"In the Heights" leads Broadway's Tony nominations
Fresh York (Reuters) - "In the Heights," an master copy musical comedy written by a university scholarly person about life in a working class Fresh York region, light-emitting diode the nominations for Broadway's round top theatre of operations honors, the Tony Awards, on Tues.
Among the 13 nominations for "In The Heights" were best musical comedy, best original musical score, best performance by a featured role player in a musical for Lin-Manuel Miranda, wHO as well wrote the musical theater, and best charge of a musical theater for Dylan Marlais Thomas Cole.
Miranda wrote the musical comedy, set in Manhattan's largely Hispanic Booker Taliaferro Washington Heights neighborhood, while in his second year at Wesleyan University and afterwards graduating he and Cole reworked it for a larger audience. It start played in Nutmeg State before moving to an off-Broadway theater of operations and then making its Great White Way debut on March 9 this year.
"Richard Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific Ocean" picked up 11 nominations, followed by "William Ashley Sunday in the Car park with Saint George" with nina from Carolina. Both received a nod for best resurgence of a musical comedy, along with "Lubricating oil," the only nominating speech for that musical comedy, and "Gypsy," which had seven-spot nominations.
After an award-winning run in London's West Conclusion, "Macbeth," starring Saint Patrick Stewart, moved across the Atlantic Ocean this twelvemonth to pick up sextuplet nominations, including best revitalisation of a play, topper carrying out by a lead player for Stewart, and best performance by a lead actress for Kate Fleetwood.
"It's so profoundly satisfying to notice that the production has been recognized crosswise the creative board," Stewart told Reuters. "Macbeth does not bear too glow a history with Tony voters."
As well up for topper revival of a play is "Boeing-Boeing," which grabbed six-spot nominations; "Les Liasons Dangereuses," which had five-spot; and "The Homecoming" with trey nominations.
Joseph Pulitzer Prize-winning play "August: Osage County" received sevener nominations, including best play, for which it is competing against Tom Stoppard's "Rock and roll 'n' Roll" and "The Jack-tar" -- each with little Joe nominations -- and "The 39 Steps," which ended up with six nominations.
