Tony Award Nominations 2019: ‘Hadestown’ Leads the Pack

The Tony Award nominations for the 2018-2019 Broadway season are out! The complete list is below, along with links to articles we’ve written about the nominees on TDF Stages.

The musical Hadestown leads the pack with 14 nominations, including Best Musical. Also of note: Ali Stroker, who’s nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Oklahoma!, makes history as the first performer who uses a wheelchair to receive a nod. Jeremy Pope scored two acting nominations: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Choir Boy, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations. And no, we didn’t make a mistake: To Kill a Mockingbird was not nominated for Best Play, though it received nine other nods.

The 73rd annual ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 9 at Radio City Music Hall, hosted by James Corden.

Best Musical



Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Time of The Temptations

Beetlejuice

Hadestown

The Prom

Tootsie

Best Revival of a Musical



Kiss Me, Kate


Oklahoma!

Best Play



Choir Boy
by Tarell Alvin McCraney 

The Ferrymanby Jez Butterworth 

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus by Taylor Mac

Ink by James Graham – Read our interview with Graham

What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck

Best Revival of a Play



All My Sons


The Boys in the Band

Burn This

Torch Song

The Waverly Gallery

Best Performance by an  Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Stephanie J. Block for The Cher Show

Caitlin Kinnunen for The Prom

Beth Leavel for The Prom – Read our interview with Leavel

Eva Noblezada for Hadestown

Kelli O’Hara for Kiss Me, Kate

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Brooks Ashmanskas for The Prom

Derrick Baskin for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Alex Brightman for Beetlejuice

Damon Daunno for Oklahoma!

Santino Fontana for Tootsie

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Annette Bening for All My Sons

Laura Donnelly for The Ferryman

Elaine May for The Waverly Gallery

Janet McTeer for Bernhardt/Hamlet

Laurie Metcalf for Hillary and Clinton

Heidi Schreck for What the Constitution Means to Me

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Paddy Considine for The Ferryman

Bryan Cranston for Network

Jeff Daniels for To Kill a Mockingbird

Adam Driver for Burn This

Jeremy Pope for Choir Boy

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

André De Shields for Hadestown

Andy Grotelueschen for Tootsie

Patrick Page for Hadestown

Jeremy Pope for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Ephraim Sykes for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Lilli Cooper for Tootsie

Amber Gray for Hadestown – Read our interview with Gray

Sarah Stiles for Tootsie

Ali Stroker for Oklahoma! – Read our interview with Stroker

Mary Testa for Oklahoma!

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Bertie Carvel for Ink

Robin De Jesús for The Boys in the Band

Gideon Glick for To Kill a Mockingbird

Brandon Uranowitz for Burn This

Benjamin Walker for All My Sons

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Fionnula Flanagan for The Ferryman

Celia Keenan-Bolger for To Kill a Mockingbird

Kristine Nielsen for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Julie White for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus – Read our interview with White

Ruth Wilson for King Lear

Best Book of a Musical



Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptationsby Dominique Morisseau – Read our interview with Morisseau

Beetlejuiceby Scott Brown & Anthony King

Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell

The Prom by Bob Martin & Chad Beguelin

Tootsieby Robert Horn

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre



Be More Chill by Joe Iconis

Beetlejuiceby Eddie Perfect

Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell

The Prom, music by Matthew Sklar & lyrics by Chad Beguelin

To Kill a Mockingbirdby Adam Guettel

Tootsieby David Yazbek

Best Orchestrations



Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose for Hadestown

Simon Hale for Tootsie

Larry Hochman for Kiss Me, Kate

Daniel Kluger for Oklahoma!

Harold Wheeler for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Scenic Design of a Musical



Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Peter England for King Kong

Rachel Hauck for Hadestown

Laura Jellinek for Oklahoma!

David Korins for Beetlejuice

Best Scenic Design of a Play



Miriam Buether for To Kill a Mockingbird

Bunny Christie for Ink

Rob Howell for The Ferryman

Santo Loquasto for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Jan Versweyveld for Network

Best Costume Design of a Play



Rob Howell for The Ferryman

Toni-Leslie James for Bernhardt/Hamlet

Clint Ramos for Torch Song

Ann Roth for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Ann Roth for To Kill a Mockingbird

Best Costume Design of a Musical



Michael Krass for Hadestown

William Ivey Long for Beetlejuice

William Ivey Long for Tootsie

Bob Mackie for The Cher Show

Paul Tazewell for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Lighting Design of a Play



Neil Austin for Ink

Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Peter Mumford for The Ferryman

Jennifer Tipton for To Kill a Mockingbird

Jan Versweyveld and Tal Yarden for Network

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Kevin Adams for The Cher Show

Howell Binkley for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Bradley King for Hadestown

Peter Mumford for King Kong

Kenneth Posner and Peter Nigrini for Beetlejuice

Best Sound Design of a Play



Adam Cork for Ink

Scott Lehrer for To Kill a Mockingbird

Fitz Patton for Choir Boy

Nick Powell for The Ferryman

Eric Sleichim for Network

Best Sound Design of a Musical



Peter Hylenski for Beetlejuice

Peter Hylenski for King Kong

Steve Canyon Kennedy for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Drew Levy for Oklahoma!

Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz for Hadestown

Best Direction of a Play



Rupert Goold for Ink

Sam Mendes for The Ferryman

Bartlett Sher for To Kill a Mockingbird

Ivo van Hove for Network

George C. Wolfe for Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Best Direction of a Musical



Rachel Chavkin for Hadestown

Scott Ellis for Tootsie

Daniel Fish for Oklahoma!

Des McAnuff for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Casey Nicholaw for The Prom

Best Choreography



Camille A. Brown for Choir Boy

Warren Carlyle for Kiss Me, Kate

Denis Jones for Tootsie

David Neumann for Hadestown

Sergio Trujillo for Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Totals

Hadestown – 14

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations – 12

Tootsie – 11

The Ferryman – 9

To Kill a Mockingbird – 9

Beetlejuice – 8

Oklahoma! – 8

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus – 7

The Prom – 7

Ink – 6

Network – 5

Choir Boy – 4

Kiss Me, Kate – 4

All My Sons – 3

Burn This – 3

The Cher Show – 3

King Kong – 3

Bernhardt/Hamlet – 2

The Boys in the Band – 2

Torch Song – 2

The Waverly Gallery – 2

What the Constitution Means to Me – 2

Be More Chill – 1

Hillary and Clinton – 1

King Lear – 1

Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Rosemary Harris

Terrence McNally

Harold Wheeler  

Special Tony Awards

Marin Mazzie

Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company

Jason Michael Webb 

Regional Theatre Tony Award

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Palo Alto, CA 

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award

Judith Light 

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre

Broadway Inspirational Voices – Michael McElroy, Founder

Peter Entin

FDNY Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9

Joseph Blakely Forbes

Top image: Amber Gray and the Broadway cast of Hadestown. Photo by Matthew Murphy.