LIST OF NOMINEES
For more on the Tony nominations, go to latimes.com /arts. Here are the contenders in key categories:
BEST PLAY
“Clyde’s” “Hangmen” “The Lehman Trilogy” “The Minutes” “Skeleton Crew”
BEST MUSICAL
“Girl From the North Country” “MJ” “Mr. Saturday Night” “Paradise Square” “Six: The Musical” “A Strange Loop”
REVIVAL OF A PLAY
“American Buffalo” “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf ” “How I Learned to Drive” “Take Me Out” “Trouble in Mind”
REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
“Caroline, or Change” “Company” “The Music Man”
BOOK OF A MUSICAL
“Girl From the North Country,” Conor McPherson “MJ,” Lynn Nottage “Mr. Saturday Night,” Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel “Paradise Square,” Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas & Larry Kirwan “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson
ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS)
“Flying Over Sunset,” music: Tom Kitt; lyrics: Michael Korie “Mr. Saturday Night,” music: Jason Robert Brown; lyrics: Amanda Green “Paradise Square,” music: Jason Howland; lyrics: Nathan Tysen & Masi Asare “Six: The Musical,” music & lyrics: Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss “A Strange Loop,” music & lyrics: Michael R. Jackson
LEAD ACTOR 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 Santiago-Hudson, “Lackawanna Blues” David Threlfall, “Hangmen”
LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Gabby Beans, “The Skin of Our Teeth” LaChanze, “Trouble in Mind” Ruth Negga, “Macbeth” Deirdre O’Connell, “Dana H.” Mary-Louise Parker, “How I Learned to Drive”
LEAD ACTOR 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”
LEAD ACTRESS 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”
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.”
DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Stephen Brackett, “A Strange Loop” Marianne Elliott, “Company” Conor McPherson, “Girl From the North Country” Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage, “Six: The Musical” Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”