2025 Tony Awards offer many intriguing games

New York (AP) – A pair of singing Androids. Two games of the Pulitzer Prize. A Mary Ivre Todd Lincoln. A musical with A corpse as a hero. Romeo, Juliet and Teddy has rave music. Not to mention George Clooney.

Broadway has had a plush season apparently with something for everyone and it is now time to recognize the best with the Tony Awards, led by Cynthia Erevo, Located for Sunday evening on CBS and streaming on Paramount +.

Broadway Buzz is generally reserved for musicals, but this year, pieces – Propelled by the talents of the list A – motivated the conversation. There is Clooney in “Good Night and Good Luck”, Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in “Othello”, Sarah Snook in a version of a woman of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and her co-star “Succession” Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk in “Glengarry Glen Ross.” (Clooney, Snook and Odenkirk are nominated for Tonys.)

There were two Pulitzer winners – 2024 “English” winner And “Goal” of 2025 – But perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the season was “Oh, Mary!,” The irreverent, hot and joyfully disturbed revisionist of Cole Escola was centered on Mary Todd Lincoln. All three are nominated for the best game, as well as “John Proctor is the villain” and “The Hills of California”.

On the musical side, three options seem to be in the mix for the first prize: “perhaps happy fine”, a rom-com on a pair of Androids; “Outlaw Morte”, about an alcoholic deriviator whose embalmed body becomes a precious possession for half a century; And “Death becomes her”, Musical satire on longtime frequencies that drink a magic potion for eternal youth and beauty. “Perhaps a happy ending”, “Death becomes her” and another musical nomine, “Buena Vista Social Club”, the nominations in mind with 10 each.

The 2024-2025 season collected $ 1.9 billion, making it the most profitable season of all time and pointing that Broadway is finally emerged from the COVID-19 blues, after having exceeded the previous summit of $ 1.8 billion during the 2018-2019 season.

“We are going through this strange period, what I think one day, we can trace the covid line to that, because you can draw the line of the early 1980s Get a special tony for success for life.

Audra McDonald, The most recognized interpreter in the history of the Awards Theater could possibly extend his Tony’s advance. Already the record holder for most of the actor victories with six Tonys, McDonald could add to this thanks to his leading turning point in an acclaimed renewal of “gypsy”. She must exceed Nicole Scherzinger, who amazed the public in “Sunset Blvd”.

And Kara Young – The first black actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years – could become the first black person to win two consecutively tones, if she wins for her role in the play “Purpose”.

Among the other consecutive winners, let us quote director Danya Taymor, in the hope of following her victory in 2024 with “The Outsiders” with another for “John Proctor is the Villain” and “Purpose” the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who won last year with “appropriate”.

The other first possibilities include Daniel Dae KimWho could become the first Asian winner in the category of best leading actor in a room for his work in a renewal of “Yellow Face”. And Marjan Neshat And his “English” co-star Tala Ashe could become the first actors of the Iranian origin to win a Tony.

Broadway this season has seen a shine alt-rock And the emergence of young people’s stories for young people, of which “John Proctor is the villain” and a “Romeo + Juliet” presented to generation Z and generation Y.

Sunday television, as usual, will have a musical number for each of the shows in the running for the best new musical crown, as well as some who have not cut, like “Just in Time”, a musical on Bobby Darin, and “Real women have curves.” This year, there is also room for “Hamilton”, celebrating his 10th year in Broadway. But the musicals “Boop!” The Betty Boop Musical “and” Smash “did not have slots.

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