Best Actress) Kelli (with an I) O'Hara, and the ensemble cast.
9:06PM- Enda Walsh won the Tony for Best Book of a Musical for "Once".
9:07PM- Commercial Break
9:11PM- "Once" also won for Sound Design
9:12PM- James Marsden presents the Tony for Featured Actress in a Musical.
9:13PM- Judy Kaye wins the Tony for Actress in a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role as Duchess Estonia in "Nice Work If You Can Get It".
9:15PM- Ellen Barkin (40 New Productions- Plays, Musicals, Revivals, and Special Events, opened this past season on Broadway) introduces "The Year in Plays" (which includes Peter and the Starcatcher, Master Class, Man and Boy, The Mountaintop, The Columnist, Clybourne Park, Wit, Other Desert Cities, One Man, Two Guvnors, Magic Bird, Seminar, The Best Man, Chinglish, The Lyons, The Road to Mecca, End of the Rainbow, Relatively Speaking, Don't Dress for Dinner, Stick Fly, A Streetcar Named Desire, Venus Fur, and Private Lives)
9:17PM- An excerpt from "Peter and the Starcatcher"
9:18PM- An excerpt from "One Man, Two Guvnors"
9:20PM- An impromptu Judy Garland medley
9:22PM- Commercial Break
9:28PM- Neil Patrick Harris performs a medley of Best Score winners (South Pacific, CATS, Annie, A Chorus Line, Hello Dolly!, Evita, Avenue Q, The Light in the Piazza, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, Titanic, Rent, The Wiz, and Man of La Mancha, to name a few).
9:30PM- Sheryl Crow presents the Tony for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics written directly for the stage), of which two of the nominees are NOT Musicals, but Plays.
9:31PM- Alan Menken and Jack Feldman win the Tony for Best Original Score, and Alan Menken finally wins a Tony for Best Original Score, for "Newsies".
9:32PM- "It has been an incredibly long journey for 'Newsies', from the film that made nothing at the Box Office and won us the Razzie for Worst Original Song."- Alan Menken, accepting the Tony
9:32PM- "It never occurred to me that it would take 56 years to accomplish this feat. Look, Ma, a Tony!"- Jack Feldman
9:33PM- B.B. Winans introduces the third Musical Revival nominee, the timeless 1935 classic "Porgy and Bess", featuring Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, and David Alan Grier.
9:38PM- Peter and The Starcatcher won for Sound Design of a Play earlier...
9:39PM- Commercial Break (first commercial this break is the promo for the film adaptation of "Rock of Ages", the 1980s rock musical based off the stage musical of the same name)
9:42PM- Peter and The Starcatcher also won for Costume Design of a Play.
9:42PM- Tyler Perry introduces the Best Revival of a Play category.
9:43PM- They did it again..."Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman" wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Play.
9:45PM- Josh Groban presents "Once", with the cast of "Once" performing a song from the musical.
9:50PM- Follies won the Tony for Costume Design of a Musical
9:50PM- Commercial Break
9:56PM- Peter and the Starcatcher won for Scenic Design of a Play
9:57PM- "While you were away, Tyler Perry just sold the film rights to 'Porgy and Madea'."- Neil Patrick Harris
9:57PM- Jim Parsons introduces the nominees for Best Play- starting with "Clybourne Park" (about a neighborhood in the 1950s that became a predominantly black neighborhood in the 2000s), then "Other Desert Cities" (about a woman about to publish a memoir about a family tragedy in their past), followed by "Peter and the Starcatcher" (about the journey of the origins of Peter Pan), and finally "Venus in Fur" (about a playwright who writes a serious novel).
10:01PM- Parsons presents the Tony for Best Play, which goes to "Clybourne Park". "Clybourne Park", written by Bruce Norris, wins the Tony Award for Best Play.
10:04PM- Cote D'Pablo introduces the fourth and final nominee for Revival of a Musical (and the other Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical in this category), "Evita".
10:05PM- The cast of "Evita" (led by Ricky Martin) performs a song from "Evita".
10:09PM- Commercial Break, but first "Once" won the Tony for Scenic Design of a Musical
10:11PM- First commercial, the promo trailer for "Les Miserables", coming out to the big screen just in time for Oscar season (aka Christmas).
10:13PM- The cast of "Godspell" performs a medley on the stage from the 1971 musical (normally, performances are reserved for shows that are Best Musical [or Musical Revival] nominees, but this is a good exception), the odd show out of a competitive Best Revival of a Musical category this year
10:15PM- Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the stars of the original 1979 Broadway Musical of "Evita", and Mandy and Patti sing lines for Best Revival of a Musical while they present Best Revival of a Musical.
10:17PM- The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess wins the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
10:19PM- Harvey Fierstein introduces a LIVE performance on "Hairspray", direct from the Oasis in the Carribean
10:23PM- Commercial Break
10:29PM- Emanuel Azenberg won a Lifetime Achievement Award; Bernadette Peters with the Isabelle Stevenson Award; Actors Equity Association won a Special Tony; The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C. won the Regional Tony Award
10:30PM- Deborah Lee Furness presents a Special Tony Award to her husband Hugh Jackman.
10:31PM- Hugh Jackman accepts his Special Tony Award.
10:34PM- "I just got terrible news that the cast of 'Hairspray' has been taken over by Pirates...of Penzance."- Neil Patrick Harris
10:34PM- Candice Bergen presents the Tonys for Leading Actor in a Musical, then Leading Actor in a Play.
10:35PM- Steve Kazee wins the Tony for Leading Actor in a Musical for his role as the Unnamed Boy in "Once". (Looks like "Once" will sweep the Tonys, dontcha think?)
10:37PM- "This ensemble, and this woman (Cristin Milloti) are some of the most incredible people I've worked with."- Steve Kazee
10:37PM- Steve Kazee dedicates his Tony to his mother, who passed away on Easter Sunday.
10:38PM- James Corden (from across the pond) wins the Tony Award for Leading Actor in a Play for his role as Francis Henshaw in "One Man, Two Guvnors".
10:39PM- "To be on a list with you is enough, and holding this, it reminds me there is no such thing as 'Best'."- James Corden, accepting his Tony Award
10:41PM- "She's my baby mama, and I can't wait to marry her."- Corden, acknowledging his girlfriend in his acceptance speech
10:42PM- Raul Esparza and the company from the late "Leap of Faith" perform as the fourth and final nominee for Best Musical, which coincidentally is this musical's one and only nomination.
10:45PM- Once won for Lighting Design of a Musical; Commercial Break...only three more categories left...
10:50PM- Peter and the Starcatcher won the Tony for Lighting Design of a Play.
10:50PM- Christopher Plummer presents the Tonys for Leading Actress in both a Musical and a Play. The latter is up first.
10:51PM- Nina Arianda wins the Tony for Leading Actress in a Play for her role as Bamba in the play "Venus in Fur".
10:52PM- "Sir, you were my first crush...when that whistle was blown in 'The Sound of Music', you made my day."- Nina Arianda, to Christopher Plummer, accepting her Tony Award
10:54PM- "I will not do this again..."- Nina Arianda, upon hearing the "cut-off music"
10:55PM- Audra McDonald wins her first Leading Actress Tony (after four Featured Actress Tonys) to win her fifth Tony, this one for her role as Bess in "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess".
10:56PM- "I was a little girl with potbelly and Afro puffs and overdramatic. I found the theatre, and I found my home..."- Audra McDonald, accepting her Tony Award
10:58PM- One last commercial break, and one last category, and then the creators of "South Park"- Trey Parker and Matt Stone will present the final award of the evening, the covetous Best Musical category. Who will win? Leap of Faith? Newsies? Nice Work If You Can Get It? Once? Find out in about 2 minutes.
11:01PM- "Winning the Tony Award for Best Musical can transform your life forever."- Matt Stone; Matt Stone and Trey Parker present the Tony Award for Best Musical.
11:02PM- "Once" wins the Tony Award for Best Musical.
11:04PM- "If I Had Time, I Would Sing A Little Song Recapping The Awards..."- Neil Patrick Harris singing a little ditty to close out the show
11:06PM- That's the end of the Tony Awards. Now, I am off to finish the Bryan and Silver Garbage Award Shortlists and edit sketches for tomorrow night's show. And now, the late night news... 'Night, All!
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Sunday, June 10, 2012
Sunday, June 12, 2011
2011 Tony Awards Results Blog
In less than a half-hour from now, the 65th Annual Tony Awards will air live on CBS, broadcast from Broadway itself at The Beacon Theatre, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, who won an Emmy the last time he hosted the Tonys. "The Book of Mormon", the irreverent musical from the creators of the long-running animated series "South Park" is expected to sweep the Tony Awards tonight. The Tony Awards are all about the big musical numbers from all the musicals, plus performances from our favorite stage stars. (7:37PM)
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8:02PM- Let the show begin with another opening number.
8:03PM- Brooke Shields struggling. She looks great in her gown, as she is a statuesque beauty at a mere 72 inches tall.
8:04PM- The DJBC Happy Hour isn't the only show to poke fun of the Spider Man fiasco that has yet to hit Broadway.
8:06PM- Alec Baldwin presents the first category- Featured (or Supporting) Actress in a Play, or Performance By An Actress in a Featured Role in a Play, all five of these women are first-time nominees, by the way.
8:08PM- Ellen Barkin wins the Tony for her Broadway debut as a doctor in the revival of the 1985 play "The Normal Heart".
8:10PM- "Performing in 'The Normal Heart' is a profound experience for me."- Ellen Barkin; "30 Years Ago, This Country Was Attacked By A Virus, and Larry Kramer went to war with his pen..."; "Thank You For Turning This Production Into a Cocktail..."
8:11PM- 2 J. Pierrepont Finches- Robert Morse and Matthew Broderick present "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"- the first of two Musical Revival Nominees, and introduce Eliot Lawrence, who conducted the original production in the early 1960s.
8:12PM- The H2$ cast is performing "The Brotherhood of Man".
8:17PM- First Commercial Break; Book of Mormon Won for Best Orchestration earlier
8:21PM- The Book of Mormon won earlier for Best Score
8:22PM- Stars share their Broadway moments, starting with John Leguizamo
8:23PM- "I want to get something off my chest...I am Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child."- John Leguizamo
8:24PM- "My first roles were as drug dealers and hit men. I shot Pacino, I shot Harrison Ford, I shot at Bruce Willis..."- Leguizamo about his early film career
8:26PM- Defending Best Actress in a Play champ Viola Davis presents Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.
8:28PM- John Benjamin Hickey wins the Tony for his role as Felix Turner in "The Normal Heart".
8:29PM- "To my family in Plano, Texas, you'd better not be watching the Mavericks game."- John Benjamin Hickey, to his family in Texas, in his acceptance speech
8:30PM- Aaron Tuveit from Best Musical nominee "Catch Me If You Can" presents the show and Best Actor nominee Norbert Leo Butz performs with the cast of the musical, based off the Leonardo DiCaprio/Tom Hanks movie.
8:34PM- Another break coming up.
8:39PM- Kathleen Marshall wins the Tony for Choreographing "Anything Goes" (which happened earlier on)
8:40PM- "I'm not going to spend the whole evening doing 'Spider Man' jokes, that's too easy."- Neil Patrick Harris
8:41PM- Neil Patrick Harris got six jokes done in 30 seconds.
8:42PM- David Hyde Pierce presents Directing in a Musical Tony.
8:43PM- Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker win the Tony for "The Book of Mormon"
8:44PM- Trey Parker thanks the fans of "South Park"
8:44PM- David Hyde Pierce also presents the Directing in a Play Tony.
8:45PM- Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris win their first Tony nomination and win for Directing "The War Horse". This is the first time in Tony history in which the Directing Tonys went to pairs/teams, instead of individuals.
8:47PM- Don Cheadle presents The Scottsboro Boys, the final Kander and Ebb collaboration, the second Best Musical nominee, based on the 1931 trial in Alabama where 9 black men were unjustly imprisoned. Kander and Ebb came up with the score a la Minstrel show style.
8:51PM- Another Commercial Break
8:56PM- American Theatre Wing Chair Ted Chafin and Honorary Chair Angela Lansbury are on stage discussing the things that the American Theatre Wing does the other 364 days a year.
8:58PM- Harry Connick Jr. presents the category for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical.
8:59PM- Nikki M. James wins the Tony Award for her role in "The Book of Mormon".
9:00PM- "Tony come on over, come and live with me."- Nikki M. James, accepting her Tony Award; "They are saying 'wrap it up', but I will not leave this stage."
9:02PM- Stephen Colbert presents "The Book of Mormon", the third nominee for Best Musical.
9:07PM- Great rendition of "I Believe" from "The Book of Mormon", which won the Tony for Best Sound earlier tonight. Another commercial break up now.
9:12PM- Hugh Jackman (past Tony host) comes to the stage and challenges Neil Patrick Harris.
9:13PM- "I only play the big rooms."- Hugh Jackman
9:17PM- Brooke Shields presents the Tony Award for Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.
9:18PM- Five-time Emmy winner John Larroquette wins in his Broadway debut as J.B. Biggley in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".
9:20PM- Bono and The Edge, the composers of "Spider Man: Turn off the Dark" are on the Tony stage.
9:20PM- "We used to be famous for being in U2."- Bono; "When we first saw the Tony Awards on our schedule, we would assume we would be nominated."- Bono; "Reverend Harold Camping came up with his prediction and 'Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark' opens on Tuesday."- Bono
9:22PM- A scene from the upcoming "Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark".
9:26PM- Commercial Break
9:32PM- The 2010-11 Broadway Season was the highest-grossing season on record. Jim Parsons presents the two of the nominees in the Best Play category- "Good People" and "Jerusalem".
9:34PM- A bearded Robin Williams presents Best Book of a Musical.
9:35PM- "Coming next season on Broadway, Muomar Gadhafi in 'Catch Me If You Can.'"; "The only beard is on my face."
9:36PM- Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez win the Tony for Best Book of a Musical for "The Book of Mormon".
9:38PM- Whoopi Goldberg, an EGOT-ist presents the fourth and final nominee for Best Musical, "Sister Act". "'The Lion King' and 'The Color Purple' came on Broadway...'Ghost' is coming soon."
9:42PM- Another Commercial Break
9:46PM- 17 new plays opened up in the 2010-11 season.
9:46PM- Marg Helgenberger presents the other two Best Play nominees- The Mother with the Hat (as CBS is calling it), but it's The Motherfucker with the Hat, and War Horse, a "puppet horse" in World War I, as a boy goes on a mission to find him.
9:48PM- C'mon Ride the Horse, as Neil Patrick Harris rides the War Horse on to the stage. "That horse was held up by glue."- Neil Patrick Harris
9:50PM- Patrick Wilson presents the Tony for Best Revival of a Play, written by Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, and Larry Kramer- Arcadia, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, and The Normal Heart.
9:50PM- "The Normal Heart", Larry Kramer's play about the rise of the AIDS crisis in early 1980s New York City wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Play. The play was first introduced on Broadway in 1985.
9:51PM- "The freedom to love, the freedom to live, and the freedom of marriage are still an issue."- Daryl Roth, a producer of "The Normal Heart", accepting the Best Revival of a Play Tony
9:52PM- "'The Normal Heart' is our history, and I would not have written it, if so many of us had not needlessly died."- Larry Kramer, the playwright of "The Normal Heart".
9:53PM- The cast of last year's Best Musical, "Memphis" perform "Steal Your Heart With Rock and Roll".
9:56PM- "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" won the Tony for Best Costume Design. Anyway, more commercials.
10:02PM- Samuel L. Jackson presents the Tony Award for Best Play. Nominees again are Good People, Jerusalem, The Motherfucker With a Hat, and War Horse.
10:03PM- "War Horse" wins the Tony Award for Best Play. Producer Nicholas Hytner and playwright Nick Stafford accept the Tony for Best Play.
10:05PM- Joel Grey presents the other nominee for Best Revival of a Musical, "Anything Goes", which is ageless as the standards. Pretty hot for a 77 year-old musical.
10:06PM- The cast of the revival "Anything Goes" sing the finale song, which happens to be the title song of the show.
10:09PM- Excellent job by Kathleen Marshall choreographing this excellent number, which was glitzy and glamoury, and on its feet, with the tap dancing cast, led by Best Actress nominee Sutton Foster.
10:10PM- Commercial Break...More to Come...
10:15PM- Producer Philip J. Smith and South African Playwright Athol Fugard won Lifetime Achievement Tonys, and Eve Ensler won the Isabelle Stevenson Award for Humanitarian Achievements, and South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company won a Special Tony for "War Horse"; and Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company won the Regional Tony Award
10:16PM- Dame Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones present highlights from the past Broadway Season
10:17PM- "Theatres are temples. They are mysterious temples shining with magic."- James Earl Jones; "Our plays live in the present, live in the past..."- Dame Vanessa Redgrave
10:19PM- Christie Brinkley, making her debut in "Chicago" this fall; Christie Brinkley presents a performance of the New York Philharmonic Production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' singing "Side by Side" with Tony host Neil Patrick Harris as Bobby. In the original 1970 cast album of this musical, this song is 8 minutes and 42 seconds, this performance is going to be about half that.
10:24PM- Kelsey Grammer presents the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, get ready to flip a coin.
10:25PM- "Anything Goes", which debuted on Broadway over a decade before the Tony Awards were even created, wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.
10:26PM- Tyne Daly introduces the Memoriam Segment.
10:28PM- Arthur Laurents, Michael Langham, Michael Gough, Ellen Stewart, James Gammon, Marcia Lewis Bryan, Jill Clayburg, Sidney Michaels, Hillard Elkins, Betty Garrett, Tom Bosley, Pam Gems, Israel Hicks, Shannon Tavarez, Douglas Leeds, Marian Mercer, Patricia Neal, Arthur Penn, Beverley Randlph, John Willis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerry Bock, Theoni V. Aldredge, Philip Rose, Romulus Linney, John Cossette, Alexander 'Sandy' Speer, Sada Thompson, Helen Stenborg, Randall Wreightt, Lanford Wilson, and Joseph Stein were anong those in the BRoadway community whom passed away in the last year.
"Well friends, it is time to say goodbye."- Joseph Stein
10:29PM- Commercial Break
10:34PM- The Book of Mormon won the Tony for Scenic Design of a Musical.
10:34PM- Daniel Radcliffe, the star of H2$ presents the Tonys for Actress in a Leading Role in a Play and Musical. NOTE: Only FOUR nominees in the latter category.
10:35PM- Frances McDormand wins the Tony for "Good People".
10:36PM- "The last time I was in the Beacon Theatre, 1988. Gregg Allman played here after his liver transplant."- Frances McDormand
10:37PM- "I believe one days that actors will grow up to play these roles."- Frances McDormand in her acceptance speech, citing her character Margie Walsh in "Good People"
10:38PM- There are only 4 Best Actress in a Musical nominees, because not enought actresses were submitted in this category
10:39PM- Sutton Foster wins the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for "Anything Goes", her 2nd Tony. She won in 2002 in the same category for "Thoroughly Modern Millie".
10:40PM- "All I wanted to be as a little girl was a performer, and I get to do it eight times a week."- Sutton Foster
10:41PM- David Letterman's bandleader Paul Shaffer introduces "It's Raining Men", a song that Shaffer co-wrote with the late Paul Jabara in 1978, with the cast of "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert".
10:44PM- Three categories left at the Tony- Best Actor and Best Musical...after this Commercial Break.
10:49PM- "The Book of Mormon" and "War Horse" won the Lighting Design Tonys.
10:50PM- Catherine Zeta-Jones presents the Tonys for Leading Actor in a Play and Musical.
10:51PM- Mark Rylance wins his 2nd Tony for Best Actor in a Play, this time for "Jerusalem" in the role of Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. Rylance won in 2008 for "Boeing-Boeing".
10:53PM- Norbert Leo Butz wins the Tony for his role as Agent Carl Hanratty in "Catch Me If You Can", his 2nd Best Actor Tony, also for a musical adaptation of a big screen movie, winning in 2005 for his performance as Steve Martin's character in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".
10:55PM- "The Book of Mormon", "Catch Me If You Can", "The Scottsboro Boys", and "Sister Act", which won will win Best Musical? Find out from Chris Rock...after this last commercial break.
10:58PM- Chris Rock will make his Broadway debut in "The Motherfucker With the Hat" this fall; "If people would tell me that I would miss the best basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane..."- Chris Rock; "We know what the Best Musical is...it's a waste of time, it's like taking a hooker to dinner, you know what's going to happen, you're going to get laid."- Chris Rock
11:00PM- And Chris Rock was right. "The Book of Mormon" wins the Tony for Best Musical. Trey Parker accepts the Tony on behalf of the Production team.
11:01PM- "We all did this because we secretly wanted to have a Mormon family, and we do."- Trey Parker, accepting the Best Musical Tony Award; "On behalf of this big happy Mormon family, we'd like to thank our audiences."- Trey Parker; Parker thanks Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon faith
11:02PM- Neil Patrick Harris recaps what happened at the Tony telecast.
11:04PM- "This isn't reality TV, this is eight shows a week."- Neil Patrick Harris in his wrap-up.
11:05PM- END SHOW...my recap of the Tonys will be NEXT Monday (June 20th) on "The DJBC Happy Hour", at 8PM Eastern on WCRS-FM, 102.1FM and 98.3FM, Columbus.
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8:02PM- Let the show begin with another opening number.
8:03PM- Brooke Shields struggling. She looks great in her gown, as she is a statuesque beauty at a mere 72 inches tall.
8:04PM- The DJBC Happy Hour isn't the only show to poke fun of the Spider Man fiasco that has yet to hit Broadway.
8:06PM- Alec Baldwin presents the first category- Featured (or Supporting) Actress in a Play, or Performance By An Actress in a Featured Role in a Play, all five of these women are first-time nominees, by the way.
8:08PM- Ellen Barkin wins the Tony for her Broadway debut as a doctor in the revival of the 1985 play "The Normal Heart".
8:10PM- "Performing in 'The Normal Heart' is a profound experience for me."- Ellen Barkin; "30 Years Ago, This Country Was Attacked By A Virus, and Larry Kramer went to war with his pen..."; "Thank You For Turning This Production Into a Cocktail..."
8:11PM- 2 J. Pierrepont Finches- Robert Morse and Matthew Broderick present "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"- the first of two Musical Revival Nominees, and introduce Eliot Lawrence, who conducted the original production in the early 1960s.
8:12PM- The H2$ cast is performing "The Brotherhood of Man".
8:17PM- First Commercial Break; Book of Mormon Won for Best Orchestration earlier
8:21PM- The Book of Mormon won earlier for Best Score
8:22PM- Stars share their Broadway moments, starting with John Leguizamo
8:23PM- "I want to get something off my chest...I am Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child."- John Leguizamo
8:24PM- "My first roles were as drug dealers and hit men. I shot Pacino, I shot Harrison Ford, I shot at Bruce Willis..."- Leguizamo about his early film career
8:26PM- Defending Best Actress in a Play champ Viola Davis presents Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play.
8:28PM- John Benjamin Hickey wins the Tony for his role as Felix Turner in "The Normal Heart".
8:29PM- "To my family in Plano, Texas, you'd better not be watching the Mavericks game."- John Benjamin Hickey, to his family in Texas, in his acceptance speech
8:30PM- Aaron Tuveit from Best Musical nominee "Catch Me If You Can" presents the show and Best Actor nominee Norbert Leo Butz performs with the cast of the musical, based off the Leonardo DiCaprio/Tom Hanks movie.
8:34PM- Another break coming up.
8:39PM- Kathleen Marshall wins the Tony for Choreographing "Anything Goes" (which happened earlier on)
8:40PM- "I'm not going to spend the whole evening doing 'Spider Man' jokes, that's too easy."- Neil Patrick Harris
8:41PM- Neil Patrick Harris got six jokes done in 30 seconds.
8:42PM- David Hyde Pierce presents Directing in a Musical Tony.
8:43PM- Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker win the Tony for "The Book of Mormon"
8:44PM- Trey Parker thanks the fans of "South Park"
8:44PM- David Hyde Pierce also presents the Directing in a Play Tony.
8:45PM- Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris win their first Tony nomination and win for Directing "The War Horse". This is the first time in Tony history in which the Directing Tonys went to pairs/teams, instead of individuals.
8:47PM- Don Cheadle presents The Scottsboro Boys, the final Kander and Ebb collaboration, the second Best Musical nominee, based on the 1931 trial in Alabama where 9 black men were unjustly imprisoned. Kander and Ebb came up with the score a la Minstrel show style.
8:51PM- Another Commercial Break
8:56PM- American Theatre Wing Chair Ted Chafin and Honorary Chair Angela Lansbury are on stage discussing the things that the American Theatre Wing does the other 364 days a year.
8:58PM- Harry Connick Jr. presents the category for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical.
8:59PM- Nikki M. James wins the Tony Award for her role in "The Book of Mormon".
9:00PM- "Tony come on over, come and live with me."- Nikki M. James, accepting her Tony Award; "They are saying 'wrap it up', but I will not leave this stage."
9:02PM- Stephen Colbert presents "The Book of Mormon", the third nominee for Best Musical.
9:07PM- Great rendition of "I Believe" from "The Book of Mormon", which won the Tony for Best Sound earlier tonight. Another commercial break up now.
9:12PM- Hugh Jackman (past Tony host) comes to the stage and challenges Neil Patrick Harris.
9:13PM- "I only play the big rooms."- Hugh Jackman
9:17PM- Brooke Shields presents the Tony Award for Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.
9:18PM- Five-time Emmy winner John Larroquette wins in his Broadway debut as J.B. Biggley in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying".
9:20PM- Bono and The Edge, the composers of "Spider Man: Turn off the Dark" are on the Tony stage.
9:20PM- "We used to be famous for being in U2."- Bono; "When we first saw the Tony Awards on our schedule, we would assume we would be nominated."- Bono; "Reverend Harold Camping came up with his prediction and 'Spider Man: Turn Off The Dark' opens on Tuesday."- Bono
9:22PM- A scene from the upcoming "Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark".
9:26PM- Commercial Break
9:32PM- The 2010-11 Broadway Season was the highest-grossing season on record. Jim Parsons presents the two of the nominees in the Best Play category- "Good People" and "Jerusalem".
9:34PM- A bearded Robin Williams presents Best Book of a Musical.
9:35PM- "Coming next season on Broadway, Muomar Gadhafi in 'Catch Me If You Can.'"; "The only beard is on my face."
9:36PM- Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez win the Tony for Best Book of a Musical for "The Book of Mormon".
9:38PM- Whoopi Goldberg, an EGOT-ist presents the fourth and final nominee for Best Musical, "Sister Act". "'The Lion King' and 'The Color Purple' came on Broadway...'Ghost' is coming soon."
9:42PM- Another Commercial Break
9:46PM- 17 new plays opened up in the 2010-11 season.
9:46PM- Marg Helgenberger presents the other two Best Play nominees- The Mother with the Hat (as CBS is calling it), but it's The Motherfucker with the Hat, and War Horse, a "puppet horse" in World War I, as a boy goes on a mission to find him.
9:48PM- C'mon Ride the Horse, as Neil Patrick Harris rides the War Horse on to the stage. "That horse was held up by glue."- Neil Patrick Harris
9:50PM- Patrick Wilson presents the Tony for Best Revival of a Play, written by Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, and Larry Kramer- Arcadia, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Merchant of Venice, and The Normal Heart.
9:50PM- "The Normal Heart", Larry Kramer's play about the rise of the AIDS crisis in early 1980s New York City wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Play. The play was first introduced on Broadway in 1985.
9:51PM- "The freedom to love, the freedom to live, and the freedom of marriage are still an issue."- Daryl Roth, a producer of "The Normal Heart", accepting the Best Revival of a Play Tony
9:52PM- "'The Normal Heart' is our history, and I would not have written it, if so many of us had not needlessly died."- Larry Kramer, the playwright of "The Normal Heart".
9:53PM- The cast of last year's Best Musical, "Memphis" perform "Steal Your Heart With Rock and Roll".
9:56PM- "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" won the Tony for Best Costume Design. Anyway, more commercials.
10:02PM- Samuel L. Jackson presents the Tony Award for Best Play. Nominees again are Good People, Jerusalem, The Motherfucker With a Hat, and War Horse.
10:03PM- "War Horse" wins the Tony Award for Best Play. Producer Nicholas Hytner and playwright Nick Stafford accept the Tony for Best Play.
10:05PM- Joel Grey presents the other nominee for Best Revival of a Musical, "Anything Goes", which is ageless as the standards. Pretty hot for a 77 year-old musical.
10:06PM- The cast of the revival "Anything Goes" sing the finale song, which happens to be the title song of the show.
10:09PM- Excellent job by Kathleen Marshall choreographing this excellent number, which was glitzy and glamoury, and on its feet, with the tap dancing cast, led by Best Actress nominee Sutton Foster.
10:10PM- Commercial Break...More to Come...
10:15PM- Producer Philip J. Smith and South African Playwright Athol Fugard won Lifetime Achievement Tonys, and Eve Ensler won the Isabelle Stevenson Award for Humanitarian Achievements, and South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company won a Special Tony for "War Horse"; and Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company won the Regional Tony Award
10:16PM- Dame Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones present highlights from the past Broadway Season
10:17PM- "Theatres are temples. They are mysterious temples shining with magic."- James Earl Jones; "Our plays live in the present, live in the past..."- Dame Vanessa Redgrave
10:19PM- Christie Brinkley, making her debut in "Chicago" this fall; Christie Brinkley presents a performance of the New York Philharmonic Production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' singing "Side by Side" with Tony host Neil Patrick Harris as Bobby. In the original 1970 cast album of this musical, this song is 8 minutes and 42 seconds, this performance is going to be about half that.
10:24PM- Kelsey Grammer presents the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical, get ready to flip a coin.
10:25PM- "Anything Goes", which debuted on Broadway over a decade before the Tony Awards were even created, wins the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.
10:26PM- Tyne Daly introduces the Memoriam Segment.
10:28PM- Arthur Laurents, Michael Langham, Michael Gough, Ellen Stewart, James Gammon, Marcia Lewis Bryan, Jill Clayburg, Sidney Michaels, Hillard Elkins, Betty Garrett, Tom Bosley, Pam Gems, Israel Hicks, Shannon Tavarez, Douglas Leeds, Marian Mercer, Patricia Neal, Arthur Penn, Beverley Randlph, John Willis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerry Bock, Theoni V. Aldredge, Philip Rose, Romulus Linney, John Cossette, Alexander 'Sandy' Speer, Sada Thompson, Helen Stenborg, Randall Wreightt, Lanford Wilson, and Joseph Stein were anong those in the BRoadway community whom passed away in the last year.
"Well friends, it is time to say goodbye."- Joseph Stein
10:29PM- Commercial Break
10:34PM- The Book of Mormon won the Tony for Scenic Design of a Musical.
10:34PM- Daniel Radcliffe, the star of H2$ presents the Tonys for Actress in a Leading Role in a Play and Musical. NOTE: Only FOUR nominees in the latter category.
10:35PM- Frances McDormand wins the Tony for "Good People".
10:36PM- "The last time I was in the Beacon Theatre, 1988. Gregg Allman played here after his liver transplant."- Frances McDormand
10:37PM- "I believe one days that actors will grow up to play these roles."- Frances McDormand in her acceptance speech, citing her character Margie Walsh in "Good People"
10:38PM- There are only 4 Best Actress in a Musical nominees, because not enought actresses were submitted in this category
10:39PM- Sutton Foster wins the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical for "Anything Goes", her 2nd Tony. She won in 2002 in the same category for "Thoroughly Modern Millie".
10:40PM- "All I wanted to be as a little girl was a performer, and I get to do it eight times a week."- Sutton Foster
10:41PM- David Letterman's bandleader Paul Shaffer introduces "It's Raining Men", a song that Shaffer co-wrote with the late Paul Jabara in 1978, with the cast of "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert".
10:44PM- Three categories left at the Tony- Best Actor and Best Musical...after this Commercial Break.
10:49PM- "The Book of Mormon" and "War Horse" won the Lighting Design Tonys.
10:50PM- Catherine Zeta-Jones presents the Tonys for Leading Actor in a Play and Musical.
10:51PM- Mark Rylance wins his 2nd Tony for Best Actor in a Play, this time for "Jerusalem" in the role of Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. Rylance won in 2008 for "Boeing-Boeing".
10:53PM- Norbert Leo Butz wins the Tony for his role as Agent Carl Hanratty in "Catch Me If You Can", his 2nd Best Actor Tony, also for a musical adaptation of a big screen movie, winning in 2005 for his performance as Steve Martin's character in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels".
10:55PM- "The Book of Mormon", "Catch Me If You Can", "The Scottsboro Boys", and "Sister Act", which won will win Best Musical? Find out from Chris Rock...after this last commercial break.
10:58PM- Chris Rock will make his Broadway debut in "The Motherfucker With the Hat" this fall; "If people would tell me that I would miss the best basketball game ever to hang out with Nathan Lane..."- Chris Rock; "We know what the Best Musical is...it's a waste of time, it's like taking a hooker to dinner, you know what's going to happen, you're going to get laid."- Chris Rock
11:00PM- And Chris Rock was right. "The Book of Mormon" wins the Tony for Best Musical. Trey Parker accepts the Tony on behalf of the Production team.
11:01PM- "We all did this because we secretly wanted to have a Mormon family, and we do."- Trey Parker, accepting the Best Musical Tony Award; "On behalf of this big happy Mormon family, we'd like to thank our audiences."- Trey Parker; Parker thanks Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon faith
11:02PM- Neil Patrick Harris recaps what happened at the Tony telecast.
11:04PM- "This isn't reality TV, this is eight shows a week."- Neil Patrick Harris in his wrap-up.
11:05PM- END SHOW...my recap of the Tonys will be NEXT Monday (June 20th) on "The DJBC Happy Hour", at 8PM Eastern on WCRS-FM, 102.1FM and 98.3FM, Columbus.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
2011 Tony Award Nominees
On May 3rd, the nominations to the 65th Annual Tony Awards were announced, and "The Book of Mormon" leads all shows with 14 Nominations, including Best Musical, Book of a Musical, Score of a Musical, Direction of a Musical, and two Best Actor nominations.
Best Play
Good People- Author: David Lindsay-Abaire
Jerusalem- Author: Jez Butterworth
The Motherf**ker with the Hat- Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
War Horse- Author: Nick Stafford
Best Musical
The Book of Mormon
Catch Me If You Can
The Scottsboro Boys
Sister Act
Best Book of a Musical
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson- Alex Timbers
The Book of Mormon- Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
The Scottsboro Boys- David Thompson
Sister Act- Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner and Douglas Carter Beane
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
The Book of Mormon- Music & Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
The Scottsboro Boys- Music & Lyrics: John Kander and Fred Ebb
Sister Act- Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Glenn Slater
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown- Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek
Best Revival of a Play
Arcadia
Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berlind, Stephanie P. McClelland, Scott M. Delman, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Disney Theatrical Group, Robert G. Bartner, Olympus Theatricals, Douglas Smith, Janine Safer Whitney
The Importance of Being Earnest
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy
The Merchant of Venice
Producers: The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Andrew D. Hamingson, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Debbie Bisno & Eva Price, Amy Nederlander, Jonathan First, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Merritt Forrest Baer, The Araca Group, Broadway Across America, Joseph & Matthew Deitch, JK Productions, Terry Allen Kramer, Cathy Chernoff/Jay & Cindy Gutterman, Mallory Factor/Cheryl Lachowicz, Joey Parnes, The Shubert Organization
The Normal Heart
Producers: Daryl Roth, Paul Boskind, Martian Entertainment, Gregory Rae, Jayne Baron Sherman/Alexander Fraser
Best Revival of a Musical
Anything Goes
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Producers: Broadway Across America, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Joseph Smith, Michael McCabe, Candy Spelling, Takonkiet Viravan/Scenario Thailand, Hilary A. Williams, Jen Namoff/Fakston Productions, Two Left Feet Productions/Power Arts, Hop Theatricals, LLC/Paul Chau/Daniel Frishwasser/Michael Jackowitz, Michael Speyer-Bernie Abrams/Jacki Barlia Florin-Adam Blanshay/Arlene Scanlan/TBS Service
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Bobby Cannavale, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice
Mark Rylance, Jerusalem
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday
Frances McDormand, Good People
Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice
Vanessa Redgrave, Driving Miss Daisy
Hannah Yelland, Brief Encounter
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can
Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon
Joshua Henry, The Scottsboro Boys
Andrew Rannells, The Book of Mormon
Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Beth Leavel, Baby It's You!
Patina Miller, Sister Act
Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Mackenzie Crook, Jerusalem
Billy Crudup, Arcadia
John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart
Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Yul Vázquez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart
Edie Falco, The House of Blue Leaves
Judith Light, Lombardi
Joanna Lumley, La Bête
Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Colman Domingo, The Scottsboro Boys
Adam Godley, Anything Goes
John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Forrest McClendon, The Scottsboro Boys
Rory O'Malley, The Book of Mormon
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Tammy Blanchard, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Victoria Clark, Sister Act
Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon
Patti LuPone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Todd Rosenthal, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Rae Smith, War Horse
Ultz, Jerusalem
Mark Wendland, The Merchant of Venice
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Beowulf Boritt, The Scottsboro Boys
Derek McLane, Anything Goes
Scott Pask, The Book of Mormon
Donyale Werle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Best Costume Design of a Play
Jess Goldstein, The Merchant of Venice
Desmond Heeley, The Importance of Being Earnest
Mark Thompson, La Bête
Catherine Zuber, Born Yesterday
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Tim Chappel & Lizzy Gardiner, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Martin Pakledinaz, Anything Goes
Ann Roth, The Book of Mormon
Catherine Zuber, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paule Constable, War Horse
David Lander, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Kenneth Posner, The Merchant of Venice
Mimi Jordan Sherin, Jerusalem
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Ken Billington, The Scottsboro Boys
Howell Binkley, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Peter Kaczorowski, Anything Goes
Brian MacDevitt, The Book of Mormon
Best Sound Design of a Play
Acme Sound Partners & Cricket S. Myers, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Simon Baker, Brief Encounter
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Jerusalem
Christopher Shutt, War Horse
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Peter Hylenski, The Scottsboro Boys
Steve Canyon Kennedy, Catch Me If You Can
Brian Ronan, Anything Goes
Brian Ronan, The Book of Mormon
Best Direction of a Play
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, War Horse
Joel Grey & George C. Wolfe, The Normal Heart
Anna D. Shapiro, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Daniel Sullivan, The Merchant of Venice
Best Direction of a Musical
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Best Orchestrations
Doug Besterman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Larry Hochman, The Scottsboro Boys
Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus, The Book of Mormon
Marc Shaiman & Larry Blank, Catch Me If You Can
* * *
Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-Competitive Categories
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Athol Fugard
Philip J. Smith
Regional Theatre Tony Award
Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, IL)
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Eve Ensler
Special Tony Award
Handspring Puppet Company
Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre
William Berloni
The Drama Book Shop
Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
* * *
Tony Nominations by Production
The Book of Mormon - 14
The Scottsboro Boys - 12
Anything Goes - 9
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - 8
The Merchant of Venice - 7
Jerusalem - 6
The Motherf**ker with the Hat - 6
The Normal Heart - 5
Sister Act - 5
War Horse - 5
Catch Me If You Can - 4
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo - 3
The Importance of Being Earnest - 3
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - 3
Arcadia - 2
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - 2
Born Yesterday - 2
Brief Encounter - 2
Good People - 2
La Bête - 2
Priscilla Queen of the Desert - 2
Baby It's You! - 1
Driving Miss Daisy - 1
The House of Blue Leaves - 1
Lombardi - 1
The People in the Picture - 1
The American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Tony Awards will air on CBS June 12 at 8 PM ET live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, who won for hosting the 2009 Tonys, will be the host.
The Tony Awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League.
For more information visit www.TonyAwards.com.
Best Play
Good People- Author: David Lindsay-Abaire
Jerusalem- Author: Jez Butterworth
The Motherf**ker with the Hat- Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
War Horse- Author: Nick Stafford
Best Musical
The Book of Mormon
Catch Me If You Can
The Scottsboro Boys
Sister Act
Best Book of a Musical
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson- Alex Timbers
The Book of Mormon- Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
The Scottsboro Boys- David Thompson
Sister Act- Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner and Douglas Carter Beane
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
The Book of Mormon- Music & Lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone
The Scottsboro Boys- Music & Lyrics: John Kander and Fred Ebb
Sister Act- Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Glenn Slater
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown- Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek
Best Revival of a Play
Arcadia
Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Roger Berlind, Stephanie P. McClelland, Scott M. Delman, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Disney Theatrical Group, Robert G. Bartner, Olympus Theatricals, Douglas Smith, Janine Safer Whitney
The Importance of Being Earnest
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy
The Merchant of Venice
Producers: The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Andrew D. Hamingson, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Debbie Bisno & Eva Price, Amy Nederlander, Jonathan First, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Merritt Forrest Baer, The Araca Group, Broadway Across America, Joseph & Matthew Deitch, JK Productions, Terry Allen Kramer, Cathy Chernoff/Jay & Cindy Gutterman, Mallory Factor/Cheryl Lachowicz, Joey Parnes, The Shubert Organization
The Normal Heart
Producers: Daryl Roth, Paul Boskind, Martian Entertainment, Gregory Rae, Jayne Baron Sherman/Alexander Fraser
Best Revival of a Musical
Anything Goes
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Producers: Broadway Across America, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Joseph Smith, Michael McCabe, Candy Spelling, Takonkiet Viravan/Scenario Thailand, Hilary A. Williams, Jen Namoff/Fakston Productions, Two Left Feet Productions/Power Arts, Hop Theatricals, LLC/Paul Chau/Daniel Frishwasser/Michael Jackowitz, Michael Speyer-Bernie Abrams/Jacki Barlia Florin-Adam Blanshay/Arlene Scanlan/TBS Service
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Bobby Cannavale, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice
Mark Rylance, Jerusalem
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday
Frances McDormand, Good People
Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice
Vanessa Redgrave, Driving Miss Daisy
Hannah Yelland, Brief Encounter
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can
Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon
Joshua Henry, The Scottsboro Boys
Andrew Rannells, The Book of Mormon
Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Beth Leavel, Baby It's You!
Patina Miller, Sister Act
Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Mackenzie Crook, Jerusalem
Billy Crudup, Arcadia
John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart
Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Yul Vázquez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart
Edie Falco, The House of Blue Leaves
Judith Light, Lombardi
Joanna Lumley, La Bête
Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Colman Domingo, The Scottsboro Boys
Adam Godley, Anything Goes
John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Forrest McClendon, The Scottsboro Boys
Rory O'Malley, The Book of Mormon
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Tammy Blanchard, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Victoria Clark, Sister Act
Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon
Patti LuPone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Todd Rosenthal, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Rae Smith, War Horse
Ultz, Jerusalem
Mark Wendland, The Merchant of Venice
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Beowulf Boritt, The Scottsboro Boys
Derek McLane, Anything Goes
Scott Pask, The Book of Mormon
Donyale Werle, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Best Costume Design of a Play
Jess Goldstein, The Merchant of Venice
Desmond Heeley, The Importance of Being Earnest
Mark Thompson, La Bête
Catherine Zuber, Born Yesterday
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Tim Chappel & Lizzy Gardiner, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Martin Pakledinaz, Anything Goes
Ann Roth, The Book of Mormon
Catherine Zuber, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paule Constable, War Horse
David Lander, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Kenneth Posner, The Merchant of Venice
Mimi Jordan Sherin, Jerusalem
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Ken Billington, The Scottsboro Boys
Howell Binkley, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Peter Kaczorowski, Anything Goes
Brian MacDevitt, The Book of Mormon
Best Sound Design of a Play
Acme Sound Partners & Cricket S. Myers, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Simon Baker, Brief Encounter
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Jerusalem
Christopher Shutt, War Horse
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Peter Hylenski, The Scottsboro Boys
Steve Canyon Kennedy, Catch Me If You Can
Brian Ronan, Anything Goes
Brian Ronan, The Book of Mormon
Best Direction of a Play
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, War Horse
Joel Grey & George C. Wolfe, The Normal Heart
Anna D. Shapiro, The Motherf**ker with the Hat
Daniel Sullivan, The Merchant of Venice
Best Direction of a Musical
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Best Orchestrations
Doug Besterman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Larry Hochman, The Scottsboro Boys
Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus, The Book of Mormon
Marc Shaiman & Larry Blank, Catch Me If You Can
* * *
Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-Competitive Categories
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Athol Fugard
Philip J. Smith
Regional Theatre Tony Award
Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, IL)
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Eve Ensler
Special Tony Award
Handspring Puppet Company
Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre
William Berloni
The Drama Book Shop
Sharon Jensen and Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
* * *
Tony Nominations by Production
The Book of Mormon - 14
The Scottsboro Boys - 12
Anything Goes - 9
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - 8
The Merchant of Venice - 7
Jerusalem - 6
The Motherf**ker with the Hat - 6
The Normal Heart - 5
Sister Act - 5
War Horse - 5
Catch Me If You Can - 4
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo - 3
The Importance of Being Earnest - 3
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - 3
Arcadia - 2
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - 2
Born Yesterday - 2
Brief Encounter - 2
Good People - 2
La Bête - 2
Priscilla Queen of the Desert - 2
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The American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Tony Awards will air on CBS June 12 at 8 PM ET live from the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris, who won for hosting the 2009 Tonys, will be the host.
The Tony Awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League.
For more information visit www.TonyAwards.com.
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