In the Heights, a rap, hip-hop and salsa-flavored musical about Latino families in Washington Heights, was the big winner with 13 Tony nods, two for the show’s 28-year-old creator and star Lin-Manual Miranda, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
Going up against In the Heights in that category is Cry-Baby, the show based on the John Waters movie which starred Johnny Depp, with music by Fountain of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum, also nominated for Best Score.
Passing Strange, a Public Theater presentation created by Stew of perennial L.A. underground band The Negro Problem, with Heidi Rodewald, also got a nod for Best Musical, along with one for Stew and Heidi in the Best Original Score category. In addition, Stew received a nod for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical.
The other Best Musical nominee is Xanadu, the theatrical version of the 1980 roller-disco camp classic with Olivia Newton-John.
Finally, Rock ‘n’ Roll, playwright Tom Stoppard’s multi-generational epic about Pink Floyd, Marxism and the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, is up for Best Play against Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County, Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer and Patrick Barlow’s comedic reading of Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
The dust settles on the Indio Polo Grounds. (4/22a)
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THE NEW UMG
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TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
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TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
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