Tony Awards, Tom Stoppard wins: a message against intolerance - Music News

The British playwright Tom Stoppard triumphed at the Tony Awards with the play ‘Leopoldstadt’, which premiered in London in 2020.

‘Leopoldstadt’ tells the story of the Merz Jewish family grappling with the growing anti-Semitism in the Austrian capital which will lead to the Holocaust.

The Tony Awards are New York’s theater industry’s equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for motion picture.

An artist who wins all four awards is awarded the title of EGOT.

Among the other awards conferred during the 76th edition of the Tony Awards – which was held on the evening of June 12 at the United Palace in Washington Heights in New York -, that of Best Musical went to ‘Kimberly Akimbo’, Best Director and Best Musical Revival went to ‘Parade’. Also awarded were the two non-binary actors J. Harrison Ghee for ‘Some Like It Hot’ and Alex Newell for ‘Shucked’.

Here are all the winners:

Best Play: Leopoldstadt?Best Musical: Kimberly Akimbo?Best Revival of Play: Topdog/Underdog

Best Musical Revival: Parade?Best Musical Booklet: Kimberly Akimbo

Best Leading Actress in a Play: Jodie Comer for Prima Facie

Best Play Actor: Sean Hayes for Good Night

Best Musical Lead Actress: Victoria Clark for Kimberly Akimbo?Best Musical Lead Actor: J. Harrison Ghee for Some Like It Hot?Best Play Supporting Actor: Brandon Uranowitz for Leopoldstadt

Best Supporting Actress in a Play: Miriam Silverman for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

Best Musical Supporting Actor: Alex Newell for Schucked?Best Musical Supporting Actress: Bonnie Milligan for Kimberly Akimbo

Best direction of a play: Patrick Marber for Leopoldstadt

Best Musical Direction: Michael Arden for Parade?Best Original Score: Kimberly Akimbo, music by Jeanine Tesori; lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire

Best Choreography: Casey Nicholaw for Some Like It Hot

Best Orchestration: Charlie Rosen and Bryan Carter for Some Like It Hot

Best Play Production Design: Tim Hatley and Andrzej Goulding for Life of Pi

Best Musical Theater Design: Beowulf Boritt for New York, New York

Best Opera Costume: Brigitte Reiffensutel for Leopoldstadt

Best Musical Costume: Gregg Barnes for Some Like It Hot

Best Musical Sound: Nevin Steinberg for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Theater Lighting: Tim Lutkin for Life of Pi