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| Tony Awards 2018 Live: Nathan Lane Wins Best Lead Actor in a Play | |
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| • Andrew Garfield and Laurie Metcalf won the first big awards of the night for their performances in “Angels in America” and “Three Tall Women.” See all the winners. | |
| • Bruce Springsteen, who is currently performing on Broadway, was honored with a special award and will sing. So will the casts of nine musicals now playing. | |
| • Among the shows expected to do especially well: “The Band’s Visit,” “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and the revival of “Angels in America.” See what our critics think. | |
| • The Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, are airing on CBS. Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban are the hosts. | |
| Andrew Garfield, who vaulted to fame as “Spider-Man,” won his first Tony Award as the annual ceremony got underway Sunday night. | |
| Mr. Garfield was honored as best leading actor in a play for his all-out performance in a revival of “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s sprawling two-part play about, as Mr. Garfield described it on the red carpet, “the agony and the ecstasy of living and dying.” Mr. Garfield plays Prior Walter, a gay man whose battle with AIDS brings him prophetic powers and an encounter with the celestial. | |
| He dedicated his award “to the countless L.G.B.T.Q. people who have fought and died for the right to live and love” and took a shot at the Supreme Court decision last week affirming a Colorado baker’s refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. | |
| “We are all sacred, and we all belong, so let’s just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked,” he said. | |
| He had been nominated for a Tony once before, in the 2012 revival of “Death of a Salesman.” And he was nominated for an Oscar last year for “Hacksaw Ridge.” | |
| His award bodes well for the “Angels” revival, which transferred to Broadway from the National Theater in London. The revival, which also stars Nathan Lane, has reinforced the play’s claim as the best American drama of the late 20th century. | |
| The play’s original production, which opened in two parts, in 1993 and 1994, won the Pulitzer Prize and two best-play Tony Awards; it was later adapted by Mike Nichols as a mini-series for HBO, and it is regularly studied and staged. | |
| Among the other early awards: the costume designer Catherine Zuber won her seventh Tony, for her sumptuous work on a revival of “My Fair Lady.” | |
| This was the year of the big brand on Broadway, when Harry Potter, Bruce Springsteen and SpongeBob SquarePants came to town. | This was the year of the big brand on Broadway, when Harry Potter, Bruce Springsteen and SpongeBob SquarePants came to town. |
| But watch for a small musical with little name recognition and no razzle dazzle to triumph over its much better known and better funded competitors. | But watch for a small musical with little name recognition and no razzle dazzle to triumph over its much better known and better funded competitors. |
| “The Band’s Visit,” an achingly delicate 90-minute show about an Egyptian police orchestra that for a single night is stranded in an Israeli desert town, is likely to beat out “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical” — the most nominated shows — for the coveted best new musical prize. (“Frozen” is the fourth nominee.) | “The Band’s Visit,” an achingly delicate 90-minute show about an Egyptian police orchestra that for a single night is stranded in an Israeli desert town, is likely to beat out “Mean Girls” and “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical” — the most nominated shows — for the coveted best new musical prize. (“Frozen” is the fourth nominee.) |
| Also noteworthy: “The Band’s Visit” would be the fifth best new musical in a row to come out of the nonprofit theater world. The show began its life Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company before transferring last fall. | Also noteworthy: “The Band’s Visit” would be the fifth best new musical in a row to come out of the nonprofit theater world. The show began its life Off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company before transferring last fall. |
| The show, adapted from a 2007 Israeli film, features songs by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses; it was directed by David Cromer, and the lead producer is Orin Wolf. | The show, adapted from a 2007 Israeli film, features songs by David Yazbek and a book by Itamar Moses; it was directed by David Cromer, and the lead producer is Orin Wolf. |
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| Comedians and talk-show hosts typically preside over awards shows, though last year the actor Kevin Spacey emceed, a few months before his career imploded amid accusations of sexual misconduct. | |
| So Tony administrators this year went in a different direction, asking two pop singers, Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, to host the show. Both are grown-up theater kids who recently made their Broadway debuts, he in 2016 in “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” and she in 2017 in “Waitress,” a musical for which she wrote the songs. | |
| The pair set an earnest, affectionate tone for the broadcast, opening with a charmingly self-deprecating song acknowledging that most nominees do not win, and poking fun of themselves as examples — both have been nominated for Tony and Grammy awards, and neither has won. “Neither one of us has ever won anything,” they sang. “So this is for the people who lose.” | |
| Harry Potter conquered publishing. He broke box-office records on film. And now he’s off to a strong start on Broadway. | Harry Potter conquered publishing. He broke box-office records on film. And now he’s off to a strong start on Broadway. |
| “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a magically theatrical two-part drama that is designed as a sequel to the seven books, is expected to win the Tony for best new play. | “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” a magically theatrical two-part drama that is designed as a sequel to the seven books, is expected to win the Tony for best new play. |
| The play is unlike any nonmusical event that preceded it, as a spectacle and as an investment. And the theater industry, despite some leeriness about creeping commercialism, has embraced it because of the talent brought to the story and the staging. | The play is unlike any nonmusical event that preceded it, as a spectacle and as an investment. And the theater industry, despite some leeriness about creeping commercialism, has embraced it because of the talent brought to the story and the staging. |
| Even before the broadcast began, “Cursed Child” won two Tonys, for costume designs by Katrina Lindsay and for scenic design by Christine Jones. | |
| “Cursed Child” was written by Jack Thorne, based on a story by J.K. Rowling, who wrote the novels; John Tiffany, who directed the play; and Mr. Thorne. The lead producers are Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Ms. Rowling. | “Cursed Child” was written by Jack Thorne, based on a story by J.K. Rowling, who wrote the novels; John Tiffany, who directed the play; and Mr. Thorne. The lead producers are Sonia Friedman, Colin Callender and Ms. Rowling. |
| The play began its life in London, won a boatload of Olivier Awards and is still running there, and the producers are already planning a third production in Melbourne, Australia. | The play began its life in London, won a boatload of Olivier Awards and is still running there, and the producers are already planning a third production in Melbourne, Australia. |
| The New York production cost a record-breaking (for a play) $35.5 million to capitalize and tens of millions more to clear out the Lyric Theater (which Cirque du Soleil had been using) and redo it (quite beautifully, by the way). | The New York production cost a record-breaking (for a play) $35.5 million to capitalize and tens of millions more to clear out the Lyric Theater (which Cirque du Soleil had been using) and redo it (quite beautifully, by the way). |
| Bruce Springsteen is getting a special Tony Award just for being Bruce Springsteen. | Bruce Springsteen is getting a special Tony Award just for being Bruce Springsteen. |
| Well, actually, it’s a little more complicated: He’s being recognized for his ecstatically reviewed and totally sold-out show, “Springsteen on Broadway,” during which he sings stripped-down versions of some of his best-known songs and tells stories from his memoir. The show opened in October and is scheduled to close in December. | Well, actually, it’s a little more complicated: He’s being recognized for his ecstatically reviewed and totally sold-out show, “Springsteen on Broadway,” during which he sings stripped-down versions of some of his best-known songs and tells stories from his memoir. The show opened in October and is scheduled to close in December. |
| John Leguizamo, the actor, writer and comedian, also received a special Tony “for his body of work and for his commitment to the theater, bringing diverse stories and audiences to Broadway for three decades.” This past season, Mr. Leguizamo appeared in “Latin History for Morons,” his fourth solo show on Broadway. | |
| “I just want to say: I’m an immigrant, and I’m not an animal,” Mr. Leguizamo said, alluding to a comment by President Trump about some unauthorized immigrants, and tearing up as he paid tribute to victims of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico last year. “My hope is that someday our stories won’t be the exception, but the rule.” | |
| Other prizes that were granted before the broadcast began: the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber — one of the most successful musical theater writers and producers in history — received a lifetime achievement award, as did Chita Rivera, a revered Broadway dancer and actor whose credits include originating the role of Anita in “West Side Story.” | |
| “By the way: there’s still a lot of salt left in this shaker,” Ms. Rivera, who is 85, said, reflecting on her intention to keep performing. | |
| Mr. Lloyd Webber, who is 70 years old, had already won seven Tony Awards, including for “Cats” and “The Phantom of the Opera”; Ms. Rivera had won as a performer in “The Rink” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” | |
| “All I wanted to be was Richard Rodgers,” Mr. Lloyd Webber said referring to the legendary Broadway composer. “I never dreamed that I, a Brit of all things, would one day be honored with the same award my idol won.” | |
| An especially poignant award this year: Melody Herzfeld, a drama teacher at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was given an award for excellence in theater education. Ms. Herzfeld hid 65 students during the mass shooting at her school on Feb. 14, and then later helped some of them use theater and song to express some of their feelings. | |
| “All the goodness and tragedy that has brought me to this point will never be erased,” she said. “I remember on Feb. 7, in a circle with my students, encouraging them to be good to each other. And I remember only a week later, on Feb. 14, a perfect day, where all these lessons in my life and in their short lives would be called into action.” | |
| And a New York Times photographer, Sara Krulwich, has become the first journalist recognized with a Tony Honor for Excellence in Theater, for her decades of photographing Broadway shows. Her award was given on Monday. |