Tony Awards up for grabs in a star-studded season
A pair of singing androids. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. A drunken Mary Todd Lincoln. A musical with a corpse as its hero. Romeo, Juliet and teddy bears with rave music. Not to mention George Clooney.
Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognise the best with the Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, set for Sunday night (10am Monday AEST).
Broadway buzz is usually reserved for musicals but this year the plays - powered by A-list talent - have driven the conversation.
There's Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello, Sarah Snook in a one-woman version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and her Succession co-star Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross.
There were two Pulitzer winners - 2024 awardee English and Purpose from 2025 - but perhaps one of the season's biggest surprises was Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's irreverent, raunchy, gleefully deranged revisionist history centred on Mary Todd Lincoln. All three are nominated for best play, along with John Proctor is the Villain and The Hills of California.
On the musical side, three options seem to be in the mix for the top prize: Maybe Happy Ending, a rom-com about a pair of androids; Dead Outlaw, about an alcoholic drifter whose embalmed body becomes a prized possession for half a century; and Death Becomes Her, the musical satire about longtime frenemies who drink a magic potion for eternal youth and beauty.
Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her and another musical nominee, Buena Vista Social Club, lead nominations with 10 apiece.
The 2024-2025 season took in $US1.9 billion ($A2.9 billion), making it the highest-grossing season ever and signalling that Broadway has finally emerged from the COVID-19 blues, having overtaken the previous high of $US1.8 billion ($A2.8 billion) during the 2018-2019 season.
Audra McDonald, the most recognised performer in the theatre awards' history, could possibly extend her Tony lead.
Already the record holder for most acting wins with six Tonys, McDonald could add to that thanks to her leading turn in an acclaimed revival of Gypsy.
She has to get past Nicole Scherzinger, who has been wowing audiences in Sunset Blvd.
And Kara Young — the first Black female actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years - could become the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively, should she win for her role in the play Purpose.
Other possible back-to-back winners include director Danya Taymor, hoping to follow up her 2024 win with The Outsiders with another for John Proctor Is the Villain, and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who won last year with Appropriate.
The telecast, as usual, will have a musical number for each of the shows vying for the best new musical crown, as well as some that didn't make the cut, like Just in Time, a musical about Bobby Darin, and Real Women Have Curves.
A pair of singing androids. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. A drunken Mary Todd Lincoln. A musical with a corpse as its hero. Romeo, Juliet and teddy bears with rave music. Not to mention George Clooney.
Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognise the best with the Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, set for Sunday night (10am Monday AEST).
Broadway buzz is usually reserved for musicals but this year the plays - powered by A-list talent - have driven the conversation.
There's Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello, Sarah Snook in a one-woman version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and her Succession co-star Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross.
There were two Pulitzer winners - 2024 awardee English and Purpose from 2025 - but perhaps one of the season's biggest surprises was Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's irreverent, raunchy, gleefully deranged revisionist history centred on Mary Todd Lincoln. All three are nominated for best play, along with John Proctor is the Villain and The Hills of California.
On the musical side, three options seem to be in the mix for the top prize: Maybe Happy Ending, a rom-com about a pair of androids; Dead Outlaw, about an alcoholic drifter whose embalmed body becomes a prized possession for half a century; and Death Becomes Her, the musical satire about longtime frenemies who drink a magic potion for eternal youth and beauty.
Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her and another musical nominee, Buena Vista Social Club, lead nominations with 10 apiece.
The 2024-2025 season took in $US1.9 billion ($A2.9 billion), making it the highest-grossing season ever and signalling that Broadway has finally emerged from the COVID-19 blues, having overtaken the previous high of $US1.8 billion ($A2.8 billion) during the 2018-2019 season.
Audra McDonald, the most recognised performer in the theatre awards' history, could possibly extend her Tony lead.
Already the record holder for most acting wins with six Tonys, McDonald could add to that thanks to her leading turn in an acclaimed revival of Gypsy.
She has to get past Nicole Scherzinger, who has been wowing audiences in Sunset Blvd.
And Kara Young — the first Black female actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years - could become the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively, should she win for her role in the play Purpose.
Other possible back-to-back winners include director Danya Taymor, hoping to follow up her 2024 win with The Outsiders with another for John Proctor Is the Villain, and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who won last year with Appropriate.
The telecast, as usual, will have a musical number for each of the shows vying for the best new musical crown, as well as some that didn't make the cut, like Just in Time, a musical about Bobby Darin, and Real Women Have Curves.
A pair of singing androids. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. A drunken Mary Todd Lincoln. A musical with a corpse as its hero. Romeo, Juliet and teddy bears with rave music. Not to mention George Clooney.
Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognise the best with the Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, set for Sunday night (10am Monday AEST).
Broadway buzz is usually reserved for musicals but this year the plays - powered by A-list talent - have driven the conversation.
There's Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello, Sarah Snook in a one-woman version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and her Succession co-star Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross.
There were two Pulitzer winners - 2024 awardee English and Purpose from 2025 - but perhaps one of the season's biggest surprises was Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's irreverent, raunchy, gleefully deranged revisionist history centred on Mary Todd Lincoln. All three are nominated for best play, along with John Proctor is the Villain and The Hills of California.
On the musical side, three options seem to be in the mix for the top prize: Maybe Happy Ending, a rom-com about a pair of androids; Dead Outlaw, about an alcoholic drifter whose embalmed body becomes a prized possession for half a century; and Death Becomes Her, the musical satire about longtime frenemies who drink a magic potion for eternal youth and beauty.
Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her and another musical nominee, Buena Vista Social Club, lead nominations with 10 apiece.
The 2024-2025 season took in $US1.9 billion ($A2.9 billion), making it the highest-grossing season ever and signalling that Broadway has finally emerged from the COVID-19 blues, having overtaken the previous high of $US1.8 billion ($A2.8 billion) during the 2018-2019 season.
Audra McDonald, the most recognised performer in the theatre awards' history, could possibly extend her Tony lead.
Already the record holder for most acting wins with six Tonys, McDonald could add to that thanks to her leading turn in an acclaimed revival of Gypsy.
She has to get past Nicole Scherzinger, who has been wowing audiences in Sunset Blvd.
And Kara Young — the first Black female actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years - could become the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively, should she win for her role in the play Purpose.
Other possible back-to-back winners include director Danya Taymor, hoping to follow up her 2024 win with The Outsiders with another for John Proctor Is the Villain, and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who won last year with Appropriate.
The telecast, as usual, will have a musical number for each of the shows vying for the best new musical crown, as well as some that didn't make the cut, like Just in Time, a musical about Bobby Darin, and Real Women Have Curves.
A pair of singing androids. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. A drunken Mary Todd Lincoln. A musical with a corpse as its hero. Romeo, Juliet and teddy bears with rave music. Not to mention George Clooney.
Broadway has had a stuffed season with seemingly something for everyone and now it's time to recognise the best with the Tony Awards, hosted by Cynthia Erivo, set for Sunday night (10am Monday AEST).
Broadway buzz is usually reserved for musicals but this year the plays - powered by A-list talent - have driven the conversation.
There's Clooney in Good Night, and Good Luck, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in Othello, Sarah Snook in a one-woman version of The Picture of Dorian Gray and her Succession co-star Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in Glengarry Glen Ross.
There were two Pulitzer winners - 2024 awardee English and Purpose from 2025 - but perhaps one of the season's biggest surprises was Oh, Mary!, Cole Escola's irreverent, raunchy, gleefully deranged revisionist history centred on Mary Todd Lincoln. All three are nominated for best play, along with John Proctor is the Villain and The Hills of California.
On the musical side, three options seem to be in the mix for the top prize: Maybe Happy Ending, a rom-com about a pair of androids; Dead Outlaw, about an alcoholic drifter whose embalmed body becomes a prized possession for half a century; and Death Becomes Her, the musical satire about longtime frenemies who drink a magic potion for eternal youth and beauty.
Maybe Happy Ending, Death Becomes Her and another musical nominee, Buena Vista Social Club, lead nominations with 10 apiece.
The 2024-2025 season took in $US1.9 billion ($A2.9 billion), making it the highest-grossing season ever and signalling that Broadway has finally emerged from the COVID-19 blues, having overtaken the previous high of $US1.8 billion ($A2.8 billion) during the 2018-2019 season.
Audra McDonald, the most recognised performer in the theatre awards' history, could possibly extend her Tony lead.
Already the record holder for most acting wins with six Tonys, McDonald could add to that thanks to her leading turn in an acclaimed revival of Gypsy.
She has to get past Nicole Scherzinger, who has been wowing audiences in Sunset Blvd.
And Kara Young — the first Black female actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years - could become the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively, should she win for her role in the play Purpose.
Other possible back-to-back winners include director Danya Taymor, hoping to follow up her 2024 win with The Outsiders with another for John Proctor Is the Villain, and Purpose playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who won last year with Appropriate.
The telecast, as usual, will have a musical number for each of the shows vying for the best new musical crown, as well as some that didn't make the cut, like Just in Time, a musical about Bobby Darin, and Real Women Have Curves.
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