Tonys summary 2025: Make, winners

Maybe a happy endingA musical on two robots falling in love, was The big winner in tony Awards Sunday, as the ceremony also awarded a certain number of first.

The musical won the first prize for the best musical, Darren Criss winning his first Tony Award for having directed the show, as well as four others TonsIncluding the best director of a musical. Nicole Scherzinger won her first Tony Award for her role as Norma Desmond in Sunset BLVD. in one of the The hottest disputed Categories, beating the Tony Audra McDonald Tony Audra winner six times.

“Growing up, I always felt like I did not belong. But you made me all felt that I belong, and I finally returned,” said Scherzinger during his speech of emotional acceptance.

Sunset Blvd. Also won the Tony for the best renewal of a musical, for the stripped reinterpretation of Jamie Lloyd from Andrew Lloyd Webber Classic.

Many races have been particularly close this year, including the best game, with the family drama of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Aim Bring the trophy back to Cole Escola Oh, Mary! And John Proctor is the villainWith Sadie Sink.

But Cole Escola won the Tony Award for the best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play, and the director of the play Sam Pinkleton also won a Tony.

Run on the stage in a outfit that paid tribute in Bernadette Peters, Escola, who depicts Mary Todd Lincoln as a budding cabaret starthanked the other candidates they had beaten in the category, including George Clooney.

“It is an honor to be in your company. And more than that, it was a sincere pleasure to spend time with you rather than these hot salads to all these lunches,” said Escola.

In a season filled with celebrities, Sarah Snook won the Tony for the best performance of an actress in a leading role in a play of a woman of a woman of The image of Dorian Grayin which she plays the 26 roles. THE Succession The star did it Broadway Beginning with the role, after playing the role in the West End.

“It means so much for a little Australian girl to be here in Broadway,” said Snook. “It is presented as a person’s show, and I don’t feel alone every night that I do this show.”

Eureka day, A dark comedy on vaccinations, brought the tony back for the best renewal of a play.

Kara Young has also made the story As a first black artist to win two tones in a row, winning the best featured actress in a room for her role in Aziza, a capricious friend thrown into the family drama Pulitzer price winning game Aim. She was also nominated four years in a row.

Natalia Venetia Belcon won the best star actress in a musical for her role as famous singer Omara Portuondo Buena Vista Social ClubMarking one of the four victories of the show, which was also in place for the best musical, brought home.

Cynthia Erivo, who was the host of this year, opened the ceremony with a tribute behind the scenes to Sunset BLVD., leading to a Gospel number sung alongside the Broadway Inspirational Voices Choir. Erivo, who won a Tony Award in 2016 for his role as Celie in A purple colorThen sneaks in turn to nominees in the public, including Clooney, which she mentioned as nominated for the first time that went in places, then herself.

“As they apparently say in a very fertile intellectual property:” There is no room like the house. And Broadway has always been mine, “said Erivo.

Erivo later welcomed Oprah Winfrey in the audience and told her to look under her chair, under which she had placed a gift bag and articles, including candy and a model car. “You get a car,” she joked. The winners who have gone too long in their speeches were played by Erivo’s song.

Other star names in Broadway, including Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, with Othelloand Kieran Culkin GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS,, were not nominated For Tony price And were not part of the ceremony.

Bryan Cranston, Allison Janney, Glenn Close, Jesse Eisenberg, Sara Bareilles, Jean Smart and Sarah Paulson were among the presenters of Tony Awards.

Jak Malone won a Tony Award for best actor in a star role in a musical for his roles in roles Mancemeat operation, Who includes a female secretary named Hester, a feat that he only performs with “simple adjustments to posture, voice and energy”. He was one of the many candidates to refer to the current political environment in his speech.

“If you watched our program and you found yourself believing Hester, then I am so happy to tell you that, intentionally or otherwise, you may just have goodbye to cynicism, to outdated ideas on this old binary and you are open to a world that is already up there in a glorious technique and which did not go soon,” Malone said in his speech of acceptance.

Michael Arden, who won a Tony for his management Maybe a happy endingalso pointed out how “Live theater Confirm that no matter how different we can be of each other, we are all connected “and called viewers to” support the arts. Support artists. We need you more than ever.

The broadcast presented musical performance by Death becomes her,, Buena Vista Social Club, just in time, Sunset Blvd, Pirates! Penzance, perhaps a happy ending, Dead Outlaw, Flloyd Collins, Operation Mincemeat, Gypsy, real women have curvesand a meeting of the original Hamilton Cast, Including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr and Ariana Debose and Jonathan Groff do a double function with them and with Just in time.

In the first half of Tonys television, Stranger Things: The First Shadow widely swept the creative prices, winning three design prizes, while Maybe a happy ending I won two musical Grands Prix, with writers Will Aronson and Hue Park winning the best book in the musical and the best original partition.

Paul Tazelli won a Tony for the best costume design of a musical for his creations on Death becomes her, In the only victory of the musical, after winning an Oscar for his costume conceptions on Wicked Earlier this year.

Tony Award’s actor Celia Keenan-Bolger, received the Isabelle Stevenson Prize for her advocacy work, including LGBTQ +activism, and promoted the Gavin Creel Stock Exchange, named after her late and beloved friend The Broadway actor, who will provide subsidies from $ 25,000 to five emerging theater actors each year.

Harvey Prierstein, quadruple winner of the Tony Award, received success for life in the theater prize, for his work, including Torche song trilogyThe 1982 play in which he wrote and played, which inaugurated his representation of gay culture, as well as the writing of the book for The crazy cage, kinky boots, newsies and more. He received a standing ovation while he was approaching and tearing before saying: “Don’t make mom cry.”

“What I find the most humiliating is the thought that my journey means something for you,” said proud.