Tony Awards feature performances from hit musicals, highlight history

NEW YORK: The Tony Awards for excellence in Broadway on Sunday (June 16) highlighted history, with awards for a musical on the suffragette movement, a gritty remake of a book set in the 1960s and a tale of a 1970s rock band.

The ceremony took place for the first time at New York City’s Lincoln Center with Tony-nominated and Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose hosting the awards ceremony for the third year in a row, after presiding over last year’s writerless event with an elaborately choreographed dance number.

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Shaina Taub won best score and best book of a musical for “Suffs”, the story of the suffragette movement, featuring an all-woman cast.

“It feels incredibly joyful. I mean, I grew up watching the Tonys as a little girl every year with my mom, since like, I was 6 or 7 years old. So now, to be included in this celebration, it’s everything. It’s just, it feels wonderful,” said Taub on the red carpet.

“Stereophonic” took the Tony Awards for best play and best direction for Daniel Aukin. David Adjmi’s play about a 70s-era rock band making an album, featuring original songs by Will Butler, formerly of Arcade Fire, broke the record for the most nominations for a play in Tonys history.

Will Brill beat out two other actors in his production, “Stereophonic”, for best featured actor in a play.

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Director Jack O’Brien and writer, director and producer George C. Wolfe each received the 2024 Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theatre.

“It was very sweet. I felt it very humbling and very, you know, it’s it, it was very unexpected. And so, I’m very honoured and all of that good stuff. Really very honoured,” Wolfe said.