64th Tony Awards
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 64th Tony Awards poster | ||||
| Date | June 13, 2010[1] | |||
| Location | Radio City Music Hall | |||
| Host | Sean Hayes[2] | |||
| Television/Radio coverage | ||||
| Network | CBS | |||
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The 64th Annual Tony Awards took place on Sunday, June 13, 2010,[1] held again at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The host was Sean Hayes.[2] These awards recognize Broadway productions during the 2009–2010 season. The cut off-date for Tony eligibility was April 29, 2010, and the nominations were announced on May 4.[3]
The play Red won six awards, including Best Play. The musical Memphis won four awards, including Best Musical. Fences won three awards, including Best Revival of a Play. La Cage aux Folles also won three awards, including Best Revival of a Musical.
The CBS television network broadcast the event, which was also simulcast live to the Clear Channel Spectacolor HD Screen in Times Square as well as on the official Tony Awards website.[4] The director of the telecast, Glenn Weiss, won the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety.[5]
Among the highlights was presenter Kristin Chenoweth and Hayes poking fun at a recent Newsweek article questioning the openly gay Hayes' believability at playing heterosexual by passionately kissing.
Awards ceremony
Presenters
† = 2010 nominee
‡ = 2010 Isabelle Stevenson Award winner
Performances
The show opened with a medley from most of the musicals that opened during the season, and included, as described by The New York Times, punk music, Frank Sinatra songs, Afrobeat rhythms, and early rock ’n’ roll.[9]
There were performances by the casts of the musicals nominated for both Best Musical and Revival: American Idiot, Fela!, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, La Cage aux Folles, A Little Night Music, Everyday Rapture and Ragtime. Other performers were Lea Michele, who sang "Don't Rain On My Parade" and Matthew Morrison, who sang "All I Need Is the Girl", and punk rock band Green Day who performed "Know Your Enemy/Holiday". The casts of Come Fly Away and Promises, Promises were included in a presentation of choreography. Additionally, the nominees for Best Play and Best Play Revival were presented by the performers from their respective plays.[10][11]
Creative Arts Tony Awards
Some of the Tony Awards, dubbed "The Creative Arts Tony Awards" were awarded prior to the CBS telecast. The presentation was shown on a live webcast.[12] Hosts for this portion of the ceremony were Karen Olivo and Gregory Jbara. Awards presented at this special ceremony included Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations, Special Tony Awards and the eight design prizes.[13][14]
Ineligibility rulings
The Tony Administration Committee decided on April 30, 2010 that the scores of American Idiot and Fela! were ineligible for Tony Award nominations because fewer than 50% of their scores were written for the stage productions.[15]
On May 14, 2010, the Tony Award committee announced a withdrawal of nomination for Best Costume Design for Ragtime, stating that "...Santo Loquasto's designs for the revival of Ragtime are predominantly those from the original 1998 production, and therefore do not meet the Tony rule which states, work that 'substantially duplicate(s)' work from a prior production is ineligible."[16]
Competitive awards
Source: Tony Awards[17]
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
| Best Play | Best Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Revival of a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Revival of a Musical |
| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Direction of a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Direction of a Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Book of a Musical | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Choreography | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Orchestrations |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Scenic Design of a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Scenic Design of a Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Costume Design of a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Costume Design of a Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Lighting Design of a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Lighting Design of a Musical |
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| style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Sound Design of a Play | style="background:#C0C0C0;" ! style="width="50%" | Best Sound Design of a Musical |
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Non-competitive awards
Most of the non-competitive awards were announced on April 21, 2010. They are:
- Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre to Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Marian Seldes.[18]
- Isabelle Stevenson Award to David Hyde Pierce. Pierce is receiving the Isabelle Stevenson Award "for his work in the fight against Alzheimer's disease."[18]
- Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre to:
- The Alliance of Resident Theatres New York.[18]
- B.H. Barry, who "pioneered the teaching of stage combat as part of the curriculum in US Drama Programs at the University and Graduate level."[18]
- Tom Viola, executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA).[19]
- The Midtown North and South New York City Police Precincts.[20]
- The Regional Theatre Tony Award to The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut.[17]
Summary of awards
The musical Fela! and the revival of La Cage aux Folles, each received eleven nominations, the most of any production, with each winning three awards. The musical Memphis won four awards, including Best Musical. The revival of Fences earned ten nominations, the most nominations ever received by a play revival, and won three awards.[21] The new play Red received seven nominations and won six awards, the most of any play or musical this season.
Film actors won an unusual number of awards this season, with Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johansson, Viola Davis and Catherine Zeta-Jones among the winners.[9] So many film actors appeared on Broadway last year that theatre actor Hunter Fostercreated a Facebook page called "Give the Tonys Back to Broadway". The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood wrote, "I share to a certain extent Mr. Foster’s dismay at this year’s star-glutted Tony awards. ... It’s possible that if the Tony administrators had not kicked the journalists out of the voting pool, there might have been a few more worthy winners."[22] Isherwood called the proliferation of Hollywood stars on Broadway "ominous", claiming that projects from last season featuring film actors such as Jude Law's Hamlet and A Steady Rain monopolized the box office, causing "superior" plays to fail. On the other hand, Isherwood felt, it is possible that "welcoming [film] stars on Broadway – the talented ones, anyway – [could help] New York theater to reassert its importance to the culture, and maybe even to tilt the balance of the entertainment business at least a little back toward the East Coast".[22]
By the numbers
The count of winners:
| Production | Nomination(s) | Win(s) |
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| La Cage aux Folles | 11 | 3 |
| Fela! | 11 | 3 |
| Fences | 10 | 3 |
| Memphis | 8 | 4 |
| Red | 7 | 6 |
| A View from the Bridge | 7 | 1 |
| Ragtime | 6 | — |
| The Royal Family | 5 | 1 |
| A Little Night Music | 4 | 1 |
| Promises, Promises | 4 | 1 |
| Enron | 4 | — |
| American Idiot | 3 | 2 |
| Million Dollar Quartet | 3 | 1 |
| Finian's Rainbow | 3 | — |
| In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) | 3 | — |
| Lend Me a Tenor | 3 | — |
| The Addams Family | 2 | — |
| Come Fly Away | 2 | — |
| Everyday Rapture | 2 | — |
| Hamlet | 2 | — |
| Next Fall | 2 | — |
| Time Stands Still | 2 | — |
| Sondheim on Sondheim | 2 | — |
| A Behanding in Spokane | 1 | — |
| Collected Stories | 1 | — |
| Looped | 1 | — |
| Present Laughter | 1 | — |
| Race | 1 | — |
| Superior Donuts | 1 | — |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The American Theatre Wing’s 64th Annual Tony Awards to Be Broadcast Sunday, June 13, 2010". TonyAwards.com. September 8, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gans, Andrew."Sean Hayes to Host Tony Awards" playbill.com, May 24, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew.2010 "Tony Award Nominations Will Be Announced May 4" playbill.com, February 26, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Paula Abdul Will Be Tony Presenter; Awards Will Be Simulcast in Times Square" playbill.com, June 7, 2010
- ↑ Peter, Thomas. "Glenn Weiss Wins DGA Award for 64th Annual Tony Awards Broadcast" playbill.com, January 31, 2011
- ↑ "Meet the Presenters and Performers". The Tony Awards. May 25, 2010.
- ↑ Propst, Andy (May 25, 2010). "Cate Blanchett, Michael Douglas, Lea Michele, Denzel Washington, Raquel Welch, et al. to Be Tony Award Presenters". TheaterMania.com.
- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Holmes, Lansbury, Radcliffe and More Will Be Tony Presenters" playbill.com, June 9, 2010
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Healy, Patrick. "Red and Memphis Win Top Tony Awards". The New York Times, June 13, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Green Day, Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison and More to Perform on Tony Telecast". Playbill.com, June 2, 2010
- ↑ "Press Release:The 2010 Tony Awards Promises Unforgettable Evening of Performances". Tonyawards.com, June 2, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Creative Arts Tony Awards Will Be Presented Prior to CBS Broadcast". Playbill.com, June 1, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Olivo and Jbara to Host Creative Arts Tony Awards". Playbill.com, June 10, 2010
- ↑ Hetrick, Adam.Playbill.com Tony Blog: The Tony Awards Press Room" playbill.com, June 13, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Tony Rulings: Enron, Fences, Royal Family Eligible for Best Score; American Idiot, Fela! Are Not" playbill.com, April 30, 2010
- ↑ Jones, Kenneth."Drama Desk Withdraws Nominations of Ragtime's Orchestration and Costume Design" playbill.com, May 14, 2010
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "Tony Award nominees, 2009–2010". Archived from the original on 7 May 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-13.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Pesner, Ben."Tonys Announce Special Awards and Honors" tonyawards.com, April 21, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew.David Hyde Pierce, Marian Seldes, Tom Viola, Alan Ayckbourn Win Special Tony Awards" playbill.com, April 21, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew."Midtown North and South New York City Police Precincts To Receive Special Tony Award" playbill.com, May 17, 2010
- ↑ Gans, Andrew and Jones, Kenneth."2010 Tony Nominations Announced; Fela! and La Cage Top List" playbill.com, May 4, 2010
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Isherwood, Charles."Theater Talkback: When Stars Take Over the Tonys". The New York Times, June 24, 2010
- ↑ Jones, Kenneth."Red, Memphis, La Cage aux Folles, Fences Win 2010 Tony Awards" playbill.com, June 14, 2010