Cyndi Lauper’s Kinky Boots earned 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, leading the pack of musicals, comedies and dramas up for Broadway’s top honors.
The 67th awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBS at 8 p.m. June 9. Look for many of these shows at a Fox Theatre near you as soon as the 2014 season.
Kinky Boots (pictured) is based on a 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear. Lauper’s songs and a story by Harvey Fierstein (Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles) have turned it into a hit. At last count it was running at 98 percent capacity at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
The British import Matilda: The Musical, about an extraordinary little girl who decides that despite a bad beginning, her story is going to be astonishing, earned 12 nominations.
Kinky Boots and Matilda will compete for best musical with A Christmas Story and the cheerleading saga Bring It On, which began life at the Alliance Theatre in 2011.
The revival of Clifford Odets 1938 Golden Boy, a drama about a violinist turned boxer, leads non-musicals with eight nominations. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang’s riff on Chekhov, has six nominations as does Lucky Guy, a Nora Ephron-penned project featuring Tom Hanks as real-life charismatic, controversial, Pulitzer Prize-winning tabloid columnist Mike McAlary.
Lucky Guy and Spike, etc., will compete for best play honors with The Assembled Parties, Richard Greenberg’s portrait of a family grasping for stability at the turn of the 21st century, and The Testament of Mary, Colm Tóibin’s one-woman play featuring Fiona Shaw as the mother of Jesus, telling her story of her son’s crucifixion.
The four actresses who created the title role in Matilda: The Musical — Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro — will each receive a noncompetitive Tony for excellence in the theater.
Special Tony awards for lifetime achievement will go to Bernie Gersten, longtime executive producer of Lincoln Center Theater; Paul Libin, executive vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters and scenic designer Ming Cho Lee. Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company will receive the regional theater Tony. The Isabelle Stevenson Award, named for the longtime president of the American Theatre Wing, goes to playwright/activist Larry Kramer (The Normal Heart). It’s dedicated to “an individual from the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations, regardless of whether such organizations relate to the theater.” (Pictured, at right: Kramer)
The complete list of nominees:
BEST PLAY
The Assembled Parties, Richard Greenberg
Lucky Guy, Nora Ephron
The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang
BEST MUSICAL
Bring It On
A Christmas Story
Kinky Boots
Matilda: The Musical
BEST BOOK / MUSICAL
A Christmas Story, Joseph Robinette
Kinky Boots, Harvey Fierstein
Matilda: The Musical, Dennis Kelly
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Douglas Carter Beane
BEST REVIVAL / PLAY
Golden Boy
Orphans
The Trip to Bountiful
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BEST REVIVAL / MUSICAL
Annie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
A Christmas Story, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Hands on a Hardbody, Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green
Kinky Boots, Cyndi Lauper
Matilda: The Musical, Tim Minchin
BEST LEADING ACTOR / PLAY
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Tom Sturridge, Orphans
BEST LEADING ACTRESS / PLAY
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place
Amy Morton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Holland Taylor, Ann
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
BEST LEADING ACTOR / MUSICAL
Bertie Carvel, Matilda: The Musical
Santino Fontana, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Rob McClure, Chaplin
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Stark Sands, Kinky Boots
BEST LEADING ACTRESS / MUSICAL
Stephanie J. Block, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Carolee Carmello, Scandalous
Valisia LeKae, Motown: The Musical
Patina Miller, Pippin
Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
BEST FEATURED ACTOR / PLAY
Danny Burstein, Golden Boy
Richard Kind, The Big Knife
Billy Magnussen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy
Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
BEST FEATURED ACTRESS / PLAY
Carrie Coon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Shalita Grant, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Judith Ivey, The Heiress
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Condola Rashad, The Trip to Bountiful
BEST FEATURED ACTOR / MUSICAL
Charl Brown, Motown: The Musical
Keith Carradine, Hands on a Hardbody
Will Chase, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Gabriel Ebert, Matilda: The Musical
Terrence Mann, Pippin
BEST FEATURED ACTRESS / MUSICAL
Annaleigh Ashford, Kinky Boots
Victoria Clark, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Andrea Martin, Pippin
Keala Settle, Hands on a Hardbody
Lauren Ward, Matilda: The Musical
BEST SCENIC DESIGN / PLAY
John Lee Beatty, The Nance
Santo Loquasto, The Assembled Parties
David Rockwell, Lucky Guy
Michael Yeargan, Golden Boy
BEST SCENIC DESIGN / MUSICAL
Rob Howell, Matilda: The Musical
Anna Louizos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Scott Pask, Pippin
David Rockwell, Kinky Boots
BEST COSTUME DESIGN / PLAY
Soutra Gilmour, Cyrano de Bergerac
Ann Roth, The Nance
Albert Wolsky, The Heiress
Catherine Zuber, Golden Boy
BEST COSTUME DESIGN / MUSICAL
Gregg Barnes, Kinky Boots
Rob Howell, Matilda: The Musical
Dominique Lemieux, Pippin
William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN / PLAY
Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
Donald Holder, Golden Boy
Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary
Japhy Weideman, The Nance
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN / MUSICAL
Kenneth Posner, Kinky Boots, Pippin and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Hugh Vanstone, Matilda: The Musical”
BEST SOUND DESIGN / PLAY
John Gromada, The Trip to Bountiful
Peter John Sill & Marc Salzberg, Golden Boy
Mel Mercier, The Testament of Mary
Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
BEST SOUND DESIGN / MUSICAL
Jonathan Deans & Garth Helm, Pippin
Peter Hylenski, Motown: The Musical
John Shivers, Kinky Boots
Nevin Steinberg, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
BEST DIRECTION / PLAY
Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nicholas Martin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Bartlett Sher, Golden Boy
George C. Wolfe, Lucky Guy
BEST DIRECTION / MUSICAL
Scott Ellis, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Diane Paulus, Pippin
Matthew Warchus, Matilda: The Musical
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Andy Blankenbuehler, Bring It On
Peter Darling, Matilda: The Musical
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Chet Walker, Pippin
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Chris Nightingale, Matilda: The Musical
Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
Ethan Popp & Bryan Crook, Motown: The Musical
Danny Troob, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
NOMINATIONS BY PRODUCTION
13 — Kinky Boots
12 — Matilda: The Musical
10 — Pippin
9 — Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
8 — Golden Boy
6 — Lucky Guy; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
5 — The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Nance; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
4 — Motown: The Musical; The Trip to Bountiful
3 — The Assembled Parties; A Christmas Story; Hands on a Hardbody; The Testament of Mary
2 — Bring It On; The Heiress; Orphans
1 — Ann; Annie; The Big Knife; Chaplin; Cyrano de Bergerac; The Other Place; Scandalous
