2024 Tony Awards Nominations: See the Full Checklist

The countdown to the 2024 Tony Awards formally began on Tuesday, April 30, as nominations have been introduced for the 77th annual honors, which acknowledges excellence in reside Broadway theater.

Earlier Tony winners Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry learn a listing of choose nominees on CBS Mornings.

Various stars nabbed nominations, together with Sarah Paulson, Jeremy Robust, Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin, Jessica Lange, Amy Ryan, Liev Schreiber, and Rachel McAdams — the latter which made her Broadway debut this season.

Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, The Outsiders, Suffs and Water for Elephants all earned the coveted finest musical nomination. For finest play, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Mary Jane, Mom Play, Prayer for the French Republic and Stereophonic have been all nominated.

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The 2024 Tony Awards will happen on Sunday, June 16 at Lincoln Middle’s David H. Koch Theater in New York Metropolis. For a 3rd time in a row, Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will host.

Viewers can watch the present on CBS and Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. Choose awards will even be handed out on a preshow that can stream on Pluto TV.

A complete of 36 Tony-eligible titles opened this season, 15 of which have been musicals — a historic quantity as usually, there are solely half that.

Preventing it out to be one of many 5 nominees for finest musical class was the blockbuster pleasure journey Again to the Future; the elegant Days of Wine and Roses, starring Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James; Concord, Barry Manilow’s authentic musical 30-years within the making; the Alicia Keys jukebox musical Hell’s Kitchen; Right here Lies Love, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s exploration of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos’ rise and fall within the Philippines; and the variation of the 2015 documentary Learn how to Dance in Ohio, about a bunch of youngsters with autism getting ready for a spring formal.

There was additionally Illinoise, impressed by Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 idea album; Lempicka, a musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka; the Britney Spears fairytale As soon as Upon a One Extra Time; the Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai-produced musical concerning the American girls’s suffrage motion Suffs; The Coronary heart of Rock and Roll, with a rating of Huey Lewis and the Information hits; and musical variations of 4 beloved novels: The Nice Gatsby, The Pocket book, The Outsiders and Water for Elephants.

Over within the non-musical class, the productions eligible for the perfect new play prize have been Gray Home by Levi Holloway; I Want That by Theresa Rebeck; Jaja’s African Hair Braiding by Jocelyn Bioh; Simply For Us by Alex Edelman; Mary Jane by Amy Herzog; Mom Play by Paula Vogel; Patriots by Peter Morgan; Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon; Stereophonic by David Adjmi; The Cottage by Sandy Rustin; and The Shark is Damaged by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon.

So far as revivals are involved, the 2023-2024 season included recent productions of a crop of beloved musicals and performs.

For musicals, Cabaret, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Merrily We Roll Alongside, Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, and The Wiz was eligible for a nomination. And for performs, the nominees have been chosen from Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the Folks, Branden Jacobs Jenkins’ Applicable, John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious and Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Listed below are the complete listing of nominees:

Greatest Musical
Hell’s Kitchen
Illinoise
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants

Greatest Play
Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Mary Jane
Mom Play
Prayer for the French Republic
Stereophonic

Greatest Efficiency by a Main Actor in a Musical
Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Alongside
Dorian Harewood, The Pocket book
Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret