Tony Nominations 2018 Complete List

[Cooper]

Here is the list of 2018 Tony nominations:

 

Best Play:

“The Children”

“Farinelli and The King”

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

“Junk”

“Latin History for Morons”

 

Best Musical:

“The Band’s Visit”

“Frozen”

“Mean Girls”

“SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

 

Best Revival of a Play:

“Angels in America”

“Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

“Lobby Hero”

“Travesties”

 

Best Revival of a Musical:

“My Fair Lady”

“Once On This Island”

“Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

 

Best Book of a Musical:

“The Band’s Visit,” Itamar Moses

“Frozen,” Jennifer Lee

“Mean Girls,” Tina Fey

“SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical,” Kyle Jarrow

 

Best Original Score:

“Angels in America”

“The Band’s Visit”

“Frozen”

“Mean Girls”

“SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play:

Andrew Garfield, “Angels in America”

Tom Hollander, “Travesties”

Jamie Parker, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Mark Rylance, “Farinelli and The King”

Denzel Washington, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play:

Glenda Jackson, “Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women”

Condola Rashad, “Saint Joan”

Lauren Ridloff, “Children of a Lesser God”

Amy Schumer, “Meteor Shower”

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical:

Harry Hadden-Paton, “My Fair Lady”

Joshua Henry, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

Tony Shalhoub, “The Band’s Visit”

Ethan Slater, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

 

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical:

Lauren Ambrose, “My Fair Lady”

Hailey Kilgore, “Once On This Island”

LaChanze, “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical”

Katrina Lenk, “The Band’s Visit”

Taylor Louderman, “Mean Girls”

Jessie Mueller, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play”

Anthony Boyle, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Michael Cera, “Lobby Hero”

Brian Tyree Henry, “Lobby Hero”

Nathan Lane, “Angels in America”

David Morse, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play:

Susan Brown, “Angels in America”

Noma Dumezweni, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Deborah Findlay, “The Children”

Denise Gough, “Angels in America”

Laurie Metcalf, “Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women”

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical:

Norbert Leo Butz, “My Fair Lady”

Alexander Gemignani, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

Grey Henson, “Mean Girls”

Gavin Lee, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

Ari’el Stachel, “The Band’s Visit”

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical:

Ariana DeBose, “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical”

Renée Fleming, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

Lindsay Mendez, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

Ashley Park, “Mean Girls”

Diana Rigg, “My Fair Lady”

 

Best Scenic Design of a Play:

Miriam Buether, “Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women”

Jonathan Fensom, “Farinelli and The King”

Christine Jones, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Santo Loquasto, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

Ian MacNeil and Edward Pierce, “Angels in America”

 

Best Scenic Design of a Musical:

Dane Laffrey, “Once On This Island”

Scott Pask, “The Band’s Visit”

Scott Pask, Finn Ross & Adam Young, “Mean Girls”

Michael Yeargan, “My Fair Lady”

David Zinn, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

 

Best Costume Design of a Play:

Jonathan Fensom, “Farinelli and The King”

Nicky Gillibrand, “Angels in America”

Katrina Lindsay, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Ann Roth, “Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women”

Ann Roth, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

 

Best Costume Design of a Musical:

Gregg Barnes, “Mean Girls”

Clint Ramos, “Once On This Island”

Ann Roth, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

David Zinn, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

Catherine Zuber, “My Fair Lady”

 

Best Lighting Design of a Play:

Neil Austin, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Paule Constable, “Angels in America”

Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

Paul Russell, “Farinelli and The King”

Ben Stanton, “Junk”

 

 

Best Lighting Design of a Musical:

Kevin Adams, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, “Once On This Island”

Donald Holder, “My Fair Lady”

Brian MacDevitt, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

Tyler Micoleau, “The Band’s Visit”

 

Best Sound Design of a Play:

Adam Cork, “Travesties”

Ian Dickinson for Autograph, “Angels in America”

Gareth Fry, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Tom Gibbons, “1984”

Dan Moses Schreier, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

 

Best Sound Design of a Musical:

Kai Harada, “The Band’s Visit”

Peter Hylenski, “Once On This Island”

Scott Lehrer, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

Brian Ronan, “Mean Girls”

Walter Trarbach and Mike Dobson, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

 

Best Direction of a Play:

Marianne Elliott, “Angels in America”

Joe Mantello, “Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women”

Patrick Marber, “Travesties”

John Tiffany, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

George C. Wolfe, “Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh”

 

Best Direction of a Musical:

Michael Arden, “Once On This Island”

David Cromer, “The Band’s Visit”

Tina Landau, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

Casey Nicholaw, “Mean Girls”

Bartlett Sher, “My Fair Lady”

 

Best Choreography:

Christopher Gattelli, “My Fair Lady”

Christopher Gattelli, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

Steven Hoggett, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two”

Casey Nicholaw, “Mean Girls”

Justin Peck, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

 

Best Orchestrations:

John Clancy, “Mean Girls”

Tom Kitt, “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical”

Annmarie Milazzo & Michael Starobin, “Once On This Island”

Jamshied Sharifi, “The Band’s Visit”

Jonathan Tunick, “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel”

 

Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories

 

Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre:

Chita Rivera

Andrew Lloyd Webber

 

Special Tony Awards:

John Leguizamo

Bruce Springsteen

[Kenny]

I’m hoping for a SpongeBob SquarePants sweep. A children’s cartoon pretty much sums up today’s Broadway.

[edjames]

SpongeBob Square Pants is a wonderfully fun and entertaining musical for everyone, not just kids!

Ethan Slater should win a Tony for his role.

[Cooper]

Leading in Tony nominations were “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical” & “Mean Girls”. Each receiving 12.

 

I’ll have to re-think seeing Mean Girls. Did the critics miss something?

[+ purplekow]

Leading in Tony nominations were “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical” & “Mean Girls”. Each receiving 12.

 

I’ll have to re-think seeing Mean Girls. Did the critics miss something?

Yes they missed the originality shown by previous plays.

Edited May 1, 2018 by purplekow

[kenomora]

I totally thought Barrett Wilbert Weed was going to be nominated. She has the 11 o’clock number in that show and she nails it.

[Cooper]

Interesting article:

 

Wasted in Margaritaville: Who Didn't Get Nominated for a 2018 Tony Award?

Jimmy Buffett and Donna Summer are among the big losers of this morning's Tony nominations.

 

May 01, 2018

Jimmy Buffett (center) leads the Broadway cast of Escape to Margaritaville in a carefree sing-a-long.

(© David Gordon)

Hamilton, one of the most acclaimed musicals of the decade, has two far-less-celebrated neighbors: Across the street from the Richard Rodgers Theatre is Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, which only walked away with two Tony nominations this morning (Best Leading Actress for LaChanze, and Best Featured Actress for Ariana DeBose). Next door to the Rodgers is Escape to Margaritaville, an apt description of what the producers might want to do this month since there will be no reason to stick around New York: The Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical received no Tony nominations. Better find that shaker of salt, because the drinking starts now.

 

Margaritaville is the only currently running new Broadway production to be completely shut out of the running. The other totally snubbed titles are long shuttered. That includes the Beau Willimon political thriller (read: snooze fest) The Parisian Woman, which marked Uma Thurman's Broadway debut (but clearly not her Tony debut). It's not a lost cause for all Broadway debutantes, though: Amy Schumer picked up a nomination for her performance in Steve Martin's Meteor Shower (yes, that Steve Martin, and no, he was not nominated for his mildly funny script).

 

Uma Thurman will not pick up a Tony nomination for her Broadway debut, but Amy Schumer got one for hers.

(© David Gordon/Matthew Murphy)

The nominators turned their noses up at two of this season's three solo performances: Neither John Lithgow: Stories by Heart nor Michael Moore's monologue The Terms of My Surrender will appear on the Tony ballot. John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons will be considered in the Best Play category (the show's only nod). It seems unlikely to win, but Leguizamo will still walk away with a Special Award this year for his three-decade body of work.

 

This year saw a crop of excellent play revivals, so it's no surprise that some notable names were left off the list: Julie Taymor's revival of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly walked away with nothing; same goes for the Roundabout Theatre Company revivals of Time and the Conways(starring Elizabeth McGovern) and Marvin's Room (starring Lili Taylor). The current revival of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan was rightly passed over in the Best Revival category, although leading lady Condola Rashad received her fourth Tony nomination for her performance as the Maid of Orleans (the only nod for the production). Similarly, the revival of Children of a Lesser God received a single nomination, for Lauren Ridloff in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category.

 

The Tony nominators didn't think that Michael Moore's The Terms of My Surrender was all that and a bag of chips.

(© Joan Marcus)

The last completely snubbed production of the season was the Harold Prince revue Prince of Broadway, which opened to chilly reviews in August before closing in October. The show featured a talented cast and some truly standout performances, but they were not enough to earn the love of nominators in April. As for Prince, he will be fine: The winner of 21 previous Tonys, he is the most decorated individual in the history of the Awards.

 

The exclusion of Frozen stars Caissie Levy and Putti Murin is sure to raise eyebrows. Male lead Jelani Alladin was also left off the list, although he is up for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Frozendid receive three nominations: Best Book, Best Score, and the all-important Best Musical. Shockingly, none of the design elements were nominated, a huge snub for a producer like Disney with a reputation for spectacle. Overall, it's a disappointing showing for a major new musical (by comparison, Mean Girls and SpongeBob received 12 nominations each).

 

Caissie Levy and Patti Murin of Frozen will have to "Let It Go''. Neither was nominated for a 2018 Tony Award.

(© Deen var Meer)

After a season in which it looked like 1984 would be shut out of consideration because of a conflict between producers and the nominating committee, the producers of the George Orwell stage adaptation must be glad the nominators came around: The show received one nomination, for Tom Gibbons's aggressive sound design, which was apparently so effective it had some patrons puking in the aisles. That's an honor all on its own.

 

As usual, it pays to have a show that is open for voters to see: 90 percent of today's nominations are for shows currently running on Broadway (Farinelli and the King is this season's most-nominated closed production, with five nods). Recognizing that, the producers of SpongeBob SquarePants(12 noms) and Once on This Island(eight noms) deserve a lot of credit for shepherding their shows through the dismal winter months. Should they pick up any awards, it could be a boon for the box office.

 

The Awards won't be announced until June 10, which means a whole month of campaigning that starts right now. A lot can happen between now and then. Stay tuned.