Design Winners All Around at Tony Awards The 68th Annual Tony Awards honored the best of "The Great White Way" on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall. This year, the Design Categories rewarded a wide variety of musicals and plays. For Best Scenic Design, accolades went to Christopher Barreca for Rocky and Beowulf Boritt for Act One. Kevin Adams and Natasha Katz shared in the Lighting Design categories for Hedwig and the Angry Inch and The Glass Menagerie, respectively. Linda Cho took home the award for Best Costume Design for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, while Jenny Tiramani was recognized for Twelfth Night. Finally, Best Sound Design went to Peter Hylenski for After Midnight and Steve Canyon Kennedy for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, respectively. Additional winners include: Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Producers: Joey Parnes, S.D. Wagner, John Johnson, 50 Church Street Productions, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Catherine & Fred Adler, Rhoda Herrick, Kathleen K. Johnson, Megan Savage, ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Ron Simons, True Love Productions, Jamie deRoy, Four Ladies & One Gent, John Arthur Pinckard, Greg Nobile, Stewart Lane & Bonnie Comley, Exeter Capital/Ted Snowdon, Ryan Hugh Mackey, Cricket-CTM Media/Mano-Horn Productions, Dennis Grimaldi/Margot Astrachan, Hello Entertainment/Jamie Bendell, Michael T. Cohen/Joe Sirola, Joseph & Carson Gleberman/William Megevick, Green State Productions, The Hartford Stage, The Old Globe Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Jessie Mueller, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Best Revival of a Musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch Producers: David Binder, Jayne Baron Sherman, Barbara Whitman, Latitude Link, Patrick Catullo, Raise the Roof, Paula Marie Black, Colin Callender, Ruth Hendel, Sharon Karmazin, Martian Entertainment, Stacey Mindich, Eric Schnall, The Shubert Organization Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Best Revival of a Play A Raisin in the Sun Producers: Scott Rudin, Roger Berlind, Eli Bush, Jon B. Platt, Scott M. Delman, Roy Furman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Ruth Hendel, Sonia Friedman/Tulchin Bartner, The Araca Group, Heni Koenigsberg, Daryl Roth, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Joey Parnes, S.D. Wagner, John Johnson Best Play All The Way Author: Robert Schenkkan Producers: Jeffrey Richards, Louise Gund, Jerry Frankel, Stephanie P. McClelland, Double Gemini Productions, Rebecca Gold, Scott M. Delman, Barbara H. Freitag, Harvey Weinstein, Gene Korf, William Berlind, Caiola Productions, Gutterman Chernoff, Jam Theatricals, Gabrielle Palitz, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Will Trice, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theater Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bryan Cranston, All The Way Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill Best Choreography Warren Carlyle, After Midnight Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin Best Direction of a Play Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun Best Direction of a Musical Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Best Book of a Musical Robert L Freedman, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Lena Hall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night Best Orchestrations Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre The Bridges of Madison County, Music & Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories: Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Jane Greenwood Regional Theatre Award Signature Theatre, New York, NY Isabelle Stevenson Award Rosie O'Donnell Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre Joseph P. Benincasa Joan Marcus Charlotte Wilcox
For more information, visit
|