KevinHauger is a writer and actor joyfully afflicted with cinephilia. Kevin has spent thousands of hours discussing movies, theatre, music, games, anime, and the role of storytelling and entertainment in everyday life. Kevin has a habit of giving everything from Oscar nominees to holiday fillers equal consideration, and finding meaning in the seemingly mundane. Kevin was drawn to The Hollywood Insidermission to support substantive, meaningful journalism, as he believes discussion of art can affect us as profoundly as the art itself. He writes reviews and features that entertain and provoke, and that hopefully provide more questions than answers.
May 10, 2022
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Photo: 2022 Tony Nominees
The Awards Picture
The Tony Nominees were announced the morning of May 9th by Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry. A Strange Loop garnered the most nominations, eleven, and was closely followed by Paradise Square and MJ, each of which earned ten. Though A Strange Loop seems set up to take home the most awards, the nominations are pretty spread out this year, and the competition is far from one-sided. The Company revival and SIX: The Musical have both been sensations, and the Bob Dylan jukebox musical Girl From the North Country is gorgeous, if humbler than some of the other nominated musicals. As for plays, The Lehman Trilogy earned the most nominations with eight, but was followed closely by both revivals (for colored girls…, The Skin of Our Teeth) and other new plays (Clyde’s, Hangmen).
If you’re reading the Tony nominees on Hollywood Insider, you probably love movies and television as much as we do. Many Hollywood creatives work on Broadway as well, and this year has been no exception.
Billy Crystal starred in an adaptation of the first movie he directed, ‘Mr. Saturday Night,’ and earned a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Hugh Jackman earned a nomination in that same category for The Music Man, continuing his musical theater career.
Other well-known stars didn’t fare as well. Daniel Craig, who starred opposite Ruth Negga in Macbeth, did not earn a nomination, nor did Matthew Broderick or Sarah Jessica Parker for their starring roles in Plaza Suite.Debra Messing starred in Birthday Candles, a new play that had a decent run, but didn’t garner any Tony nominations.
Conor McPherson (Girl From the North Country) | | Lynn Nottage (MJ) | Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Mr. Saturday Night) | Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas, and Larry Kirwan (Paradise Square) | Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop)
Flying Over Sunset (music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie) | Mr. Saturday Night (music by Jason Robert Brown, lyrics by Amanda Green) | Paradise Square (music by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare) | SIX: The Musical (music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss) | A Strange Loop (music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson)
Jiyoun Chang (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
Jon Clark (The Lehman Trilogy)
Jane Cox (Macbeth)
Yi Zhao (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Neil Austin (Company)
Tim Deiing (SIX: The Musical)
Donald Holder (Paradise Square)
Natasha Katz (MJ)
Bradley King (Flying Over Sunset)
Jen Schriever (A Strange Loop)
Best Sound Design of a Play
Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey (The Lehman Trilogy)
Justin Ellington (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
Mikhail Fiksel (Dana H.)
Palmer Hefferan (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Mikaal Sulaiman (Macbeth)
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Simon Baker (Girl From the North Country)
Ian Dickinson for Autograph (Company)
Paul Gatehouse (SIX: The Musical)
Drew Levy (A Strange Loop)
Gareth Owen (MJ)
Best Choreography
Camille A. Brown (for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf)
Warren Carlyle (The Music Man)
Carrie-Anne Ingrouille (SIX: The Musical)
Bill T. Jones (Paradise Square)
Christopher Wheeldon (MJ)
Best Orchestrations
David Cullen (Company)
Tom Curran (SIX: The Musical)
Simon Hale (Girl From the North Country)
Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg (MJ)
Charlie Rosen (A Strange Loop)
When Will the Tony Awards Be?
The ceremony will be held live at Radio City Music Hall for the first time since the COVID shutdowns, and for the first time ever will be broadcasted nationally. It will air on CBS and Paramount+, on June 12, 2022, at 8:00 pm EDT.
Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose (Anita in Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’) will host, and, as always, nominees will have performance spots to show off snippets of their shows, so get ready for a theatrical night.
By Kevin Hauger
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KevinHauger is a writer and actor joyfully afflicted with cinephilia. Kevin has spent thousands of hours discussing movies, theatre, music, games, anime, and the role of storytelling and entertainment in everyday life. Kevin has a habit of giving everything from Oscar nominees to holiday fillers equal consideration, and finding meaning in the seemingly mundane. Kevin was drawn to The Hollywood Insidermission to support substantive, meaningful journalism, as he believes discussion of art can affect us as profoundly as the art itself. He writes reviews and features that entertain and provoke, and that hopefully provide more questions than answers.
KevinHauger is a writer and actor joyfully afflicted with cinephilia. Kevin has spent thousands of hours discussing movies, theatre, music, games, anime, and the role of storytelling and entertainment in everyday life. Kevin has a habit of giving everything from Oscar nominees to holiday fillers equal consideration, and finding meaning in the seemingly mundane. Kevin was drawn to The Hollywood Insidermission to support substantive, meaningful journalism, as he believes discussion of art can affect us as profoundly as the art itself. He writes reviews and features that entertain and provoke, and that hopefully provide more questions than answers.
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