The stage adaptation of onetime Apple TV series Schmigadoon! and Bess Whol’s Pulitzer-winning play Liberation took the marquee Best Musical and Best Film prizes Sunday during the 79th annual Tony Awards at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
The revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman was the top winner of the night, scoring six Tonys including Laurie Metcalf who took featured actress in a play for her third career Tony win. It also won for Joe Mantello’s direction, lighting design, scenic design, sound design and Best Revival of a Play.
Schmigadoon!, about a pair of hikers who walk into a magical musical world, came into the night tied with The Lost Boys, the musical adaptation of the 1987 cult teenager vampire film, with 12 nominations apiece. Both ended up with four wins apiece, with the former also winning for creator Cinco Paul’s book and original score, and for the musical’s orchestrations.
Lost Boys won both featured performer prizes — for actor Ali Louis Bourzgui and actress Shoshana Bean — and also collected wins for scenic design and lighting design.
As for the top actor categories, John Lithgow won for lead actor in a play for Giant, his third Tony win, while Lesley Manville won for playing Mark Strong’s wife/mother in Oedipus. The musical side featured a sweep by the revival Ragtime, with Joshua Henry winning the actor prize and Caissie Levy taking the actress win. Ragtime also won Best Revival of a Musical.
Alden Ehrenreich, meanwhile, won the featured actor in a play award for Becky Shaw, his first Tony.
Among other multiple winners tonight, Cats: The Jellicle Ball picked up three wins: for direction for a musical, choreography, and, in a first, winning for Qween Jean’s Best Costume Design in a Musical — becoming the first opening trans Tony winner ever.
The main CBS/Paramount+ ceremony (after a pre-show on Tubi) was hosted by P!nk, who was called on across the show well beyond her buzzy opening performance of “Lady Marmalade” which featured a bevy of guests including Megan Thee Stallion. P!nk also took on “All That Jazz” in a tribute to Chicago, one of several top-hat-tips to long-running shows on the night that also featured The Book of Mormon and A Chorus Line.
(Excerpt) Read more and a List of Winners @ Deadline