Nominations announced for the 2020 Tony Awards

Today at noon on YouTube, nominations for this year’s 74^th annual Tony Awards were announced to honor outstanding achievements in the 2019-20 Broadway season, cut short by the precautionary closure of all theaters on March 12, as necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the number of shows eligible for 2020 Tony consideration was limited to the eighteen that had opened and could accommodate nominators and voters to adjudicate prior to the shutdown (with the official cut-off date set at February 19, 2020), thereby postponing eligibility for all productions scheduled to open in the Spring, and a few that were already playing (West Side Story and Girl from the North Country both opened before March 12, and SIX was set to open that night).

Presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the nominations in 25 categories were announced virtually by Tony-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin). In the lead with fifteen nominations is the musical Jagged Little Pill, based on Alanis Morissette’s eponymous album of 1995. Absent from the usual categories was Best Revival of a Musical, with no eligible productions in this curtailed season.

And here is the full list of nominees:

Best Play: Grand Horizons by Beth Wohl; The Inheritance by Matthew López; Sea Wall/A Life by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne; Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris; The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp

Best Musical: Jagged Little Pill; Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Best Revival of a Play: Betrayal by Harold Pinter; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally; A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller

Best Direction of a Play: David Cromer, The Sound Inside; Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance; Kenny Leon, A Soldier’s Play; Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal; Robert O’Hara, Slave Play

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play: Ian Barford, Linda Vista; Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance; Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life; Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal; Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life; Blair Underwood, A Soldier’s Play

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play: Joaquina Kalukango, Slave Play; Laura Linney, My Name is Lucy Barton; Audra McDonald, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Ato Blankson-Wood, Slave Play; James Cusati-Moyer, Slave Play; David Alan Grier, A Soldier’s Play; John Benjamin Hickey, The Inheritance; Paul Hilton, The Inheritance

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Jane Alexander, Grand Horizons; Chalia La Tour, Slave Play; Annie McNamara, Slave Play; Lois Smith, The Inheritance; Cora Vander Broek, Linda Vista

Best Scenic Design of a Play: Bob Crowley, The Inheritance; Soutra Gilmour, Betrayal; Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol; Derek McLane, A Soldier’s Play; Clint Ramos, Slave Play

Best Costume Design of a Play: Dede Ayite, Slave Play; Dede Ayite, A Soldier’s Play; Bob Crowley, The Inheritance; Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol; Clint Ramos, The Rose Tattoo

Best Sound Design of a Play: Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid, The Inheritance; Simon Baker, A Christmas Carol; Lindsay Jones, Slave Play; Daniel Kluger,  Sea Wall/A Life; Daniel Kluger, The Sound Inside

Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jiyoun Chang, Slave Play; Jon Clark, The Inheritance; Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside; Allen Lee Hughes, A Soldier’s Play; Hugh Vanstone, A Christmas Carol

Best Director of a Musical: Phyllida Lloyd, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical; Diane Paulus, Jagged Little Pill; Alex Timbers, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical: Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Pill; Adrienne Warren, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Derek Klena, Jagged Little Pill; Sean Allan Krill, Jagged Little Pill; Sahr Ngaujah, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Daniel J. Watts, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Pill; Celia Rose Gooding, Jagged Little Pill; Robyn Hurder, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Pill; Myra Lucretia Taylor, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical

Best Book of a Musical: Jagged Little Pill by Diablo Cody; Moulin Rouge! The Musical by John Logan; Tina – The Tina Turner Musical by Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar, and Kees Prins

Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Riccardo Hernández and Lucy Mackinnon, Jagged Little Pill; Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Best Costume Design of a Musical: Emily Rebholz, Jagged Little Pill; Mark Thompson, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Best Sound Design of a Musical: Jonathan Deans, Jagged Little Pill; Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Nevin Steinberg, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Bruno Poet, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical; Justin Townsend, Jagged Little Pill; Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Best Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jagged Little Pill; Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Anthony Van Laast, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical

Best Original Score: A Christmas Carol by Christopher Nightingale; The Inheritance by Paul Englishby; The Rose Tattoo by Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb; Slave Play by Lindsay Jones; The Sound Inside by Daniel Kluger

Best Orchestration: Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Pill; Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen, Matt Stine, and Justin Levine, Moulin Rouge! The Musical; Ethan Popp, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical.

Congratulations to all of the nominees. A date for the awards presentation ceremony has not yet been announced. You can follow the 74^th Annual Tony Awards on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.