Tony Awards Coverage + Meet Idina Menzel!
The 68th annual Tony Awards were a success! We were blown away by Idina Menzel’s performance of “Always Starting Over” from If/Then and the Bullets Over Broadway cast’s performance of “Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness If I Do.”
For today’s #MusicalMonday playlist we’ve shared our favorite show tunes from Tony Award nominees and winners, past and present including songs from Avenue Q, Cabaret, If/Then, Hello Dolly & many more! Listen to the playlist here and congratulate Idina Menzel in person! Details here.
In case you missed it, see a full list of winners below:
Best Musical: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”
Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Jessie Mueller, “Beautiful – The Carole King Musical”
Best Leading Actor in a Play: Bryan Cranston, “All the Way”
Best Leading Actress in a Play: Audra McDonald, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”
Best Featured Actor in a Play: Mark Rylance, “Twelfth Night”
Best Featured Actress in a Musical: Lena Hall, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
Best Leading Actor in a Musical: Neil Patrick Harris, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
Best Play: “All the Way”
Best Revival of a Play: “A Raisin in the Sun”
Best Revival of a Musical: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Natasha Katz, “The Glass Menagerie”
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Kevin Adams, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
Best Costume Design of a Play: Jenny Tiramani, “Twelfth Night”
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Linda Cho, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
Best Featured Actress in a Play: Sophie Okonedo, “A Raisin in the Sun”
Best Choreography: Warren Carlyle, “After Midnight”
Best Featured Actor in a Musical: James Monroe Iglehart, “Aladdin”
Best Score: Jason Robert Brown, “The Bridges of Madison County”
Best Director of a Play: Kenny Leon, “A Raisin in the Sun”
Best Director of a Musical: Darko Tresnjak, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
Best Book of a Musical: Robert L. Freedman, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
Best Orchestrations: Jason Robert Brown, “The Bridges of Madison County”
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Beowulf Boritt, “Act One”
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Christopher Barreca, “Rocky”
Best Sound Design of a Play: Steve Canyon Kennedy, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill”
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Brian Ronan, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater: Costume designer Jane Greenwood
Isabelle Stevenson Award: Rosie O’Donnell