A Unique Loop was as soon as named Easiest Musical of the 2021-22 Broadway season, and in two of the bigger surprises of the night, Joaquina Kalukango of Paradise Sq. and newcomer Myles Frost of MJ took simplest appearing honors.
Within the first immense surprise of the night, Kalukango received the Easiest Actress in a Musical Tony Award for her efficiency in Paradise Sq., edging out frontrunner Caroline, Or Alternate star Sharon D Clarke. Frost, who portrays the grownup Michael Jackson in MJ, was as soon as much less of a surprise, despite the indisputable reality that A Unique Loop‘s Jaquel Spivey was as soon as typically appreciated to uncover the prize.
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Deirdre O’Connell was as soon as named Easiest Actress is a Play for her riveting efficiency in Dana H., which frail accurate recordings of a kidnapping sufferer and featured O’Connell lip-syncing to the tapes.
“Let me be a minute signal to you from the universe,” O’Connell urged aspiring theater artists in her acceptance speech. “Compose the unprecedented art.”
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The Lehman Trilogy took tonight’s Tony Award for Easiest Play, with co-creator Ben Vitality thanking director Sam Mendes and all individuals else who caught with the play for the 577 days between the “fourth preview and fifth preview” — referencing the span of time the demonstrate was as soon as shut down due to the Covid pandemic.
The play also notched a Easiest Main Actor for Simon Russell Beale.
Company producer Chris Harper well-liked the Tony Award for Easiest Musical Revival, announcing that he was as soon as honored to pay Patti LuPone’s wage, after she had infamous that onstage earlier within the night.
The award was as soon as the most contemporary in a string of wins for Company. Matt Doyle, whose rapid-fire efficiency of “Getting Married This day” is a highlight of revival, received the Tony Award for Easiest Featured Actor in a Musical.
Doyle thanked, amongst others, Company composer Stephen Sondheim, namely bringing up the listless Broadway genius for remodeling, with director Marianne Elliott, the 1970 musical to embody homosexual characters.
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The opt well segued into a tribute to Sondheim, who died in November, which included taped interviews with the composer and a efficiency of “Kids Will Listen” from Into the Woods, performed by the composer’s frequent collaborator and muse, Bernadette Peters.
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Purchase Me Out, the revival of the Richard Greenberg play that received frequent well-known acclaim — and a few undesirable headlines when an viewers member recorded and posted on social media some nude scenes — was as soon as named the Easiest Revival of a Play by Tony voters tonight.
Company’s Marianne Elliott and The Lehman Trilogy‘s Sam Mendes received for direction of a musical and play, respectively, while Patti LuPone received the Easiest Featured Actress/Musical for her efficiency in Company, and Phylicia Rashad received Easiest Featured Actress in a Play for Skeleton Crew.
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LuPone thanked producer “Chris Harper who will pay my wage” and “the entire Covid security of us” in a speech that made reference to the Broadway sizable’s newest viral moment whereby she took to assignment a non-masked viewers member at Company talkback.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson received the Tony Award for Easiest Featured Actor in a Play for his efficiency in Purchase Me Out.
Hosted by West Facet Myth Oscar winner and Hamilton fashioned Ariana DeBose, the 75th annual Tony Awards, aired stay cruise-to-cruise from Fresh York’s Radio City Tune Hall on CBS and Paramount+.
Here is the plump record of winners at the 75th annual Tony Awards, along with the “Act One” preshow:
MAIN SHOW
Easiest Musical
A Unique Loop
Lead Actress/Musical
Joaquina Kalukango, Paradise Sq.
Lead Actor/Musical
Myles Frost, MJ
Lead Actress/Play
Deirdre O’Connell, Dana H.
Lead Actor/Play
Simon Russell Beale, The Lehman Trilogy
Easiest play
The Lehman Trilogy
Easiest Revival of a Musical
Company
Easiest E book of a Musical
A Unique Loop Michael R. Jackson
Featured Actor/Musical
Matt Doyle, Company
Easiest Revival/Play
Purchase Me Out
Easiest Featured Actress/Play
Phylicia Rashad, Skeleton Crew
Easiest Route/Musical
Marianne Elliott, Company
Easiest Route/Play
Sam Mendes, The Lehman Trilogy
Easiest Featured Actress/Musical
Patti LuPone, Company
Easiest Featured Actor/Play
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Purchase Me Out
“ACT ONE” PRE-SHOW WINNERS
Easiest Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon, MJ
Easiest Orchestrations
Simon Hale, Lady From The North Country
Easiest Sound Set aside of a Play
Mikhail Fiksel, Dana H.
Easiest Sound Set aside of a Musical
Gareth Owen, MJ
Easiest Accepted Ranking (Tune and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Six: The Musical Tune and Lyrics: Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss
Easiest Costume Set aside of a Play
Montana Levi Blanco, The Pores and skin of Our Enamel
Easiest Costume Set aside of a Musical
Gabriella Slade, SIX: The Musical
Easiest Scenic Set aside of a Play
Es Devlin, The Lehman Trilogy
Easiest Scenic Set aside of a Musical
Bunny Christie, Company
Easiest Lighting fixtures Set aside of a Play
Jon Clark, The Lehman Trilogy
Easiest Lighting fixtures Set aside of a Musical
Natasha Katz, MJ
