Tony Awards Winners – The Best of Broadway
Ghee and Newell are the first openly nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards.
“Kimberly Akimbo” won best new musical, “Leopoldstadt” was named best new play.
The Tony Awards, which honor the best of Broadway, were presented on Sunday in New York. Oscar-winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose took center stage as the ceremony’s host. She, who also hosted last year’s Tony Awards, acknowledged that the event was taking place without any scripts due to the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
Among the night’s top winners were “Kimberly Akimbo” for best new musical, “Leopoldstadt” for best new play, “Parade” for best revival of a Musical, and “Topdog/Underdog” for best revival of a Play. Other winners include Jodie Comer (“Prima Facie”) and Sean Hayes (“Good Night, Oscar”) for best leading actor in a play. In the Musical leading category, the winners were Victoria Clark, with “Kimberly Akimbo” and J. Harrison Ghee, with “Some Like It Hot.”
Notably, J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell became the first openly nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards. “Thank you for seeing me, Broadway. I should not be up here as a queer, nonbinary, fat, black little baby from Massachusetts,” Newell said in the acceptance speech for best featured actor in a musical (“Shucked”). “And to anyone that thinks that they can’t do it, I’m going to look you dead in your face that you can do anything you put your mind to.”
Here is the complete list of winners.
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Ghee and Newell are the first openly nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards.
“Kimberly Akimbo” won best new musical, “Leopoldstadt” was named best new play.
The Tony Awards, which honor the best of Broadway, were presented on Sunday in New York. Oscar-winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose took center stage as the ceremony’s host. She, who also hosted last year’s Tony Awards, acknowledged that the event was taking place without any scripts due to the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
Among the night’s top winners were “Kimberly Akimbo” for best new musical, “Leopoldstadt” for best new play, “Parade” for best revival of a Musical, and “Topdog/Underdog” for best revival of a Play. Other winners include Jodie Comer (“Prima Facie”) and Sean Hayes (“Good Night, Oscar”) for best leading actor in a play. In the Musical leading category, the winners were Victoria Clark, with “Kimberly Akimbo” and J. Harrison Ghee, with “Some Like It Hot.”
Notably, J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell became the first openly nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards. “Thank you for seeing me, Broadway. I should not be up here as a queer, nonbinary, fat, black little baby from Massachusetts,” Newell said in the acceptance speech for best featured actor in a musical (“Shucked”). “And to anyone that thinks that they can’t do it, I’m going to look you dead in your face that you can do anything you put your mind to.”
Here is the complete list of winners.
