‘Hamilton’ tops list of Tony Award winners
The Tony Awards on Sunday night were a bonanza for “Hamilton,” as Broadway’s wildly popular hit musical collected an impressive 11 prizes, including the coveted one for best musical. While the results reflect the widespread audience and critical acclaim for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop biography of Alexander Hamilton, they did not quite match the record 12 prizes bestowed on the musical “The Producers” in 2001.
Other winners:
Best revival of a musical: “The Color Purple”
Best play: “The Humans”
Best revival of a play: “A View from the Bridge”
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical: Leslie Odom Jr., “Hamilton”
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical: Cynthia Erivo, “The Color Purple”
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play: Frank Langella, “The Father”
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play: Jessica Lange, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical: Daveed Diggs, “Hamilton”
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical: Rene Elise Goldsberry, “Hamilton”
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play: Reed Birney, “The Humans”
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play: Jayne Houdyshell, “The Humans”
Best book of a musical: “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda
Best original score: “Hamilton,” music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Best direction of a play: Ivo van Hove, “A View from the Bridge”
Best direction of a musical: Thomas Kail, “Hamilton”
Best scenic design of a play: David Zinn, “The Humans”
Best scenic design of a musical: David Rockwell, “She Loves Me”
Best costume design of a play: Clint Ramos, “Eclipsed”
Best costume design of a musical: Paul Tazewell, “Hamilton”
Best lighting design of a play: Natasha Katz, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
Best lighting design of a musical: Howell Binkley, “Hamilton”
Best choreography: Andy Blankenbuehler, “Hamilton”
Best orchestrations: Alex Lacamoire, “Hamilton”
Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater: Sheldon Harnick, Marshall W. Mason
Special Tony Award: National Endowment for the Arts, Miles Wilkin
Regional Theater Tony Award: Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, N.J.
Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award: Brian Stokes Mitchell
Tony Honors for excellence in the theater: Seth Gelblum, Joan Lader, Sally Ann Parsons
This story was originally published June 12, 2016 at 11:14 PM with the headline "‘Hamilton’ tops list of Tony Award winners."