![]() ![]() It stars Sean Hayes, who has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play.Īt the Belasco Theatre, 111 W. While Levant was an odd genius and a brilliant concert pianist with remarkable wit, he was unpredictable, and the show explores the distinction between entertainment and exploitation. Good Night, Oscar takes place in 1958, when late-night host Jack Paar features Oscar Levant on his live show. Runs through June 25.Īt the American Airlines Theatre, 227 W. ![]() Lisa Kopitsky is the show’s flight director. Juicy, the Hamlet figure, is a black queer Southern college student whose dead father’s ghost shows up in his backyard demanding he avenges his murder. (Lincoln Center.) (212) 239-6200.įat Ham, with five Tony nominations, including Best Play, is a clever and funny 90-minute production loosely based on Hamlet, although all the characters’ names have been changed. Directed by Barlett Sher (he was raised Catholic but when he was a teenager, he learned that his father was Jewish.)Īt the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 W. King Arthur’s wife Guinevere falls in love with his favorite Knight, Sir Lancelot. Camelot is up for six Tony’s, including Best Musical Revival. (800) 447-7400.Ĭamelot, based on the classic beloved musical with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, has a 21st-century spin, thanks to Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the book and updated this production. The musical score highlights the singer’s most beloved hits, including “Sweet Caroline” and “Cracklin’ Rose.” Although this show didn’t receive any nominations, the audiences continue to love it and sing along with some of the well-known songs.Īt the Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. Will Swenson and Mark Jacoby both play Neil at different ages. ![]() His first break into songwriting was in the 1960s, and this energetic show highlights his disappointments, successes and rise to stardom. (833) 274-8497.Ī Beautiful Noise the Neil Diamond Musical tells the story of music legend Neil Diamond, a poor Jewish boy from Brooklyn who became universally revered. The music supervisor, orchestrator and arranger is Bill Sherman.Īt the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, 124 W. Book is by David West Read (writer for Schitt’s Creek), and music and lyrics are by Max Martin. Ben Jackson Walker plays Romeo and Lorna Courtney plays Juliet - both are University of Michigan grads. This romantic comedy, whose nine nominations include Best New Musical and Best Book of a Musical, features some of the biggest hits by Katy Perry, Britney Spears and Ariana Grande. & Juliet imagines a new life for Juliet after Romeo. Here are some of Broadway’s currently running Tony-nominated musicals and plays with a Jewish connection: Shucked, & Juliet and New York, New York earned nine nominations, and Kimberly Akimbo and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, nabbed eight. William Michals, Jackson Teeley, Paul Alexander Nolan, Eddie Cooper and Max Chernin in Parade Joan MarcusĪs for this year’s nominations, Some Like it Hot garnered 13 - the most. In support of the WGA, the Tony Award Productions will be altered, but the show will still air. Due to the writer’s strike, there was a concern the show would not air however, the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) agreed not to picket the telecast. NaTasha Yvette Williams with the cast of Some Like It Hot Read about the nominees with Jewish connections.īroadway is finally back in full swing, and the 76th Tony Awards will be held on June 11 at the United Palace in New York City, televised on CBS at 8 p.m. ![]()
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