2014 Tony Awards: Backstage with the Winners!
June 2014 – NYC: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” won top honors at the Tony Awards on Sunday, took home the prize for best musical.
The award for revival of a musical went to “Hedwig and the Angy Inch,” with stars Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall also taking home awards. “All the Way” and “A Raisin in the Sun” won in the play categories.
Other winners included Audra McDonald, who won her sixth Tony for her role in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill,” Bryan Cranston for lead actor in the play “All the Way” and Jessie Mueller for lead actress in “Beautiful — The Carole King Musical.”
The 68th Tony Awards hosted by Hugh Jackman were held at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The complete list of nominees and winners are below.
Best Play
“Act One”
WINNER: “All the Way”
“Mothers and Sons”
“Outside Mullingar”
Best Musical
“After Midnight”
“Aladdin”
“Beautiful — The Carole King Musical”
WINNER: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
Best Revival of a Play
“The Cripple of Inishmaan”
“The Glass Menagerie”
WINNER: “A Raisin in the Sun”
“Twelfth Night”
Best Revival of a Musical
WINNER: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
“Les Misérables”
“Violet”
Best Book of a Musical
“Aladdin”
“Beautiful — The Carole King Musical”
“Bullets Over Broadway”
WINNER: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
“Aladdin”
WINNER: “The Bridges of Madison County”
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
“If/Then”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Samuel Barnett, Twelfth Night
WINNER: Bryan Cranston, All the Way
Chris O’Dowd, Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance, Richard III
Tony Shalhoub, Act One
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones, The Glass Menagerie
WINNER: Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn
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