“Strange Loop” and “Lehman Trilogy” won the 75th Tony Awards Sunday night, which marked the first ceremony in musicals and performances since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the theater industry.
After a very delayed show last year in New York, after returning to Radio City Music Hall, Broadway’s biggest night is officially back in full force, with a glowing and dazzling image. The four -hour broadcast was aired live from beach to beach on Paramount + and CBS, featuring “West Side Story” star and recent Oscar winner Ariana Deboz.
“What a season it is,” Deboz said at the start of the ceremony, after a high -energy performance drawn from classic Broadway shows of recent years. “For many of you it’s an attraction: starts, stops, dramatic twists”.
Michael R. Jackson’s autobiographical meta-musical, “Strange Loop,” followed by the black stone composer’s writing about the show’s black stone composer, with 11 nominations coming tonight. Eventually, the show received two of the most prestigious titles in the Best Musical and Best Book categories.
“I wrote it at a time when I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life,” Jackson said in a speech on stage. “I didn’t know I would continue. I’m feeling invisible to myself. I felt like I wasn’t heard. “I felt like it was incomprehensible and I just wanted to create a little bit of a life line for me as a black gay.”
This award is the latest award for Jackson, who previously won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for drama. While show star Jacqueline Spivey, who made her Broadway debut in comedy, is expected to win the Best Actor award, Miles Frost got an unexpected win on “MJ: Musical”.
Actors from five other nominated musicals also performed at the ceremony – “Girl from the North Country”, “MJ: The Musical”, “Mr. Saturday Night”, “Paradise Square” and “Six”, as in addition to the stars of “The Music Man” and Sex Second “Company”, the latter won, among other awards, the best musical revival and the double trophy in the acting categories for Pete Lupone and Matt Doyle.
As for the plays, The Lehman Trilogy, a multigenerational story about the rise and fall of the finance company of the same name, won Best Picture, as well as awards for director Sam Mendes and actor Simon Russell Bill. . The gay baseball drama “Take Me Out” won the award for Outstanding Performance in the Show, while Jesse Tyler Ferguson was honored for his role on the show against his stars Jesse Williams and Michael Oberholzer.
The original cast of “Spring Awakening” also took to the stage to reunite for the show, following the release of HBO’s latest documentary. Additionally, Bernadette Peters paid tribute to legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim, who died in November, and five -time winner Angela Lansber received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the start of the show.
See the full list of nominees and winners below.
The best game
“Clyde,” Lynn Notage
“Hengmen” by Martin McDonagh.
Winner: The Lehman Trilogy, by Stefano Massini and Ben Power
“Minutes” by Tracey Lets.
“Skeleton Crew” by Dominic Morriso.
The best musical
“Northern woman”
“MJ”
“ᲑAton.” Saturday night “
“Piazza Paradiso”
“SIX: Musical”
Winner: “Strange Loop”
The best revival work
“American buffalo”
“For Black Women Thinking About Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
How did I learn to manage “
Winner: “Take me out”
“Mental problems”
The best musical revival
“Caroline, or swap”
Winner: “Company”
“The man of music”
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical
Billy Crystal, “Mr. “Saturday night”
Winner: Miles Frost, “MJ”
Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man
Rob McClure, “Mrs. Fire of Doubt”
Jacqueline Speive, “The Strange Cycle”
Best Actress in a Musical
Sharon D. Clark, “Caroline or Change”
Carmen Kusak, “Fly over the sunset”
Sutton Foster, “The Music Man”
Winner: Joaquina Calucango, “Piazza Paradiso”
Mare Winningham, “Girl from the North”
The best role of an actor in a comedy
Winner: Simon Russell Billy, The Lehman Trilogy
Adam Godley, The Lehman Trilogy
Adrian Lester, The Lehman Trilogy
David Morse, “How I Learned to Dress”
Sam Rockwell, “American Buffalo”
Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Lackawanna Blues”
David Trelloff, “The Curtains”
The best role of an actor in a comedy
Night Beans, “The skin of our teeth”
LaChanze, “The Mental Problem”
Ruth Nega, “Macbeth”
Winner: Deirdre O’Connell, “Dana H.”
Mary-Louise Parker, “How I Learned to Dress”
The best role of an actor in a musical
Winner: Matt Doyle, Company
Sidney Dupont, “Piazza del Paradiso”
Jared Grimes, “Funny Girl”
John-Andrew Morrison, “The Strange Cycle”
AJ Shively, “Piazza del Paradiso”
Best Actress in a Musical
Janet Bayardel, “Girl from the North”
Shoshana Bin, “Mr. “Saturday night”
Jane Hoodischel, “The Music Man”
L. Morgan Lee, “The Strange Cycle”
Winner: Patti LuPone, Company
Jennifer Simard, company
The best role of an actor in a comedy
Alfie Allen, “The Curtains”
Chuck Cooper, “Mental Problems”
Winner: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Take Me Out”
Ron Tsefa Jones, “Clyde”
Michael Oberholzer, “Take me out”
Jesse Williams, “Take Me Out”
The best role of an actor in a comedy
Uzo Aduba, “Clyde”
Rachel Drach, “Potus: oh, behind every great fool are seven women trying to save him”
Kenita R. Miller, “For Black Girls Thinking About Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf”
Winner: Philisia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Julie White, “POTUS: that is, seven women behind every great fool who tries to keep him”
Dear Child, “Clyde”
The best musical book
“A Girl from the North,” by Conor McPherson
“MJ,” Lynn Notage
“Mr. John on Saturday Night”, Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babalo Mandel
“Paradise Square”, Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirvan
Winner: “Strange Loop”, Michael R. Jackson
The best original music (music and / or lyrics) written for theater
“Flying Over the Sunset”, music by Tom Keith, lyrics by Michael Corey
“Mr .. Saturday Night”, music by Jason Robert Brown, lyrics by Amanda Green
“Paradise Square”, music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Massey Asare
Winner: “SIX: The Musical”, music and lyrics by Toby Marlowe and Lucy Moss
“Strange Loop”, music and lyrics by Michael R. Di Jackson
The best direction of the game
Lileana Blaine-Cruz, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
Kamil A. Marrone, “For black girls thinking about suicide / when the rainbow is Enuf”
Winner: Sam Mendes, “The Lehman Trilogy”
Neil Pepe, “American buffalo”
Les Waters, “Dana H.”
The best musical direction
Stephen Brackett, “The Strange Cycle”
Winner: Marian Elliott, Company
Conor McPherson, “Girl from the North”
Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, “SIX: The Musical”
Christopher Wildon, “MJ”
The best scenography of the show
Beowulf Borit, “POTUS: Oh, behind every great fool are seven women trying to keep him”
Michael Carnahan and Nicolas Husong, “Skeleton Crew”
Winner: This Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
Anna Fleischl, “The Tents”
Scott Pask, “American Buffalo”
Adam Rigg, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
The best scenography for musical
Beowulf Boritt and 59 productions, “Flying Over Sunset”
Winner: Bani Christie, Company
Arnulfo Maldonado, “The strange cycle”
Derek McLain and Peter Nigrin, “MJ”
Allen Moier, “Piazza del Paradiso”
Design the best costumes for the game
Winner: Montana Levy Blanco, “The skin of our teeth”
Sarafina Bush, “For black girls thinking about suicide / When the rainbow is Enuf”
Emilio Sosa, “Problems of the mind”
Jane Greenwood, “Neil Simon Plaza Suits”
Jennifer Moeller, “with Clyde”
Design the best costumes for the musical
Fly Davis, “Caroline, or the change”
Tony-Leslie James, “Paradise Square”
William Ivy Long, “Diana, Musical”
Santo Locasto, “Musician”
Winner: Gabriela Slade, “SIX: The Musical”
Paul Tezevel, “MJ”
The best lighting design for gaming
Joshua Door, “Curtains”
Jiyoun Chang, “For black women who think about suicide / when the rainbow is enuf”
Winner: John Clark, The Lehman Trilogy
Jane Cox, Macbeth
I. Zhao, “The skin of our teeth”
The best lighting project for musical
Neil Austin, company
Tim Deiling, “SIX: The Musical”
Donald Holder, “Piazza Paradiso”
Winner: Natasha Man, “MJ”
Bradley King, “Flying Over the Sunset”
Jen Shriver, “The Strange Cycle”
The best sound design in the game
Justin Ellington, “For Black Women Thinking About Suicide / When the Rainbow Cares”
Winner: Michael Fixel, “Dana H.”
Palmer Heferan, “The skin of our teeth”
Nick Powell and Dominic Bilk, The Lehman Trilogy
Michael Suleiman, Macbeth
The best sound design for musical
Simon Baker, “Girl from the North”
Paul Gatehouse, “Six: The Musical”
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, “Company”
Drew Levy, “The Strange Cycle”
Winner: Garrett Owen, “MJ”
The best choreography
Kamil A. Marrone, “For black girls thinking about suicide / when the rainbow is Enuf”
Warren Carlisle, “The Music Man”
Carrie-Ann Ingrew, “SIX: Musical”
Bill T. Jones, “Paradise Square”
Winner: Christopher Wildon, “MJ”
The best orchestras
David Cullen, company
Tom Kuran, “SIX: The Musical”
Winner: Simon Hale, “Girl from the North”
Jason Michael Webb and David Holzenberg, “MJ”
Charlie Rosen, “The Strange Cycle”
Source: Huffpost
