Tony voters have fallen into the spirit of the imperial state.
“Hell's Kitchen,” the heart-pounding new Broadway musical featuring songs by Alicia Keys, led the Tony Awards nominations Tuesday with 13, including four for best musical and four for acting. Loosely inspired by Keyes' teenage years, the show follows a young girl (Marea Joy Moon) who grows up in subsidized artists' housing and rebels against her mother (Shoshana Bean), It depicts her discovering her love for the piano.
“Stereophonic,” a mesmerizing three-hour drama set entirely in a recording studio, is nominated alongside “Hell’s Kitchen” for 13 awards, including Best Drama, Best Score and Best Orchestration. it was done. The show follows a 1970s Fleetwood Mac-style band as they collide while working on their next album.
Other nominees for Best Musical include “Illinois,” a dance show set to music by Sufjan Stevens. “The Outsider” is based on his 1967 classic novel by SE Hinton. “Suffs'' depicts women's long struggle to win the right to vote. and “Water for Elephants,” a romance set in the circus.
Despite mixed reviews from critics, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club received nine nominations, including Best Actor in a Musical (Eddie Redmayne) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gayle Rankin). . The gorgeous, semi-immersive revival is set in a seedy nightclub in pre-World War II Berlin.
“Merrily We Roll Along,'' a revival of Stephen Sondheim's once-infamous film, was nominated for seven awards, including starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendes.
This season's Best New Musical category includes 15 new productions, including “The Notebook,'' “Back to the Future,'' and a flashy adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.'' All received three or fewer nominations, but Huey Lewis' fun new jukebox show, “The Heart of Rock 'n' Roll,” was completely passed over. Barry Manilow's musical “Harmony,'' about a group of singers thrown into disarray by the rise of Nazism, was similarly canceled.
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Jessica Lange, who won a Tony Award in 2016 for “Night Out'', was nominated for Best Actress in a Play again this year. In Paula Vogel's semi-autobiographical drama Mother Play, she plays an overbearing, homophobic parent of two gay children (Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger were also nominated) .
Sarah Paulson is nominated for Best Actress for her role in “Appropriate,” a hit play about an estranged Southern family confronting its racist past, a biting riff on Tennessee Williams. And Rachel McAdams, making her Broadway debut, rounded out the category with her commanding performance in Mary Jane, playing a down-to-earth single mother of a seriously ill boy.
Many other Hollywood stars include Jeremy Strong (An Enemy of the People), Leslie Odom Jr. (Pally Victorious), Amy Ryan (Doubt), and Liev Schreiber (Doubt). The actor was nominated for a Tony Award. , Corey Stoll (“Appropriate”), and William Jackson Harper (“Uncle Vanya”).
Surprisingly, Steve Carell (“Uncle Vanya”) and Michael Imperioli (“An Enemy of the People”) both lost their roles, even though many awards experts predicted they would appear. was overlooked. “The Patriots,” a drama about President Vladimir Putin directed by “The Crown” creator Peter Morgan, also received just one nomination for actor Michael Stuhlbarg.
How to watch the Tony Awards
The 77th Tony Awards Ceremony will be broadcast live on CBS from Lincoln Center on June 16th (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PDT, streaming on Paramount+).
This will be Oscar winner Ariana DeBose hosting the show for the third time.
