7 Surprises and remarkable victories during the 74th annual Tony Awards
Tony Awards7 Surprises and remarkable victories during the 74th annual Tony AwardsA look at some of the unexpected and history results of this year’s ceremony.
If the last 73 years of the Tony Award ceremonies have taught us something, it is that nothing is a guarantee when it comes to predicting the winners. After a year like no other, it is no surprise that the 74th annual celebration had several remarkable victories, some troubled and his own part of the history makers.
Read on for some of the getaway moments from this year’s Awards.
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A tony at 90
Lois Smith May not have had much stage time in Matthew Lopez’s epic two -part part The heritagebut she certainly utilized most of it and played Margaret in the second half of Lopez’s tribute to Em Forster’s Howards ends. Her monologue about the loss of a boy to AIDS echoed with audiences, who felt a deep connection with her character than with the other characters they had spent a few hours with. And Tony voters felt in the same way and Smith awarded her very first Tony – following nominations in 1990 and 1996, respectively The grapes of anger and Burying child. The victory also retains the actor, who has always embedded her work with a heartbreaking humanity, a place in the Tony Records book. At 90, she is now the oldest actor who has ever won the award, and replaces the late Cicely Tyson, who won her Tony in 2013 at the age of 89 because he is Mrs. Carrie Watts (a part that Smith played off-broadway in 2005) played in Horton Foote The journey to bountiful.
Happy number 7
It didn’t take the Tony Awards as long as it took the Emmys to finally recognize Susan Lucci but Broadway favorite Danny Burstein broke its own piece of awards history (most Tony nominations without combating the prize) on September 26. At 19:12 o’clock, he won the best performance by an actor in an important role in a musical Tony for his performance as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The musical. It was a moment of light in a dark year for the actor, who wrote gracefully about his near life fight with Covid-19 and the devastating loss of his wife, bright Tony-nominated actor Rebecca Luker, to everything. Burstein was nominated six previous times, started in 2006 for The sleepy chaperonefollowed by South Pacific Ocean In 2008, Foolishness In 2012, Golden boy In 2013, Cabaret in 2014, and Fiddler on the roof in 2016. But it was his actions as the Gedigator of ceremonies – welcoming welcome Moulin Rouge! Audiences who say, “No matter your sin, you are welcome here” – which eventually brought him Tony Gold. Burstein has always been welcome on Broadway, and tonight he finally got the thank you for earning for a long time.
A Christmas Carol and Moulin Rouge! Designed wipe
The visually beautiful, limited run of Jack Thorne’s adjustment of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carolwhich went on Break boxing records at the Lyceum for three consecutive weeks During the 2019 holidays, all four won the design awards categories. It was an unexpected whip for the now closed production, as eight different productions were represented among the four categories. The lighting designer Hugh vanstone, sound designer Simon Baker, and scenery designer Rob Howell, won for their designs of the Matthew Warchus helmed production. Also striking: Due to the pandemic, none of the London designers were attended in the winter garden. (For those who missed the Broadway Run, A Christmas Carol Visit five US cities this holiday period with two simultaneous productions.) Moulin Rouge! also managed the same whip for his equally breathtaking designs. Win for designing the stage adjustment of Baz Luhrmann’s film: Derek McLane for the best picturesque design, Catherine Zuber for best costume design, Justin Townsend for best lighting design, and Peter Hylenski for the best sound design.
Best original score of a … game
Ja, ons het geweet dat die toekenningseremonie dat al vyf genomineerde tellings vir toneelstukke geskryf is (in teenstelling met musiekblyspele), maar dit is steeds opvallend dat die wenner vir die beste oorspronklike partituur (musiek en/of lirieke) vir die teater geskryf is, was Christopher Nightingale vir Jack Thorne se aanpassing van die aanpassing van A Christmas Carol. It was another of the evening’s victories in the evening, the first time the best original score winner did not come from a musical. Tony -winner Nightingale previously shared an excerpt from his score and offered details of his inspiration here.
Slave Upset
The Broadway Premiere of Jeremy O. Harris’s provocative drama Slave History made in October 2020 when it received 12 Tony nominations, most of any plays ever obtained in the history of the Tony Awards. Despite the nominations and the fact that the award -winning play previously earned Harris the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, the Lorraine HansBerry Playwriting Award, the Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, and the Paula Vogel Award of the Broadway, the Broadway Production, could not win any Tonys during the September 26. Slavewhich follows three couples while navigating the complexity of race, history, gender and sexuality in America in the 21st century will have the opportunity to raise audiences on the West Coast as part of Center Theater Group’s new season on the market taper forum. In fact, the entire creative team of the Broadway production, including Tony-nominated director Robert O’hara, will be reunited for involvement.
Charles Fuller wins for A soldier’s play
This year’s Tony Award for the Best Revival of a Play has entered Charles Fuller for the Broadway premiere of A soldier’s play. According to a judgment of the Tony Awards Administration Committee in 2019living writers of shows new in Broadway, but considered revivals, are included as part of the nomination. (Mart Crowley won for the revival of 2019 of The boys in the band The first year is the rule set.) Tony winner Kenny Leon, who received his third Tony nomination for directing the 1944 game, said: ‘No it’s up to Shakespeare, no it’s to Ibsen, to Chekhov, to Shaw. They are all at the table. But the table must be bigger. We need the late, big Melvin adapters. [Shange] Sit at the table. We need our young people to learn about all our incredible writers in this country we stand on tonight, this indigenous American country. So we have to hear all the stories. When we hear all the stories, we are better! “The Negro Ensemble Company has debuted A soldier’s play In November 1980. The play, which follows an officer’s race against his white leadership to unravel the crime of a black sergeant’s murder, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. An Oscar-nominated film adjustment, entitled A soldier’s storywas released in 1984, and the fuller work is now adapted to a limited TV series. David Alan Grier, who won the Tony this year for the best performance by an actor in an important role in a play, will play in the project and deliver the project.
Matthew Lopez becomes the first Latin Tony-winning playwright
It was a wonderful evening for The heritage, Matthew Lopez’s Olivier award -winning exploration of gay history, which Tonys won for the above Smith, actor Andrew Burnap, director Stephen Daldry, and the top prize of Best Play for Lopez, the first Latin playwright ever to win the award. Loosely inspired by EM Forster’s Howards endsThe two-part play is a generation in New York to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the ’80s and’ 90s, while a group of gay men struggling to connect with the past and maintain a sense of history. In his speech, Lopez ‘Three Queer Men’ acknowledged who paved the way for his success: Forster, Terrence McNally and Miguel Pinero, ‘the first Puerto Rican playwright who produced on Broadway, who opened the door for me and which allowed me the opportunity to become a writer.’ Lopez added: “This is the 74th Tony Awards, and yet I am only the first Latin writer to win in this category. I say that not to elicit your applause, but to emphasize the Latin community, in the US Theater, in the New York Theater, and especially on Broadway. of the wires that take place on Broadway.
The full Tony Award Ceremony of 2 Parts is available for Stream on paramount+.