Here are the strengths of this year Tony Awards.
The biggest Broadway evening came and went with a song surrounded by Cynthia Erivo, which welcomed the 78th Tony Awards on Sunday at the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.
“Perhaps Happy Ending” collected six Tony Awards – the greatest number of all spectacle – including the best new musical. It was also a night of Tony’s first victories for several artists: Nicole Scherzinger for the best leading actress in a musical for “Sunset boulevard”; Sarah Snook for the best first -plan actress in a play for “The Picture of Dorian Gray”; Cole Escola for the best leading actor in a room for “Oh, Mary!”; And Darren Criss for the best actor of the leading actor in a musical for “perhaps happy end”.
“Purpose”, the winning drama of the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Pulitzer Prize, won the Tony Award for the best piece; The “Eureka Day” by Jonathan Spector won the best renewal of the play; And “Sunset Boulevard” by Jamie Lloyd won the best musical renewal.
Here is the full list of winners.
Best new musical
“Maybe a happy ending”
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Nominated in this category: “Buena Vista Social Club”; “Dead outlaw”; “Death becomes her”; “Mancemeat operation”
Best new game
“Aim”
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Nominated in this category: “English”; “California hills”; “John Proctor is the villain”; “Oh, Mary!”
Best musical renewal
“Sunset boulevard”
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Nominated in this category: “Floyd Collins”; “Gypsy”; “Pirates! The Musical Penzance”
Best renewal of play
“Eureka day”
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Nominated in this category: “our city”; “Romeo + Juliet”; “Yellow face”
Best leading actress in a room
Sarah Snook, “The photo of Dorian Gray”
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Nominated in this category: Laura Donelly, “The hills of California”; Mia Farrow, “the roommate”; Latanya Richardson Jackson, “purposes”; Sadie Sink, “John Proctor is the villain”
Best leading actor in a room
Cole School, “Oh, Mary!”
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Nominated in this category: George Clooney, “Good night and good luck”; Jon Michael Hill, “purposes”; Daniel Dae Kim, “yellow face”; Harry Lennix, “purposes”; Louis McCartney, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Best leading actress in a musical
Nicole Scherzinger, “Sunset boulevard”
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Nominated in this category: Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop!”; Megan Hilty, “Death becomes her”; Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”; Jennifer Simard, “Death becomes her”
Best actor in a musical comedy
Darren Criss, “Maybe a happy ending”
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Nominated in this category: Andrew Durand, “Dead Outlaw”; Tom Francis, “Sunset boulevard”; Jonathan Groff, “Just in time”; Jeremy Jordan, “Floyd Collins”; James Monroe Iglehart, “A wonderful world: the musical of Louis Armstrong”
Best direction of a musical
Michael Arden, “Maybe a happy ending”
Nominated in this category: Saheem Ali, “Buena Vista Social Club”; David Cromer, “Dead Outlaw”; Christopher Gattelli, “Death becomes her”; Jamie Lloyd, “Sunset boulevard”
Best direction of a room
Sam Pinkleton, “Oh, Mary!”
Nominated in this category: Knud Adams, “English”; Sam Mendes, “the hills of California”; Danya Taymor, “John Proctor is the villain”; Kip Williams, “The image of Dorian Gray”
Best featured actress in a room
Kara Young, “Aim”
Nominated in this category: Tala Ashe, “English”; Jessica Hecht, “Eureka Day”; Marjan Neshat, “English”; Finzza finish, “John Proctor is the villain”
Best feathered actor in a room
Francis Jue, “Yellow face”
Nominated in this category: Glenn Davis, “But”; Gabriel Ebert, “John Proctor is the villain”; Bob Odenkirk, “Glengarry Glen Ross” Conrad Ricamora, “Oh, Mary!”
Best featured actress in a musical comedy
Natalie Venice Belcon, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Nominated in this category: Julia Knitel, “dead outlaw”; Gracie Lawrence, “just in time”; Justina Machado, “real women have curves”; Joy Woods, “Gypsy”
Best actor in a musical comedy
Like Malone, “Mancemeat operation”
Nominated in this category: Brooks Ashmanskas, “Smash”; Jeb Brown, “Dead Outlaw”; Danny Burstein, “Gypsy”; Taylor Trensch, “Floyd Collins”
Best book of a musical
“Maybe a happy ending”
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Nominated in this category: “Buena Vista Social Club”; “Dead outlaw”; “Death becomes it”; “Mancemeat operation”
Best picturesque design of a room
Miriam Buther and 59, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Nominated in this category: Marsha Ginsberg, “English”; Rob Howell, “California hills”; Marg Horwell and David Bergman, “The image of Dorian Gray”; Scott Pask, “Good night and good luck”
Best picturesque design of a musical
Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, “Maybe a happy ending”
Nominated in this category: Rachel Hauck, “swept”; Arnulfo Maldonado, “Buena Vista Social Club”; Derek McLane, “Death becomes her”; Derek mclane, “just in time”
Best lighting design of a room
Jon Clark, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Nominated in this category: Natasha Chivers, “The hills of California”; Heather Gilbert and David Bengali, “good night and good luck”; Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, “John Proctor is the villain”; Nick Schlieper, “The photo of Dorian Gray”
Best costume design of a part
Marg Horwell, “The photo of Dorian Gray”
Nominated in this category: Brenda Abbandandolo, “good night and good luck”; Rob Howell, “California hills”; Holly Pierson, “Oh, Mary!”; Brigitte Reiffenstual, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Best choreography
Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Nominated in this category: Joshua Bergasse, “Smash”; Camille A. Brown, “Gypsy”; Christopher Gattelli, “Death becomes her”; Jerry Mitchell, “Boop!”
Best orchestrations
Marco Paguia, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Nominated in this category: Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, “just in time”; Will Aronson, “maybe a happy ending”; Bruce Coughlin, “Floyd Collins”; David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Sunset boulevard”
Best sound design of a part
Paul Ardi, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Nominated in this category: Palmer Hefferan, “John Proctor is the villain”; Daniel Kluger, “Good night and good luck”; Nick Powell, “The hills of California”; Clemence Williams, “The image of Dorian Gray”
Best original score
“”Maybe a happy ending“” Will Aronson and Hue Park
Nominated in this category: “dead outlaw”, David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna; “Death becomes her”, Julia Mattison and Noel Carey; “Operation Mincemeat”, David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts; “Real women have curves”, Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez
Best costume design of a musical
Paul Tazelli, “Death becomes her”
Nominated in this category: dede Ayite, “Buena Vista Social Club”; Gregg Barnes, “Boop!”; Clint Ramos, “perhaps happy fine”; Catherine Zuber, “just in time”
Best lighting design of a musical
Jack Knowles, “Sunset boulevard”
Nominated in this category: Tyler Micoleau, “Buena Vista Social Club”; Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun, “Floyd Collins”; Ben Stanton, “maybe a happy ending”; Justin Townsend, “Death becomes her”
Best sound design of a musical
Jonathan Deans, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Nominated in this category: Adam Fisher, “Sunset boulevard”; Peter Hylenski, “just in time”; Peter Hylenski, “perhaps happy fine”; Dan Moses Schreier, “Floyd Collins”
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Shivani Gonzalez And Maya Salam contributed research.
