The ceremony was hosted by Ariana DeBose. The “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who was mentored by Sondheim, introduced a tribute to him, saying, “I stand here on behalf of generations of artists he took the time to encourage.”
The award for “Company” reflected not only admiration for the reimagined production but also respect for Sondheim, its composer and lyricist, who is revered as one of the most important figures in American musical theater, and who died in November. “Company,” a musical first staged in 1970 that wittily and sometimes bitterly examines married life, won the Tony for musical revival, besting a much-praised revival of “Caroline, or Change,” as well as a starry revival of “The Music Man” that, thanks to the appeal of leading man Hugh Jackman, has been the top-selling show on Broadway since it opened. It is about what happens when a baseball player, portrayed in this production by Jesse Williams, comes out as gay Jesse Tyler Ferguson picked up his first Tony for his portrayal of the player’s investment adviser, who is also gay. Written by Richard Greenberg, “Take Me Out” first ran on Broadway in 2003 and won the best play Tony that year this year’s revival, presented by the nonprofit Second Stage Theater, was directed by Scott Ellis. “ Take Me Out” emerged victorious in the best play revival category, a particularly strong field that included productions of “American Buffalo,” “How I Learned to Drive,” “Trouble in Mind” and “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.” “The Lehman Trilogy” won out against four other contenders, “Clyde’s,” “Hangmen,” “The Minutes” and “Skeleton Crew.” It wasn’t easy at that point to come to the theater because of all those regulations. The show, written by Stefano Massini and Ben Power, picked up not only the Tony for best play, but also for the play’s director, Sam Mendes its set designer, Es Devlin and the great British actor, Simon Russell Beale, who thanked audiences for showing up, despite pandemic protocols and public health concerns. Using three shape-shifting actors, contained within a spinning glass box of a set, the play journeyed all the way from the Wall Street giant’s humble origins in 1844 to its ignominious collapse in 2008. The best play Tony went to “ The Lehman Trilogy,” a sweeping saga about the rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers banking business. “It felt at times that live theater was endangered.”īut in the glittering ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, a parade of performers celebrated all that went well: Theaters reopened, long-running shows returned, and an unusually diverse array of plays and musicals arrived to entertain, provoke and inspire theatergoers. “Our industry has been through so much,” Marianne Elliott, who won a Tony Award for directing a gender-reversed revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical comedy “ Company,” said in her acceptance speech. Patti LuPone won the Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical for “Company.” It was her third Tony. With tourism still down, it was also short on audience. The season that just ended was a tough one: It started late (most theaters remained closed until September), and was repeatedly disrupted (coronavirus cases obliterated its old show-must-go-on ethos, prompting cancellations and performer absences).
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The ceremony - the 75th Tony Awards presentation - provided an opportunity for Broadway to celebrate its return and its perseverance, hoping that a dash of razzle-dazzle, a dollop of contemporary creativity and a sprinkling of nostalgia will help lure theatergoers back to a pandemic-scarred industry now in full swing but still craving more customers.
I felt misunderstood, and I just wanted to create a little bit of a life raft for myself as a Black gay man.” “I didn’t know how I was going to move forward. “I wrote it at a time when I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life,” he said. Jackson, the writer who spent nearly two decades working on it, acknowledged how personal the project was as he collected his first Tony Award, for best book of a musical. “ A Strange Loop” garnered widespread praise from critics on Sunday night, Michael R.