The Tony Awards pre-show Act One streaming on Pluto has concluded, with eleven awards – lighting, scenic design, orchestrations, choreography, and extra – handed out. See beneath, and Winners Checklist – to catch up.
Broadway‘s busy, busy 2023-24 season has been constructing to this evening for months, with new present after new present crowding the spring and making for what guarantees to be — in some classes anyway — a race tighter than the rock band of Stereophonic. Okay, possibly not that tight, however what’s?
In all, 36 productions have been eligible for competitors — 5 new musicals, 10 new performs, six musical revivals, and 5 play revivals — with 28 really making the nominations checklist. The 2 most-nominated reveals, with 13 classes every, are Greatest Play nominee Stereophonic and Greatest Musical nominee Hell’s Kitchen. Stereophonic might make Broadway historical past on a pair fronts: As the one play to win an award for Greatest Orchestrations (it’s additionally up for Greatest Rating, competing in opposition to precise musicals) and, if successful greater than seven awards, changing into the winningest play ever (2007’s The Coast of Utopia, with seven trophies, at the moment holds the title).
No fewer than 70 nominees are Broadway first-timers, together with 4 Stereophonic performers, two from The Outsiders, Mary Jane‘s Rachel McAdams and, at 21 the youngest nominee, Hell’s Kitchen‘s Maleah Joi Moon. Jessica Lange, at 75, hits the opposite finish of the age spectrum for performing nominees, with Jonathan Tunick, already an EGOT, tonight’s total oldest nominee: At 86, he’s nominated within the Greatest Orchestrations class for Merrily We Roll Alongside.
Now, on with the present…
