By Karen Carter | Posted on June 10, 2013 6:37 AM
Kinky Boots Is The Biggest Winner As The Broadway Show Is Honored With 5 Awards At The 2013 Annual Awards Show, Including The Most Anticipated Award Of The Night, Best Musical Tony Award
Broadway's Kinky Boots Dominates at the Tony Awards
The 67th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall last night, and Broadway's best came out dressed in their finest to compete in several categories. Best Musical is always the most anticipated award of the evening, and that honor went to Kinky Boots. Kinky Boots also took Best Actor (Billy Porter), Best Score (Cyndi Lauper), Best Choreography (Jerry Mitchell), Best Sound Design, and Best Orchestrations, making it the biggest winner of the evening. As for the other major categories, Pippin won Best Musical Revival, which was not surprising given the warm reception that the show has received from critics and audiences alike (both Patina Miller and Andrea Martin also took acting awards for their work in this production).
Christopher Durang's comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, starring David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver, won the award for Best Play. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? earned the prize for Best Revival of a Play. Other notable wins include 88-year old Cicely Tyson as Best Actress in a Play for her energetic turn in the revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful and Judith Light for Best Featured Actress in The Assembled Parties.
Actors Shine in Supporting Roles
Though film star Tom Hanks failed to take a Best Actor honor for his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy (the award went to Tracy Letts for Who's Afraid), Hanks's co-star Courtney B. Vance did win a Best Featured Actor award. Similarly, much-raved-about Matilda star Bertie Carvel wasn't able to nab Best Actor in a Musical, but his Matilda colleague Gabriel Ebert did secure a Featured Actor award. For a g list of Tony Award nominees and winners, please visit www.TonyAwards.com.
