“Some Like It Scorching,” a Broadway musical adaptation of the cross-dressing motion picture comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, waltzed away Tuesday with a main 13 Tony Award nominations, putting the spotlight on a show that is a sweet, complete-hearted embrace of trans legal rights.
With songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and starring Christian Borle and J. Harrison Ghee, who all received nominations, the clearly show follows two musician good friends who disguise them selves as women and join an all-girl band to flee Chicago right after witnessing a mob strike. Like the film, there are adult males in dresses striving to move as ladies. But this time, the costume awakens a little something in Ghee’s character, akin to a transformation from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
3 displays tied with 9 nominations each: “& Juliet,” which reimagines “Romeo and Juliet” and adds some of the most significant pop hits of the earlier handful of many years, “New York, New York,” which mixed two generations of Broadway royalty in John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and “Shucked,” a shock light-weight musical comedy studded with corn puns. The vital musical darling “Kimberly Akimbo,” with Victoria Clark taking part in a teenager who ages 4 situations more rapidly than the regular human, rounds out the finest musical group.
In the finest new enjoy class, nods were being dispersed to Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which explores Jewish identity with an intergenerational story, and “Fat Ham,” James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-successful adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” set at a Black family’s barbecue in the present day South.
The relaxation of the class is made up of “Ain’t No Mo,’” the limited-lived but critical applauded do the job by playwright and actor Jordan E. Cooper, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-successful engage in “Between Riverside and Crazy” and “Cost of Living,” parallel stories of two caretakers and their respective people.
“Parade,” a doomed musical like story established in opposition to the actual backdrop of a murder and lynching in Georgia in pre-Planet War I, acquired six nods, starring freshly nominated Ben Platt, hoping to gain a second Tony just after his triumph in 2017 with “Dear Evan Hansen,” and mounting star and to start with-time nominee Micaela Diamond.
Wendell Pierce, who has received a Tony for producing “Clybourne Park,” attained his initial nomination as an actor on Broadway for a blistering revival of “Death of a Salesman” and Jessica Chastain, an Oscar-winner for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” got her very first Tony nomination for a stripped down variation of “A Doll’s Household.”
Pierce will deal with-off versus both stars of Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins — as perfectly as former “Will & Grace” star Sean Hayes from “Good Night, Oscar,” and Stephen McKinley Henderson, who acquired his second nomination, getting goten one in 2019 for “Fences.”
Jodie Comer, the a few-time Emmy nominated star of “Killing Eve” acquired a nomination in her Broadway debut — though her play, “Prima Facie,” did get a ideal new perform nod — and Audra McDonald, who has received six Tony Awards can lengthen her reign if she beats Comer as very best foremost actress in a perform for “Ohio Point out Murders.” The final slot in the group went to Jessica Hecht, staring in the perform “Summer, 1976.”
Two reveals that closed promptly nonetheless picked up nominations — “KPOP,” which put Korean pop new music on Broadway for the first time, and “Ain’t No Mo,’” in which the United States govt emails just about every Black citizen with the give of a no cost airplane ticket to Africa and each individual scene explores how different personalities respond to the supply. “KPOP” acquired three — which include most effective initial score — and “Ain’t No Mo’” nabbed 6, such as a finest new play nomination.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s frothy and extensively panned “Bad Cinderella” gained zero nods, as did “A Stunning Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical,” a phase biography of the singer-songwriter who has experienced dozens of best-40 hits. But Samuel L. Jackson earned his first Tony nod for “August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.”
Two well-obtained revivals from the late Stephen Sondheim — “Sweeney Todd” with Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban, and a star-studded “Into the Woods,” were being recognized. “Sweeney Todd” acquired 8 nominations such as for Groban and Ashford, and “Into the Woods” attained six, such as for Brian d’Arcy James and Grammy Award-successful Sara Bareilles, her 3rd Tony nomination.
“Almost Well known,” the phase adaptation of Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical coming-of-age story, acquired just a person nomination — for audio by Tom Kitt and lyrics by Crowe and Kitt. And choreographer Jennifer Weber experienced two explanations to smile Tuesday: She earned nominations for “& Juliet” and “KPOP,” her initially Broadway reveals.
Ariana DeBose will host the June 11 awards celebration from New York City’s United Palace theater dwell on CBS and on Paramount+. It is her next-straight stint as host.
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