SO as most of you probably know, the Tony Awards were this past Sunday, June 9. Here are the highlights.
The evening started out with an incredible opening number by the wonderful Neil Patrick Harris, as per usual (at least the usual within the last few years.) It was so fantastic, actually, that I have posted a link to it below because if you haven't seen it yet YOU NEED TO and if you have, YOU SHOULD WATCH IT AGAIN. It's absolutely amazing. (There's even an appearance from Mike Tyson.)
Just click below to see it.
Now that you've watched it, I think we can both agree that we're unsure of how Neil Patrick Harris isn't dead by the end.
Something that really impressed me this year, too, was the number of talented children that were up on the stage! Matilda the Musical, Annie, A Christmas Carol the Musical, I mean, wow. Those are some performances you gotta see too.
Anyway- here is a list of the 2013 Tony Award winners!
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play
WINNER: Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Other nominees: Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy; Nathan Lane, The Nance; David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Tom Sturridge,Orphans
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play
WINNER: Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Other nominees: Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place; Amy Morton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Holland Taylor, ANN
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical
WINNER: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Other nominees: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical; Santino Fontana, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella; Rob McClure, Chaplin; Stark Sands, Kinky Boots
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical
WINNER: Patina Miller, Pippin
Other nominees: Stephanie J. Block, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Carolee Carmello,Scandalous; Valisia LeKae, Motown: The Musical; Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best revival of a play
WINNER: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other nominees: Golden Boy; Orphans; The Trip to Bountiful
Best play
WINNER: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Other nominees: The Assembled Parties; Lucky Guy; The Testament of Mary
Best musical
WINNER: Kinky Boots
Other nominees: Bring It On: The Musical; A Christmas Story, The Musical; Matilda The Musical
Best revival of a musical
WINNER: Pippin
Other nominees: Annie; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play
WINNER: Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
Other nominees: Danny Burstein, Golden Boy; Richard Kind, The Big Knife; Billy Magnussen,Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play
WINNER: Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Other nominees: Carrie Coon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Shalita Grant, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Judith Ivey, The Heiress; Condola Rashad, The Trip to Bountiful
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical
WINNER: Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
Other nominees: Charl Brown, Motown: The Musical; Keith Carradine, Hands on a Hardbody; Will Chase, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Terrence Mann, Pippin
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical
WINNER: Andrea Martin, Pippin
Other nominees: Annaleigh Ashford, Kinky Boots; Victoria Clark, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella; Keala Settle, Hands on a Hardbody; Lauren Ward, Matilda The Musical
Best direction of a play
WINNER: Pam MacKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other nominees: Nicholas Martin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Bartlett Sher, Golden Boy; George C. Wolfe, Lucky Guy
Best direction of a musical
WINNER: Diane Paulus, Pippin
Other nominees: Scott Ellis, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots;Matthew Warchus, Matilda The Musical
Best book of a musical
WINNER: Matilda The Musical, Dennis Kelly
Other nominees: A Christmas Story, The Musical, Joseph Robinette; Kinky Boots, Harvey Fierstein ; Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, Douglas Carter Beane
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the theater
WINNER: Kinky Boots, music & lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
Other nominees: A Christmas Story, The Musical, music and Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul; Hands on a Hardbody, music: Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green; Lyrics: Amanda Green; Matilda The Musical, music & lyrics: Tim Minchin
Best scenic design of a play
WINNER: John Lee Beatty, The Nance
Other nominees: Santo Loquasto, The Assembled Parties; David Rockwell, Lucky Guy; Michael Yeargan, Golden Boy
Best scenic design of a musical
WINNER: Rob Howell, Matilda: The Musical
Other nominees: Anna Louizos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Scott Pask, Pippin;David Rockwell, Kinky Boots
Best costume design of a play
WINNER: Ann Roth, The Nance
Other nominees: Soutra Gilmour, Cyrano de Bergerac; Albert Wolsky, The Heiress;Catherine Zuber, Golden Boy
Best costume design of a musical
WINNER: William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Other nominees: Gregg Barnes, Kinky Boots; Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical;Dominique Lemieux, Pippin
Best lighting design of a play
WINNER: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
Other nominees: Donald Holder, Golden Boy; Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary; Japhy Weideman, The Nance
Best lighting design of a musical
WINNER: Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical
Other nominees: Kenneth Posner, Kinky Boots; Kenneth Posner, Pippin; Kenneth Posner, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best sound design of a play
WINNER: Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
Other nominees: John Gromada, The Trip to Bountiful; Mel Mercier, The Testament of Mary; Peter John Still and Marc Salzberg, Golden Boy
Best sound design of a musical
WINNER: John Shivers, Kinky Boots
Other nominees: Jonathan Deans & Garth Helm, Pippin; Peter Hylenski, Motown: The Musical; Nevin Steinberg, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best choreography
WINNER: Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Other nominees: Andy Blankenbuehler, Bring It On: The Musical; Peter Darling,Matilda The Musical; Chet Walker, Pippin
Best orchestrations
WINNER: Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
Other nominees: Chris Nightingale, Matilda The Musical; Ethan Popp & Bryan Crook,Motown: The Musical; Danny Troob, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Bernard Gersten
Paul Libin
Ming Cho Lee
Regional Theatre Award
Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Larry Kramer
Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre
Career Transition For Dancers
William Craver
Peter Lawrence
The Lost Colony
The four actresses who created the title role of Matilda The Musical on Broadway — Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro
