By Mark Kennedy
AP leisure author
New York (AP) – A few androids to sing. Two profitable gamers of the Pulitzer Prize. A drunk Mary Todd Lincoln. A musical with a corpse like his hero. Romeo, Julieta and teddy bears with Rave music. To not point out George Clooney.
Broadway has had a teddy season with one thing apparently for everybody and now could be the time to acknowledge the most effective with the Tony Awards, organized by Cynthia Erivo, scheduled for Sunday night time in CBS and transmitting in Paramount+.
Broadway Buzz is mostly reserved for musicals, however this 12 months the works, pushed by the expertise of checklist A, have promoted the dialog. There may be Clooney in “Good night time and good luck”, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in “Othello”, Sarah Snoak in a single -woman model of “The Image of Dorian Grey” and his co -star of “Succession” Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in “Glengarry Glen Ross”. (Clooney, Snoak and Odenkirk are nominated for Tonys).
There have been two Pulitzer winners: 2024 Girandee “English” and “Objective” of 2025, however maybe one of many largest surprises of the season was “Oh, Mary!”, The irreverent, obscene and disorderly revisionist story of Cole Escola the three are nominated for the most effective work, together with “John Proctor is the villain” and “The Hills of California.”
On the musical aspect, three choices appear to be within the combination for the Superior Award: “Maybe pleased ending”, a romantic comedy about a few androids; “Lifeless Outlaw”, on an alcoholic vagabond whose embalmed physique turns into a treasured possession for half a century; And “demise turns into it,” the musical satire concerning the lifelong brakes that drink a magical potion for the everlasting younger folks and sweetness. “Perhaps the pleased ending,” “Dying turns into her” and one other musical candidate, “Buena Vista Social Membership”, nominations with 10 every.
The 2024-2025 season raised $ 1.9 billion, which made it the season of biggest assortment and noting that Broadway has lastly emerged from the COVID-19 blues, after having exceeded the earlier considered one of $ 1.eight billion in the course of the 2018-2019 season.
“We’re going by way of this unusual interval, which I feel we are able to draw the Covid line to this, since it could actually draw the road because the early 1980s with AIDS to the explosion of nice musicals once more,” says Harvey Fierstein, who will get a particular Tony for all times achievement.
Audra McDonald, probably the most acknowledged artist within the historical past of the theater awards, might prolong her protagonist of Tony. The file holder of many of the victories of motion with six tonys, McDonald might add to that due to his major flip in an acclaimed Renaissance of “Gypsy”. He has to beat Nicole Scherzinger, who has been shocking the general public in “Sundown Blvd.”
And Kara Younger, the primary black plaintiff that’s paid for a Tony prize in 4 consecutive years, might grow to be the primary black particular person to win two tonys consecutively, if she gained by her function within the work “Objective.”
Different attainable consecutive winners embrace director Danya Taymor, hoping to observe her 2024 victory with “The Outsiders” with one other for “John Proctor is the villain” and the playwright “Objective” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who gained final 12 months with “acceptable.”
Different first first embrace Daniel Dae Kim, who might grow to be the primary Asian winner within the class of the most effective main actor in a play for his work in a resurgence of “Face Yellow”. And Marjan Neshat and his “English” Co -star Tala Ashe might grow to be the primary feminine actors of Iranian ancestry to win a Tony.
This season, Broadway noticed an explosion within the various rock and the looks of younger folks for younger folks, together with “John Proctor is the villain” and a “Romeo + Julieta” launched to technology Z and the millennials.
The transmission of Sunday, as standard, could have a musical quantity for every of the exhibits that compete for the most effective new musical crown, in addition to some that didn’t make the minimize, as “simply in time”, a musical about Bobby Darin, and “the true ladies have curves.” This 12 months, there’s additionally area for “Hamilton”, which celebrates its tenth 12 months in Broadway. However the musicals “Boop! Betty Boop’s musical” and “Smash” didn’t get slot.
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