“ Buena vista social club ”, death becomes “and” perhaps happy “

New York (AP) – Three Broadway shows – “Buena Vista Social Club”, “Death becomes her” and “Perhaps happy fine” – each won a 10 leader 10 Tony price The appointments Thursday, while the nominators represented joy and made signs of head to George Clooney,Sarah Snook And Bob odenkirk in their beginnings.

Twenty-nine shows obtained at least one appointment in the 26 categories of Tony, even closed shows like “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical” and “Sleept Away”.

James Monroe Iglehart, who played Armstrong in his musical, did not expect the appointment and woke up with his phone. “I said to myself,” What’s going on? ” Is everything going well? And then I was: “Ok! He said.” I’m really excited to be part of this harvest of incredible performers. “

“Buena Vista Social Club”, which is inspired by the documentary nominated at the Oscars of Wim Wenders from Wim Wenders, on the production of the album “Buena Vista Social Club”, will compete for the best musical wreath with “Death becomes Her”, based on the 1992 cult film of the same name on the frenches who are looking for eternal youth and magical beauty.

The category also includes “perhaps a happy ending”, a Roma musical on a pair of Androids who crackle with humanity and ” Dead outlaw, “ A musical on a real alcoholic drifter which was shot in 1911 and whose life after death turned out to be stranger than fiction when it was displayed for carnivals and slides for decades.

A second show with a corpse, the British importation “Operation Mincemeat”, also made the investigation, the improbable story true on a British deception operation designed to mislead Nazi Germany on the site of allied landing in Sicily.

“What I think is so cool this year is that the shows are so different and I love it for Broadway,” explains Christopher Gattelli, the choreographer and first director of “Death Befet Her”, who has gained head signs for the two jobs.

“We have rooms and very small intimate shows and these extremely funny black box shows, and therefore, I like that it is such a large range of a year. I love that we can add to this mixture.”

“Dead Outlaw” – Designed by David Yazbek, who wrote music and lyrics with Erik Della Penna – Runite Yazbek with book writer Itamar Moses and director David Cromer, who collaborated with so many victories on Tony Winning “The group’s visit.” Yazbek said Thursday that the team had learned a lesson with this show she had applied to “Outlaw dead”.

“If you are doing the thing you want to do and you realize and leave the rest, then you could really get the reception you want. And so we are somehow stuck to this approach,” he said.

Best game category

In the category of the best games, “English”, playwright winner of the Pulitzer Prize Sanaz Toossi Look at four Iranian students who prepare for an English language exam, cut the cut. Like “The Hills of California”, Jez Butterworth’s gaze on a family gathering for the imminent death of his matriar in a hotel in the summer of 1976 in England.

They will compete with “John Proctor is the villain”, the Kimberly Belflower’s examination of youth, feminism, the #MeToo movement and a convincing refutation of the “Creuset drama” and “goal”, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins of drama-Hoom-Hoom Drama about an accomplished black family.

The category is supplemented by “Oh, Mary!”. An irreverent revisionist story, torrid and joyfully disturbed by Cole Escola centered on Mary Todd Lincoln, described as a sprinkled, narcissistic and mouth of the mouth, determined to remove the subordinate role in which history has placed.

Jacobs-Jenkins, whose “appropriate”, won the best game revival last year, said Thursday morning that its category was filled with pieces that started at the regional or out of Broadway, showing the strength of art.

“I hope people see somewhat the diversity of what’s going on in terms of writing for the American stages at the moment. It’s really an incredible moment,” he said. “I think it’s just the testimony of the fruitful of the form.”

Actor nods and some missing

Audra McDonaldAs expected, heard its name called in turn as a pink in a greeted renewal of “gypsy”, a role which led to previous Tonys for the tastes of Angela LansburyTyne Daly and Patti Lupone. McDonald, already holder of the most tones by an artist – with six – now for a seventh.

She will face Nicole Scherzinger in “Sunset Blvd.”, Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in “Death Bedis Her”, and Jasmine Amy Rogers of “Boop! The musical “, who follows the cartoon character of the era of depression while she leaves in a transformation trip.

McDonald attributes the delay Broadway Star Gavin Creel For having suggested taking “gypsy” about eight years ago during a dinner at home. It was not on her radar, and she did not think that a “gypsy” led by blacks would fly. Creel insisted. He died on the first day of “gypsies” rehearsals. “We have another reason to thank him,” she said.

Clooney obtained a sign of the leading actor in a room to tell him about the story of the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow in a The adaptation of his 2005 film “Good Night and Good Luck”. Another hot ticket – a revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” won Odenkirk a sign of head, but not for his co-stars Kieran Culkin or Comedian Bill Burr. (The snob makes Derail Culkin who may have won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony in less than 18 months.)

SnookThe co-star of the “succession” of Culkin, obtained an appointment for having played the 26 parties in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and the star of “Stranger Things” Sadie Sink won one to lead “John Proctor is the villain”. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”, a prequel to the effects of its former successful Netflix program, won five head nods, including the main actor Louis McCartney.

The news was less good for Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, Both in their beginnings in Broadway. None of the two obtained appointments for their “Romeo + Juliet” presented to generation X and millennials. Robert Downey Jr., who also made his debut on Broadway in the play “McNeal”, was also not recognized. Mia Farrow obtained an appointment for “The Colortime”, but its co-star, the diva of Broadway Patti Lupone, did not do it.

And, under a shock, a bold “Othello” with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal that the producers bill $ 900 for the orchestra seats, did not obtain a single appointment. Idina Menzel Back to Broadway in “Redwood”, a contemporary fable on trees, sorrow and the quest for healing, did not obtain nominations, nor “The past five years”, “ With Nick Jonas and Tony Winner Adrienne Warren

“Our Town” by Thornton Wilder, with Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes, obtained the appointment of Tony Revival Tony, but nothing for his actors. Elton John’s musical in the 1980s TEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE BAKKER And the review Stephen Sondheim with the winners of the Tony Bernadette Peters And Lea Salonga Both came empty.

The Tony Awards will be awarded on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall during a television organized by the star of “Wicked” and Tony Winner Cynthia Erivo.