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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

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(9 June 2014)

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