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The Best Actress in a Musical gong went to Nicole Scherzinger for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. She was speechless, but in a heart-on-the-sleeve soliloquy, she reflected on going from Pussycat Dolls stardom to Broadway stardom: "If there is anyone out there that feels like they don't deserve to be up here, don't ever stop believing that your time will come." Scherzinger had previously won the Olivier Award for the same role in the West End show.
The actress Sarah Snook, who is perhaps best known worldwide for "Succession," captured the best actress in a play prize for embodying all 26 characters in a one-woman adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray." To have an ensemble behind this production.") "To be here on Broadway, it means so much for a little Australian girl."
Broadway's Biggest Winners
The night's biggest winner was Maybe Happy Ending, producer and co-writer Will Aronson's futuristic musical about two outmoded robots who fall in love. It won six Tonys, including best musical, best direction of a musical and best actor in a musical for Darren Criss. Criss also hailed the diversity of this season's lineup on Broadway and offered an emotional shout-out to his family.
Best Play went to Purpose, a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about an African-American family gathering in Chicago. It also received Best Supporting Actress in a Play accolades for Kara Young, and Best Actor Nomination nods for Jon Michael Hill and Harry Lennix.
Cole Escola won the prize for Best Actor in a Play for Oh Mary!, a satire about Mary Todd Lincoln, and Eureka Day, a drama concerning school vaccination policy, was named Best Revival of a Play.
Additional Highlights
- Sunset Boulevard also took home Best Revival of a Musical.
- Buena Vista Social Club, Stranger Things: The First Shadow and Oh Mary! won multiple awards.
- Jak Malone won the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for Operation Mincemeat.
- A special performance of Tomorrow from Annie, performed by both Cynthia Erivo and Sara Bareilles, paid tribute to late theatre artists — which included composer Charles Strouse.
- The original cast of Hamilton reunited for a 10th-anniversary medley.
- This Broadway season was attended by 14.7 million people, who contributed $1.89 billion.
