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2023 Tony Awards Winners
Rich Gladstone • June 12, 2023
2023 Tony Awards Winners
Marking 76 years of excellence on Broadway, The Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, aired LIVE on Sunday, June 11, 2023 from the historic United Palace in Washington Heights, in New York City from 8:00-11:00 PM, ET/5:00-8:00 PM, PT on the CBS Television Network, and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+.
The Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
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Nominations and Winners for the 2023 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards®
Presented by The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League
Best Musical
- & Juliet
- Kimberly Akimbo - Winner!
- New York, New York
- Shucked
- Some Like It Hot
Best Play
- Ain’t No Mo’
- Between Riverside and Crazy
- Cost of Living
- Fat Ham
- Leopoldstadt - Winner!
Best Revival of a Play
- A Doll’s House
- The Piano Lesson
- The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
- Topdog/Underdog - Winner!
Best Revival of a Musical
- Into the Woods
- Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot
- Parade - Winner!
- Sweeney Todd
Best Book of a Musical
- Robert Horn, Shucked
- David Thompson & Sharon Washington, New York, New York
- David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo - Winner!
- Matthew López & Amber Ruffin, Some Like It Hot
- David West Read, & Juliet
Best Original Score
- Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally, Shucked
- Tom Kitt & Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous
- David Lindsay-Abaire & Jeanine Tesori, Kimberly Akimbo - Winner!
- Helen Park & Max Vernon, KPOP
- Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Some Like It Hot
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topdog/Underdog
- Corey Hawkins, Topdog/Underdog
- Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar - Winner!
- Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy
- Wendell Pierce, Death of a Salesman
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
- Jessica Chastain, A Doll’s House
- Jodie Comer, Prima Facie - Winner!
- Jessica Hecht, Summer, 1976
- Audra McDonald, Ohio State Murders
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Christian Borle, Some Like It Hot
- J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot - Winner!
- Josh Groban, Sweeney Todd
- Brian d’Arcy James, Into the Woods
- Ben Platt, Parade
- Colton Ryan, New York, New York
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
- Annaleigh Ashford, Sweeney Todd
- Sara Bareilles, Into the Woods
- Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo - Winner!
- Lorna Courtney, & Juliet
- Micaela Diamond, Parade
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
- Jordan E. Cooper, Ain’t No Mo’
- Samuel L. Jackson, The Piano Lesson
- Arian Moayed, A Doll’s House
- Brandon Uranowitz, Leopoldstadt - Winner!
- David Zayas, Cost of Living
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
- Nikki Crawford, Fat Ham
- Crystal Lucas-Perry, Ain’t No Mo’
- Miriam Silverman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window - Winner!
- Katy Sullivan, Cost of Living
- Kara Young, Cost of Living
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
- Kevin Cahoon, Shucked
- Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo
- Kevin Del Aguila, Some Like It Hot
- Jordan Donica, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot
- Alex Newell, Shucked - Winner!
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
- Julia Lester, Into the Woods
- Ruthie Ann Miles, Sweeney Todd
- Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo - Winner!
- NaTasha Yvette Williams, Some Like It Hot
- Betsy Wolfe, & Juliet
Best Scenic Design of a Play
- Miriam Buether, Prima Facie
- Tim Hatley & Andrzej Goulding, Life of Pi - Winner!
- Rachel Hauck, Good Night, Oscar
- Richard Hudson, Leopoldstadt
- Dane Laffrey & Lucy Mackinnon, A Christmas Carol
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
- Beowulf Boritt, New York, New York - Winner!
- Mimi Lien, Sweeney Todd
- Michael Yeargan & 59 Productions, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot
- Scott Pask, Shucked
- Scott Pask, Some Like It Hot
Best Costume Design of a Play
- Tim Hatley, Nick Barnes & Finn Caldwell, Life of Pi
- Dominique Fawn Hill, Fat Ham
- Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Leopoldstadt - Winner!
- Emilio Sosa, Ain’t No Mo’
- Emilio Sosa, Good Night, Oscar
Best Costume Design of a Musical
- Gregg Barnes, Some Like It Hot - Winner!
- Susan Hilferty, Parade
- Jennifer Moeller, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot
- Clint Ramos & Sophia Choi, KPOP
- Paloma Young, & Juliet
- Donna Zakowska, New York, New York
Best Lighting Design of a Play
- Neil Austin, Leopoldstadt
- Natasha Chivers, Prima Facie
- Jon Clark, A Doll’s House
- Bradley King, Fat Ham
- Tim Lutkin, Life of Pi - Winner!
- Jen Schriever, Death of a Salesman
- Ben Stanton, A Christmas Carol
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
- Ken Billington, New York, New York
- Lap Chi Chu, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot
- Heather Gilbert, Parade
- Howard Hudson, & Juliet
- Natasha Katz, Some Like It Hot
- Natasha Katz, Sweeney Todd - Winner!
Best Sound Design of a Play
- Jonathan Deans & Taylor J. Williams, Ain’t No Mo’
- Carolyn Downing, Life of Pi - Winner!
- Joshua D. Reid, A Christmas Carol
- Ben & Max Ringham, A Doll’s House
- Ben & Max Ringham, Prima Facie
Best Sound Design of a Musical
- Kai Harada, New York, New York
- John Shivers, Shucked
- Scott Lehrer & Alex Neumann, Into the Woods
- Gareth Owen, & Juliet
- Nevin Steinberg, Sweeney Todd - Winner!
Best Direction of a Play
- Saheem Ali, Fat Ham
- Jo Bonney, Cost of Living
- Jamie Lloyd, A Doll’s House
- Patrick Marber, Leopoldstadt - Winner!
- Stevie Walker-Webb, Ain’t No Mo’
- Max Webster, Life of Pi
Best Direction of a Musical
- Michael Arden, Parade - Winner!
- Lear deBessonet, Into the Woods
- Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot
- Jack O’Brien, Shucked
- Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo
Best Choreography
- Steven Hoggett, Sweeney Todd
- Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot - Winner!
- Susan Stroman, New York, New York
- Jennifer Weber, & Juliet
- Jennifer Weber, KPOP
Best Orchestrations
- John Clancy, Kimberly Akimbo
- Jason Howland, Shucked
- Charlie Rosen & Bryan Carter, Some Like It Hot - Winner!
- Bill Sherman & Dominic Fallacaro, & Juliet
- Daryl Waters & Sam Davis, New York, New York
Special Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
- John Kander
- Joel Grey
Excellence in Theatre Education Award
- Jason Zembuch Young
Regional Theatre Award
- Pasadena Playhouse
Isabelle Stevenson Award
- Jerry Mitchell
Tony Winners by Show
- Kimberly Akimbo — 5
- Some Like It Hot — 4
- Leopoldstadt — 4
- Life of Pi — 3
- Sweeney Todd — 2
- Parade — 2
- New York, New York — 1
- The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window — 1
- Topdog/Underdog — 1
- Shucked — 1
- Prima Facie — 1
- Good Night, Oscar — 1
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2024 Tony Awards Winners
The 2024 Tony nominations have been announced, honoring the best of the 2023–2024 Broadway season.
The first entry of the 2024-2025 Broadway season is Home . Premiering in 1979 at the Negro Ensemble Company before transferring to Broadway the following year, is set to open at the newly renamed Todd Haimes Theatre in June with previews scheduled to begin on May 17. Written by Samm-Art Williams and directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun, A Soldier’s Play), Home is set in North Carolina during the height of the Vietnam War, and focuses on farmland owner Cephus Miles who flees his small town after serving time for being a draft evader, and his slow but tragic dive into the world of drugs and prostitution before his return to North Carolina in search of the life he always wanted. Well, I’m sold.
Fresh off a critically acclaimed sold out production last year at New York’s famed Public Theater, is Hell’s Kitchen . Based on the life of Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, the show is scheduled to begin previews at the historic Shubert Theatre on March 28, with opening night scheduled for April 20. Directed by Tony Award nominee Michael Grief and featuring music and lyrics by Ms. Keys and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, Hell’s Kitchen is loosely based on Key’s childhood spent living in Hell’s Kitchen’s- Manhattan Plaza. A 46-floor building known for offering federally subsidized housing for both artists, as well as other neighborhood residents and the elderly. Not only am I a huge fan of Alica Keys, but I am a sucker for a good bio, jukebox musical. Here’s hoping Hell’s Kitchen is a hit.
Written by Tony Award winner Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Audience) and directed by Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold, (Ink, King Lear) is Patriots . The show which first premiered at the Noel Coward Theatre in London’s West End in 2023, stars Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg as billionaire Russian businessman Boris Berezofsky during the Soviet Union’s sharp decline and the unexpected rise of Boris Yeltsin. Previews for the twelve-week limited engagement is set to begin previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on April 1 with opening night scheduled for April 22. I expect Patriots to be a big Tony contender this Spring.
Just like with fellow new musical, The Notebook, I have never read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby or seen any of its numerous film or television adaptations. I am, however, looking forward to seeing this new take on the classic love story mostly in part due to the show’s two stars. Tony Award nominees Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Bonnie and Clyde) and Eva Noblezada (Hadestown, Miss Saigon) as millionaire Jay Gatsby and his former paramour Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby premiered last year at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse, features music and lyrics by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen and a book by Kait Kerrigan. Directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), The Great Gatsby is scheduled to begin previews at the Broadway Theatre on March 29, with opening night set for April 25. Interesting enough, there is another version of the show scheduled to open in May of this year at the American Repertory Theatre. Dueling Gatsby’s? What will they think of next?
Full disclosure. Until Lempika was announced, I had never heard of famed artist and outlaw aristocrat Tamara le Lempicka, who fled to Paris, France during the Russian Revolution, and used her painting skills to provide for her family. I have, however, heard of Eden Espinosa who has one of the best Broadway voices that I have ever heard, as well as being a former Elphaba in Wicked, the final Maureen in Rent, and the star of Brooklyn to name a few. Not to mention a slew of other critically acclaimed performances across the country, as well as an award-winning debut album. Quite the resume don’t you think? Lempika , which first premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2018, followed by another acclaimed production in 2022 at the La Jolla Playhouse, is scheduled to begin previews at the Longacre Theatre on March 19, with opening night scheduled for April 14. Directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown and choreographed by Raja Feather Kelly, the show features music by Matt Gould, lyrics by Carson Kreitzer, with a book by Gould and Kreitzer. I smell a Tony Award nomination in Ms. Espinosa’s future.
Like with every season, there are some shows that I am not familiar with prior to it being announced, mostly due to not reading up on it beforehand. Case in point, the new musical SUFFS . The show, which I later learned played a critically acclaimed, sold out run last year at the Public Theatre, is set in the years leading up to the signing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and the ultimate battle for a woman’s right to vote. Or as we know it today, the American Woman’s Suffrage Movement. An issue that I actually studied last year in my American History course that while I knew little about prior, proved to be one of the most important times in our country’s history. Not to mention a great idea for a musical in my opinion. Especially after hearing some of Shaina Taub’s amazing songs, who along with writing the book, music, and lyrics, also plays the role of Alice Paul, one of the leaders in the fight for women’s rights. Directed by Leigh Silverman, previews for SUFFS is set to begin at the Music Box Theatre on March 26, with opening night scheduled for April 18. I can’t wait.
Show of hands? Who doesn’t love Huey Lewis and the News? How can you not, right? Now while The Heart of Rock and Roll features the music of this iconic band, it is not the story of their meteoric rise to super stardom during the 1980’s. Although, how awesome would that be? Instead, The Heart of Rock and Roll features a brand-new story by Jonathan A. Abrams and Tyler Mitchell that focuses on a group of twenty-somethings on the cusp of achieving their dreams. Their only problem is which one? The corporate world or the world of Rock and Roll? Previews for The Heart of Rock and Roll are set to begin at the James Earl Jones Theatre on March 29 with opening night scheduled for April 22. Featuring over two dozen of the band’s biggest hits, I have no doubt that it will have audiences singing and dancing in the aisles. I know I can’t wait to see The Heart of Rock and Roll .