Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Tony Awards - 2016



 Hamilton is about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.  The show was inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.


Won: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr); Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson; Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Renee Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler Church); Best Book of a Musical - Lin-Manuel Miranda; Best Original Score - Lin-Manuel Miranda; Best Costume Design of a Musical - Paul Tazewell; Best Direction of a Musical - Thomas Kail; Best Orchestrations - Alex Lacamoire; Best Choreography - Andy Blankenbuehler; Best Lighting Design - Howell Binkley.
The Color Purple is based on the novel The Color Purple by AliceWalker, which focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s. Music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; Book by Marsha Norman.
Won: Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Cynthia Erivo as Celie Harris Johnson); Best Revival of a Musical.

She Loves Me is the third adaptation of the play Miklos Laszio about two Budapest shop employees, who are at odds with each other at work, but are unaware that they are each other's secret pen pal. Music - Jerry Bock; Lyrics - Sheldon Harnick; Book - Joe Masteroff.
Won: Best Scenic Design of a Musical - David Rockwell.


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