I actually rather want AI to win, and I kind of not underwhelm by the performance tonight.
Anyway, big cheer for LA CAGE and RED! And Catherine! She makes me so happy tonight. I don't like her performance tonight, but I love to see her win! :)
Red - 6 Memphis - 4 Fela - 3 Fences - 3 La Cage Aux Folles - 3 American Idiot - 2 Million Dollar Quartet - 1 Promises, Promises - 1 A View From A Bridge - 1 The Royal Family - 1 A Little Night Music - 1
Best Musical
American Idiot Fela! *Memphis Million Dollar Quartet
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Kate Baldwin, Finian's Rainbow Montego Glover, Memphis Christiane Noll, Ragtime Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture *Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music
Best Revival of a Musical
Finian's Rainbow *La Cage aux Folles A Little Night Music Ragtime
Best Play
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play Author: Sarah Ruhl Next Fall Author: Geoffrey Nauffts *Red Author: John Logan Time Stands Still Author: Donald Margulies
Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises *Bill T. Jones, Fela! Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Jude Law, Hamlet Alfred Molina, Red Liev Schreiber, A View from the Bridge Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane *Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
*Viola Davis, Fences Valerie Harper, Looped Linda Lavin, Collected Stories Laura Linney, Time Stands Still Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family Robin De Jesús, La Cage aux Folles Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian's Rainbow *Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet Bobby Steggert, Ragtime
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim *Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music Karine Plantadit, Come Fly Away Lillias White, Fela!
Best Direction of a Musical
Christopher Ashley, Memphis Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime *Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Best Direction of a Play
*Michael Grandage, Red Sheryl Kaller, Next Fall Kenny Leon, Fences Gregory Mosher, A View from the Bridge
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
David Alan Grier, Race Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts Stephen Kunken, Enron *Eddie Redmayne, Red
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Maria Dizzia, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family Jessica Hecht, A View from the Bridge *Scarlett Johansson, A View from the Bridge Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, La Cage aux Folles *Robert Kaplowitz, Fela! Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen, A Little Night Music Dan Moses Schreier, Sondheim on Sondheim
Best Sound Design of a Play
Acme Sound Partners, Fences Adam Cork, Enron *Adam Cork, Red Scott Lehrer, A View from the Bridge
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Marina Draghici, Fela! *Christine Jones, American Idiot Derek McLane, Ragtime Tim Shortall, La Cage aux Folles
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
*Kevin Adams, American Idiot Donald Holder, Ragtime Nick Richings, La Cage aux Folles Robert Wierzel, Fela!
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Neil Austin, Hamlet *Neil Austin, Red Mark Henderson, Enron Brian MacDevitt, Fences
Best Scenic Design of a Play John Lee Beatty, The Royal Family Alexander Dodge, Present Laughter Santo Loquasto, Fences *Christopher Oram, Red
Best Costume Design of a Musical *Marina Draghici, Fela! Paul Tazewell, Memphis Matthew Wright, La Cage aux Folles
Best Costume Design of a Play
Martin Pakledinaz, Lend Me a Tenor Constanza Romero, Fences David Zinn, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play *Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family
Best Book of a Musical
Everyday Rapture - Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott Fela! - Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones *Memphis - Joe DiPietro Million Dollar Quartet - Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
The Addams Family Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa Enron Music: Adam Cork Lyrics: Lucy Prebble Fences Music: Branford Marsalis *Memphis Music: David Bryan Lyrics: Joe DiPietro, David Bryan
Best Orchestrations
Jason Carr, La Cage aux Folles Aaron Johnson, Fela! Jonathan Tunick, Promises, Promises *Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis
What a great night for British theatre, big congratulations to The Menier and Red for doing so well. Great for Douglas and Catherine for their deserved awards, but very sad to see Angela miss out.
Well this years award there was not a sweep, it was never going to happen anyway, like years before for a musical, this came surprisingly in the play category, with Red taking so much.
Best musical Memphis, that was a surprise, the musical that should of got it was The Addams Family, but was not even nominated, even though I thought Memphis was good, I thought American Idiot was better and this show should of been the victor.
Nights Highs Catherine and Douglas Tony Come Fly Away missing out Menier getting 4 Tony's Red getting 6 Tonys Promises, promises getting a Tony
Nights Lows Angela Lansbury missing out. Million Dollar Quartet getting a Tony. The Addams Family leaving empty handed, but hell those weekly grosses do make up for it. Will the show be both critic and award proof?
Good god it is 4:30am, I have to be up at 11am for my late turn shift, sometimes it pays to do shift work.
Thanks SADM2 for posting the link to view the Tony's live.
I'm really pleased with the results of the awards that I care. :P Eddie Redmayne and Douglas Hodge, RED and LA CAGE, and I rather have CZJ winning over Montego Glover. That said, tonight's Tony is the most underwhelming one I've seen, mostly because those performances really are not shining.
Gutted that American Idiot did not win Best Musical (but at least it more or less swept the board in the Broadwayworld public vote awards). Though I have to admit I can't totally make a verdict as yet as I've not seen Memphis. I deliberately avoided seeing Memphis on my last two trips to New York after hearing some of the songs and hating what I heard! Guess I'll have to force myself to see it on my next trip and hope I was wrong to avoid it before.
But - Yay, Catherine! C'mon WALES!
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I know this might sound so weird, but I nearly went into tears when I read Eddie won a Tony! That boy is going to be such a huge star! I'm so glad to have seen him in RED twice! Im so glad Michael Grandage won one as well, very well deserved! Go Donmar! Go England!!!!
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I am so so pleased for Red. It was so worth lining up in the cold for two hours to get a dayseat for it! The acceptance speech for Best Play was so emotional!
Red is also something that has never appealed to me - the subject matter is not something that particluarly grabs my attention. But I guess it's something else I will have to get to see to find out what all the fuss is about!
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