Best Musical: Kinky Boots
Best Revival of a Musical: Pippin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Patina Miller, Pippin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Cicely Tyson, The Trip To Bountiful
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Best Book of a Musical: Matilda The Musical
Best Revival of a Play: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Andrea Martin, Pippin
Best Scenic Design of a Play: John Lee Beatty, The Nance
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical
Best Choreography: Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater: Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots
Best Direction of a Play: Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Direction of a Musical: Diane Paulus, Pippin
Best Sound Design of a Play: Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
Best Sound Design of a Musical: John Shivers, Kinky Boots
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
Best Costume Design of a Play: Ann Roth, The Nance
Best Costume Design of a Musical: William Ivey Long, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Best Orchestrations: Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
I guess now I'll be sorry that I didn't get my tickets to Kinky Boots and Pippin earlier.
ReplyDeleteMatilda looked pretty cute too. Kudo to NPH who hosted the show. I thought he was awesome.
ReplyDeleteNPH's opening number was AMAZING!!!! God bless that man. What a performer!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BraXq07kkM&feature=player_embedded
(I can't do a clicky....but it's so worth the copy & paste.)
@libby - thanks for sharing the link. That was fun!
ReplyDeleteSo happy for Cyndi Lauper she deserves this honor
ReplyDeleteGreat for Cyndi!
ReplyDeleteMadLyb---He SO better have at least one Emmy for 'Best Awards Host' or SOMETHING, criminy! If he doesn't, they better give him one for that.
ReplyDeleteAt the end...the ovation, the genuine surprise from jaded audience members (performers themselves)....Coke Mom especially. She looked especially coked when Spider-Man came out. Made me laugh.
Hooray for Kinky Boots!!! <3
ReplyDeleteWhat are these prizes?
ReplyDeleteThe Simpsons have (had?) a running gag where they threw their grammies to the dustbin as if they were trash.
I think a grammy is way better than this.
Yes. I've always wanted to know what that running gag about characters in The Simpsons hating the Grammys is all about.
ReplyDeleteNPH's opener was LEGENDARY! Thanks, Libby!
ReplyDeleteJust looking at the titles of these plays and musicals makes me wonder when they'll come up with something original. Almost all of these seem to be either revivals or derived from movies.
ReplyDeleteYay for Cyndi Lauper! And for Judith Light! I love all the former soap superstars who don't turn into complete assholes when they find other success. (Lookin' at you, Demi Moore...)
ReplyDelete*For anybody looking for an argument, I did NOT mean to imply that Cyndi Lauper was ever on a soap. Just sayin'. Judith Light, Julianne Moore, Nathan Fillion, oh, the list goes on and on of awesome people who respect their roots. :)
ReplyDeleteSusan, it was not a particularly original (or interesting) year. Usually there are 1 or 2 good original musicals.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that the 2 directing awards were women and that 3 of the 4 lead acting awards went to black performers, and 1 of the featured.
AND! Cyndi Lauper is the first woman to win for musical score without being part of a composing team.
ReplyDeleteAnd Tracy Letts is the 2nd person to have won best Play (August: Osage County) and a lead acting award.
Pretty great year of accomplishments.
Neil has won an Emmy award for hosting. I think it was two years ago. He might have two, but my memory is not that good.
ReplyDeleteThe closing number was also good, he sang Empire State of Mind with Audra McDonald, written as the show was going on, and it was awesome. I can't make it clicky, it's only 2.5 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whlsf_hISP4
The number with Broadway stars who have canceled TV shows was funny.
ReplyDeleteI thought Debra Messing was made to look frumpy on Smash, but she has put some weight on. Her eyes were wild last night. She was with her Smash co-star who she dumped the husband for.
Cicely Tyson is a national treasure. Has she gotten to EGOT yet? (Emmy-Grammy-Oscar-Tony). If not she's got to be close.
ReplyDeleteI just read she's 88 years old! She gets a pass for that Prince purple ruffly dress.
DeleteBest book? What?
ReplyDeleteCyndi is a awesome.
ReplyDeleteI love Judith Light. I can remember her from One Light to Live-she was a biiiitccch! My mother hated her so much. Lol!
I saw Kinky Boots the movie, and loved it. I wanted those shoes. All those shoes.
Saw Pippin and Annie last week in NYC. Pippin was GREAT. Andrea Martin performing on a trapeze during her song was a hoot. First time I've ever seen anyone get a standing ovation in the middle of the show and she came back for a curtain call after she left the stage. Irene Ryan, Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies, originated that role back back in the early seventies and she suffered a fatal heart attack during the run of the show.
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