Tony Award winners list
The feel-good musical Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, strutted away with a leading six 2013 Tony Awards on Sunday, including best musical, best original score and best leading man.
Christopher Durang’s comical Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the best play Tony. Matilda the Musical and Pippin won four awards each and two other shows — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Nance — shared three awards each. Tom Hanks left empty-handed, a Broadway newcomer not fated to be a Lucky Guy.
Neil Patrick Harris was back for his fourth turn as host and was once again crucial to keeping the show funny and smart. He opened with a razzle-dazzle bang amid dozens of dancers and singers — even getting boxer Mike Tyson to hoof — and closed it three hours later by rapping with Audra McDonald to a reworked “Empire State of Mind.”
The big, opening number started with Harris simply holding a guitar in a pub like Once but quickly morphed into a flashy number that showcased performers from almost a dozen musicals. Harris sang “It’s bigger! Tonight it’s bigger,” jumped through a hoop, vanished from a box and promised a “truly legendary show” before glitter guns went off.
Lauper, who wrote the hit “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” was part of an impressive group of women who took top honors. Diane Paulus and Pam MacKinnon both won for directing — a rare time women have won directing Tonys for both a musical and a play in the same year. (It happened most recently at the 1998 Tonys.)
Click below for all the night’s winners:
BEST PLAY
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
BEST MUSICAL
Kinky Boots, The Musical
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Matilda, The Musical Dennis Kelly
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Pippin
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Kinky Boots Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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 MUSICAL
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Patina Miller, Pippin
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
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 MUSICAL
Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
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 COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Ann Roth, The Nance
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
John Shivers, Kinky Boots
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Diane Paulus, Pippin
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
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