She and others at the ceremony welcomed the industry's efforts to diversify the stories and casts on stage. Host Ariana DeBose opened it with a medley honouring shows from Cabaret to Wicked, The Wiz and Hamilton. Sunday's Tonys were the 75th edition and the ceremony honoured some of Broadway's biggest hits over the decades. This show gives power to them," Kalukango said. "I give thanks to all of the nameless ancestors who have suffered. Joaquina Kalukango took best actress in a musical for playing a 19th-century tavern owner in race relations story Paradise Square. Simon Russell Beale, the star of Lehman Trilogy, won the Tony for lead actor in a play. In the audience were 150 COVID-19 safety managers who had kept shows running. Patti LuPone won her third Tony award, for a supporting role in Company. She thanked "all of the COVID safety people" for making Broadway's return possible. Michael Jackson's children, Prince and Paris, introduced a rendition of Smooth Criminal by the "MJ" cast. Hugh Jackman sang 76 Trombones from The Music Man while Mare Winningham performed Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone, featured in the musical Girl From The North Country. The three-hour telecast of the awards event featured a slew of performances from nominated shows, to help entice audiences back to theatres. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda introduced a tribute to Sondheim, saluting his "immortal" songs and lyrics and his mentorship of younger artistes, including Miranda himself.
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Producer Chris Harper thanked Sondheim "for letting us re-imagine the classic musical".
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The new Company reverses the gender roles of the original, which centred on a single man considering his life choices as he turned 35. "Mom, I made it," he said, and thanked her for bringing him up to be a "strong black man".įor best revival of a musical, voters honoured Company, the final project backed by composer and theatre legend Stephen Sondheim, who died in November. "I just wanted to create a little bit of a life raft for myself as a black gay man," he said.īest actor winner Frost addressed his mother in the audience as he accepted his award for MJ.
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Strange Loop writer Michael R Jackson based the musical on his own internal doubts as well as external obstacles as he tried to pen a Broadway show. "In New York, even after everything, even after today, anything is possible," Power said, adding that the play had been written as "a hymn to the city of New York". Being on stage to accept the Tony felt like a "miracle", said Ben Power, the writer of Lehman Trilogy, after COVID-19 halted preview shows of the play for 577 days.