TA Broadway show celebrating the origins of sonic creativity: Hell's Kitchen, the musical featuring songs by Alicia Keys, and Stereophonic, a play about a 70s rock band on the cusp of stardom. , which earned a record 13 nominations at the Tony Awards on Tuesday. The list also marked a record number of women nominated for Best Director.
A total of 28 shows won at least a Tony Award, with the musical The Outsiders, an adaptation of the popular SE Hinton novel and Francis Ford Coppola film, receiving 12 nominations. A gorgeous revival of “Cabaret'' starring Eddie Redmayne wins nine people. And Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' searing play “Appropriate,'' about a family reunion in Arkansas where everyone has conflicting motives and grievances, received an eight.
Rachel McAdams, who made her Broadway debut in “Mary Jane,” wins Best Actress in a Play nomination, while “Succession” star Jeremy Strong gets his first nomination for his role in the revival of “An Enemy of the People.” did. Jessica Lange for “Mother Play'', Sarah Paulson for “Appropriate'' and Amy Ryan, who joined the “Doubt'' revival at the last minute, were also nominated for best actress in a play. “The Big Bang Theory'' star Jim Parsons gains support in “The Mother Play,'' and Daniel Radcliffe stars in his fifth Broadway performance in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's “Merrily We Roll Along.'' He received his first nomination. Redmayne won Best Actor in a Musical for his second run on Broadway, along with Brian d'Arcy James in The Days of Wine and Roses, Brody Grant in The Outsiders, and Merrily We Roll Along. ” Jonathan Groff also won the award. ” and 73-year-old Dorian Harewood in “The Notebook,” the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ romantic tearjerker.
Harewood earned her first Tony Award nomination for her first Broadway performance in 46 years. Gail Rankin, who co-starred with Redmayne in Cabaret, will star in a musical, as will Eden Espinosa in Lempicka, Marea Joy Moon in Hell's Kitchen, and Kelli O'Hara in Days of Wine and Roses. Nominated for Best Actress. Marian Plunkett, 71, plays the elderly wife of the central character in “The Notebook.” Steve Carell made his Broadway debut in a poorly received revival of the classic play Uncle Vanya, which did not receive much approval, but starred actors such as Keys, Angelina Jolie (The Outsiders), and Hillary Rodham Clinton (The Outsiders). ''), and the star producer, who received Tony's nod, “Suff'').
The crowning glory for new musicals goes to “Hell's Kitchen'' and “The Outsiders,'' a dance-heavy, dialogue-free stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens' 2005 album “Illinois,'' about American suffragists. It would be a battle between the “safs”. “Elephant Water” combines early 20th century Sarah Greene's 2006 bestseller with circus elements.
The Best New Play Tony pits “Stereophonic” against “Mother Play,” Paula Vogel's play about mothers and their children from 1964 through the 21st century. “Mary Jane” is Amy Herzog's humanistic portrait of a divorced mother of a boy with health problems. Prayer for the French Republic, a large-scale family comedy-drama directed by Joshua Harmon that deals with Zionism, religious fervor, and anti-Semitism. and “Jaja's African Hair Braiding,” a comedy directed by Jocelyn Baio about the lives of West African women working in a salon.
This nomination broke the Tony record for most women nominated in a single season. She holds the record for the most nominations for a female director at the 2022 Tony Awards, with a total of four nominees in two categories: musical and play. Only 10 women have ever won the director's crown. This year, three women are nominated for Best Drama Directing: Lila Neugebauer (“Appropriate”), Ann Kaufman (“Mary Jane”), and Whitney White (“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”). Maria was nominated in the musical category. Friedman (“Merrily We Roll Along”), Lee Silverman (“Suffus”), Jessica Stone (“Water for Elephants”) and Danya Taymor (“The Outsiders”). Ahead of the Tony Awards ceremony on June 16, producers hope to keep their films fresh in voters' minds, with a flurry of new shows released in the spring (this year, 14 in 11 days). This is not uncommon these days.
This season also featured several firsts, including Broadway's first all-Filipino cast, “Here Lies Love,” which received four nominations, including Best Original Score for David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim. . Also, seven openly autistic actors starred in How to Dance in Ohio, a first on Broadway, but it did not win a Tony. Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose, who hosted both the 2023 and 2022 ceremonies, will return this year to produce and choreograph the opening number.
This year's venue, the David H. Koch Theater, is the home of the New York City Ballet and is located in the same expansive complex as the Lincoln Square Theater, which also houses Broadway venue Beaumont Theatre. As with last year, the three-hour main broadcast will be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+ from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM ET/5:00 PM to 8:00 PM PDT, with a pre-show on Pluto TV. , where the Tony Awards will be presented. This season's Broadway box office revenue (about $1.4 billion in box office revenue and 11.1 million tickets sold) is slightly down from the 2022-23 season, with box office revenue down about 4% and ticket sales down 1%. are doing.
