Having been freed of handling the technical awards, the main telecast had a less frantic, more airy feel. After the cast of “Six” performed, DeBose noted that one was a fill-in at the last minute. DeBose said Broadway was more representative.ĭeBose celebrated the Black voices and onstage talent - as well as noting that two Broadway theaters were being renamed for Black icons James Earl Jones and Lena Horne - saying that The Great White Way was now a nickname “as opposed to a how-to guide.”ĭeBose also hailed the heroic efforts of understudies, swings and standbys to keep shows going throughout pandemic spikes, noting that she and many other Tony nominees had once been unheralded understudies and swings. The season was marked by the embrace of seven Black playwrights, from contemporary writers like Dominique Morisseau, Keenan Scott II and Antoinette Nwandu, to underappreciated historical playwrights like Alice Childress and Ntozake Shange.
“Mom, Dad, thank you for letting me move to New York when I was 17,” said Ferguson, who also thanked his understudy and his husband. “Take Me Out” won for best play revival, and “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson won the Tony for best featured actor in a play for his work in it. On Sunday, O’Connell urged the crowd to ignore safe options and “make the weird art.” O’Connell (who starred in the play in Chicago in 2019) never speaks, instead lip-syncing to an edited recording of the survivor. It was crowned best new play and Sam Mendes won for best direction of a play, praising the season for its “rampant creativity.” One of its three stars, Simon Russell Beale, won for best actor in a play and thanked the audience for coming to see a trio of British actors tell a New York story.ĭeirdre O’Connell won for best actress in a play for her work in “Dana H.,” about a real woman kidnapped by a former convict and white supremacist. “The Lehman Trilogy,” spanning 150 years and running three and a half hours, follows the fortunes of a single family into the financial crash of 2008.
Her co-star Matt Doyle won for best featured actor in a musical.
Patti LuPone won best featured actress in a musical for her work in the revival, thanking COVID-19 safety officials in her acceptance speech. Marianne Elliott made Tony history by becoming the only woman to have won three Tonys for directing, the latest for “Company.” She thanked Sondheim for letting her put a woman “front and center.” She dedicated her award to everyone fighting to keep theaters open. This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples were swapped. “Company” is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. Earlier in the night, the singer (seen in the role during the show’s pre-Broadway run in Chicago last fall) blew the house down with a stunning performance of the musical’s “Let It Burn.”Ī gender-swapped revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” rode the fondness Broadway has for the late iconic composer by earning five statuettes, including best musical revival. Joaquina Kalukango won the Tony for best leading actress in a musical for her work in “Paradise Square,” a show about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War.
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