No single dominates the Tony Awards on Sunday, with a bio-musical by Michael Jackson, a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” and a project to collapse Lehman Brothers winning three statuettes with less than two hours to go. Marianne Elliott made history for Tony as she became the only woman to win three Tony Directions, the last for “Company”. She thanked the late composer Sondheim for letting her put a woman “in front and in the center”. She dedicated her award to all those who strive to keep theaters open. LuPone won Best Actress in a Musical for her work in the revival, thanking COVID-19 security staff for her acceptance speech. “MJ”, a bio-musical of the King of Pop’s greatest hits, won three Tony Awards, including Best Choreography, “The Lehman Trilogy” won two technical awards, and Sam Mendes won Best Director for his play. She praised the season for her “unbridled creativity”. “Take Me Out” won the revival of best play, and “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson won Tony for Best Actor in a Project for his work on it. “Mom, Dad, thank you for letting me move to New York when I was 17,” said Ferguson, who also thanked his student and husband. Host Ariana DeBose began her portion with a glittering white suit and wide-brimmed hat, dancing and singing to the song “This Is Your Round of Applause”, which brought together tracks from musical theater favorites such as “Chicago,” “The Wiz,” “Evita”, “Rent”, “Hair”, “Cabaret”, “Hairspray” and “West Side Story”, the remake of the film for which he recently won an Oscar. Panting while welcoming the spectators, he told the crowd that this was the season “Broadway has taken its toll.” Phylicia Rashad won Best Actress in a Leading Role for “Skeleton Crew,” Dominique Morisseau’s work for job insecurity at a Detroit car seal. “It is wonderful to present humanity in all its fullness,” he said. The season was marked by the embrace of seven black playwrights, from contemporary writers such as Dominique Morisseau, Keenan Scott II and Antoinette Nwandu, to underrated historical playwrights such as Alice Childress and Ntozake Shange. DeBose said Broadway was more representative. DeBose celebrated the voices of blacks and talent on stage – as well as the fact that two Broadway theaters were renamed after Black Icons by James Earl Jones and Lena Horn – saying that The Great White Way was now a nickname “as opposed to a guide how do it. ” DeBose also hailed the heroic efforts of understudies, swings and standbys to continue the show throughout the top of the pandemic, noting that she and many other Tony nominees had once announced subplots and swings. Free from the manipulation of technical awards, the mainstream TV show had a less frantic, more airy feel. DeBose was a confident, funny and flexible host, one who danced with Sam Rockwell and pushed Laurence Fishburne to imitate Daffy Duck. Some of the highlights of the show included the huge cast of “The Music Man” that filled the Radio City stage with “Seventy-Six Trombones”, as well as Prince Jackson and Paris Jackson who presented the show about the father. before the cast of “MJ” dances. in an asset “Smooth Criminal”. Billy Crystal taught Judith Scouting to the crowd. Many acceptance speeches thanked the audience for the brave COVID-19 peaks to come to see performances and Marsa Gay Harden cheered 150 security officers who were invited as guests to the Tonys. Earlier, Darren Criss and Julianne Hough started the four-hour awards, handing out mostly design awards. Criss opened the TV show with the original song, “Set the Stage,” as he and Hough danced vigorously on the steps, in the laundry bars and in the theater’s sliding seats to celebrate the artists who keep the theater alive. The first prize of the night – for best music – went to “Six: The Musical”, with music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Marlow became the first non-binary composer-lyricist to win a Tony. “Six: The Musical” also won the Best Costume Award for a musical. The revival of “Company” set the stage for a musical. The best orchestrations went to “Girl From the North Country”. “The Lehman Trilogy” won the award for best play and stage lighting design. “The Skin of Our Teeth” won Best Costume for a play, “MJ” won Best Choreography, Best Musical Lighting and Musical Sound Design, and “Dana H.” won Best Sound Design for a play. The season – with 34 new productions – represents a complete return to theaters after nearly two years of pandemic shutdown. At the last Tonys nine months ago, the winners emerged from just 18 eligible works and musicals and many of the competing categories were exhausted. The TV show featured Tony Award-nominated musicals such as “A Strange Loop”, “Company”, “Girl from the North Country”, “MJ”, “Mr. Saturday Night “,” Music Man “,” Paradise Square “and” Six “. The original cast of the 2007 musical “Spring Awakening” that beat Tony will meet again and reappear. Sondheim, the iconic composer who died in late 2021, was honored in a special section by Bernadette Peters singing his song “Children Will Listen”. Angela Lansbury, who was honored with a lifetime achievement by Tony, was not present, so her “Sweeney Todd” co-star Len Cariou accepted on her behalf. “A Strange Loop”, a theatrical post-journey for a playwright writing a musical, features the show with a top 11 nominations for Tony. Just behind with 10 nominations each is “MJ”, a King of Pop bio-musical full of his greatest hits, and “Paradise Square”, a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans struggling to survive in New York City. era of the civil war. The best actress in a musical starred is Sharon D Clarke from the revival of “Caroline, or Change” and Joaquina Kalukango from “Paradise Square”. The best actor in a musical can come down to Jaquel Spivey from “A Strange Loop” opposite Myles Frost as the king of pop in “MJ the Musical”. “The Lehman Trilogy” was the top nominee for best new work, while David Morse in a revival of “How I Learned to Drive” by Paula Vogel is the first nominee for Best Actor in a Project. His co-star, Mary-Louise Parker, could become the first actress to receive successive Tonys for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Winners of the 75th Tony Awards
– Best revival of a play: “Take Me Out”. – Featured Actor, Play: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Take Me Out” – Selected Actress, Theatrical Performance: Phylicia Rashad, “Skeleton Crew” – Selected actress, musical: Patti LuPone, “Company”. – Selected actor, musical: Matt Doyle, “Company”. – Best Director of the play: Sam Mendes, “The Lehman Trilogy”. – Best Musical Direction: Marianne Elliott, “Company”. – Best Music: “Six: The Musical”, with music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. – Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ.” – Costume Design: Montana Levi Blanco, “The Skin of Our Teeth”. – Costumes, Musical: Gabriella Slade, “Six: The Musical” – Scenic Design, Theatrical play: Es Devlin, “The Lehman Trilogy”. – Scenic Design, Musical: Bunny Christie, «Company». – Lighting design, Play: Jon Clark, “The Lehman Trilogy”. – Lighting Design, Musical: Natasha Katz, “MJ.” – Sound design, Play: Mikhail Fiksel, “Dana H.” – Sound Design, Musical: Gareth Owen, “MJ.” – Best orchestrations: Simon Hale, “Girl from the North Country”. Reported by the Associated Press
