Tony Awards - 2013 Winners and Nominees
By Sean Lynch
It's Broadway's night of nights, the one time of year the best and the brightest of the theatre world gather together to honour... each other. However, unlike the Oscars or the Emmmy's, there's no denying the talent of Tony winners.
After all, "the stage" is where show business was born. That's where it thrives! There's no second takes, no auto tune. It's just a performer, an audience and the thrill of a potential standing ovation.
This year's Tony Awards was once again hosted by Neil Patrick Harris - best known for his role in Doogie Howser and How I Met Your Mother - and while his previous show openings have been impressive... I've yet to see anything in the history of Awards Ceremonies that even comes CLOSE to how magnificent the video below is.
It's Legend... wait for it... Dary!
Ok, but enough of this swanning over the host. Wait a second.. of course we'll swan... did you SEE that jump through the hoola hoop? I won't even mention the use of magic... ILLUSIONS!
Anyhew, here's the winners. No one cares about the losers - no one remembers them anyway.
2013 TONY AWARD WINNERS
Best Play
Winner: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Best Revival of a Play
Winner: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Best Musical
Winner: Kinky Boots
Best revival of a Musical
Winner: Pippin
Best performance by an actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Winner: Tracy Letts in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a Play
Winner: Cicely Tyson in The Trip to Bountiful
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a Musical
Winner: Billy Porter in Kinky Boots
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a Musical
Winner: Patina Miller in Pippin
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a Play
Winner: Courtney B Vance in Lucky Guy
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a Play
Winner: Judith Light in The Assembled Parties
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a Musical
Winner: Gabriel Ebert in Matilda the Musical
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a Musical
Winner: Andrea Martin in Pippin
Best direction of a Play
Winner: Pam MacKinnon for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best direction of a Musical
Winner: Diane Paulus for Pippin
Best book of a Musical
Winner: Matilda the Musical, Dennis Kelly
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the Theatre
Winner: Kinky Boots, music and lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
Best scenic design of a Play
Winner: John Lee Beatty for The Nance
Best scenic design of a Musical
Winner: Rob Howell for Matilda: The Musical
Best costume design of a Play
Winner: Ann Roth for The Nance
Best costume design of a Musical
Winner: William Ivey Long for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Best lighting design of a Play
Winner: Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer for Lucky Guy
Best lighting design of a Musical
Winner: Hugh Vanstone for Matilda the Musical
Best sound design of a Play
Winner: Leon Rothenberg for The Nance
Best sound design of a Musical
Winner: John Shivers for Kinky Boots
Best Choreography
Winner: Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots
Best Orchestrations
Winner: Stephen Oremus for Kinky Boots
Special Tony award for lifetime achievement in the Theatre
Bernard Gersten
Paul Libin
Ming Cho Lee
