After the 33rd Nuit des Molières in France, the 75th Tony Awards (United States) unveiled their winners this night during a ceremony broadcast on CBS live from Radio City Music Hall. Often compared to the Oscars, the Tony Awards reward the best plays staged on Broadway during the past season.
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The 75th Tony Awards, which reward the best plays and musicals staged on Broadway each year, were held yesterday in New York at Radio City Music Hall. The ceremony, opened with great fanfare by a musical performance by Ariana DeBose (Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the remake of West Side Story of Steven Spielberg) celebrating Broadway’s greatest hits, celebrated a season of renewal for theaters across the Big Apple which were only able to reopen in the fall of 2021, after eighteen months of closure due to the COVID pandemic -19. The 75th Tony Awards notably sounded the triumph of The Lehman Trilogy, who leaves with five trophies out of a total of eight nominations, including best play, best actor (Simon Russell Beale) and best director (Sam Mendes).
This play by Italian Stefano Massini about the rise and fall of Lehman Brothers bank, whose failure was one of the triggers of the 2008 global economic crisis, has had a remarkable journey to Broadway: it was staged in its entirety for the first time in Saint-Étienne in 2015 by director Arnaud Meunier, who had commissioned Stefano Massini to produce the last two chapters of this tragedy of modern times. Building on its success, the play was presented at the Royal National Theater in London in 2018 in a staging signed Sam Mendesthe director of 1917, Skyfall et American Beauty : it is this staging that was crowned yesterday at the Tony Awards after its remarkable passage on Broadway.
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Another London play landed on Broadway was also honored since the adaptation of Company, cult musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth created in 1970, won five awards including best musical cover. Musical comedy A Strange Loop, collected only two prizes out of eleven possible awards, but not the least prestigious since this one was voted best musical of the year while its playwright Michael R. Jackson – unrelated to Michael Jacksonincluding the hit musical biopic (MJ) walked away with four trophies – won the prize for best musical libretto, having won a historic Pulitzer Prize in 2020.
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