NEW YORK, Broadway theatre brilliance recognised with the Tony Awards With honours for a suffragette musical, a gritty adaptation of a 1960s novel, and a 1970s rock band drama, Sunday celebrated history.
After presiding over last year’s writerless event with an intricately choreographed dance piece, Tony-nominated and Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose hosted the awards ceremony for the third consecutive year at New York City’s Lincoln Centre.
With an all-female cast, Shaina Taub won best score and best writing of a musical for Suffs, a musical that tells the story of the suffragette campaign.
Daniel Aukin’s best direction and best play went to Stereophonic, which won the Tony Awards. With original music written by Will Butler, formerly of Arcade Fire, and set in the 1970s, David Adjmi’s drama about a rock band recording an album broke the record for most Tony Award nominations ever for a play.
Best main actor in a play went to succession star Jeremy Strong for his performance in Henrik Ibsen’s play “Enemy of the People,” while best featured actor went to Daniel Radcliffe, who is most known for his lead in the Harry Potter film series, for “Merrily We Roll Along.”
In his play Stereophonic, Will Brill won the award for best featured actor in a play, besting two other performers. For her performance in Purlie Victorious, Kara Young—the first Black actor, male or female—won the best featured actress in a play Tony Award three years in a row.
For the dance musical Illinoise, which included Sufjan Steven’s 2005 concept album Illinois on stage, Justin Peck was awarded the Tony Award for best choreography.
Danya Taymor stunned favourite Merrily We Roll Along star Maria Friedman by winning for director of a musical version of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age classic The Outsiders.
Dancers honoured Broadway icon Chita Rivera, who passed away in January at the age of 91, including DeBose, who reprised her Oscar-winning performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic adaptation of West Side Story.
The majority of the Tony Awards were given out in technical categories during a pre-show event that was aired on Pluto TV, a free channel, and was hosted by actors Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar.
The pre-show featured the Isabelle Stevenson Award, given to Billy Porter in recognition of his work as an activist and spokesman for the LGBTQ communities, and the best regional theatre award, given to Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre.
For their career achievements in theatre, writer, director, and producer George C. Wolfe and director Jack O’Brien were each awarded the 2024 Special Tony Award.
Additionally, Alex Edelman for his solo production “Just For Us,” Abe Jacob for his sound design, and Nikiya Mathis for her wig design in “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” were given Special Tony Awards.
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