Hell’s Kitchen, Stereophonic lead Tony Awards with 13 nominations each

Two Broadway reveals celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical Hell’s Kitchen area run by Alicia Keys tracks, and the play Stereophonic about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each and every acquired a top 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, a record that also noticed a history range of women nominated for best director.

A full of 28 reveals gained at the very least one Tony nomination, with the musical The Outsiders, an adaptation of the beloved S. E. Hinton novel and the Francis Ford Coppola film, earning 12 nominations. Integrated in that overall was a nomination for Canadian choreographers Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman.

A star-crammed revival of Cabaret, starring Eddie Redmayne, acquired 9 nominations, while Ideal, the searing enjoy from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins about a spouse and children reunion in Arkansas in which everyone has competing motivations and grievances, earned eight.

Canadian Rachel McAdams, making her Broadway debut in Mary Jane, acquired a very best actress in a perform nomination, when Succession star Jeremy Strong got his first ever nomination, for a revival of An Enemy of the Folks, and Liev Schreiber of Ray Donovan fame nabbed one particular for top Question. Jessica Lange in Mother Play, Sarah Paulson in Ideal and Amy Ryan, who stepped in at the past moment for a revival of Question, also gained nominations in the ideal actress in a play classification.

The Major Bang Theory star Jim Parsons gained a supporting nod for Mother Enjoy, and Daniel Radcliffe on his fifth Broadway present, a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, received his first nomination.

“I have often felt like carrying out stage and particularly executing it right here has been these a enormous component of my job and kind of like acquiring out who I was as an actor outside of Harry Potter,” said Radcliffe, who identified as the nomination “one particular of the most specific ordeals of my professional job.”

Redmayne, a Tony winner in 2010 for Crimson, acquired a nod as greatest direct actor in a musical, as did Brian d’Arcy James for Times of Wine and Roses, Brody Grant in The Outsiders, Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll Along and 73-calendar year-outdated Dorian Harewood in The Notebook, the adaptation of Nicholas Sparks intimate tearjerker. Harewood, in his very first Broadway show in 46 years, landed his initially Tony nomination.

Redmayne’s Cabaret co-star Gayle Rankin attained a nomination for finest actress in a musical, as did Eden Espinosa in Lempicka, Maleah Joi Moon in Hell’s Kitchen area, Kelli O’Hara in Times of Wine and Roses and 71-year-previous Maryann Plunkett, who plays the elderly wife at the coronary heart of The Notebook.

‘We are directors’

This calendar year, 3 females have been nominated for greatest participate in direction — Lila Neugebauer for Correct, Anne Kauffman for Mary Jane and Whitney White for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Four girls had been nominated in the musical classification —Maria Friedman for Merrily We Roll Along, Leigh Silverman for Suffs, Jessica Stone for Water for Elephants and Danya Taymor for The Outsiders.

“The one particular issue I truly feel is it is really starting to come to feel a lot less remarkable, which is excellent news,” Stone mentioned immediately after her nomination. “We are directors and not girls directors. I’m noticing it additional and much more and that’s a excellent matter to think about. It truly is a great position to be.”

Between the huge names who assisted generate Tony-nominated fare were Keys, Angelina Jolie for The Outsiders and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai for Suffs.

Will Butler, longtime member of Canadian band Arcade Hearth in advance of leaving in 2020, was nominated for very best authentic rating and most effective orchestrations for Stereophonic.

The finest new musical crown will be a battle involving Hell’s Kitchen area The Outsiders Illinoise, the dance-large, dialogue-significantly less stage adaptation of Sufjan Stevens’s 2005 album Illinois Suffs, dependent on the American suffragists of the early 20th century and H2o for Elephants, which brings together Sara Green’s 2006 bestseller with circus factors.

Below Lies Like, with Broadway’s initial all-Filipino solid, earned 4 nominations, like best primary rating for David Byrne and Fatboy Trim.

Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose, who hosted both equally the 2023 and 2022 ceremonies, will be again this 12 months and will deliver and choreograph the opening range.

This season’s Broadway figures — about $1.4 billion in grosses and 11.1 million tickets — is jogging marginally a lot less than the 2022-23 period, off about 4 per cent in grosses and down a person for every cent in tickets.