2013 Tony Award winners
The 2013 Tony Awards celebrated the best and the brightest on Broadway. Celebs walked the Audemars Piguet red carpet before watching Neil Patrick Harris perform an 8-minute long opening number that featured scores from current Broadway shows and a cameo by boxer Mike Tyson.
During the more serious portion of the program, several popular plays won big.
“Matilda, the Musical,” snagged four awards while “Kinky Boots,” a feel-good musical featuring songs by Cyndi Lauper, took home six including “Best Musical.”
In a heartfelt moment, actress Cicely Tyson accepted her award as Best Actress for her portrayal of a widow returning to her hometown in “The Trip to Bountiful.”
“I’m the sole surviving member of my immediate family. I’ve asked over and over again why,” said Tyson. “I now know why.”
Check out the full list of Tony Award winners below. -danielle canada
BEST PLAY
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
BEST MUSICAL
Kinky Boots, The Musical
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Matilda, The Musical Dennis Kelly
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Pippin
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Kinky Boots Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Patina Miller, Pippin
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Andrea Martin, Pippin
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
John Lee Beatty, The Nance
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Rob Howell, Matilda, The Musical
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Ann Roth, The Nance
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
John Shivers, Kinky Boots
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Diane Paulus, Pippin
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
