Kimberly Akimbo won Best Musical and Leopoldstadt won Best Play at the 76th annual Antoinette Perry (“Tony”) Awards ceremony on June 11, celebrating the best in Broadway theatre.
Best Revival awards went to Parade for Musical and Topdog/Underdog for Play.
Kimberly Akimbo was the top award-getter, earning five: Best Musical, Best Book (David Lindsay-Abaire), Best Score (Jeanine Tesori and Lindsay-Abaire), Best Actress in a Musical (Victoria Clark) and Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Bonnie Milligan).
Many of the shows announced plans for national tours in the weeks since the nominations were made public, including Kimberly Akimbo, Some Like it Hot, & Juliet and New York, New York.
Though 12 of the season’s 40 productions won at least one Tony Award, several major productions came away with no award at all, including & Juliet and Into the Woods.
As part of its agreement with the Writers Guild of America, which is currently on strike, the Tony Ceremony used no script, which eliminated canned banter. That left more time for performances. The ceremony still ran four hours, including one hour of technical awards and special awards on a streaming service, and three hours of the major awards on CBS-TV.
Hosted again this year by Ariana DeBose, the Tonys were presented jointly by The American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League.
Here is a complete list of the 2023 winners:
Best New Musical
Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori
Best New Play
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Best Musical Revival
Parade by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown
Best Play Revival
Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
Best Original Score
Kimberly Akimbo, music by Jeanine Tesori; lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire
Best Book of a Musical
David Lindsay-Abaire, Kimberly Akimbo
Best Choreography
Casey Nicholaw, Some Like It Hot
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo
Best Leading Actor in a Musical
J. Harrison Ghee, Some Like It Hot
Best Leading Actor in a Play
Sean Hayes, Good Night, Oscar
Best Leading Actress in a Play
Jodie Comer, Prima Facie
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Alex Newell, Shucked
Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Bonnie Milligan, Kimberly Akimbo
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Brandon Uranowitz, Leopoldstadt
Best Featured Actress in a Play
Miriam Silverman, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Best Direction of a Musical
Michael Arden, Parade
Best Direction of a Play
Patrick Marber, Leopoldstadt
Best Orchestrations
Charlie Rosen and Bryan Carter, Some Like It Hot
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Beowulf Boritt, New York, New York
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Tim Hatley and Andrzej Goulding, Life of Pi
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gregg Barnes, Some Like It Hot
Best Costume Design of a Play
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Leopoldstadt
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Nevin Steinberg, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Sound Design of a Play
Carolyn Downing, Life of Pi
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Natasha Katz, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Tim Lutkin, Life of Pi
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
Joel Grey and John Kander
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater
Lisa Dawn Cave, Victoria Bailey and Robert Fried
Isabelle Stevenson Award
Jerry Mitchell
Regional Theater Tony Award
Pasadena Playhouse
Tony Award for Excellence in Theater Education
Jason Zembuch Young
Award totals by show:
Kimberly Akimbo: 5
Leopoldstadt: 4
Some Like It Hot: 4
Life of Pi: 3
Parade: 2
Sweeney Todd: 2
Good Night, Oscar: 1
New York New York: 1
Prima Facie: 1
Shucked: 1
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window: 1
Topdog/Underdog: 1
Photo: Tony winner Victoria Clark and Tony nominee Justin Cooley in Kimberly Akimbo.
