A Tony Crowd

Kelli O’Hara and Harry Connick, Jr. of The Pajama Game are having such a good time, they’re looking for another musical to do together.

LaChanze, nominated for her role in The Color Purple, says that she refused to even starting thinking about what to wear to the awards ceremony on June 11 until she was officially nominated.

The Color Purple co-stars Felicia P. Fields and Brandon Victor Dixon, who play married couple Sofia and Harpo in the musical, were each very happy that the other was nominated.

Past Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone were happy to share the experience of being nominated with their Sweeney Todd co-star Manoel Felciano, a first-time nominee for his performance as Tobias.

Samuel Barnett and Frances de la Tour of The History Boys have gotten a wonderfully warm welcome from American audiences…

…and so has their castmate Richard Griffiths, who is considered the favorite in the Best Actor category.

The amazing Chita Rivera picked up her ninth Tony nomination for playing herself in Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life. (She has won two Tonys, for her work in The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman.)

Director Des McAnuff, seen here with his Jersey Boys star and fellow nominee John Lloyd Young, flew in from La Jolla, where his new musical Zhivago is in previews. The Tony-winning director says he refuses to speculate on that show moving to the Great White Way “because whenever I say the ‘B’ word, it falls apart.”

The Drowsy Chaperone earned acting nominations in each of the four categories for (left to right) Sutton Foster, Danny Burstein, Beth Leavel, and Bob Martin. Leavel says that she text-messaged her children, who were in school when the nominees were annnounced, with the big news.

Best Actress hopeful Judy Kaye was remembered for her fabulous performance as Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir, which she will reprise at the Brentwood Theatre in Los Angeles this fall.

Oliver Platt is racking up the honors! Just a few months after receiving an Emmy nomination for Huff, he got a Best Actor in a Play nomination for his first-ever appearance on Broadway in Shining City.

Awake and Sing! stars Pablo Schreiber, Zoe Wanamaker, and Mark Ruffalo were joined by their costume designer Catherine Zuber, who’s competing against herself in the Best Costume Design in a Play category. (Her other nod is for Seascape.) News flash: Ruffalo is talking with Awake and Sing! director Bartlett Sher about coming to Broadway in Hamlet!

The Wedding Singer‘s Stephen Lynch is one of four nominees for Best Actor in a Musical to be honored for his Broadway debut.

Finally, here’s a woman who won’t have a nerve-wracking night on June 11: Sarah Jones, who has already been awarded a special Tony for her show Bridge & Tunnel.