The Tony Awards saw ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ and Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ take top awards. J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell also became the first non-binary people to win Tony Awards for acting.
This year’s prizes were spread widely. Among the nominated plays and musicals, no production received more than five awards. In all, the 26 competitive awards were handed out to a dozen shows.
J. Harrison Ghee made history with Alex Newell, who both became the first openly non-binary people to win Tony Awards for acting. About 40 minutes earlier, Newell picked up a featured actor Tony for their roof-raising performance in the corn musical “Shucked.” Sean Hayes, meanwhile, garnered a leading actor award for his turn in “Good Night, Oscar,” in which he plays American concert pianist Oscar Levant.Among the revivals, “Parade” — a dramatization of the trial, imprisonment and lynching of Jewish-American Leo Frank — won the Tony for best musical revival, beating “Camelot” and two Stephen Sondheim musicals, “Into the Woods” and “Sweeney Todd.”
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