Putting a Face on Theatre
Congrats to all the Tony Award winners and nominees! We have a full list of all the winners speeches after the jump -- so check 'em out! Also big congrats to Michael Hirt! He won our Tony Awards Pool with 18 correct! That's pretty phenomenal. It was also a big night for women at the Awards, with Marianne Elliott taking home the Best Direction of a Play Tony for her work on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. And when Lisa Kron (Best Book, Best Original Score) and Jeanine Tesori (Best Original Score) took home the Tony for Best Original Score, they become the first all-woman team to win the award. In her acceptance speech for Best Book, Kron spoke about to how women are taking a larger place in the Broadway world, and also what wins for musicals like Fun Home, which tackle non-traditional topics, means, saying “For many, many years I have had a recurring dream, and I don’t mean a metaphorical dream or a Martin Luther King dream. I mean an actual while-I’m-sleeping dream that I suddenly discover: that the apartment I live in has a whole bunch of rooms I didn’t know were there. And I’m like, ‘How could I not know about all of these rooms?’”
She continued, “I’ve been thinking about that dream as I’ve been thinking about this amazing Broadway season. Because we all live in this big house and we’ve all been sitting in the same one or two rooms thinking that this was the whole house, and this season some lights got turned on in some other rooms and we’re all like, ‘Oh my god, this house is so much bigger than I thought.’” She ended her speech with a plea to keep the other rooms open, and for people to keep exploring what musical theatre can be. Video of her speech, and all the other creators and designers not included in the telecast are below, with their awards.
One high-profile group that was left out of the Tonys were sound designers, after the Tony Awards cut the awards for sound last year. Natasha Katz publicly thanked her sound team during her acceptance speech, and remarked that it was sad they couldn't be celebrated at the awards. As part of the movement to bring sound design back into the Tonys, Broadway sound designer Lindsay Jones and John Gromada held the Collaborator Party to celebrate sound designers and all theatre collaborators. The party took place in NYC at the same time as the Tonys, and launched a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #Collaborator, urging people to take pics announcing their support for the sound community and post them to Twitter. You can check out the response searching on the hashtags #collaborator or #tonycanyourhearme.
So what do you think are missing from Awards? Should Sound Design be let back? What other "rooms" in musical theatre would you like to see the Tonys honor -- or even Broadway accept as being out there? Let me know!
Best Play
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author: Simon Stephens
Producers: Stuart Thompson, Tim Levy for NT America, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Nick Starr & Chris Harper for NT Productions, Bob Boyett, Roger Berlind, Scott M. Delman, Roy Furman, Glass Half Full Productions, Ruth Hendel, Jon B. Platt, Prime Number Group, Scott Rudin, Triple Play Broadway, The Shubert Organization, The National Theatre
Best Revival of a Play
Skylight
Producers: Robert Fox, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Roger Berlind, William Berlind, Roy Furman, Jon B. Platt, The Shubert Organization, Stephanie P. McClelland, Catherine Adler, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Scott M. Delman, Heni Koenigsberg, Spring Sirkin, Stuart Thompson, True Love Productions, The Araca Group, Carlos Arana, David Mirvish, Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson
Best Musical
Fun Home
Producers: Fox Theatricals, Barbara Whitman, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Tom Casserly, Paula Marie Black, Latitude Link, Terry Schnuck/Jack Lane, The Forstalls, Nathan Vernon, Mint Theatrical, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jam Theatricals, Delman Whitney, Kristin Caskey & Mike Isaacson, The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Patrick Willingham
Best Revival of a Musical
The King and I
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Adam Siegel, Hattie K. Jutagir, Ambassador Theatre Group
Best Book of a Musical
Fun Home - Lisa Kron
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Fun Home - Music: Jeanine Tesori; Lyrics: Lisa Kron
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Alex Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Helen Mirren, The Audience
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Michael Cerveris, Fun Home
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Kelli O’Hara, The King and I
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Richard McCabe, The Audience
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Annaleigh Ashford, You Can’t Take It with You
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Christian Borle, Something Rotten!
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Ruthie Ann Miles, The King and I
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Bunny Christie and Finn Ross, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Bob Crowley and 59 Productions, An American in Paris
Best Costume Design of a Play
Christopher Oram, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Catherine Zuber, The King and I
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paule Constable, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Natasha Katz, An American in Paris
Best Direction of a Play
Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Best Direction of a Musical
Sam Gold, Fun Home
Best Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon, An American in Paris
Best Orchestrations
Christopher Austin, Don Sebesky, Bill Elliott, An American in Paris
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