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Tony Award Nominations 2019: 'Hadestown' Leads the Pack

By: RAVEN SNOOK
Date: Apr 30, 2019
Broadway

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The Tony Award nominations for the 2018-2019 Broadway season are out! The complete list is below, along with links to articles we've written about the nominees on TDF Stages.

The musical Hadestown leads the pack with 14 nominations, including Best Musical. Also of note: Ali Stroker, who's nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Oklahoma!, makes history as the first performer who uses a wheelchair to receive a nod. Jeremy Pope scored two acting nominations: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Choir Boy, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations. And no, we didn't make a mistake: To Kill a Mockingbird was not nominated for Best Play, though it received nine other nods.

The 73rd annual ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 9 at Radio City Music Hall, hosted by James Corden.

Best Musical

Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Time of The Temptations
Beetlejuice
Hadestown
The Prom
Tootsie

Best Revival of a Musical

Kiss Me, Kate

Oklahoma!

Best Play

Choir Boy
by Tarell Alvin McCraney 
The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth 
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus by Taylor Mac
Ink by James Graham - Read our interview with Graham
What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck

Best Revival of a Play

All My Sons

The Boys in the Band
Burn This
Torch Song
The Waverly Gallery

Best Performance by an  Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Stephanie J. Block for The Cher Show
Caitlin Kinnunen for The Prom
Beth Leavel for The Prom - Read our interview with Leavel
Eva Noblezada for Hadestown
Kelli O'Hara for Kiss Me, Kate

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Brooks Ashmanskas for The Prom
Derrick Baskin for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
Alex Brightman for Beetlejuice
Damon Daunno for Oklahoma!
Santino Fontana for Tootsie

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Annette Bening for All My Sons
Laura Donnelly for The Ferryman
Elaine May for The Waverly Gallery
Janet McTeer for Bernhardt/Hamlet
Laurie Metcalf for Hillary and Clinton
Heidi Schreck for What the Constitution Means to Me

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Paddy Considine for The Ferryman
Bryan Cranston for Network
Jeff Daniels for To Kill a Mockingbird
Adam Driver for Burn This
Jeremy Pope for Choir Boy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

André De Shields for Hadestown
Andy Grotelueschen for Tootsie
Patrick Page for Hadestown
Jeremy Pope for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
Ephraim Sykes for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Lilli Cooper for Tootsie
Amber Gray for Hadestown - Read our interview with Gray
Sarah Stiles for Tootsie
Ali Stroker for Oklahoma! - Read our interview with Stroker
Mary Testa for Oklahoma!

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Bertie Carvel for Ink
Robin De Jesús for The Boys in the Band
Gideon Glick for To Kill a Mockingbird
Brandon Uranowitz for Burn This
Benjamin Walker for All My Sons

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Fionnula Flanagan for The Ferryman
Celia Keenan-Bolger for To Kill a Mockingbird
Kristine Nielsen for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Julie White for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus - Read our interview with White
Ruth Wilson for King Lear

Best Book of a Musical

Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations by Dominique Morisseau - Read our interview with Morisseau
Beetlejuice by Scott Brown & Anthony King
Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell
The Prom by Bob Martin & Chad Beguelin
Tootsie by Robert Horn

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Be More Chill by Joe Iconis
Beetlejuice by Eddie Perfect
Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell
The Prom, music by Matthew Sklar & lyrics by Chad Beguelin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Adam Guettel
Tootsie by David Yazbek

Best Orchestrations

Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose for Hadestown
Simon Hale for Tootsie
Larry Hochman for Kiss Me, Kate
Daniel Kluger for Oklahoma!
Harold Wheeler for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
Peter England for King Kong
Rachel Hauck for Hadestown
Laura Jellinek for Oklahoma!
David Korins for Beetlejuice

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Miriam Buether for To Kill a Mockingbird
Bunny Christie for Ink
Rob Howell for The Ferryman
Santo Loquasto for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Jan Versweyveld for Network

Best Costume Design of a Play

Rob Howell for The Ferryman
Toni-Leslie James for Bernhardt/Hamlet
Clint Ramos for Torch Song
Ann Roth for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Ann Roth for To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Michael Krass for Hadestown
William Ivey Long for Beetlejuice
William Ivey Long for Tootsie
Bob Mackie for The Cher Show
Paul Tazewell for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Neil Austin for Ink
Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Peter Mumford for The Ferryman
Jennifer Tipton for To Kill a Mockingbird
Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden for Network

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Kevin Adams for The Cher Show
Howell Binkley for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
Bradley King for Hadestown
Peter Mumford for King Kong
Kenneth Posner and Peter Nigrini for Beetlejuice

Best Sound Design of a Play

Adam Cork for Ink
Scott Lehrer for To Kill a Mockingbird
Fitz Patton for Choir Boy
Nick Powell for The Ferryman
Eric Sleichim for Network

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Peter Hylenski for Beetlejuice
Peter Hylenski for King Kong
Steve Canyon Kennedy for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
Drew Levy for Oklahoma!
Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz for Hadestown

Best Direction of a Play

Rupert Goold for Ink
Sam Mendes for The Ferryman
Bartlett Sher for To Kill a Mockingbird
Ivo van Hove for Network
George C. Wolfe for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Best Direction of a Musical

Rachel Chavkin for Hadestown
Scott Ellis for Tootsie
Daniel Fish for Oklahoma!
Des McAnuff for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations
Casey Nicholaw for The Prom

Best Choreography

Camille A. Brown for Choir Boy
Warren Carlyle for Kiss Me, Kate
Denis Jones for Tootsie
David Neumann for Hadestown
Sergio Trujillo for Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations

Totals
Hadestown - 14
Ain't Too Proud - The Life and Times of the Temptations - 12
Tootsie - 11
The Ferryman - 9
To Kill a Mockingbird - 9
Beetlejuice - 8
Oklahoma! - 8
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus - 7
The Prom - 7
Ink - 6
Network - 5
Choir Boy - 4
Kiss Me, Kate - 4
All My Sons - 3
Burn This - 3
The Cher Show - 3
King Kong - 3
Bernhardt/Hamlet - 2
The Boys in the Band - 2
Torch Song - 2
The Waverly Gallery - 2
What the Constitution Means to Me - 2
Be More Chill - 1
Hillary and Clinton - 1
King Lear - 1

Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Rosemary Harris
Terrence McNally
Harold Wheeler  

Special Tony Awards
Marin Mazzie
Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company
Jason Michael Webb 

Regional Theatre Tony Award
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
Palo Alto, CA 

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Judith Light 

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Broadway Inspirational Voices - Michael McElroy, Founder
Peter Entin
FDNY Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9
Joseph Blakely Forbes

Top image: Amber Gray and the Broadway cast of Hadestown. Photo by Matthew Murphy.

RAVEN SNOOK