My trip to the 2015 Tonys

Just realized I had another post not sent, so here it goes, my recap of the Tonys (one week late) Unlike previous years this one was much more exiting as I was actually there! so lots of pictures from the ceremony will follow. First, the winners, the some thoughts on the show, commentary, pictures and finally my favorite dresses 🙂

Winners:

Best Play: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” Author: Simon Stephens
Best Musical: Fun Home”
Best Revival of a Play: “Skylight”
Best Revival of a Musical: “The King and I”
Best Book of a Musical: Lisa Kron, “Fun Home”
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: “Fun Home” Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics: Lisa Kron
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Alex Sharp, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play : Helen Mirren, “The Audience”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Michael Cerveris, “Fun Home”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical”: Kelli O’Hara, “The King and I”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Richard McCabe, “The Audience”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Annaleigh Ashford, “You Can’t Take It With You”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Christian Borle, “Something Rotten!”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Ruthie Ann Miles, “The King and I”
Best Scenic Design of a Play: Bunny Christie and Finn Ross, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Bob Crowley and 59 Productions, “An American in Paris”
Best Costume Design of a Play: Christopher Oram, “Wolf Hall Parts One & Two”
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Catherine Zuber, “The King and I”
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Paule Constable, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Natasha Katz, “An American in Paris”
Best Direction of a Play: Marianne Elliott, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
Best Direction of a Musical: Sam Gold, “Fun Home”
Best Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon, “An American in Paris”
Best Orchestrations: Christopher Austin, Don Sebesky, Bill Elliott, “An American in Paris”
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre- Tommy Tune
Special Tony Award – John Cameron Mitchell
Regional Theatre Tony Award- Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, Ohio
Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award – Stephen Schwartz

My Favorite Musical Moments

Fun Home
Something Rotten
It Shoulda Been You
The King and I

My Favorite non musical Moments:

Kelli O’hara dancing off as she won the Tony
Ruthie Ann Miles pulling off her iphone to read her speech
Alex Sharp speech
The female empowerment feeling of the whole show – especially the Fun Home wins for Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron
The new award for best teacher (even if it was a CMU infomercial – especially in the preshow). I think its a wonderful thing to honor influential teachers. Side note: kind of crazy that there is so much confluence in education from the greats, Kristin Chenoweth and Kelli Ohara went to the same College, sooo many went to CMU and Darren Criss and Adam Jacobs went to the same high school!
Alan Cummings getting stuck with his King and I skirt in the middle of the stage

Other Thoughts:

I do not get The Visit
. Even if it is Chita Rivera – and alas, it closed so i cant really go see it to understand why it was nominated.
I think I might need to revisit American In Paris. I was a bit harsh in the review and i liked the performances more in the show, so maybe i should give it another shot not in previews?
I loved the fact that I was in the audience and got to see all the awards! so many of the best speeches and moments were not televised!
I missed a great musical opening number. The shtick they did just did not cut it compared to the wonderful opening numbers of NPH and Hugh Jackman

Media Commentary:

Hollywood Reporter Winners for the night
The 69th Annual Tony Awards: TV Review
Tony Awards 2015’s 12 Best and Worst Moments
2015 Tony Awards: The Best, Worst and Weirdest Moments
Surprises and Disappointments at Last Night’s Tony Awards
Why are the Tony Awards so afraid of the Tony Awards?
Vanity Fair and The Cut fashion coverage
SOUND OFF Special Edition: 2015 Tony Awards In Review
Tony Awards: ‘Fun Home’ Wins Best Musical and ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ Best Play
Tony Awards 2015: Best moments you missed from reading acceptance speeches off iPhones to Bradley Cooper gay jokes
The Best and Worst of the 2015 Tony Awards
Watch all the performances from the 2015 Tony Awards