Best Play
“Grand Horizons” by “Bess Wohl”
“The Inheritance” by Matthew López
“Sea Wall/A Life” by Simon Stephens & Nick Payne
“Slave Play” by Jeremy O. Harris
“The Sound Inside” by Adam Rapp
Best Musical
“Jagged Little Pill”
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
“Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Best Revival of a Play
“Betrayal” by Harold Pinter
“Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune” by Terrence McNally
“A Soldier’s Play” by Charles Fuller
Best Book of a Musical
“Jagged Little Pill” (Diablo Cody)
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical” (John Logan)
“Tina – The Tina Turner Musical” (Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins)
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics)
Written for the Theatre
“A Christmas Carol” (Christopher Nightingale)
“The Inheritance” (Paul Englishby)
“The Rose Tattoo” (Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb)
“Slave Play” (Lindsay Jones)
“The Sound Inside” (Daniel Kluger)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading
Role in a Play
Ian Barford, “Linda Vista”
Andrew Burnap, “The Inheritance”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Sea Wall/A Life”
Tom Hiddleston, “Betrayal”
Tom Sturridge, “Sea Wall/A Life”
Blair Underwood, “A Soldier’s Play”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading
Role in a Play
Joaquina Kalukango, “Slave Play”
Laura Linney, “My Name is Lucy Barton”
Audra McDonald, “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”
Mary-Louise Parker, “The Sound Inside”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading
Role in a Musical
Aaron Tveit, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured
Role in a Play
Ato Blankson-Wood, “Slave Play”
James Cusati-Moyer, “Slave Play”
David Alan Grier, “A Soldier’s Play”
John Benjamin Hickey, “The Inheritance”
Paul Hilton, “The Inheritanc
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a PlayJane Alexander, “Grand
Horizons”
Chalia La Tour, “Slave Play”
Annie McNamara, “Slave Play”
Lois Smith, “The Inheritance”
Cora Vander Broek, “Linda Vista”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured
Role in a Musical
Danny Burstein, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Derek Klena, “Jagged Little Pill”
Sean Allan Krill, “Jagged Little Pill”
Sahr Ngaujah, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Daniel J. Watts, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured
Role in a Musical
Kathryn Gallagher, “Jagged Little Pill”
Celia Rose Gooding, “Jagged Little Pill”
Robyn Hurder, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Lauren Patten, “Jagged Little Pill”
Myra Lucretia Taylor, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Bob Crowley, “The Inheritance”
Soutra Gilmour, “Betrayal”
Rob Howell, “A Christmas Carol”
Derek McLane, “A Soldier’s Play”
Clint Ramos, “Slave Play”
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Riccardo Hernández and Lucy Mackinnon, “Jagged Little Pill”
Derek McLane, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Best Costume Design of a Play
Dede Ayite, “Slave Play”
Dede Ayite, “A Soldier’s Play”
Bob Crowley, “The Inheritance”
Rob Howell, “A Christmas Carol”
Clint Ramos, “The Rose Tattoo”
Best Direction of a Play
David Cromer, “The Sound Inside”
Stephen Daldry, “The Inheritance”
Kenny Leon, “A Soldier’s Play”
Jamie Lloyd, “Betrayal”
Robert O’Hara, “Slave Play”
Best Direction of a Musical
Phyllida Lloyd, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Diane Paulus, “Jagged Little Pill”
Alex Timbers, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Best Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, “Jagged Little Pill”
Sonya Tayeh, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Anthony Van Laast, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Best Orchestrations
Tom Kitt, “Jagged Little Pill”
Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen, Matt Stine and Justin Levine, “Moulin Rouge! The
Musical”
Ethan Popp, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Emily Rebholz, “Jagged Little Pill”
Mark Thompson, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Catherine Zuber, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Best Lighting Design of
a Play
Jiyoun Chang, “Slave Play”
Jon Clark, “The Inheritance”
Heather Gilbert, “The Sound Inside”
Allen Lee Hughes, “A Soldier’s Play”
Hugh Vanstone, “A Christmas Carol”
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Bruno Poet, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
Justin Townsend, “Jagged Little Pill”
Justin Townsend, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Best Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid, “The Inheritance”
Simon Baker, “A Christmas Carol”
Lindsay Jones, “Slave Play”
Daniel Kluger, “Sea Wall/A Life”
Daniel Kluger, “The Sound Inside”
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, “Jagged Little Pill”
Peter Hylenski, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
Nevin Steinberg, “Tina – The Tina Turner Musical”
That
said, this is an extremely truncated season with only 18 of perhaps 36 planned shows eligible.
The
early cutoff for nominated productions — Feb. 19 rather than the end of April produced some unique
problems:
the award for best musical revival had to be eliminated; no
musical revivals had opened as of the Feb. 19 cutoff. (Not coincidentally, the
revival of “West Side Story” opened on Feb. 20.)
“Moulin Rouge,” adapted from director Baz Luhrmann’s 2001
cinematic extravaganza, is in the running with only two other entries for best
musical: “Jagged Little
Pill,” based on the music of Alanis Morissette, and “Tina: The Tina
Turner Musical.”
Another anomaly in the 74th awards: Because none of these shows
feature music written expressly for the stage, the five productions vying for
best score are — for the first time ever — all plays
The
best actor in a leading role, a category that had only two possible nominees:
Aaron Tveit in “Moulin Rouge” and Chris McCarrell in “The Lightning Thief”? An
obscure rule, now forever to be known as the Tveit Exception, all but handed
him the award without the pretense of a competition
Because three of the four new musicals were ineligible jukebox
shows, and the fourth was, once again, “The Lightning Thief,” the nominators
chose to acknowledge music written for plays, including “Slave Play,” “The
Inheritance” and “The Sound Inside.” Though all very effective, they are hardly
in the level of “Carousel” and “Hamilton,” coming off as a feeble gerrymander.
The favorites:
Adrienne
Warren, the odds-on favorite for best actress in a musical, for her
electrifying turn in “Tina”; Mary-Louise Parker, for her tour-de-force work in
“The Sound Inside”; Sahr Ngaujah, the Toulouse-Lautrec of “Moulin Rouge”; and
Lauren Patten, whose dynamite delivery of “You Oughta Know” is the standout
moment of “Jagged Little Pill.”
The
lead acting categories for plays feature some of the more competitive contests:
Laura Linney for Rona Munro’s monodrama, “My Name Is Lucy Barton,” vying with
Parker, “Slave Play’s” Joaquina Kalukango, and the oft-nominated Audra McDonald
for “Frankie and Johnny.”
The
scrum for best actor in a play is the most crowded, with six contenders: Jake
Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge for “Sea Wall/A Life”; Tom Hiddleston for
“Betrayal”; Blair Underwood in “A Soldier’s Play”; Andrew Burnap for “The
Inheritance”; and Ian Barford, who in Tracy Letts’s “Linda
Vista” offered one of the season’s less heralded but most acutely sculpted
turns.
The earliest possible date they will resume is June 1, 2021 —
by a long-shot the lengthiest hiatus in Broadway history.
Still,
the Tonys will go ahead, honoring a truncated season as many of the planned
spring shows — “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Six” and “Plaza Suite,” among them — have not
opened yet, and some — “West Side Story,” “Girl From The North Country” —
opened too late. only a few shows that are in the running have plans to return.
The 74th Annual Tony Awards will air on a to-be-announced date on CBS. They have indicated that
the ceremony will be virtual, rather than in person, hoping to hold the
ceremony in December or January And they expect it to be streamed online, not
broadcast on television.
Of
course, for lovers of Broadway, even an under-trafficked red carpet in Times
Square would represent a welcome mat. With the 2020-2021 Broadway season a
washout, we will, it seems, have to wait to celebrate the 75th anniversary of
the Tonys until 2022.
Coming
Up……………….
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