Michele may not be getting a Tony, but she did announce Tuesday’s nominations with “MJ” star Myles Frost.Īmong the other major categories, best musical revival will be a race between “Parade,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Into the Woods” - which transferred from New York City Center to Broadway to become a late summer hit - and, in a surprise, Lincoln Center’s critically derided revival of “Camelot.” And don’t forget “Funny Girl” with Lea Michele subbing in for original star Beanie Feldstein (which is ineligible because it opened last season). Winning a Tony could turbocharge the box office of a show like “Some Like It Hot” or “Shucked.”ĭespite the challenges, there have been hits, such as an acclaimed re-imaging of “Parade” with Ben Platt (picking up six nominations) and “Sweeney Todd” with Josh Groban brandishing a razor as Fleet Street’s demon barber (eight nominations). The annual awards show, honoring the best of Broadway, is unfolding as the theater industry is still clawing back from more than a year of COVID-related closures and the chilling impact that had on tourism in New York City, the lifeblood of the business. It’s an important moment of recognition for “Ain’t No Mo’,” which was embraced by critics, but struggled to find its audience, closing last winter after a total of just 28 performances.īut “Ain’t No Mo'” isn’t the only production that faced fierce commercial headwinds. The Jessica Chastain-led revival of a stripped-down “A Doll’s House,” Tom Stoppard’s sprawling “Leopoldstadt,” and the political satire “Ain’t No Mo'” were the most-nominated plays, with six nods each. Cooper, Ain't No Mo' Samuel L.Read More: Where to Buy Tickets to Every Broadway Show This Year But it is Tom Stoppard's new play about the Holocaust, Leopoldstadt, which received the most nominations: six, with Fat Fam, Cost of Living and Life of Pi following with five each. The nominations also highlighted three plays which have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living and Fat Ham. Although some theater awards, like the Drama Desk, the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle awards don't divide actors into male and female roles, the Tony Awards do. Newell plays the featured, female role of Lulu in Shucked. Ghee, in Some Like It Hot, plays the leading role of Jerry, a man who disguises himself as a woman and then comes to realize parts of both identities suit. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell are the first nonbinary actors to be nominated for Tony Awards.
This year's musical theater nominations made a little bit of history: J. The musical Some Like It Hot - a theatrical remake of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie musical - garnered 13 Tony nominations, the most in a season that saw many new plays and musicals take the stage.
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