NEW YORK — Three Broadway exhibits – “Buena Vista Social Membership,” “Dying Turns into Her” and “Possibly Glad Ending” – every earned a number one 10 Tony Award nominations Thursday, as nominators unfold out the enjoyment and gave nods to George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Bob Odenkirk of their debuts.
Twenty-nine exhibits bought at the least one nomination throughout the 26 Tony classes, even long-closed exhibits like “A Great World: The Louis Armstrong Musical” and “Swept Away.”
“Buena Vista Social Membership,” which takes its inspiration from Wim Wenders’ 1999 Oscar-nominated documentary on the making of the album “Buena Vista Social Membership,” will face off for greatest musical crown with “Dying Turns into Her,” based mostly on the 1992 cult traditional movie of the identical title about frenemeies who search a magic everlasting youth and sweetness potion.
The class additionally consists of “Possibly Glad Ending,” a rom-com musical a few pair of androids that crackles with humanity and Useless Outlaw, a musical about an actual life alcoholic drifter turned failed bandit who was shot useless in 1911 and whose afterlife proved to be stranger than fiction as he was displayed for many years.
A second present with a corpse, the British import “Operation Mincemeat,” additionally made it, the improbably true story a few British deception operation designed to mislead Nazi Germany concerning the location of the Allied touchdown at Sicily.
In one of the best play class, “English,” Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sanaz Toossi’s have a look at 4 Iranian college students making ready for an English language examination, made the reduce. As did “The Hills of California,” Jez Butterworth’s have a look at a household gathering for the approaching demise of its matriarch set in a lodge in the summertime of 1976 in England.
They’re going to compete with “John Proctor Is the Villain,” Kimberly Belflower’s examination of girlhood, feminism, the #MeToo motion and a compelling rebuttal to “The Crucible,” and “Function,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an achieved Black household destroying itself from inside.
The class is accomplished with “Oh, Mary!,” an irreverent, raunchy, gleefully deranged revisionist historical past by Cole Escola centered on Mary Todd Lincoln, a boozy, narcissistic, potty-mouthed first woman decided to strike out of the subordinate position into which historical past has positioned her.
Audra McDonald, as anticipated, heard her title referred to as for her flip as Rose in a hailed revival of “Gypsy,” a job that led to earlier Tonys for the likes of Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly and Patti LuPone. McDonald, already a holder for essentially the most Tonys by a performer – with six – now vies for a seventh.
She is going to face off towards Nicole Scherzinger in “Sundown Blvd,” Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in “Dying Turns into Her,” and Jasmine Amy Rogers from “Boop! The Musical.”
Clooney bought a nod as a number one actor in a play for his retelling the story of legendary reporter Edward R. Murrow in an adaptation of his 2005 movie “Good Night time, and Good Luck.” One other scorching ticket – a revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” earned Odenkirk a nod, however not for his co-stars Kieran Culkin or comic Invoice Burr.
Snook, Culkin’s “Succession” co-star, earned a nomination for taking part in all 26 components in “The Image of Dorian Grey” and “Stranger Issues” star Sadie Sink earned one for main “John Proctor is the Villain.” “Stranger Issues: The First Shadow,” an effects-driven prequel to her outdated Netflix hit present, earned 5 nods, together with for lead actor Louis McCartney.
The information was much less good for Equipment Connor and Rachel Zegler, each of their Broadway debuts. Neither bought nominations for his or her “Romeo + Juliet” pitched to Era X and millennials. Robert Downey Jr., who additionally made his Broadway debut within the play “McNeal,” wasn’t acknowledged. Mia Farrow earned a nomination for “The Roommate” however her co-star, the Broadway diva Patti LuPone, didn’t.
And, in a shock, an edgy “Othello” with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal that producers are charging north of $900 for orchestra seats, bought not a single nomination. Idina Menzel’s return to Broadway in “Redwood,” a recent fable about timber, grief and the search for therapeutic, bought no nominations.
“Our City,” starring Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes, earned a greatest play revival Tony nomination, however nothing for its actors. And the Stephen Sondheim revue starring Tony Award-winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga got here up clean.
The Tony Awards will probably be handed out June 8 at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor throughout a telecast hosted by “Depraved” star and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo.
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