Airing live from Sofitel New York on the Tony Awards official YouTube page, Tony winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations for the 77th annual Tony Awards this morning (Tuesday, April 30) at 9:00, with a selection of six categories also read live on CBS Mornings at 8:30.
The cut-off date for the 2023-2024 season’s Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, was Thursday, April 25, for a total of 36 Broadway productions that met all eligibility requirements, as determined by the Tony Awards Administration Committee: An Enemy of the People; Appropriate; Back to the Future; Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club; The Cottage; Days of Wine and Roses; Doubt; The Great Gatsby; Grey House; Gutenberg!; Harmony; The Heart of Rock and Roll; Hell’s Kitchen; Here Lies Love; How to Dance in Ohio; Illinoise; I Need That; Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Lempicka; Mary Jane; Merrily We Roll Along; Mother Play; The Notebook; Once Upon a One More Time; The Outsiders; Patriots; Prayer for the French Republic; Purlie Victorious; The Shark Is Broken; Spamalot; Stereophonic; Suffs; Uncle Vanya; Water for Elephants; The Who’s Tommy; and The Wiz.
Out of this year’s eligible shows, 28 received nominations. In the lead are Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic with thirteen each, followed by The Outsiders with twelve.
And the nominees for the 2024 Tony Awards are:
BEST PLAY: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, by Jocelyn Bioh; Mary Jane, by Amy Herzog; Mother Play, by Paula Vogel; Prayer for the French Republic, by Joshua Harmon; Stereophonic, by David Adjmi
BEST MUSICAL: Hell’s Kitchen; Illinoise; The Outsiders; Suffs; Water for Elephants
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL: Hell’s Kitchen, Kristoffer Diaz; The Notebook, Bekah Brunstetter; The Outsiders, Adam Rapp and Justin Levine; Suffs, Shaina Taub; Water for Elephants, Rick Elice
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE: Days of Wine and Roses, music and lyrics Adam Guettel; Here Lies Love, lyrics David Byrne, music David Byrne and Fatboy Slim; The Outsiders, music and lyrics Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine; Stereophonic, music and lyrics Will Butler; Suffs, music and lyrics Shaina Taub
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY: An Enemy of the People, new version by Amy Herzog; Appropriate, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club; Gutenberg! The Musical!; Merrily We Roll Along; The Who’s Tommy
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY: William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya; Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch; Liev Schreiber, Doubt: A Parable; Jeremy Strong, An Enemy of the People; Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY: Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic; Jessica Lange, Mother Play; Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane; Sarah Paulson, Appropriate; Amy Ryan, Doubt: A Parable
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL: Brody Grant, The Outsiders; Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Along; Dorian Harewood, The Notebook; Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses; Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL: Eden Espinosa, Lempicka; Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen; Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses; Maryann Plunkett, The Notebook; Gayle Rankin, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY: Will Brill, Stereophonic; Eli Gelb, Stereophonic; Jim Parsons, Mother Play; Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic; Corey Stoll, Appropriate
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY: Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt: A Parable; Juliana Canfield, Stereophonic; Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mother Play; Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic; Kara Young, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL: Roger Bart, Back to the Future: The Musical; Joshua Boone, The Outsiders; Brandon Victor Dixon, Hell’s Kitchen; Sky Lakota-Lynch, The Outsiders; Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Along; Steven Skybell, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL: Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen; Amber Iman, Lempicka; Nikki M. James, Suffs; Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot; Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen; Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Along; Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY: dots, An Enemy of the People; dots, Appropriate; Derek McLane, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch; David Zinn, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; David Zinn, Stereophonic
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini, Hell’s Kitchen; AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian, The Outsiders; Takeshi Kata, Water for Elephants; David Korins, Here Lies Love; Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini, Lempicka; Tim Hatley and Finn Ross, Back to the Future: The Musical; Tom Scutt, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY: Dede Ayite, Appropriate; Dede Ayite, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Enver Chakartash, Stereophonic; Emilio Sosa, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch; David Zinn, An Enemy of the People
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: Dede Ayite, Hell’s Kitchen; Linda Cho, The Great Gatsby; David Israel Reynoso, Water for Elephants; Tom Scutt, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club; Paul Tazewell, Suffs
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY: Isabella Byrd, An Enemy of the People; Amith Chandrashaker, Prayer for the French Republic; Jiyoun Chang, Stereophonic; Jane Cox, Appropriate; Natasha Katz, Grey House
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: Brandon Stirling Baker, Illinoise; Bradley King and David Bengali, Water for Elephants; Isabella Byrd, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club; Natasha Katz, Hell’s Kitchen; Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim, The Outsiders
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY: Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding; Leah Gelpe, Mary Jane; Tom Gibbons, Grey House; Bray Poor and Will Pickens, Appropriate; Ryan Rumery, Stereophonic
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL: Nick Lidster for Autograph, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club; Kai Harada, Merrily We Roll Along; Gareth Owen, Hell’s Kitchen; M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer, Here Lies Love; Cody Spencer, The Outsiders
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY: Daniel Aukin, Stereophonic; Anne Kauffman, Mary Jane; Kenny Leon, Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch; Lila Neugebauer, Appropriate; Whitney White, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL: Maria Friedman, Merrily We Roll Along; Michael Greif, Hell’s Kitchen; Leigh Silverman, Suffs; Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants; Danya Taymor, The Outsiders
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Camille A. Brown, Hell’s Kitchen; Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll, Water for Elephants; Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman, The Outsiders; Annie-B Parson, Here Lies Love; Justin Peck, Illinoise
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS: Timo Andres, Illinoise; Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone, Hell’s Kitchen; Will Butler and Justin Craig, Stereophonic; Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley, and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance), The Outsiders; Jonathan Tunick, Merrily We Roll Along.
Congratulations to all the nominees for this prestigious honor.
The 77th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sunday, June 16, from 8-11 pm, on the CBS television network, and stream on Paramount+ throughout the US. (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the special airs).
