2024 Tony Awards: Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Rachel McAdams and More Nab Nominations — See the Full List
Ariana DeBose will host the prestigious theater honors, which will take place on Sunday, June 16 from Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in New York City
Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock; Bruce Glikas/WireImage; John Nacion/Getty Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong and Rachel McAdams
The countdown to the 2024 Tony Awards officially started on Tuesday, April 30, as nominations were announced for the 77th annual honors, which recognizes excellence in live Broadway theater.
Previous Tony winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry read a list of select nominees on CBS Mornings.
A number of stars nabbed nominations, including Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin, Jessica Lange, Amy Ryan, Liev Schreiber, and Rachel McAdams — the latter which made her Broadway debut this season.
Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, The Outsiders, Suffs and Water for Elephants all earned the coveted best musical nomination. For best play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Mary Jane, Mother Play, Prayer for the French Republic and Stereophonic were all nominated.
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Miller Mobley The cast of ‘The Outsiders’
The 2024 Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 16 at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in New York City. For a third time in a row, Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will host.
Viewers can watch the show on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Select awards will also be handed out on a preshow that will stream on Pluto TV.
A total of 36 Tony-eligible titles opened this season, 15 of which were musicals — a historic number as typically, there are only half that.
Hell’s Kitchen
Fighting it out to be one of the five nominees for best musical category was the blockbuster joy ride Back to the Future; the elegant Days of Wine and Roses, starring Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James; Harmony, Barry Manilow’s original musical 30-years in the making; the Alicia Keys jukebox musical Hell’s Kitchen; Here Lies Love, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s exploration of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos’ rise and fall in the Philippines; and the adaptation of the 2015 documentary How to Dance in Ohio, about a group of teenagers with autism preparing for a spring formal.
There was also Illinoise, inspired by Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 concept album; Lempicka, a musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka; the Britney Spears fairytale Once Upon a One More Time; the Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai-produced musical about the American women’s suffrage movement Suffs; The Heart of Rock and Roll, with a score of Huey Lewis and the News hits; and musical versions of four beloved novels: The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, The Outsiders and Water for Elephants.
Joan Marcus Michale Esper, Corey Stoll and Sarah Paulson in ‘Appropriate’
Over in the non-musical category, the productions eligible for the best new play prize were Grey House by Levi Holloway; I Need That by Theresa Rebeck; Jaja’s African Hair Braiding by Jocelyn Bioh; Just For Us by Alex Edelman; Mary Jane by Amy Herzog; Mother Play by Paula Vogel; Patriots by Peter Morgan; Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon; Stereophonic by David Adjmi; The Cottage by Sandy Rustin; and The Shark is Broken by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon.
As far as revivals are concerned, the 2023-2024 season included fresh productions of a crop of beloved musicals and plays.
For musicals, Cabaret, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Merrily We Roll Along, Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, and The Wiz was eligible for a nomination. And for plays, the nominees were chosen from Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ Appropriate, John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious and Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
John Nacion/Shutterstock Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez in between bows at the opening night of the Broadway revival of ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ in October 2023
Here are the full list of nominees:
Best Musical
Hell’s Kitchen
Illinoise
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants
Best Play
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mary Jane
Mother Play
Prayer for the French Republic
Stereophonic
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a MusicalBrian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along
Dorian Harewood, The Notebook
Eddie Redmayne, CabaretBest Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen
Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook
Gayle Rankin, CabaretBest Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious
Liev Schreiber, Doubt
Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a PlayBetsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic
Jessica Lange, Mother Play
Rachel McAdams, Mary JaneSarah Paulson, Appropriate
Amy Ryan, Doubt
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