Breaking news: “Kimberly Akimbo' was the major winner at the 76th Tony Awards on Sunday night, earning the top honor of best musical and four other prizes, while the Tony for best play went to “Leopoldstadt” by 85-year-old Tom Stoppard.
The win for Ghee made history, as the first time an actor who identifies as nonbinary has won a Tony in the leading actor category. That achievement was doubled by Alex Newell, who also identifies as nonbinary and won the award for best featured, or supporting, actor in a musical, for “Shucked.” An overcome Newell told the crowd, “I have waited for this my entire life, and I thank every one of you.” Turning to their mother, Newell said: “I thank you for loving me unconditionally.
The presentations in 26 categories, chosen by a voting academy of more than 700 theater producers, actors, designers and others, occurred during a ceremony that lacked a key ingredient from previous telecasts: writers., whose strike against TV and film studios is in its second month, agreed not to picket the Tonys only if the show proceeded without the contributions of writers.
That required the broadcast from the United Palace in Manhattan’s Washington Heights — the first 90 minutes on Pluto TV, a free streaming service, and three more hours on CBS — to rely not on pre-written banter, but on the drama of the Tony races and the pizazz of musical performances. “We don’t have a script, you guys. Live and unscripted, you’re welcome!” an out-of-breath Ariana DeBose, host of the CBS telecast for the second year in a row, said after the opening number — performed smartly by a cadre of dancers in the lobby and aisles. Telling the audience that the script-less event was necessitated by writers “in pursuit of a fair deal,” she explained that there were no teleprompters, only countdown clocks for the speeches.No such note of caution was needed.
, star of the revival of “Funny Girl,” triumphantly singing a joyful “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” She sang the same number on the Tony telecast in 2012, when the sequence was perceived as an audition for a role she eventually won a decade later, as the replacement for the revival’s original Fanny Brice, Beanie Feldstein.
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