The American Theatre Wing’s 63rd Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards took place Sunday night, June 7 at Radio City Music Hall. CBS presented a live broadcast from 8-11 p.m. Eastern/7-10 p.m. Central.
The Tony Awards are the most prestigious awards in the theatre world.
View a complete list of the Tony nominees here.
So, without further ado, allow us to share the 2009 Tony Awards winners.
Best Play
God of Carnage
Author: Yasmina Reza
Producers: Robert Fox, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Stuart Thompson, Scott Rudin, Jon B. Platt, The Weinstein Company, The Shubert Organization
Best Musical
Billy Elliot, …

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 …

The three young men who alternate in the title roll of Billy Elliot, from Billy Elliot the Musical, will be appearing on CBS’ “The Early Show,” Tuesday, May 5, sometime between the hours of 7-9 a.m. (Eastern and Central).
Kiril Kulish, David Alvarez and Trent Kowalik alternate in the roll, but will perform side by side in the one of the show’s impressive song dance numbers, “Electricity.”
Who: Kiril Kulish, David Alvarez and Trent Kowalik, the three boys from Broadway’s Billy Elliot the Musical
What: Performance of “Electricity” from Billy Elliot the Musical …

The revival of the 1960’s musical Hair recently returned to Broadway, opening March 31 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Tonight the cast of Hair will recreate a historic and iconic moment as they perform at the Ed Sullivan Theater on “The Late Show with David Letterman.”
Why so historical? The original Broadway cast of Hair performed at the Ed Sullivan Theater 40 years ago, on March 30, 1969, with variety show host himself, Ed Sullivan.
The original cast performed a medley of the show’s opening and closing songs, “Aquarius” and “Let the …

It seems to be the week of theatre-related guest stars on popular television shows. Last night featured Pattie LuPone and John Lithgow on “30 Rock,” and Cheyenne Jackson on “Ugly Betty.”
Tonight is Barrett Foa’s turn. Foa (Mamma Mia!, Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) is guest starring in tonight’s episode of the CBS FBI series “Numb3rs,” entitled “First Law.”
(Foa is in the middle in the photo.)
The synopsis: “When a super computer is the prime suspect in the death of cutting-edge scientist, the team must use new means …

Set your DVRs tonight!
“Ugly Betty” has been seeing stars lately, including Bernadette Peters, and tonight is Cheyenne Jackson’s turn. Jackson (most recently seen on Broadway in Xanadu) is guest starring tonight (March 5) on ABC’s “Ugly Betty.”
The episode is entitled “Sugar Daddy,” and Jackson is set to portray the love interest of Marc St. James (played by Michael Urie).
The “Ugly Betty” website has this description of the episode: “The Suarez family try to come up with the cash to buy their rental home after their landlord decides to sell, …

The latest Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre on March 1, following previews that began Feb. 5.
With music and lyrics music by Frank Loesser, and a libretto by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, you may not know that it’s based specifically on two short stories by Damon Runyon (”The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown” and “Blood Pressure”), and borrows bits and pieces of other plot elements and characters from other Runyon stories, including “Pick the Winner.”
The musical comedy first opened on Broadway on Nov. 24, …

I know this is being covered a bit late, but I’m catching up with the news, and I can’t NOT discuss this.
In what is probably one of the shortest openings-closings on Broadway, The Story of My Life stands out. The show opened to previews on Feb. 3, opened to audiences on Feb. 19, and closed on Feb. 22.
How sad is that? And it sounded good, too. Sure, it didn’t have the flashy sets and whatnot, but it sounded like it had a decent storyline and music. Kind of like Jason …

Amra-Faye Wright joined the Broadway cast of Chicago yesterday, Feb. 2, performing the role of Velma Kelly. She has previously performed in the London and South African companies of Chicago.
Previously she performed as Velma Kelly on Broadway in 2006, as well as portraying Sheila in A Chorus Line (Civic Theatre, Johannesburg), Vi Moore in Footloose (UK tour), and Sandy in Grease (Johannesburg Superbowl).
Additionally, Charlotte d’Amboise will return to the production on Feb. 13, as Roxie Hart. Dukes of Hazzard’s Tom Wopat will take on the role of Billy Flynn on …