The nominees for the 2016 Tony Awards attended a Meet the Nominees Press Junket on Wednesday, May 4th, at The Diamond Horseshoe in The Paramount Hotel on West 46th Street. Producers, writers, actors and creative talent in the 24 competitive categories came out to meet the press at the annual press junket where they celebrated their nominations with their fellow nominees.
Lin-Manuel Miranda “Hamilton”
When the nominations were announced yesterday the musical Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pop-culture phenomenon dominated with a record breaking 16 nominations followed by Shuffle Along with 10 nominations and She Loves Me with 8. The revival of Eugene O’Neil’s Long Day’s Journey into Night was next with 7 nominations including Best Revival of a Play and a nod to Jessica Lange for Best Actress in a Play, as well as her co-stars Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon along with their director Jonathan Kent.
The Tony Awards will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre on CBS Sunday June 12 at 8pm in three hour telecast hosted by James Corden, the multi-talented English actor/comedian/producer/ writer/singer and talk show host that will mark 70 years of Broadway excellence. The show will feature live performances from several of the nominated musicals.
For a complete list of the nominations Click Here
Photography: Barry Gordin
Jessica Lange (Best Performance by a Actress in a Leading Role in a Play) Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Alex Brightman (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical) School of Rock
Alex Lacamoire (Best Orhestrations)Hamilton
Barry Grove, Frank Langella The Father , Lynne Meadow “Hamilton”
Clint Ramos (Best Costume Design of a Play) Eclipsed
Danielle Brooks ( Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical , Cynthia Erivo (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading role in a Muscical The Color Purple
Danny Burstein ( Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical) Fiddler on the Roof
Daveed Diggs Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical Hamilton
David Furr (Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play) Noises Off
David Korins (Best Scenic Design of a Musical) Hamilton
Frank Langella (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play) The Father
Gabriel Byrne (Best Performance by and Actor in a Leading Role in a Play) Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Savion Glover (Best Direction of a Musical), George C. Wolfe (Best Choreography)Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
Brandon Victor Dixon (Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical) Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical) Hamilton Producer Roy Furman
Patrick Christiano, Jessie Mueller (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical) Waitress
Lupita Nyong’o Best Performance by an Actess n a Leading Role in a Play) Eclipsed
Steve Martin Best Original Music Written for the Theatre Bright Star, Carmen Cusack (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical Bright Star), Edie Brickell (Best Original Music/ Lyrics Written for the Theatre) Bright Star
Reed Birney (Best Performance by an Actor in Featured Role in a Play), The Humans, Jayne Houdyshell (Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play The Humans
Jeff Daniels (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play) Blackbird
Jennifer Simard (Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical) Disaster
Joan Lader (Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre)
Robert Wankel Chairman of the Broadway League, Jane Krakowski (Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical) She Loves Me, William Ivey Long (Chair of the American Theatre Wing)
John Doyle (Best Direction of a Musical) The Color Purple
Carmen Cusack (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical) Bright Star
Jonathan Groff (Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a musical) Hamilton
Laura Benanti (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical) She Loves Me
Leslie Odom, Jr., (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical) Hamilton
Megan Hilty (Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play) Noises Off
Sergio Trujillo (Best Choreopgraphy) On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio an Gloria Estefan
Sheldon Harnick (Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre)
Sophie Okonedo (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play) Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Stephen Karam, Joe Mantello (Best Direction of a Play) The Humans
Thomas Kail (Best Direction of a Musical) Hamilton
Zachary Levi (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical)She Loves Me
David Rockwell (Best Scenic Design of a Musical) She Loves Me
Phillipa Soo (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical) Hamilton
Michael Shannon (Best Performance by an Actor in a FeaturedRole in a Play) ( Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Michelle Williams (Best Performance by an Actresss in a Leading Role in a Play) Blackbird
Producer Roy Furman, Danielle Brooks, Cynthia Erivo, John Doyle, The Color Purple
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