![]() ![]() Playwright Dominique Morisseau, who first garnered a nomination for Ain’t Too Proud, netted another writing nomination, this time for Skeleton Crew, which was also recognized for scenic design and for acting (Phylicia Rashad). No Black woman has ever won a Tony for playwriting, book writing, costume design, orchestrations or directing. Brown ( for colored girls) and Lileana Blain-Cruz ( The Skin of Our Teeth) were nominated for directing prizes, a category that has historically overlooked them. Clarke and LaChanze, the vocal tour de forces who made Caroline and Trouble in Mind such lively, compelling productions, were also nominated in their respective acting categories. Meanwhile, Caroline, or Change, Tony Kushner’s phantasmagorical family drama about a Black maid in Louisiana and the white Jewish family for whom she works, was nominated for best revival of a musical. Trouble in Mind, the Alice Childress play that was too radical to be mounted on Broadway when she first staged it in 1955, is now up for a Tony for best revival of a play alongside Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. When L Morgan Lee, who plays Thought 1 in A Strange Loop and is up for featured actress in a musical, plaudits heard the news, she tweeted, “I can’t stop crying.” Related Story How to get more Black on Broadway Read now And for the first time in the history of the awards, a transgender person was nominated. Following with 10 nominations was MJ, the biographical jukebox show about Michael Jackson, penned by Lynn Nottage, and Paradise Square, a musical starring Joaquina Kalukango and co-written by Christina Anderson. Jackson’s musical roman á clef, A Strange Loop, led this year’s class with 11 nominations, including for best musical. Pulitzer-winning lyricist, composer and playwright Michael R. ![]() Warren is a co-founder of Broadway Advocacy Coalition, one of a number of associations and groups, including Black Theatre Coalition, Black Theatre United and #WeSeeYouWAT, that have been agitating for racial equity in the theater.Īll three productions leading this year’s class are by and about Black people. Tony winners Adrienne Warren ( Tina) and Joshua Henry ( Carousel) delivered the good news. ![]() And several shows were overlooked entirely: the new plays Chicken & Biscuits, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Is This a Room, Birthday Candles and Pass Over.Amid a plague, both of disease and revanchism, Monday morning’s Tony nominations announcement offered history-making and hope with a bevy of stacked categories. The sold-out revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite got a costume design nomination, but neither of its stars, Sarah Jessica Parker or Matthew Broderick, are up for an award. Daniel Craig, who headlines a revival of Macbeth didn't receive a nod, though co-star Ruth Negga did. Doubtfire only received one nomination, for lead actor Rob McClure, while Flying Over Sunset, the original musical about three 1950s celebrities experimenting with LSD, received four nominations but wasn't up for best musical. In addition to Funny Girl, several other productions didn't receive much love from the nominators. Several shows were overlooked entirelyĮvery year, shows and actors are snubbed. Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, reprising their roles from the original production, are both up for best acting awards. Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a girl who is sexually molested by her uncle, How I Learned to Drive, received three nominations. Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, about a baseball superstar who announces he's gay, has four nominations, the same number as Alice Childress' 1955 play Trouble in Mind, about racism in Broadway theater and David Mamet's American Buffalo, about three would-be thieves. ![]() Franklin/for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf The cast of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf ![]()
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