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Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein are the proud, nominated creators of
Kinky Boots.
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Billy Porter, a Best Leading Actor nominee for
Kinky Boots, is “so excited to be nominated for so many awards this year”: a Drama Desk, a Tony, and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
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Kinky Boots Leading Actor nominee Stark Sands calls performing his show “a celebration and a special event every night.”
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Annaleigh Ashford, a Best Featured Actress nominee for
Kinky Boots, called Tony nominations “one of the most exciting days of my career.”
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Jerry Mitchell is sporting two nominations this year, for directing and choreographing
Kinky Boots.
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The four young ladies who play Matilda, Bailey Ryon, Oona Laurence, Sophia Gennusa, and Milly Shapiro, will receive special Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.
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The grown-up nominees of
Matilda, composer/lyricist Tim Minchin, Lauren Ward, Bertie Carvel, and Gabriel Ebert, get close for the cameras.
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“It is a privilege to be in Nora’s play and an honor to be included with the other nominees,” said Leading Actor nominee Tom Hanks, who makes his Broadway debut in
Lucky Guy.
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Lucky Guy’s George C. Wolfe, Courtney B. Vance, and Tom Hanks share a laugh on the red carpet.
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“I was kneeling on the bed crying,” said Laura Osnes, who received her second consecutive Best Actress in a Musical nomination this year for
Cinderella.
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Santino Fontana received a Leading Actor in a Musical nomination for his work as Prince Topher in
Cinderella.
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“Fourteen people owe me,” said Douglas Carter Beane, the busy playwright of five-time nominee
The Nance and Tony-nominated book writer of the nine-time nominee
Cinderella.
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Cinderella nominee Victoria Clark reunites with her former
Sister Act costar,
Pippin nominee Patina Miller.
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Terrence Mann is among the many nominees of the musical revival
Pippin.
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Stephanie J. Block and Will Chase are thrilled to be recognized with their first-ever Tony nominations, for their work in
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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Golden Boy’s Tony Shalhoub finds his name on the backdrop!
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Danny Burstein, a Featured Actor nominee for
Golden Boy, admitted that he was “kind of in shock that they remembered me.”
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“I’m so proud of the show we all did,” said
Hands on a Hardbody’s Keith Carradine, seen here with costar and fellow featured acting nominee Keala Settle.
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“As soon as we heard ‘A Christmas Story,’ Jews across the nation just started screaming out loud,” said co-composer/lyricist Benj Pasek (fourth from left), seen here alongside fellow nominees Joseph Robinette (Book), co-composer/lyricist Justin Paul, producer Peter Billingsley, and producer Gerald Goehring.
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Motown’s Leading Actress nominee Valisia LeKae is “humbled by it all and can’t believe people are saying ‘we recognize you.’”
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Motown Featured Actor nominee Charl Brown admitted to “tossing and turning all night,” followed by running around his apartment with joy when he heard his name called.
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Cicely Tyson is nominated for her heartfelt portrayal of Mrs. Carrie Watts in Horton Foote’s
The Trip to Bountiful.
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Nathan Lane received a Best Actor in a Play nomination for his turn as Chauncey Miles, a gay burlesque performer in
The Nance.
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Orphans Leading Actor nominee Tom Sturridge called his nomination an “inexplicable mingling of disbelief and delight.”
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“I’m so proud to be part of the Broadway community,” said
The Big Knife’s Featured Actor nominee, Richard Kind. “When you get a Tony nomination, they’re saying you’re a part of the community.”
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Chaplin’s Leading Actor nominee, Rob McClure, told us that his “phone lit up and it was a text from my mom that said, ‘Holy sh*t!’”
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The Assembled Parties marks Judith Light’s third consecutive Featured Actress in a Play nomination. She won last year for
Other Desert Cities, and was nominated in 2011 for
Lombardi.
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“I’m going to listen to her about everything now,” said
The Heiress Featured Actress nominee Judith Ivey about her daughter, who convinced her to take the role.
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David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, and Shalita Grant are among the happy family of nominees from
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Featured Actor nominee Billy Magnussen was asleep when he found about his nomination. “You know when your phone rings and you just keep yelling at your phone because you just want to sleep? That’s what I was doing. I didn’t know they were calling about that,” he told us.
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