Wow, what an opening! By the way, I’m going to try to live-blog this…stay tuned as the show continues, and I continue to update this post.
Stockard Channing! Rizzo forever! She’s amazing, as always.
Shrek looks interesting, indeed. I love the Duloc “toy” dancers. I wish they’d have done a song that fully featured Sutton Foster — love her!
Angela Lansbury SO deserved the Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play — and she’s got 5 Tonys now!
Yay! I love me some Dancing Queen!
*sigh* I love West Side Story. …

The nominees for the American Theatre Wing’s 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards were announced this morning (May 5) by Tony Award winners Cynthia Nixon (Rabbit Hole) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights).
The Tony Awards are the most prestigious awards in the theatre world. Who do YOU think will win?
(The Tony nominations ceremony can be viewed at the Tony Awards website.)
The nominations took place at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York.
The 2009 Tony Awards will …

Announcing the 61st Annual Tony Awards Winners!
The 61st Annual Tony Awards were held last evening, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall. Here are the Tony Award results!
Spring Awakening (musical) and The Coast of Utopia (play) were the big winners of the evening, especially for Best Musical and Best Play, respectively!
Multiple awards were won by the following:
Spring Awakening — 8 awards (11 nominations)
The Coast of Utopia — 7 awards (10 nominations)
Grey Gardens — 3 awards (10 nominations)
Now, onto the complete list of winners! (Click the “Read more” below!)

That’s right, the 61st Annual Tony Awards are happening tonight, Sunday June 10th at 8/7c on CBS!
In case you missed it the first time, here are the nominations!

Nominations for the 2007 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards®
Presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing
Best Musical
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Read under the cut for the complete list of nominees!

Celebrity Presenters for the 2007 Tony Awards, direct from TonyAwards.com:
The Broadway and Hollywood stars on hand to hand out awards in the 25 competitive categories will include (subject to change):
Jane Alexander – a seven-time Tony nominated actress who won in 1969 for The Great White Hope. She served as chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1993 to 1997.
Christina Applegate – an Emmy Award-winning performer. She was a 2005 Tony Award nominee as Best Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut in the title role of a …

Nominations for the 2007 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards®
Presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing
Best Musical
Curtains
Grey Gardens
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Read under the cut for the complete list of nominees!