If not for the awards, we sincerely hope you caught the 2013 Tony Awards a little earlier today.
It was a good night which kicked off with the show’s opening number, led by host Neil Patrick Harris (with an appearance by Mike Tyson!), that spoofed overly massive Broadway productions à la Les Misérables. Tell us this didn’t deserve more than just a standing ovation:
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Following which, the star-studded event’s stage was graced by 80s pop star Cyndi Lauper, whose musical “Kinky Boots” (which scored a whopping 13 nominations), took home seven awards including including “Best Original Score”, “Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role”, and “Best Musical”.
Here’s the full list of winners from the 2013 Tony Awards:
- Best Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
- Best Musical: Kinky Boots
- Best Book of a Musical: Matilda the Musical
- Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) written for the Theatre: Kinky Boots
- Best Revival of a Play: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best Revival of a Musical: Pippin
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Tracy Letts (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Cicely Tyson (The Trip to Bountiful)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Billy Porter (Kinky Boots)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Patina Miller (Pippin)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Courtney B. Vance (Lucky Guy)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Judith Light (The Assembled Parties)
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Gabriel Ebert (Matilda the Musical)
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Andrea Martin (Pippin)
- Best Direction of a Musical: Diane Paulus (Pippin)
- Best Choreography: Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots)
- Best Orchestrations: Stephen Oremus (Kinky Boots)
- Best Scenic Design of a Play: John Lee Beatty (The Nance)
- Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rob Howell (Matilda the Musical)
- Best Costume Design of a Play: Ann Roth (The Nance)
- Best Costume Design of a Musical: William Ivey Long (Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella)
- Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer (Lucky Guy)
- Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Kenneth Posner (Kinky Boots)
- Best Sound Design of a Play: Leon Rothenberg (The Nance)
- Best Sound Design of a Musical: John Shivers (Kinky Boots)
- Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Bernard Gersten, Paul Libin, Ming Cho Lee
- Regional Theatre Award: Huntington Theatre Company
- Isabelle Stevenson Award: Larry Kramer
- Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: Career Transition for Dancers, William Craver, Peter Lawrence, The Lost Colony; the four actresses who created the title role of Matilda the Musical on Broadway: Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro
We leave you now with a video of Neil Patrick Harris’ closing number for the 2013 Tony Awards:
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