Tony Award Winners Take the Stage

Mary Louise Wilson, who won a 2007 Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her work in Grey Gardens, is currently appearing Off-Broadway at The Duke on 42nd Street in Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles. The LCT3 production has announced plans to move to Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in the spring of 2012.

Roger Rees recently took over the lead role of Gomez Addams in Broadway’s The Addams Family, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. He won a 1982 Tony Award for Best Actor in Play for his work in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Tonya Pinkins, who won a 1992 Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Musical
for Jelly’s Last Jam, is appearing in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park repertory productions of All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure at the Delacorte Theater.

Tony Award winners Joel Grey and Sutton Foster co-star in Broadway’s Anything Goes at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Foster received her second Tony for her work in this musical; she previously won the 2002 Tony Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Grey, who also co-directed the Tony-winning revival of The Normal Heart this season, won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for originating the role of the Emcee in Cabaret.

Beth Leavel, who won a 2006 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical by playing the title role in The Drowsy Chaperone, is currently starring at the Broadhurst Theatre in Baby It’s You, portraying Scepter Records founder Florence Greenberg.

Gregory Jbara won a 2009 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Billy Elliot the Musical, and continues to play the role of Dad in the show’s Broadway production at the Imperial Theatre.

Carole Shelley, who won a 1979 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play for The Elephant Man was Tony-nominated for her current Broadway role of Grandma in Billy Elliot the Musical, performing at the Imperial Theatre.

Nikki M. James delivered one of the most heartfelt speeches at this year’s Tony Awards, where she won for her performance as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon, at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.

Norbert Leo Butz won his second Tony Award this year for his work in Catch Me If You Can, at the Neil Simon Theatre. He previously won in 2005 for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

John Larroquette‘s Broadway debut as J.B. Biggley in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, netted him a 2011 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.

Mark Rylance is extraordinary in Jerusalem, at the Music Box Theater, which deservedly earned him a second Tony Award. The actor previously won in 2009 for his hilarious work in Boeing-Boeing.

Tyne Daly returns to Broadway in Master Class, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The actress won a 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical for Gypsy.

John Cullum portrays Escalus in Measure for Measure and the King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well, presented in repertory at the Delacorte Theater as this season’s Shakespeare in the Park productions. The veteran actor is a two-time Tony Award winner, for Shenandoah in 1975 and On the Twentieth Century in 1978.

Ellen Barkin and John Benjamin Hickey both won 2011 Tony Awards for their work in The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s seminal AIDS Crisis drama which concludes its limited run at the John Golden Theatre on July 10.

Victoria Clark, who won a 2005 Tony Award for her work in The Light in the Piazza, is currently portraying the Mother Superior in Sister Act, which performs at the Broadway Theatre.