Audra McDonald Makes Broadway History Amid Tears and Cheers
With the Broadway box-office enjoying a banner season – with $1.27 billion in ticket sales, despite the harshest winter in years – Sunday night brought the theater's biggest night: the 68th annual Tony Awards.
And it was an especially good night for Broadway record setter Audra McDonald, winner of best dramatic actress for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill – her sixth Tony.
McDonald's historic win – at age 43 – topped Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris's previous records of five acting Tonys each, and the Radio City Music Hall audience acknowledged the significance of the achievement with a prolonged standing ovation.
As the cheers continued, McDonald cried openly, and acknowledged Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday, whom she plays in the drama.
She also told her children and husband they are most important thing in life to her, and thanked her late parents, up in heaven, for ignoring their doctor's advice and not medicating their overactive daughter.
Instead, she said, they directed her toward the theater.
And what a great job they did! Congrats Audra!!!
By the way as for The Tony’s the winners are ...
WINNERS ARE BOLDED IN RED, BELOW
Best Musical
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
WINNER: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Ramin Karimloo, Les Miserables
Andy Karl, Rocky
Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
WINNER: Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Mary Bridget Davies, A Night with Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster, Violet
Idina Menzel, If/Then
Kelly O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County
WINNER: Jesse Mueller, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Best Play
Act One
Casa Valentina
Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar
WINNER: All the Way
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones, The Glass Menagerie
Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn
WINNER: Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Samuel Barnett, Twelfth Night
Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance, Richard III
Tony Shalhoub, Act One
WINNER: Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Best Revival of a Musical
Les Miserables
Violet
WINNER: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Revival of a Play
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
Twelfth Night
WINNER: A Raisin in the Sun
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Reed Birney, Casa Valentina
Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night
Stephen Fry, Twelfth Night
Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie
WINNER: Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Linda Emond, Cabaret
Anika Larson, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox, After Midnight
Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
WINNER: Lena Hall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Book of a Musical
Chad Beguelin, Aladdin
Douglas McGrath, Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
Woody Allen, Bullets Over Broadway
WINNER: Robert L. Friedman, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Best Direction of a Musical
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Leigh Silverman, Violet
WINNER: Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Best Direction of a Play
Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan
John Tiffany, The Glass Menagerie
WINNER: Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater
Aladdin (Music: Alan Menkin; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Begeulin)
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Music: Steven Lutvak; Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak)
If/Then (Music: Tom Kitt; Lyrics: Brian Yorkey)
WINNER: The Bridges of Madison County (Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Cabaret
Nick Codero, Bullets Over Broadway
Joshua Henry, Violet
Jarrod Specter, Bullets Over Broadway
WINNER: James M. Iglehart, Aladdin
Best Choreography
Steven Hoggett and Kelly Devine, Rocky
Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway
WINNER: Warren Carlyle, After Midnight
Best Costume Design of a Musical
William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway
Arianne Philips, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isabel Toledo, After Midnight
WINNER: Linda Cho, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Best Costume Design of a Play
Jane Greenwood, Act One
Michael Krass, Machinal
Rita Ryack, Casa Valentina
WINNER: Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Sarah Green, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie
Anika Noni Rose, A Raisin in the Sun
Mare Winningham, Casa Valentina
WINNER: Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Christopher Akerlind, Rocky
Howell Binkley, After Midnight
Donald Holder, The Bridges of Madison County
WINNER: Kevin Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paule Constable, The Cripple of Inishmaan
Jane Cox, Machinal
Japhy Wideman, Of Mice and Men
WINNER: Natasha Katz, The Glass Menagerie
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Jane Greenwood
Regional Theatre Award
Signature Theatre
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Rosie O'Donnell
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Joseph P. Benincasa
Joan Marcus
Charlotte Wilcox
Congrats to All!
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