Deadline’s Tony Awards Live Blog
Julieta Cervantes / 2ndStage / Belasco Theatre / Shubert Theatre / Manhattan Theatre Club
Broadway‘s busy, busy 2023-24 season has been building to Sunday night for months, with new show after new show crowding the spring and making for what promises to be — in some categories anyway — a race tighter than the rock band of Stereophonic. Ok, maybe not that tight, but what is?
In all, 36 productions were eligible for competition — five new musicals, 10 new plays, six musical revivals, and five play revivals — with 28 actually making the nominations list. The two most-nominated shows, with 13 categories each, are Best Play nominee Stereophonic and Best Musical nominee Hell’s Kitchen. Stereophonic could make Broadway history on a couple fronts: As the only play to win an award for Best Orchestrations (it’s also up for Best Score, competing against actual musicals) and, if winning more than seven awards, becoming the winningest play ever (2007’s The Coast of Utopia, with seven trophies, currently holds the title).
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No fewer than 70 nominees are Broadway first-timers, including four Stereophonic performers, two from The Outsiders, Mary Jane‘s Rachel McAdams and, at 21 the youngest nominee, Hell’s Kitchen‘s Maleah Joi Moon. Jessica Lange, at 75, hits the other end of the age spectrum for acting nominees, with Jonathan Tunick, already an EGOT, tonight’s overall oldest nominee: At 86, he’s nominated in the Best Orchestrations category for Merrily We Roll Along.
Now, on with the show…