Refresh for updates: Tony Award nominees had been celebrating at this time, with the celebs, producers and inventive groups of Parade, Kimberly Akimbo, Shucked and The Piano Lesson amongst these reacting to their nominations.
Audra McDonald, who scored her tenth Tony nomination for efficiency in Ohio State Murders (Main Actress/Play), mentioned, “I’m honored to have been nominated for Ohio State Murders. Having the chance to work with Kenny Leon, and to be part of Adrienne Kennedy’s long-overdue Broadway debut of her extraordinary, related, and highly effective work, was one of the crucial essential creative experiences of my life.”
“I’m past excited to be nominated this 12 months, and I’m deeply honored to be acknowledged for this function particularly,” mentioned Ben Platt, nominated within the Greatest Main Actor/Musical class for his efficiency in Parade. “As a lifelong lover of musical theatre, this present has all the time had a particular place in my coronary heart. And as a Jew, giving a voice to Leo Frank’s story and bringing him to life every night time is so splendidly significant. It’s extremely particular to be included amongst such proficient actors and associates and I’m feeling so grateful and so happy with my total firm.”
“This morning was completely unimaginable,” mentioned Casey Nicholaw, nominated for each his course and choreography for the musical Some Like It Scorching. “It’s the primary time I received to expertise listening to the nominations with one in every of my casts as a substitute of at dwelling. And so as to add to it, we had been acting on the Immediately Present and we couldn’t make any noise – so there have been simply actual tears and faux clapping! After which after we had been finished with the section, there was a lot screaming and camaraderie. I’ll always remember it. Childhood desires come true.”
Amy Herzog (playwright) Revival/Play, A Doll’s Home (new model): “I really feel extremely fortunate at this time. I’ve beloved A Doll’s Home since I used to be a teen, it’s deep in my playwriting DNA, and attending to do a nerdy dive into it with Jamie, Jessica, Arian and this unimaginable firm has been an honor and a thrill. I’m so grateful to my sensible collaborators, our producers, and the nominating committee…I prefer to suppose that someplace within the universe OG Ibsen has a sly little Scandinavian smile on his face too.”
Cameron Crowe, Rating/Musical, Nearly Well-known: “What a privilege to be nominated alongside my pal, the sensible Tom Kitt. Tom brings his complete coronary heart to his work, you possibly can really feel it on first hear, and it solely deepens from there. Our passionate solid lives in each observe of the rating, they introduced such hearth each night time and day. A lot appreciation to our audiences, our fellow nominees, and to the Tonys. Thanks for shining a lightweight on Nearly Well-known and our easy motto – Music is love.”
Nikki Crawford, Featured Actress/Play, Fats Ham: “From the second I started studying James Ijames’ Fats Ham, I associated to and knew all of the characters he had so masterfully drawn. It has been a privilege and an honor to convey Tedra to life underneath the course of Saheem Ali. I’m not going to lie, being nominated for a Tony has been my lifelong dream. I’m deeply humbled by this honor. I hope my nomination will shine a lightweight on the brilliance of the play itself, the solid, and the collaboration of all these behind the scenes who’ve made Fats Ham an iconic, hilarious, and wholly authentic play. For me, it has been probably the most rewarding expertise of my profession from the primary day of rehearsal on the Public to at this time when my dream has come true.”
Jessica Stone, Course/Musical, Kimberly Akimbo: “What excites me greater than something is that Kimberly Akimbo was nominated for Greatest Musical. That’s the one which belongs to all of us. The solid. Writers, designers, crew, producers- all of us. It takes everybody’s coronary heart and wit and dedication. I like this group.”
Corey Hawkins, Main Actor/Play, Topdog/Underdog: “An enormous honor to be nominated once more on this class, this 12 months alongside my brother Yahya! I had the privilege of embodying a personality in Lincoln that may stay with me and with numerous others ceaselessly. One of the difficult and rewarding roles I’ve ever taken on. Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a masterful symphony, Topdog/Underdog. All we needed to do was play the music underneath the expert management of our conductor, Kenny Leon. It’s an homage to black males, to the unseen, to the underdogs. Grateful for the journey and to the audiences we received to share every night time with on the boards. Large ups to the Topdog group!”
Saheem Ali, Course/Play, Fats Ham: “I’m floored by this honor. Making Fats Ham was a joyous expertise from the get-go, so that is icing on the cake. I’m grateful to James Ijames and all of my extraordinary collaborators; we made one thing particular.”
Cynthia Erivo (producer), Greatest Play, Fats Ham: “These nominations mark an thrilling and joyful second in our theater group, with a mixture of productions that commemorate illustration and humanity. I’m in awe of James ljames, Saheem Ali and the sensible actors, designers, crew members and extra who make all of it attainable to inform this poignant story eight reveals per week. To return to Broadway on this capability is a dream come true and a full circle second for me. I’m thrilled to share on this honor with probably the most unimaginable Hamily a lady might ask for!!!”
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Main Actor/Play, Between Riverside and Loopy: I’m grateful to be a part of a beautiful journey with Stephen Adley Guirgis and Austin Pendelton. It takes an ensemble for an actor to get a nomination. I’ve been surrounded by a household of actors and a village of stage managers and crews. from starting to finish. To be nominated on this distinctive Broadway season is an incredible pleasure.
Kevin Del Aguila, Featured Actor/Musical, Some Like It Scorching: “My jaw hit the ground and it’s been there ever since! I used to be cheering and hugging, flooded with gratitude and love, after which I needed to rapidly run off to a dental appointment. Now I’m spending the remainder of the day sporting a large, sparklingly shiny smile.”
Jodie Comer, Lead Actress/Play, Prima Facie: “I like attending to play the function of Tessa in Prima Facie, so to obtain this Tony Award nomination for my Broadway debut is past my wildest desires. Broadway audiences have been so welcoming to me, so it has really been an incredible expertise. I’m grateful to get to talk Suzie Miller’s phrases in her very important and pressing play, and for director Justin Martin, who guided me each step of the way in which.”
Jessica Chastain, Main Actress/Play, A Doll’s Home: “If I might inform that lady who yearly recorded the Tony Awards on her VHS that this is able to occur, it might have blown my world open. To inform her she’d be dwelling in New York, performing in A Doll’s Home, and nominated for a Tony Award for Greatest Actress… It’s a dream come true. Thanks a lot to The Wing and the Tony Awards for recognizing our play. Thanks, The Jamie Lloyd Firm, Ambassador Theatre Group, Wessex Grove, Hudson Theatre, Gavin Kalin Productions and 101 for believing in us. On a regular basis I get to say Amy Herzog’s phrases and act with probably the most unimaginable group of artists. Jamie Lloyd, none of this is able to have occurred with out you. Love you very a lot.”
Sean Hayes, Main Actor/Play, Good Evening, Oscar: “Thanks to The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing for this extremely humbling nomination…I’m honored to be included in such esteemed firm. I’m ceaselessly grateful to Doug Wright and Lisa Peterson for giving me the chance, and the stage, to convey Oscar Levant to life alongside a superb solid, crew and producers who work tirelessly to make this present so particular. It’s a privilege to painting somebody so advanced; somebody who’s each hilarious and heartbreaking and I’m really grateful and grateful for this stunning acknowledgement.”
Arian Moayed, Featured Actor/Play, A Doll’s Home: “I don’t have sufficient phrases to explain how honored and excited I’m. The one pleasure higher than this Tony nomination is sharing it with Jessica, Jamie, Amy and the unimaginable firm of A Doll’s Home.”
Rachel Hauck, Scenic Design/Play, Good Evening, Oscar: “I’m deeply humbled and so honored to be acknowledged for the design of Good Evening ,Oscar. Doug Wright’s sensible play in regards to the exceptional Oscar Levant is a profound have a look at artists, psychological well being, and leisure that comes at a price. I really feel particularly proud to have labored with my accomplice, the good director Lisa Peterson, to create the good-looking however slippery actuality that holds this story. It’s a thrill past phrases.”
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Main Actor/Play, Topdog Underdog: “I used to be launched to you at 20 years previous. You taught me that there was a spot within the theater if I had been daring sufficient to take up area. You had been affirmation that I belonged. Immediately, 16 years later, as I get up to information of a Tony Award Nomination for the function I’ve dreamt about for therefore lengthy, you proceed to be the reward that retains on giving. I’m grateful to Suzan-Lori Parks, to my Director Kenny Leon, the whole artistic group together with our producers, and particularly my brother on the boards, Corey Hawkins. Congratulations to my fellow nominees. It’s a pleasure to be amongst nice firm.”
Samuel L. Jackson, Greatest Featured Actor/Play, The Piano Lesson: “It’s a thrill to be nominated – this honor is especially particular having been underneath the course of LaTanya and attending to proceed August Wilson’s legacy on Broadway after first performing The Piano Lesson on stage on the Yale Repertory Theater 35 years in the past. Thanks to the members of the American Theater Wing & Broadway League. Congratulations to all the nominees.”
Bonnie Milligan, nominated for her Featured efficiency in Kimberly Akimbo, mentioned, “I’m completely blown away by this nomination. Rising up in a double vast trailer within the Midwest, dreaming of Broadway appeared so far-off. To be embraced by the Broadway group, means the world to me. My ‘nice journey’ with Kimberly Akimbo has been one of the crucial stunning of my life, and I really feel so fortunate to be on this attractive present, with these attractive folks.”
Jordan E. Cooper, Playwright/Featured Actor/Play, Ain’t No Mo: “What a morning! I received to look at the nominations in Texas with my mother and father in the identical front room that I used to do performs in as a child. Ain’t No Mo’ might not have had a protracted life on Broadway however it positive did have an impactful one. The work issues. I’m so extremely grateful to the American Theater Wing, Lee Daniels, my unimaginable director, solid and crew together with everybody who championed this daring play everywhere in the nation.”
Annaleigh Ashford, Main Actress/Musical, Sweeney Todd: “Thanks American Theatre Wing! It’s an honor to be nominated alongside these proficient ladies. I’m deeply proud to be a part of a present that has lengthy impressed so many individuals to turn out to be artists and continues to take action at this time. Steve Sondheim was masterful at guaranteeing that the feminine counterpoint in his reveals was equal and he was authentically concerned about telling the entire, full story of all people. I couldn’t be extra thrilled to be telling his story with this magical solid, crew, and inventive group. Congratulations to you all.”
Miriam Silverman, Featured Actress/Play, Lorraine Hansberry’s The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window: “I used to be dropping off my 4 12 months previous at preschool this morning when the nominations began being learn. I used to be nervous however felt prefer it was such a protracted shot, I saved telling myself to sit back. I received dwelling in time to look at the class learn stay, and fell into my husbands arms in disbelief.
“I’m completely floored and blown away. It is a dream come true. I’ve been with this play and this character since we did it in Chicago on the Goodman in 2016. This manufacturing, and everybody concerned have been so unimaginable. The previous couple of months have been concurrently the toughest of my life and the extra wonderful. I’m so grateful for this acknowledgment, and so grateful to get to take pleasure in Lorraine’s genius each night time.
“Now I’m on my option to train my college students at NYU. Final week they insisted I used to be going to be nominated… I mentioned no method… I’d purchase all of them donuts if I received nominated…. So I’m on my method to purchase a bunch of donuts.”
Kevin Cahoon, Featured Actor/Musical, Shucked: “I did my first Broadway present 29 years in the past and this honor had by no means come my method. Immediately, I obtained a Tony Nomination for Greatest Featured Actor in a Musical and the sensation is not like something I might have ever imagined. I’m so stuffed with gratitude and thanks for everybody who has believed in me and invested in me and sacrificed for me and hustled for me. Nevertheless, to face alongside the unimaginable firm of Shucked at The Nederlander Theatre 8 occasions per week is is the best reward of all. This 9 12 months labor of affection that’s Shucked impacts audiences in a method that I’ve by no means skilled and I can’t wait to get again to that theater tonight and watch in awe as that present works its magic.”
Robert Horn, Ebook/Musical, Shucked: “I couldn’t be extra thrilled and excited for our 9 nominations. Shucked is a present about group and household, a present that leads with laughter and coronary heart, and what higher tonic for a submit pandemic world! Personally, I’m honored to be in such distinguished firm, in such a vibrant season, and after 10 years of engaged on this, it’s a lesson in perseverance! Congrats to my Shucked household, and thanks to the nominators, The Broadway League and The American Theater Wing for this nice honor!”
Greg Nobile, Sue Wagner, and John Johnson (producers), Greatest Play Revival, The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window: “Greater than anybody, this Greatest Revival of a Play nomination belongs to Lorraine Hansberry, who generously selected to share her exceptional expertise, knowledge, and worldview with this brilliant-but-little-known play. We’re all of the fortunate beneficiaries of her largesse, and we hope we’ve finished her proud. This nomination can be a tribute to everybody who took half within the herculean effort to maneuver The Check in Sidney Brustein’s Window to Broadway over an extremely brief time frame.”
Martyna Majok (playwright), Greatest Play, Price of Residing: “I’m beaming with pleasure for this unimaginable honor. It means the world for this story and these stunning artists to be acknowledged by our group that I really feel so grateful to be part of daily. Price of Residing is about hoping for miracles and looking for a house in others, and that’s what this reward feels prefer to me proper now.“
Helen Park, Greatest Authentic Rating, KPOP: “After dedicating eight years of my life to engaged on KPOP and dreaming of sharing my music with the world, I’m honored and humbled to be included in such an esteemed group. The popularity of my work by way of this nomination is a testomony to the tireless efforts of my unimaginable artistic group and solid who joined me in pushing boundaries and bringing a never-before-seen efficiency to the Broadway stage. Their exhausting work and dedication have really paid off, and I’m thrilled to share this second with them. I’m perplexed, and deeply grateful for this recognition.”
Max Vernon, Greatest Authentic Rating , KPOP: “I’m thrilled to be nominated and in addition really feel like I simply drank ten coffees! KPOP‘s run was minimize brief, however it’s so fantastic and shifting to know that our rating lives on. This month it will likely be 9 years since our first workshop at Ars Nova. What a wild journey! I want I might inform the 5 12 months previous me who wished to be Cosette in Les Miz about this.”
Sophia Choi and Clint Ramos, Greatest Costume Design/Musical, KPOP: “Completely happy AAPI Heritage Month! Thanks and we’re so happy with our present. We dedicate this honor to the whole firm of KPOP! “
Brian Moreland (producer), Greatest Play Revival, The Piano Lesson: “We had been honored to be chosen by Constanza Romero Wilson to steer this new manufacturing for our era. We’re right here due to LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s singular imaginative and prescient and are gratified that Mr. Wilson’s work resides on. On behalf of Kandi Burruss, Todd Tucker, Tom Kirdahy, Sonia Friedman and our co-producers, and particularly August Wilson, we give thanks.”
Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker (producers), Greatest Play Revival, The Piano Lesson: “Each little bit of this expertise of being producers on August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson has been a dream come true. Beginning with Constanza Romero Wilson giving her blessing for us to convey Mr. Wilson’s nice work again to Broadway. On day one in every of seeing our wonderful solid and phenomenal director Latanya Richardson Jackson in rehearsals, we knew this present was particular and that we had been making August Wilson proud. We’re so grateful for this nomination! Thanks!”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (director), Greatest Play Revival, The Piano Lesson: “This wonderful recognition of August Wilson’s stunning work , The Piano Lesson, amplifies his legacy and helps it as a dwelling illustration of our tradition. It honors August and I’m overjoyed.”
Colton Ryan, Main Actor/Musical, New York, New York: “The act of coming collectively to create is my love language, and the theater has been my lifelong sordid love affair. After two years of being advised we’re primarily non-essential, the most important honor is simply having the ability to do it in any respect. And to do it with such extraordinary firm (particularly my pal and singular expertise, Anna Uzele), I figured I couldn’t get any luckier. However whaddaya know? To John Kander, thanks for dedicating your life to this artwork type. My life is infinitely fuller due to it.”
J. Harrison Ghee, Lead Actor/Musical, Some Like It Scorching: “I’m thrilled! It has been a implausible journey to painting Jerry/Daphne, and I’ve been overwhelmed — in a great way — to see how audiences have obtained these characters. I’m grateful to each member of this manufacturing for creating such an affirming area the place I get to point out the complexity of this human and go on a ravishing experience each time the curtains go up. I’m grateful to the committee for recognizing this work. It’s a second I’ll cherish ceaselessly.”
Suzan-Lori Parks (playwright), Greatest Play Revival, Topdog/Underdog: “I’m thrilled and deeply honored to have my work embraced and acknowledged! And I’m additionally so completely satisfied for Corey and Yahya! Our Topdog revival was a joyous group effort, with Kenny Leon main the way in which! I’m doing my completely satisfied dance!”
Shane McAnally, Greatest Rating, Shucked: “Once we began this present a decade in the past, simply attending to Broadway appeared like a dream too large to dream, so to be acknowledged by the Tony’s is actually past my wildest.”
Brandy Clark, Greatest Rating, Shucked: “The primary musical I ever noticed was Oklahoma and I fell in love. It’s been a lifelong love affair for me and musical theater, however I by no means dreamed I’d be part of the musical theater/Broadway world. Shucked has made desires I by no means dreamed come true.”
Alex Newell, Characteristic Actor/Musical, Shucked: “To be nominated alongside such proficient people is an incredible honor. I grew up dreaming of singing my coronary heart out on a Broadway stage, and to not solely accomplish that, but additionally obtain a nomination for it? It’s past a dream come true. It is a surreal second for me and I’m feeling deeply grateful and completely satisfied.”
Jack O’Brien, Greatest Course/Musical, Shucked: “As somebody whose first nomination dates to 1977, which was Porgy & Bess, you possibly can think about how proud and thrilled I’m to be included on this raft of ravishing younger expertise. We had one of many nice collective group experiences I’ve ever identified and that should have been evident from the quantity of pleasure each night time in our theater. Since, for me, it might probably’t be referred to as a contest, as a result of our work is all so different and totally different. That is the very best reward I might have requested for.”
David Lindsay-Abaire, Ebook/Musical, Kimberly Akimbo: “I’m fully over the moon that Kimberly Akimbo has gotten a lot love from the Tony nominators. It’s an incredible season on Broadway and I’m thrilled that our scrappy musical has been so embraced and acknowledged. I’m past happy with our director and actors and orchestrator, and I’m particularly completely satisfied to share a nomination with my co-creator and accomplice in crime Jeanine Tesori.”
Jeanine Tesori, Rating/Musical, Kimberly Akimbo: “My pulse remains to be going bop bop bop bop from listening to our names referred to as. Kimberly Akimbo was written from the deepest place in my coronary heart all the way in which to my humorous bone. Honored and thrilled.”
Brian d’Arcy James, Lead Actor/Musical, Into The Woods: “I’m so grateful to have gotten an opportunity to interpret and provides life to such a particular character from the hearts and minds of Steven Sondheim and James Lapine. It’s a process to not be taken frivolously and so to obtain this honor of a nomination on this method is extraordinary. Congratulations to all the opposite nominees as nicely.”
Max Webster, Course/Play, Lifetime of Pi: “It’s been such a privilege and honour to current Lifetime of Pi on Broadway, and I’m so thrilled we’ve got obtained this recognition. It seems like an essential story of survival and hope to be telling proper now, and I’m thrilled audiences have responded with such fantastic heat open heartedness to our present.”
Matthew López & Amber Ruffin, Ebook/Musical, Some Like It Scorching: “We’re thrilled to be nominated alongside so many from our Some Like It Scorching household. Our present has all the time been to us in regards to the energy of the group to uplift people. That it has been obtained by audiences and by the Tony nominators with that very same spirit makes this all really feel full circle. We hope these nominations assist convey the present and its message of self-acceptance and self-fulfillment to an excellent wider viewers than earlier than.”
Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Rating/Musical, Some Like It Scorching: “We love our present, we love our collaborators, we love our solid. We’re thrilled and honored to be probably the most nominated musical of the season. The truth is, we’re joyous and celebrating… eight reveals per week on the Shubert Theatre!”
Victoria Clark, Lead Actress/Musical, Kimberly Akimbo: “It’s a thrill to be nominated for a Tony this season amongst such excellent actors who’re additionally phenomenal human beings. I’m happy with our trade, for the energy of this season throughout all classes of stage work, after the devastation of Covid and the whole lot we lost- from jobs, to artistic expression, to group and collaboration. To be again within the rehearsal room and onstage constructing this iconic present has been the experience of a lifetime for me. I’m so delighted for Kimberly Akimbo and for all of the artists who had been nominated from our little present village who work with such craft and delicacy to create this unimaginable world and these indelible characters that make our musical so distinctive and life-changing. I really feel extremely humbled, blessed, and over the moon.”
Michael Arden, Director/Musical, Parade: “Overwhelmed to be included in such unimaginable firm. To be on the helm of each Parade and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol this Broadway season has been the consideration of my profession to date. I’m indebted to all of the artists who got here collectively to make each these singular productions attainable.”
Bradley King, Lighting Design/Play, Fats Ham: “Wow wow wow wow wow! My coronary heart is so full this morning. It’s a great honor to have been nominated alongside so many fantastic associates and collaborators, and I need to give a particular shout out to the entire Fats Ham design group of Dominique, Maruti, and Mikaal, with whom I’m completely sharing this honor. Pleasure is on the coronary heart of Jame’s stunning play, and joyous is the right phrase to seize my response!”
Jonathan Deans, Sound Design/Play, Ain’t No Mo’: “With a lot thanks. The Producers and Administration supported Taylor and I to affix collectively permitting us to form the invisible with Stevie and Jordan, reflecting on the beautiful performances with an incredible collaboration from everybody. “
Taylor J Williams, Sound Design/Play, Ain’t No Mo’: “I’m nonetheless floored that I used to be invited into the vortex of this present. Jonathan’s collaboration, together with the wonderful work of so many individuals on the Belasco, have made this a dream expertise. The distinction of a nomination this morning is a (very large) cherry on high of all of it!”
Jordan Donica, Featured Actor/Musical, Camelot: “Phrases merely can not describe the differing and fixed feelings that I’m feeling. I’m a wee bit sleepy, lots bit energized, and simply at peace with no matter has been and no matter can be. It’s an honor to be nominated alongside such unimaginable abilities and, extra importantly, unimaginable folks. Thanks for the popularity and thanks to Lincoln Middle Theater and the attractive solid and crew of Camelot. Nobody will get to the place they’re alone. Thanks to everybody on Crew Jordan and thanks to my total household for the unending love, help, and steering. ‘Each day is a present’ (Kathy Schutte).”
Tim Hatley, Scenic Design and Costume Design, Lifetime of Pi: “I’m completely thrilled to be included on this 12 months’s nominations. The scenic builders, costume makers, and all of our fantastic crews within the Broadway theatre group have been so welcoming to me. The design for Lifetime of Pi is a really particular piece of creativity, so it’s merely fantastic to have nominations!”
Jamie Lloyd, Course/Play, A Doll’s Home: “Working with Jessica Chastain, Arian Moayed, Amy Herzog and the whole firm of A Doll’s Home has been one of many biggest experiences of my profession. It was a privilege to create this new manufacturing of Ibsen’s masterpiece for Broadway audiences with a group of remarkable artists. We’re honored and grateful to be recognised with these Tony nominations.”
Brandon Uranowitz, Featured Actor/Play, Leopoldstadt: “I’m simply floored and overwhelmed with gratitude. This play means extra to me than I might ever articulate and to be acknowledged on this method is the consideration of a lifetime. However, I’ve to say, Leopoldstadt is an ensemble piece within the truest sense of the phrase and my work can not exist with out the 37 extraordinary different actors on stage with me every night time. I share this with them.”
Colman Domingo (producer), Greatest Play, Fats Ham: “I’m past thrilled at this time as a Tony nominated producer on James Ijames beautiful Pulitzer Prize successful play, Fats Ham. To champion this Black playwright from the Public Theater/NBT manufacturing to Broadway may be very significant to me. No Black playwright has received the Tony Award for Greatest Play since 1987. It is a grasp work, that I hope goes all the way in which as a result of I actually consider that that is the daring, daring and lightweight crammed work that should brighten and add extra colour to the good white method.”
Scott Pask, Scenic Design/Musical, Shucked and Some Like It Scorching: “I couldn’t be extra surprised, or extra thrilled in regards to the nominations for my work on Shucked and Some Prefer it Scorching! To be acknowledged for each of those unimaginable productions – nicely, the enormity of all of it remains to be sinking in. I’ve been part of these very particular reveals lengthy earlier than the pandemic started, so to have the designs achieved, after which realized throughout such a precarious time on the planet, and particularly inside our stay arts group, makes this recognition all of the extra particular and vital.”
Jordan Roth (producer) Revival/Musical, Into the Woods: “Into the Woods has all the time been the present that holds our hand by way of so many moments in life. To have so lots of our Into the Woods household acknowledged at this time is another second that makes it well worth the journeying.”
Lear DeBessonet, Course/Musical, Into The Woods: “My coronary heart bursts with gratitude for the popularity of our work on Into the Woods. I all the time considered this present as an ideal expression of affection and humanity, and I’m so honored that our intention was embraced with this unimaginable generosity.”
Sara Bareilles, Main Actress/Musical, Into the Woods: “I’m completely reeling. My coronary heart is so full with love for the show- and for what this story meant to all of us onstage, backstage, in addition to within the viewers. I’m past honored for this acknowledgement and I reserve the suitable to spontaneously begin screaming with pleasure at any level at this time.”
Julia Lester, Featured Actress/Musical, Into the Woods: “I’m a theatre child from a theatre household. The Tony’s are our Tremendous Bowl. Yearly once they roll round, we collect collectively to cheer on the nominees. Listening to my title within the combine this 12 months was …. nicely, I’ll by no means discover the suitable phrases to explain what this seems like. I’m so insanely grateful to the American Theatre Wing and the Tony Nominating Committee for recognizing not solely my efficiency, but additionally our total present with so many nominations. The primary Broadway present I ever noticed was on the St. James Theatre and to have my Broadway debut on that very same stage was so surreal and full circle. Thanks to the whole Broadway group for being so welcoming to me and Little Purple.”
Michael Yeargan, collectively nominated with 59 Productions, Scenic Design/Musical, Camelot: “It’s a thrill to be nominated, however more-so for the collaboration with Ben Pearcy and 59 Productions, the extraordinary firm and the sensible Camelot manufacturing group at Lincoln Middle Theater – it simply doesn’t get any higher!”
Lorna Courtney, Main Actress/Musical, & Juliet: “It feels wonderful to be honored and acknowledged on this method, and for this present, it means the whole lot. Congratulations to my fellow nominees, they’re all extremely proficient. And thanks a lot to the Tonys. To be a younger Black lady, from Queens, New York, that is really a dream come true!”
Jennifer Weber, Choreography, KPOP and & Juliet: “Once I was a child, I used to look at the Tony Awards, tape the performances and train myself the choreography. To be part of this group is an unimaginable honor and it’s past my wildest desires to have my work acknowledged alongside legends reminiscent of Nicholaw, Stroman and Hoggett. A lot coronary heart went into each of those productions and I’m so happy with everybody that contributed to bringing these two distinctive tales to the Broadway stage!”
John Shivers, Sound Design/Musical, Shucked: “I’m completely thrilled to have been nominated for my work on Shucked. It has been a particularly rewarding manufacturing to be part of. I can’t say sufficient in regards to the extremely proficient artistic group, solid, orchestra and crew. I’m so completely satisfied our work was collectively acknowledged with the Greatest Musical nomination.”
Jason Howland, Orchestrations, Shucked: “I’m thrilled to be nominated for my work as an orchestrator on Shucked! Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark’s songs are implausible, and the mix of working with them and Jack O’Brien, Robert Horn and Sarah O’Gleby has been an absolute pleasure. You may really feel that pleasure coming again to us each night time in spades from the audiences who’re laughing and cheering 8 occasions per week on the Nederlander theater. I’m so happy with this group, our producer Mike Bosner, and this solid! Get Shucked!”
Emilio Sosa, Costume Design, Ain’t No Mo’, and Good Evening, Oscar: “I’m fully floored by this wonderful acknowledgement by my friends. I actually love what I do and hope to proceed so as to add to the material of inclusion and variety in our group. Go Theater!!!!”
Scott Lehrer and Alex Neumann, Sound Design/Musical, Into the Woods: “We’re so happy to have been nominated for this incandescent manufacturing working with such an ideal artistic group. We particularly thank our collaborator Music Director Rob Berman and his complete music division.”
Lap Chi Cu, Lighting Design/Musical, Camelot: “What a good way to get up! I’m thrilled and so proud that the Camelot design groups’ work is being acknowledged. Hooray for the Lusty Month of Might!”
Natasha Chivers, Lighting Design/Play, Prima Facie: “I’m honoured to be acknowledged for my work on a manufacturing as highly effective and essential as Prima Facie. This group is one devoted to collaboration, belief, and help and I’m grateful and proud to be amongst their ranks. Thanks to Suzie, Justin, and James particularly for welcoming me into their imaginative and prescient. It has been extremely rewarding to revisit and refine my work on Prima in its transfer from the West Finish to Broadway.”
Ben Stanton, Lighting Design/Play, A Christmas Carol: I’m honored and thrilled to be nominated in a season with a lot sensible work. All the nominees are so proficient and I’m grateful to be included on this prestigious group. This season’s nomination is especially particular as a result of my accomplice Lucy Mackinnon was additionally nominated. We’re a household of freelance artists, and with two young children it hasn’t all the time been straightforward. This second of recognition for our work means the world to each of us.
Lucy Mackinnon, Scenic Design/Play, A Christmas Carol: “I’m so, so completely satisfied to be nominated for a Tony Award, and thrilled that the entire Christmas Carol design group obtained nominations. Michael Arden and Jefferson Mays’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol is gorgeous and sensible. It’s been a pleasure to work with everybody on the group, and an honor to construct this present over 4 years with Dane, Michael, and Jefferson.”
Joshua D. Reid, Sound Design/Play, A Christmas Carol: “That is an honor that you just solely dream about rising up as an arts fanatic. It feels unreal. I’m overwhelmed with the deepest love and admiration for the everybody who breathed life into A Christmas Carol; and particularly for Jefferson and Michael who introduced us by way of a creative trance each waking day.”
Bryan Carter, Orchestrations, Some Like It Scorching: “13 Tony Nominations – and that ain’t unhealthy! What an absolute honor to be acknowledged alongside Charlie for this present. Some Like It Scorching has given us the expertise of a lifetime, working with our heroes and Broadway legends Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. This story captures such a robust stability that pays tribute to the ladies of colour who band-lead built-in ensembles and risked their lives for Black American music with the great thing about discovering freedom in queer identification. It’s an unimaginable honor for an unbelievable group – we owe this to our solid, crew and everybody who shared these moments with us on the Shubert Theater.”
Charlie Rosen, Orchestrations, Some Like It Scorching: “It’s an enormous honor to be acknowledged alongside Bryan for our work on Some Prefer it Scorching. It was a thrill to assist convey this great rating to life in collaboration with the legendary songwriting duo of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and I’m so glad that the basic sound of huge ensemble Jazz can fill the halls of the Shubert Theater each night time. Particular due to our total music group on the present, and naturally, the unimaginable musicians who carry out and interpret our music each night time, as a result of, with out them, we might haven’t any voice.”