Two music artist-driven shows found themselves on the top of the Tony nominations this morning with the play Stereophonic and the musical Hell’s Kitchen earning 13 nominations each, including the top award and direction. Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry, previous Tony Award winners themselves, announced the nominations on Tuesday morning.
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Mary Jane, Mother Play and Prayer for the French Republic join Stereophonic in Best Play while the Sufjan Stevens-based Illinoise, The Outsiders, Suffs and Water for Elephants go up against Hell’s Kitchen for best musical.
After a successful off-Broadway run last fall, Stereophonic opened on Broadway earlier this month to make the April 25 deadline and edged Slave Play’s record of 12 nominations from the pandemic-shortened 2019-2020 season.
Hell’s Kitchen managed four acting nods: Maleah Joi Moon for Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, Brandon Victor Dixon for Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and two in Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical, for Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis. Stereophonic‘s five acting nominations all came in the featured categories: Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka in actor and Juliana Canfield and Sarah Pidgeon in actress.
The Outsiders, a musical adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age novel and the Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name, was right behind the nomination tally with 12, including best musical, direction of a musical and two acting nods.
Stars of stage and screen hit big with Daniel Radcliffe, Rachel McAdams, Jeremy Strong, Jessica Lange, Eddie Redmayne, Sarah Paulson, Amy Ryan and more all earning nominations today. It was the second nod for Lange, also an Oscar winner, and Redmayne already has both a Tony and an Oscar. This is the third nod for Ryan, who was a last minute replacement for Tyne Daly in Doubt: A Parable after Daly fell ill.
Multiple individual nominations were the name of the game this morning with several artists and artisans finding themselves with two or three nomination, often in the same category competing against themselves. Dede Ayite received three nominations, two for costume design for a play: Appropriate and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding and one for costume design for a musical for Hell’s Kitchen. Lighting designer Isabella Byrd earn nods for the play An Enemy of the People and the musical Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.
The pair of Kelli O’Hara and Brian D’Arcy James earned dual nominations for their work and an alcoholic married couple coming apart at the seams in the musical adaptation of Days of Wine and Roses. O’Hara is an 8-time nominee and a winner for 2015’s The King and I. James is a five-time nominee.
The most notable snubs of the morning were the lavish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which earned a single nomination for costume design, and The Wiz, a high profile but not well liked revival of the 1970s cult classic musical was blanked completely. Individually, Roger Bar, Steve Carell and Michael Imperioli all missed the cut.
The 77th Tony Awards will be hosted by Ariana DeBose, her third go-round, and will be held in the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on June 16. The broadcast will air on CBS and will stream on Paramount+.
Here is the complete list of nominations.
Best Play
Best Musical
Best Revival of a Play
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Direction of a Play
Best Direction of a Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Best Book of a Musical
Hell’s Kitchen
Kristoffer Diaz
The Notebook
Bekah Brunstetter
The Outsiders
Adam Rapp and Justin Levine
Suffs
Shaina Taub
Water for Elephants
Rick Elice
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Days of Wine and Roses
Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel
Here Lies Love
Music: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim
Lyrics: David Byrne
The Outsiders
Music & Lyrics: Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine
Stereophonic
Music & Lyrics: Will Butler
Suffs
Music & Lyrics: Shaina Taub
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Best Costume Design of a Play
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Best Sound Design of a Play
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Best Choreography
Best Orchestrations
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