Angelina Jolie and Debra Martin Chase took house the Tony Award for finest musical for The Outsiders.
The present takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2967, when Ponyboy Curtis, his finest good friend, Johnny Cade and their Greaser household of “outsiders” battle with their rivals, the Socs, in accordance with the musical’s description. Over the course of the present, nominated for 12 Tonys, the members of the family dream about who they need to be in a world which will by no means settle for them.
The musical was up in opposition to Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Suffs and Water for Elephants for the ultimate award of the night. Amongst trade members, one of the best musical class was essentially the most up within the air main as much as the Tony Awards — although Hell’s Kitchen and The Outsiders had been considered by many because the main contenders. The musical additionally took house finest route, lighting design and sound design.
The Outsiders‘ Joshua Boone, Brody Grant and Sky Lakota-Lynch took the stage to carry out on the 2024 Tonys. Different performances included Cabaret on the Equipment Kat Membership‘s Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne; Hell’s Kitchen‘s Alicia Keys, Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis and Maleah Joi Moon; Illinoise‘s Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck; Merrily We Roll Alongside‘s Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe; Suffs‘ Nikki M. James and Shaina Taub; Pete Townshend with the forged of The Who’s Tommy; and Water for Elephants‘ Grant Gustin and the musical’s acrobatic forged.
The Tony Awards 2024 aired in two components on Sunday night time, reside from New York’s David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Middle. Act One, aka the preshow, was hosted by Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar and featured a presentation of the primary spherical of awards. The primary ceremony, hosted by Ariana DeBose, occurred instantly after.
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