The curtain’s inching up on the Tony Awards: A ceremony will probably be held on an as-yet-undetermined date in coordination with Broadway’s eventual reopening, however voters will lastly have the ability to make their alternatives starting March 1, Tony organizers inform Deadline.
Nominees for the 74th Annual Tony Awards had been introduced final October, with the 18 eligible productions reflecting the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season (the rely often numbers within the 30s). The 2020 Tony ceremony and CBS broadcast had initially been set for June 7 at New York’s Radio Metropolis Musical Corridor, however after all was scuttled because of the Covid shutdown.
The voting interval will run from March 1 to March 15. Though Broadway stays formally closed till June, most insiders don’t count on any stagings earlier than fall on the earliest, with timing contingent on widespread Covid-19 vaccinations.
Associated Story
Jujamcyn Theaters Strikes Deal With Broadway Newcomer SeatGeek, Dropping Ticketmaster
The March 12 theater closure preceded the official finish of the Broadway season and the normal late-April/early-Could announcement of nominees, leaving open the query of whether or not the 18 productions that opened pre-pandemic would get their very own awards ceremony or be melded into the next season’s nominations. In October, the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing introduced the standalone roster of 2019-20 nominations (see the entire record beneath).
Nominated for Greatest Play are Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life, Grand Horizons, The Inheritance and The Sound Inside, with Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Capsule and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical up for Greatest Musical. Within the Greatest Revival of a Play class, Betrayal will compete with Frankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune and A Soldier’s Play.
The abbreviated season additionally resulted in one of many odder nominations in Tony historical past: Aaron Tveit of Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the only real entry within the Leading Actor in a Musical class.
When theaters went darkish, three productions – the musicals Six, West Facet Story and Woman from the North Nation – had already begun performances however weren’t round lengthy sufficient to accommodate the required variety of Tony voters.
Among the many scheduled productions that had not formally opened previous to the shutdown, and so are usually not eligible this yr, had been Tracy Letts’ The Minutes; the musical adaptation of Mrs. Doubtfire; director Sam Mendes’ The Lehman Trilogy; the Princess Di musical Diana; Firm, the gender-switched revival of the basic Sondheim musical starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone; Plaza Suite starring Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker; How I Realized To Drive, the Paula Vogel play starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse; David Mamet’s American Buffalo starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss; the Off Broadway switch of New York Theatre Workshop’s musical Sing Avenue; the revival of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams; the revival of the Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musical Caroline, or Change; Birthday Candles, the Noah Haidle play starring Debra Messing; Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett.
A number of the scuttled reveals had been subsequently postponed, some canceled and a few stay up within the air.
Two of the season’s hottest productions, Freestyle Love Supreme and David Byrne’s American Utopia, selected to not invite Tony voters, although each could possibly be eligible for particular awards.
The Tony Awards are offered by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
Nominations for the 2020 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards:
Greatest Play
Grand Horizons
Creator: Bess Wohl
Producers: Second Stage Theater, Carole Rothman, Williamstown Theatre Pageant, Mandy Greenfield
The Inheritance
Creator: Matthew López
Sea Wall/A Life
Creator: Simon Stephens & Nick Payne
Slave Play
Creator: Jeremy O. Harris
The Sound Inside
Creator: Adam Rapp
Greatest Musical
Jagged Little Capsule
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Revival of a Play
Betrayal
Frankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune
Creator: Terrence McNally
A Soldier’s Play
Creator: Charles Fuller
Greatest Ebook of a Musical
Jagged Little Capsule
Diablo Cody
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
John Logan
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Katori Corridor, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins
Greatest Unique Rating (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
A Christmas Carol
Music: Christopher Nightingale
The Inheritance
Music: Paul Englishby
The Rose Tattoo
Music: Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb
Slave Play
Music: Lindsay Jones
The Sound Inside
Music: Daniel Kluger
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Position in a Play
Ian Barford, Linda Vista
Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance
Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life
Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal
Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life
Blair Underwood, A Soldier’s Play
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Position in a Play
Joaquina Kalukango, Slave Play
Laura Linney, My Title is Lucy Barton
Audra McDonald, Frankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune
Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Position in a Musical
Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Position in a Musical
Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Capsule
Adrienne Warren, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Position in a Play
Ato Blankson-Wooden, Slave Play
James Cusati-Moyer, Slave Play
David Alan Grier, A Soldier’s Play
John Benjamin Hickey, The Inheritance
Paul Hilton, The Inheritance
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Position in a Play
Jane Alexander, Grand Horizons
Chalia La Tour, Slave Play
Annie McNamara, Slave Play
Lois Smith, The Inheritance
Cora Vander Broek, Linda Vista
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Position in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Derek Klena, Jagged Little Capsule
Sean Allan Krill, Jagged Little Capsule
Sahr Ngaujah, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Daniel J. Watts, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Position in a Musical
Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Capsule
Celia Rose Gooding, Jagged Little Capsule
Robyn Hurder, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Capsule
Myra Lucretia Taylor, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Scenic Design of a Play
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
Soutra Gilmour, Betrayal
Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Derek McLane, A Soldier’s Play
Clint Ramos, Slave Play
Greatest Scenic Design of a Musical
Riccardo Hernández and Lucy Mackinnon, Jagged Little Capsule
Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Costume Design of a Play
Dede Ayite, Slave Play
Dede Ayite, A Soldier’s Play
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Clint Ramos, The Rose Tattoo
Greatest Costume Design of a Musical
Emily Rebholz, Jagged Little Capsule
Mark Thompson, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Lighting Design of a Play
Jiyoun Chang, Slave Play
Jon Clark, The Inheritance
Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside
Allen Lee Hughes, A Soldier’s Play
Hugh Vanstone, A Christmas Carol
Greatest Lighting Design of a Musical
Bruno Poet, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Justin Townsend, Jagged Little Capsule
Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid, The Inheritance
Simon Baker, A Christmas Carol
Lindsay Jones, Slave Play
Daniel Kluger, Sea Wall/A Life
Daniel Kluger, The Sound Inside
Greatest Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, Jagged Little Capsule
Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Nevin Steinberg, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Path of a Play
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance
Kenny Leon, A Soldier’s Play
Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal
Robert O’Hara, Slave Play
Greatest Path of a Musical
Phyllida Lloyd, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Diane Paulus, Jagged Little Capsule
Alex Timbers, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jagged Little Capsule
Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Anthony Van Laast, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Orchestrations
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Capsule
Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen, Matt Stine and Justin Levine, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Ethan Popp, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
! perform(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {
if (f.fbq) return;
n = f.fbq = perform() {
n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)
}
;
if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;
n.push = n;
n.loaded = !0;
n.model = ‘2.0’;
n.queue = [];
t = b.createElement(e);
t.async = !0;
t.src = v;
s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];
s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)
}(window, doc, ‘script’, ‘https://join.fb.internet/en_US/fbevents.js’);
fbq(‘init’, ‘422369225140645’);
fbq(‘observe’, ‘PageView’);