Ferguson, who also thanked his understudy and his husband. “Mom, Dad, thank you for letting me move to New York when I was 17-years-old. “Take Me Out” won for best play revival, and “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson won the Tony for best featured actor in a play for his work in it. O’Connell urged the crowd to ignore safe options and “make the weird art.” O’Connell never speaks, instead, lip-syncing to an edited recording of the survivor. It was crowned best new play and Sam Mendes won for best direction of a play, praising the season for its “rampant creativity.” One of its three stars, Simon Russell Beale, won for best actor in a play and thanked the audience for coming to see a trio of British actors tell a New York story.ĭeirdre O’Connell won for best actress in a play for her work in “Dana H.,” about a real woman kidnapped by a former convict and white supremacist.
“The Lehman Trilogy,” spanning 150 years, follows the fortunes of a single family into the financial crash of 2008. Matt Doyle won for best featured actor in a musical for “Company.”
Patti LuPone won best featured actress in a musical for her work in the revival. Sondheim for letting her put a woman “front and center.” She dedicated her award to everyone fighting to keep theaters open. Marianne Elliott made Tony history by becoming the only woman to have won three Tonys for directing, the latest for “Company.” She thanked Mr. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples were swapped. “Company” is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. Earlier in the night, she blew the house down with a stunning performance of the musical’s “Let It Burn.”Ī gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” rode the fondness Broadway has for the late iconic composer by earning five statuettes, including best musical revival. Joaquina Kalukango won the Tony for best leading actress in a musical for her work in “Paradise Square,” a show about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War. ‘Really out of control.’ America digs in for inflation fight. Frost said from the stage, channeling MJ. “MJ” represents the 22-year-old Frost’s Broadway debut as he plays Michael Jackson with a high, whispery voice, a Lady Diana-like coquettishness, and a fierce embrace of MJ’s iconic dancing and singing style. Myles Frost moonwalked away with the award for best lead actor in a musical for playing Michael Jackson, becoming the youngest solo winner in that category. “A Strange Loop” beat “MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop’s biggest hits, for the top prize, although the other Jackson musical nabbed four Tony Awards including for best choreography. The victory of a smaller, more offbeat musical against more commercial offerings continues a recent trend, as when the intimate musical “The Band’s Visit” beat the big brand-musicals “Frozen,” “Mean Girls,” and “SpongeBob SquarePants” in 2018 or when “Hadestown” bested “Tootsie,” “Beetlejuice,” and “Ain’t Too Proud” a year later. Many of the night’s other Tonys were spread over several productions. Jackson’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner is a theater meta-journey – a tuneful show about a Black gay man writing a show about a Black gay man. “A Strange Loop,” an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice.