Black playwrights shine this season
nominated for “Company.” “Because there was a minute there when I wasn’t sure we’d be back after the pandemic. So I am so grateful.”
Neither Matthew Broderick nor his wife Sarah Jessica Parker earned nominations for a revival of “Plaza Suite,” but Patti LuPone got one for “Company” and so did LaChanze for “Trouble in Mind.” Ruth Negga earned a nomination for “Macbeth,” but her co-star Daniel Craig came up empty. Tony-winner Phylicia Rashad got her first nomination in more than 15 years with “Skeleton Crew” and “Saturday Night Live” veteran Rachel Dratch earned a Tony nod in the feminist farce “POTUS.” One eye-raising decision was not to hand Katrina Lenk a nod for her work in “Company.”
The nominees for best actress in a musical nominees are Sharon D Clarke of “Caroline, Or Change,” Foster in “The Music Man,” Joaquina Kalukango for “Paradise Square,” Carmen Cusack in “Flying Over Sunset” and Mare Winningham in “Girl From the North Country.”
Joining Spivey, Jackman and McClure in the best actor in a musical category are Crystal for “Mr. Saturday Night” and Myles Frost, whose King of Pop in “MJ” was a moonwalking triumph. The best actor in a play category is dominated by the three leads in “The Lehman Trilogy” - Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Adrian Lester. The rest are Morse, Rockwell, Ruben Santiago-Hudson in “Lackawanna Blues” and David Threlfall from “Hangmen.”
The Tony Awards will be held at Radio City Music Hall on June 12. The ceremony will air live on CBS and Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. Film and stage star Ariana DeBose will host.
Select nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards, announced Monday.
■ Best Musical: “Girl From the North Country,” “MJ,” “Mr. Saturday Night,” “Paradise Square,” “Six: The Musical,” “A Strange Loop”
■ Best Play: “Clyde’s,” “Hangmen,” “The Lehman Trilogy,” “The Minutes,” “Skeleton Crew”
■ Best Revival of a Play: “American Buffalo,” “How I Learned to Drive,” “Take Me Out,” “Trouble in Mind,” “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”
■ Best Revival of a Musical: “The Music Man,” “Company,” “Caroline, or Change”
■ Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Simon Russell Beale, “The Lehman Trilogy”; Adam Godley, “The Lehman Trilogy”; Adrian Lester, “The Lehman Trilogy”; David Morse, “How I Learned to Drive”; Sam Rockwell, “American Buffalo”; Ruben SantiagoHudson, “Lackawanna Blues”; David Threlfall, “Hangmen”
■ Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Gabby Beans, “The Skin of Our Teeth”; LaChanze, “Trouble in Mind”; Ruth Negga, “Macbeth”; Deirdre O’Connell, “Dana H.”; MaryLouise Parker, “How I Learned to Drive”
■ Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Billy Crystal, “Mr. Saturday Night”; Myles Frost, “MJ”; Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man”; Rob McClure, “Mrs. Doubtfire”; Jaquel Spivey, “A Strange Loop”
■ Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Sharon D Clarke, “Caroline, or Change”; Carmen Cusack, “Flying Over Sunset”; Sutton Foster, “The Music Man;” Joaquina Kalukango, “Paradise Square”; Mare Winningham, “Girl From the North Country”
■ Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Jeannette Bayardelle, “Girl From the North Country”; Shoshana Bean, “Mr. Saturday Night”; Jayne Houdyshell, “The Music Man”; L Morgan Lee, “A Strange Loop”; Patti LuPone, “Company”; Jennifer Simard, “Company” ■ Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Matt Doyle, “Company”; Sidney DuPont, “Paradise Square”; Jared Grimes, “Funny Girl”; John-Andrew Morrison, “A Strange Loop”; A.J. Shively, “Paradise Square”
■ Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Uzo Aduba, “Clyde’s”; Rachel Dratch, “POTUS”; Kenita R. Miller, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”; Phylicia Rashad, “Skeleton Crew”; Julie White, “POTUS”; Kara Young, “Clyde’s”
■ Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Alfie Allen, “Hangmen”; Chuck Cooper, “Trouble in Mind”; Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Take Me Out”; Ron Cephas Jones, “Clyde’s”; Michael Oberholtzer, “Take Me Out”; Jesse Williams, “Take Me Out”
■ Best Direction of a Play: Lileana Blain-Cruz, “The Skin of Our Teeth”; Camille A. Brown, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”; Sam Mendes, “The Lehman Trilogy”; Neil Pepe, “American Buffalo”; Les Waters, “Dana H.”
■ Best Direction of a Musical: Stephen Brackett, “A Strange Loop”; Marianne Elliott, “Company”; Conor McPherson, “Girl From the North Country”; Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, “Six: The Musical”; Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”
■ Best Choreography: Camille A. Brown, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”; Warren Carlyle, “The Music Man”; Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, “Six: The Musical”; Bill T. Jones, “Paradise Square”; Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”
■ Best Book of a Musical: “Girl From the North Country,” Conor McPherson; “MJ,” Lynn Nottage; “Mr. Saturday Night,” Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel; “Paradise Square,” Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan; “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson
■ Best Original Score: “Flying Over Sunset,” music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie; “Mr. Saturday Night,” music by Jason Robert Brown, lyrics by Amanda Green; “Paradise Square,” music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare; “Six: The Musical,” music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss; “A Strange Loop,” music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson