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Nuray Bulbul

Tony Awards 2023: Full list of winners as Leopoldstadt and Kimberly Akimbo bag top prizes

This year's historic Tony Awards saw significant wins despite almost being postponed due to the ongoing writers’ strike.

The night also witnessed history with two non-binary Tony Award winners. J Harrison Ghee won best actor in leading role in a musical for Some Like It Hot, while Alex Newell earned the award for best featured actor for their part in Shucked.

Jodie Comer once again impressed judges with her acting skills, this time for her one-woman Broadway show Prime Facie.

This year's ceremony was almost postponed, but a deal on May 15 ensured that the night would not be picketed as long as it was unscripted.

Despite the deal, the Writers Guild of America reportedly continued to ask nominated members not to attend.

The strike prevented Lin-Manuel Miranda from continuing to create the song he had been commissioned to write for the event, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Broadway’s biggest night of the year was hosted by Ariana DeBose, who opened the show referencing the strike with a performance where she flipped through empty pages in a binder labelled “script” in a dressing room.

“We don’t have a script you guys. I am live and unscripted. You’re welcome.”

Winners - full list

Best musical

& Juliet

Kimberly Akimbo

New York, New York

Shucked, Some Like It Hot

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topdog/Underdog

Corey Hawkins, Topdog/Underdog

Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar

Stephen McKinley Henderson, Between Riverside and Crazy

Wendell Pierce, Death of a Salesman

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical

Annaleigh Ashford, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sara Bareilles, Into the Woods

Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo

Lorna Courtney, & Juliet

Micaela Diamond, Parade

Best play

Ain’t No Mo’ by Jordan E Cooper

Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis

Cost of Living by Martyna Majok

Fat Ham by James Ijames

Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play

Jessica Chastain, A Doll’s House

Jodie Comer, Prima Facie

Jessica Hecht, Summer, 1976

Audra McDonald, Ohio State Murders

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical

Christian Borle, Some Like It Hot

J Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot

Josh Groban, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Brian d’Arcy James, Into the Woods

Ben Platt, Parade

Colton Ryan, New York, New York

Best revival of a musical

Into the Woods

Camelot

Parade

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best book of a musical

& Juliet – David West Read

Kimberly Akimbo – David Lindsay-Abaire

New York, New York – David Thompson and Sharon Washington

Shucked – Robert Horn

Some Like It Hot – Matthew López and Amber Ruffin

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical

Kevin Cahoon, Shucked

Justin Cooley, Kimberly Akimbo

Kevin Del Aguila, Some Like It Hot

Jordan Donica, Camelot

Alex Newell, Shucked

Best revival of a play

The Piano Lesson

A Doll’s House

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

Topdog/Underdog

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play

Nikki Crawford, Fat Ham

Crystal Lucas-Perry, Ain’t No Mo’

Miriam Silverman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window

Katy Sullivan, Cost of Living

Kara Young, Cost of Living

Best direction of a musical

Michael Arden, Parade

Lear deBessonet, Into the Woods

Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot

Jack O’Brien, Shucked

Jessica Stone, Kimberly Akimbo

Best direction of a play

Saheem Ali, Fat Ham

Jo Bonney, Cost of Living

Jamie Lloyd, A Doll’s House

Patrick Marber, Leopoldstadt

Stevie Walker-Webb, Ain’t No Mo’

Max Webster, Life of Pi

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical

Julia Lester, Into the Woods

Ruthie Ann Miles, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo

Natasha Yvette Williams, Some Like It Hot

Betsy Wolfe, & Juliet

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