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 …

Set your DVRs tonight!
NBC’s Emmy-winning series “30 Rock” will gain some clout tonight as it receives some Tony Award-winning guest stars: Patti LuPone (most recently seen in the revival Broadway of Gypsy) and John Lithgow (most recently seen in the Broadway play All My Sons) are making a special appearance.
NBC describes the show as “a workplace comedy where the workplace exists behind-the-scenes of a live variety show.”
The episode is to be entitled “Goodbye, My Friend,” and airs on NBC at 9:3o PM ET; check your local listings for any discrepancies.
The …

Broadway veteran Charlotte d’Amboise (pictured 2nd in from left in the 2nd row with red leotard) is joining the cast of soap opera “One Life to Live,” today, January 16, 2009. She will be playing the vice principal of the fictional Llanview High, Ms. Dickinson.
Coincidentally, her former A Chorus Line co-star Jason Tam (pictured 2nd from right in bottom row, in orange & white shirts) currently plays a student at the school, Markko Rivera.
The 44-year old Tony nominee is no stranger to Broadway, having appeared in A Chorus Line, Cats, …

In light of the closing (7/29) of the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade, here is a clip of Audra McDonald, performing the song “Raunchy.”
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-C2k5Tfq38
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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 …

Would you like to win a pair of tickets to the 2007 Tony Awards, being held this Sunday evening, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall? You’d better be ready to sing for your supper, so to speak. (Hey, Susan at “Broadway, Baby” did it at her Boston location, so why not try? She reported that it was overall an enjoyable experience.)
The annual “Sing for Your Tony’s Tickets” competition will be held at Macy’s Herald Square on June 8 at 5 PM.
So, what does one need to do in order …