'A Strange Loop,' Michael R. Jackson's critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical.
NEW YORK --"A Strange Loop," Michael R. Jackson's critically cheered theater meta-journey earned a leading 11 Tony Award nominations Monday as Broadway joined the national discussion of race by embracing an envelope-pushing Black-written and Black-led musical.
"This has been a historic season for a multitude of reasons. There's been a diversity of Black voices on Broadway in unprecedented numbers. Theater came back after being dark for almost two years and we made art while facing down COVID. And so this feels particularly good given all of the circumstances," Nottage said.
The rest of the best new musical category includes"Six," the corrective feminist take on the six wives of England's Henry VIII,"Girl From the North Country," which uses the songs of Bob Dylan to weave a Depression-era story in the Midwest, and"Mr. Saturday Night," a reworking of Billy Crystal's film about a bitter, old insult comic chasing a last laugh.
There were four musical revivals during the season, but only three got nominations:"The Music Man" which celebrates America's soul with a traveling con man in a small Iowa town starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, who each have two Tonys and were each nominated this time as well. Nominations for best play revival are"Trouble in Mind," Alice Childress' play about a Broadway play that explores the racial divide in the 1950s,"How I Learned to Drive," Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning memory play told by the survivor of childhood sexual abuse, starring two nominees: Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse and"American Buffalo," David Mamet's look at loyalty and greed set in a junk shop starring Laurence Fishburne, Darren Criss and Sam...
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