The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown
at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell.“Kimberly Akimbo,” with songs by Jeanine Tesori and a book by David Lindsay-Abaire, follows a teen with a rare genetic disorder that gives her a life expectancy of 16 navigating a dysfunctional family and a stuttering high school romance.
Jodie Comer accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for “Prima Facie” at the 76th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at the United Palace theater in New York. Jodie Comer poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for “Prima Facie” at the 76th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at the Radio Hotel in New York.
David Zayas arrives at the 76th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at the United Palace theater in New York. David Stone and members of the company of “Kimberly Akimbo” accept the award for best musical at the 76th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 11, 2023, at the United Palace theater in New York.
“Thank you for seeing me, Broadway. I should not be up here as a queer, nonbinary, fat, Black little baby from Massachusetts. And to anyone that thinks that they can’t do it, I’m going to look you dead in your face that you can do anything you put your mind to,” Newell said to an ovation. Before the pre-show began, DeBose revealed to the audience the only words that will be seen on the teleprompter: “Please wrap up.” Later in the evening, virtually out of breath after her wordless performance, she thanked the labor organizers for allowing a compromise.
Sean Hayes won lead actor in a play for “Good Night, Oscar,” which dramatizes a long night’s journey into the scarred psyche of pianist Oscar Levant, now obscure but once a star.Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sibling rivalry, inequality and society’s false promises, won the Tony for best play revival.
“This is a very big deal,” he said. “When your own community honors you, it’s very humbling and a little bit scary.”
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