![]() Jennifer Weber started the trend off strong with two nominations in Best Choreography, for her work in & Juliet and KPOP-her first and second-ever Broadway credits, no less. This year’s nominations saw lots of double nominees. It goes to show you-when the work is impactful, it stays with those who’ve seen it long after the final curtain falls. So even though they are gone, it doesn’t mean these shows have been forgotten. KPOP is another show that had a very abrupt (and much-buzzed-about closure), but still received three nominations (including for Best Original Score). But in a dramatic turn, Ain't No Mo' is one of the most-nominated plays this season. In many cases, shows that had only a brief run and closed earlier than expected still received recognition-most notable being Ain’t No Mo’, which announced its closing date less than a week after opening due to low ticket sales. But that fear seemed to have been for naught this year, with many of the shows nominated having already closed-such as Cost of Living, A Christmas Carol, Ohio State Murders, Death of a Salesman, and many more. There’s a common fear among industry professionals, that if you opened your show earlier in the season, come Tony time you will be forgotten as newer shows fill up the minds of the Tony nominating committee. This year’s awards also recognized many writers making Broadway debuts, including Some Like It Hot co-book writer Amber Ruffin, KPOP score writers Helen Park and Max Vernon, Cost of Living playwright Martyna Majok, Pulitzer-winning Fat Ham playwright James Ijames, and A Doll’s House adaptor Amy Herzog. Other first time highlights: The Tony admin committee’s ruling that Life of Pi’s puppets would be considered part of its costume design paved the way for puppet designers Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, both of whom have had long careers on Broadway and in London’s West End, to become first-time Tony nominees. That last caveat includes names like Sharon Washington and Jessica Stone, nominated now as the co-book writer of New York, New York and the director of Kimberly Akimbo (respectively) after both appeared earlier on Broadway as actors. This year’s crop includes a staggering 60 first-time nominees, including 30 for artists either making their Broadway debut or making their Broadway debut in their now Tony-nominated job. One of the most exciting parts of Tony day is the amount of artists that become Tony Award nominees for the first time. It goes to show if you want to see the hottest new play, just venture slightly outside of Broadway-or fly across the Atlantic. Fellow Best Play Tony nominee Leopoldstadt was a hit in the West End before transferring to Broadway. Ain't No Mo', Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living, and Fat Ham all originated Off-Broadway and were well-lauded before they made their Broadway debuts. ![]() The two most robust pipelines for new plays on Broadway continue to be Off-Broadway and the West End. Off-Broadway and London's West End Dominate The current revival stands apart for featuring an adaptation-which implies a step further than a mere translation-from Herzog. The Ibsen play, originally performed in Dutch in 1879, has been produced on Broadway many times, generally in translations. The playwright does, however, share the Revival nomination if the Tony Admin committee rules the work a “classic.” This ruling gets made when a work is so well-known from prior non-Broadway productions as to make it unfair for it to be eligible alongside works completely new to voters.īut this year’s Revival of a Play category was pretty unique with 4,000 Miles playwright Amy Herzog getting a nod for her adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll's House, meaning Herzog will get a statue if the plays wins. The same is not typically true of the Best Revival of a Play category, which is typically only awarded to the show’s producers. Typically, a work’s playwright shares a Best Play nomination along with the production’s producers, which started happening after the Tonys stopped awarding separate Best Play and Best Author categories (the latter was last awarded in 1965).
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