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2014 Tony Award Winners Are Announced

”Gentleman’s Guide” and ”Hedwig and the Angry Inch” lead the winners with four Tonys apiece.

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is the winner for the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Jefferson Mays (left), Jennifer Smith (center), and Bryce Pinkham (right) in the 2014 Best Musical Tony Award winner A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
(© Joan Marcus)

The 2014 Tony Awards ceremony took place June 8 at Radio City Music Hall.

See the full list of nominees below. Winners are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Best Play

Act One
*All the Way
Casa Valentina
Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar

Best Musical

After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical

*A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Revival of a Play

The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
*A Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night

Best Revival of a Musical

*Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Misérables
Violet

Best Book of a Musical

Aladdin
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Bullets Over Broadway
*A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Aladdin
*The Bridges of Madison County
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
If/Then

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Samuel Barnett, Twelfth Night
*Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance, Richard III
Tony Shalhoub, Act One

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones, The Glass Menagerie
*Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

*Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ramin Karimloo, Les Misérables
Andy Karl, Rocky
Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Mary Bridget Davies, A Night With Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster, Violet
Idina Menzel, If/Then
*Jessie Mueller, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Reed Birney, Casa Valentina
Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night
Stephen Fry, Twelfth Night
*Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night
Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Sarah Greene, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie
*Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun
Anika Noni Rose, A Raisin in the Sun
Mare Winningham, Casa Valentina

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Danny Burstein, Cabaret
Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway
Joshua Henry, Violet
*James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin
Jarrod Spector, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Linda Emond, Cabaret
*Lena Hall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Anika Larsen, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox, After Midnight
Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Scenic Design of a Play

*Beowulf Boritt, Act One
Bob Crowley, The Glass Menagerie
Es Devlin, Machinal
Christopher Oram, The Cripple of Inishmaan

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

*Christopher Barreca, Rocky
Julian Crouch, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Santo Loquasto, Bullets Over Broadway

Best Costume Design of a Play

Jane Greenwood, Act One
Michael Krass, Machinal
Rita Ryack, Casa Valentina
*Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night

Best Costume Design of a Musical

*Linda Cho, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway
Arianne Phillips, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isabel Toledo, After Midnight

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Paule Constable, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Jane Cox, Machinal
*Natasha Katz, The Glass Menagerie
Japhy Weideman, Of Mice and Men

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

*Kevin Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Christopher Akerlind, Rocky
Howell Binkley, After Midnight
Donald Holder, The Bridges of Madison County

Best Sound Design of a Play

Alex Baranowski, The Cripple of Inishmaan
*Steve Canyon Kennedy, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Dan Moses Schreier, Act One
Matt Tierney, Machinal

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Peter Hylenski, After Midnight
Tim O'Heir, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Mick Potter, Les Misérables
*Brian Ronan, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical

Best Direction of a Play

Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan
*Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun
John Tiffany, The Glass Menagerie

Best Direction of a Musical

Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Leigh Silverman, Violet
*Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Best Choreography

*Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine, Rocky
Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway

Best Orchestrations

Doug Besterman, Bullets Over Broadway
*Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County
Steve Sidwell, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Jonathan Tunick, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder

Winners tally:

A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder — 4
Hedwig and the Angry Inch — 4
A Raisin in the Sun —3
All the Way — 2
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical — 2
The Bridges of Madison County — 2
Twelfth Night — 2
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill — 2
Act One — 1
Rocky — 1
Aladdin — 1
After Midnight — 1
The Glass Menagerie — 1

Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Jane Greenwood

Regional Theatre Award
Signature Theatre, New York, N.Y.

Isabelle Stevenson Award
Rosie O’Donnell

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Joseph P. Benincasa
Joan Marcus
Charlotte Wilcox

Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan's Tony Award-winning Best Play, All the Way.
Tony Award winner Bryan Cranston (center) as President Lyndon B. Johnson, with Michael McKean (left) as J. Edgar Hoover and Brandon J. Dirden as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Robert Schenkkan's Tony Award-winning Best Play, All the Way.
(© Evgenia Eliseeva)