Tony Award Ceremony Will Coincide With Broadway’s Eventual Reopening

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.

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

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