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Tonys announced on Sunday – WhatsOnStage teams with TheaterMania on coverage

Ahead of the Tony Awards on Sunday, here’s a guide to the Brits in contention and how WhatsOnStage and TheaterMania are covering the ceremony

Editorial Staff
London
Our Broadway owners TheaterMania have been gearing up for this year’s Tony Awards in fine style, offering up a range of fantastic features including:

  • A letter from nominee Harvey Fierstein addressed to the ‘virgin Tony nominees’. Advice includes “Keep gum or mints in your pocket. You may not always be able to get to the buffet.”

    • Cyndi Lauper
    Cyndi Lauper
    © Dave Gordon
  • ‘My First…’, a lovely feature in which Tony newbies discuss the other major firsts in their lives, including Cyndi Lauper’s first apartment, and Bertie Carvel’s first job (it was in a cave!)

  • A run-down of the TheaterMania team’s ‘favourite Tonys‘ – that’s people called Tony, not previous winners…

  • A video list of the greatest Tony acceptance speeches, from Sondheim accepting his first two on the same night to Nathan Lane insisting he share his honour for The Producers with Matthew Broderick. Awww.

    Matilda and Kinky Boots lead the pack

    The nominations are dominated this year by two British-orientated musicals; Matilda and Kinky Boots, with 12 and 13 nods respectively (see our full nominations story).

    Matilda‘s nominations include Best Musical, Best Direction (Matthew Warchus) and Best Score (Tim Minchin), while British cast members Bertie Carvel and Lauren Ward, who both originated with the show at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2010, also made the shortlists. Its four US child stars also made the Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre list.

    The show, which opened to rave reviews at New York’s Shubert Theatre since April, is adapted from
    Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel about a bookish girl with magical powers.

    Kinky Boots, about a British shoe factory that begins manufacturing fetish footwear, features an original score by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, both of whom are nominated.

    Other Brits in the shortlists include actor Tom Sturridge, who goes head to head with stars including Tom Hanks and Nathan Lane in the Best Actor category for his role opposite Alec Baldwin in Lyle Kessler’s
    Orphans, and Soutra Gilmour, nominated for Best Costume Design for Cyrano de Bergerac.

    Elsewhere, other heavily nominated shows include Pippin (10), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (9) and Bartlett Sher’s revival of Clifford Odets’ play Golden Boy (8).

    Coverage on the night


    Winners of the 67th annual Tony Awards will be announced at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday (9 June 2013), with the ceremony beginning at 8pm ET, or 1am Monday BST.

    Both WhatsOnStage and TheaterMania will be live tweeting the ceremony, which will be viewable via a live coverage story running on the night.

    We’ll be following up with comprehensive photo and video highlights, including any nuggets of gossip relevant on this side of the Atlantic. So be sure to log on to both sites (very) early on Monday!


    The full list of 2013 Tony Award nominations is as follows:

    Best Play
    The Assembled Parties by
    Richard Greenberg

    Lucky Guy by
    Nora Ephron
    The Testament of Mary by
    Colm Tóibín

    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by
    Christopher Durang

    Best Musical
    Bring It On: The Musical
    A Christmas Story, The Musical
    Kinky Boots
    Matilda The Musical

    Best Book of a Musical
    A Christmas Story, The Musical
    – Joseph Robinette
    Kinky Boots –
    Harvey Fierstein
    Matilda The Musical –
    Dennis Kelly
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
    – Douglas Carter Beane

    Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
    A Christmas Story, The Musical
    – Music and Lyrics:
    Benj Pasek
    and
    Justin Paul
    Hands on a Hardbody –
    Music:
    Trey Anastasio
    and
    Amanda Green

    Lyrics:
    Amanda Green
    Kinky Boots –
    Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
    Matilda The Musical –
    Music & Lyrics: Tim Minchin

    Best Revival of a Play
    Golden Boy
    Orphans
    The Trip to Bountiful
    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Best Revival of a Musical
    Annie
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Pippin
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
    Tom Hanks –
    Lucky Guy
    Nathan Lane –
    The Nance
    Tracy Letts –
    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    David Hyde Pierce –
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    Tom Sturridge –
    Orphans

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
    Laurie Metcalf –
    The Other Place
    Amy Morton –
    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Kristine Nielsen –
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    Holland Taylor –
    Ann
    Cicely Tyson –
    The Trip to Bountiful

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
    Bertie Carvel –
    Matilda The Musical
    Santino Fontana –
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
    Rob McClure –
    Chaplin
    Billy Porter –
    Kinky Boots
    Stark Sands –
    Kinky Boots

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
    Stephanie J. Block –
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Carolee Carmello –
    Scandalous
    Valisia LeKae –
    Motown The Musical
    Patina Miller –
    Pippin
    Laura Osnes –
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
    Danny Burstein –
    Golden Boy
    Richard Kind –
    The Big Knife
    Billy Magnussen –
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    Tony Shalhoub –
    Golden Boy
    Courtney B. Vance –
    Lucky Guy

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
    Carrie Coon –
    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Shalita Grant –
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    Judith Ivey –
    The Heiress
    Judith Light –
    The Assembled Parties
    Condola Rashad –
    The Trip to Bountiful

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
    Charl Brown –
    Motown The Musical
    Keith Carradine –
    Hands on a Hardbody
    Will Chase –
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Gabriel Ebert –
    Matilda The Musical
    Terrence Mann –
    Pippin

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
    Annaleigh Ashford –
    Kinky Boots
    Victoria Clark –
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
    Andrea Martin –
    Pippin
    Keala Settle –
    Hands on a Hardbody
    Lauren Ward –
    Matilda The Musical

    Best Direction of a Play
    Pam MacKinnon
    – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Nicholas Martin –
    Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
    Bartlett Sher –
    Golden Boy
    George C. Wolfe –
    Lucky Guy

    Best Direction of a Musical
    Scott Ellis –
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Jerry Mitchell –
    Kinky Boots
    Diane Paulus –
    Pippin
    Matthew Warchus –
    Matilda The Musical

    Best Choreography
    Andy Blankenbuehler –
    Bring It On: The Musical
    Peter Darling –
    Matilda The Musical
    Jerry Mitchell –
    Kinky Boots
    Chet Walker –
    Pippin

    Best Orchestrations
    Chris Nightingale –
    Matilda The Musical
    Stephen Oremus –
    Kinky Boots
    Ethan Popp
    &
    Bryan Crook –
    Motown The Musical
    Danny Troob
    – Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

    Best Scenic Design of a Play
    John Lee Beatty –
    The Nance
    Santo Loquasto –
    The Assembled Parties
    David Rockwell –
    Lucky Guy
    Michael Yeargan –
    Golden Boy

    Best Scenic Design of a Musical
    Rob Howell –
    Matilda The Musical
    Anna Louizos –
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Scott Pask –
    Pippin
    David Rockwell –
    Kinky Boots

    Best Costume Design of a Play
    Soutra Gilmour –
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    Ann Roth –
    The Nance
    Albert Wolsky –
    The Heiress
    Catherine Zuber –
    Golden Boy

    Best Costume Design of a Musical
    Gregg Barnes –
    Kinky Boots
    Rob Howell –
    Matilda The Musical
    Dominique Lemieux –
    Pippin
    William Ivey Long –
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

    Best Lighting Design of a Play
    Jules Fisher
    &
    Peggy Eisenhauer –
    Lucky Guy
    Donald Holder –
    Golden Boy
    Jennifer Tipton –
    The Testament of Mary
    Japhy Weideman –
    The Nance

    Best Lighting Design of a Musical
    Kenneth Posner
    – Kinky Boots
    Kenneth Posner –
    Pippin
    Kenneth Posner –
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
    Hugh Vanstone –
    Matilda The Musical

    Best Sound Design of a Play
    John Gromada –
    The Trip to Bountiful
    Mel Mercier –
    The Testament of Mary
    Leon Rothenberg –
    The Nance
    Peter John Still
    and
    Marc Salzberg –
    Golden Boy

    Best Sound Design of a Musical
    Jonathan Deans
    &
    Garth Helm –
    Pippin
    Peter Hylenski –
    Motown The Musical
    John Shivers –
    Kinky Boots
    Nevin Steinberg –
    Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

    Special Tony Award® for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
    Bernard Gersten
    Paul Libin
    Ming Cho Lee

    Regional Theatre Award
    Huntington Theatre Company

    Isabelle Stevenson Award
    Larry Kramer

    Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
    Career Transition For Dancers
    William Craver
    Peter Lawrence
    The Lost Colony
    The four actresses who created the title role of Matilda The Musical on Broadway – Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro