The foreigners, based on the 1967 novel by SE Hinton and a 1983 film by Francis Ford Coppola, was a surprise winner of best musical at the 2024 Tony Awards, which were presented on Sunday (June 16). The award was thought to be a close race between It looks gooda musical about the American women's suffrage movement and Hell's Kitchena musical loosely based on the early life and music of Alicia Keys.
stereo, a play by David Adjmi with music, was named best play.
The 77th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose for the third year in a row, aired live on both coasts from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York on Sunday, June 16 on CBS. The show also aired on Paramount+ in the US
Stereo it was the most decorated production of the year, winning five Tonys. Follow The foreigners and a Stephen Sondheim revival We roll with joy, with four wins each. Its original production Gladly received only one nod in 1982 – original musical score. Two of its stars Gladly The revival – Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe – won their first Tonys for their performances. The recording of his New Broadway Cast Merrily We Roll Along entered Advertising signThe Cast Albums chart at No. 1 in November 2023.
This is the fifth time a revival of a Sondheim show has won Best Revival of a Musical. In the forest won in 2002. followed by Murderers in 2004 and Company both in 2007 and 2022. Sondheim died in 2021 at the age of 91.
Later Stereophonic, Merrily We Roll Along and The foreigners in terms of most wins it was Suitable, The foreigners and it's ok with three wins each. Hell's Kitchen, with two? and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, An Enemy of the People, The Great Gatsby, Illinois, Jaja's African Hair Braiding and Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cottom Patch, with one each.
Water for elephants was eliminated despite seven nominations. It was also disqualified despite a large number of nominations Here lies Love, Mary Jane and Mother Play, with four nods each.
The foreigners is the second best music winner in the past four years based on a film, following Red Mill!. Other winners since 2000 that were based on movies are The producers (2001), Totally modern Millie (2002), Hair spray (2003), Spamalot (2005), Billy Elliot the musical (2009), Once (2012) and Visit to the complex (2007). The latter title was based on an Israeli film.
Angelina Jolie was among the producers The foreigners and now she has a Tony to go along with the Oscar she won 24 years ago for Best Supporting Actress Girl, interrupt.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was among the producers It looks good, and received a standing ovation when he introduced a performance from the show. She was in the running to become the first woman to win a Tony, just as she was the first woman to win a Grammy, in 1997, for her bestselling audio book, It takes a village.
AK Worldwide Media, Inc. Alicia Keys and Jay-Z's Roc Nation were among his producers Hell's Kitchen. They lost the Tony for best musical, but scored heavily on the telecast with a 2009 Grammy-winning rendition of “Empire State of Mind,” which appears on Hell's Kitchen.
Keys and Jay-Z weren't the only musical superstars to perform at the show. Pete Townshend also performed alongside his cast The Who's Tommywhich was nominated for Best Revival of a Musical.
Shaina Taub won two Tonys — best original score and best book of a musical — for her work It looks good. Taub is just the third woman in Tony history to win in both of these categories – and she's the first woman to win in both categories entirely on her own. Betty Comden won both awards in 1978 for The twentieth Century, but he had partners in both categories. Lisa Kron won both awards in 2015 for Fun Housebut had a partner in the score category.
Jonathan Tunick won Best Orchestrations for his revival Gladly. Tony's only previous win was for Titanic (1997), making him the seventh EGOT winner. Three of the awards that make up Tunick's EGOT were for Sondheim-related works. His only Oscar was for adapting the music for the 1978 film version A little night music. His only Grammy was for his cover of Cleo Laine's recording of “No One Is Alone”, by In the forest.
George C. Wolfe and Jack O'Brien received lifetime awards. Billy Porter received the Isabelle Stevenson Award, honoring humanitarian achievements. The show included a tribute to Broadway legend Chita Rivera, who died in January. Rivera also closed the In Memoriam segment, which also featured actors Hinton Battle, Glynis Johns and Glenda Jackson and songwriters Richard Sherman and Sheldon Harnick, among others.
The 2023-24 eligibility season began on April 28, 2023 and ended on Thursday, April 25, 2024. Tony Awards in 26 competitive categories were voted on by 836 designated Tony voters within the theater community.
The Tony Awards are produced in association with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the Broadway League and American Theater Wing, and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss were executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment, and Weiss served as director. Jack Sussman was also an executive producer.
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