Your Afternoon Chat: The 2024 Tony Award Nominations

I’m so excited to listen to everybody’s take right here! I’ve by no means seen any of those performs so I depend on the intel of the Broadway-going — and people of you who sustain with theatre gossip, additionally VERY IMPORTANT TO ME — to weigh in on what’s good, what’s bizarre, and what’s shocking about this yr’s Tony Awards nominations. The Tonys themselves are in June — they fall on Father’s Day, which is bizarre but additionally nobody requested me — which implies the voters have time to go see the shows that all opened in a mad rush last week to meet the deadline. Ariana DeBose will as soon as once more do the factor as host.

Listed here are the nominations:

Finest Play

Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Mary Jane
Mom Play
Prayer for the French Republic
Stereophonic

Finest Musical

Hell’s Kitchen
Illinoise
The Outsiders
Suffs
Water for Elephants

Finest Ebook of a Musical

Hell’s Kitchen, Kristoffer Diaz
The Pocket book, Bekah Brunstetter
The Outsiders, Adam Rapp and Justin Levine
Suffs, Shaina Taub
Water for Elephants, Rick Elice

Finest Unique Rating (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Days of Wine and Roses, Music & Lyrics: Adam Guettel 
Right here Lies Love, Music: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Lyrics: David Byrne
The Outsiders, Music & Lyrics: Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Probability) and Justin Levine 
Stereophonic, Music & Lyrics: Will Butler 
Suffs, Music & Lyrics: Shaina Taub

Finest Revival of a Play

An Enemy of the Individuals
Applicable
Purlie Victorious

Finest Revival of a Musical

Cabaret
Gutenberg! The Musical
Merrily We Roll Alongside
Spamalot
The Who’s Tommy
The Wiz

Finest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Position in a Play

William Jackson Harper, Uncle Vanya
Leslie Odom, Jr., Purlie Victorious
Liev Schreiber, Doubt
Jeremy Robust, An Enemy of the Individuals
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots

Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Position in a Play

Betsy Aidem, Prayer for the French Republic
Jessica Lange, Mom Play
Rachel McAdams, Mary Jane
Sarah Paulson, Applicable
Amy Ryan, Doubt

Finest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Position in a Musical

Brian d’Arcy James, Days of Wine and Roses
Brody Grant, The Outsiders
Jonathan Groff, Merrily We Roll Alongside
Dorian Harewood, The Pocket book
Eddie Redmayne, Cabaret

Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Position in a Musical

Eden Espinosa, Lempicka
Maleah Joi Moon, Hell’s Kitchen
Kelli O’Hara, Days of Wine and Roses
Maryann Plunkett, The Pocket book
Gayle Rankin, Cabaret

Finest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Position in a Play

Will Brill, Stereophonic
Eli Gelb, Stereophonic
Jim Parsons, Mom Play
Tom Pecinka, Stereophonic
Corey Stoll, Applicable

Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Position in a Play

Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Doubt: A Parable
Juliana Canfield, Stereophonic
Celia Keenan-Bolger, Mom Play
Sarah Pidgeon, Stereophonic
Kara Younger, Purlie Victorious

Finest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Position in a Musical

Roger Bart, Again To The Future: The Musical
Joshua Boone, The Outsiders
Brandon Victor Dixon, Hell’s Kitchen
Sky Lakota-Lynch, The Outsiders
Daniel Radcliffe, Merrily We Roll Alongside
Steven Skybell, Cabaret

Finest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Position in a Musical

Shoshana Bean, Hell’s Kitchen
Amber Iman, Lempicka
Nikki M. James, Suffs
Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Monty Python’s Spamalot
Kecia Lewis, Hell’s Kitchen
Lindsay Mendez, Merrily We Roll Alongside
Bebe Neuwirth, Cabaret

Finest Scenic Design of a Play

dots, Applicable
dots, An Enemy of the Individuals
Derek McLane, Purlie Victorious
David Zinn, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
David Zinn, Stereophonic

Finest Scenic Design of a Musical

AMP that includes Tatiana Kahvegian, The Outsiders
Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini, Hell’s Kitchen
Takeshi Kata, Water for Elephants
David Korins, Right here Lies Love
Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini, Lempicka
Tim Hatley and Finn Ross, Again To The Future: The Musical
Tom Scutt, Cabaret

Finest Costume Design of a Play

Dede Ayite, Applicable
Dede Ayite, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Enver Chakartash, Stereophonic
Emilio Sosa, Purlie Victorious
David Zinn, An Enemy of the Individuals

Finest Costume Design of a Musical

Dede Ayite, Hell’s Kitchen
Linda Cho, The Nice Gatsby
David Israel Reynoso, Water for Elephants
Tom Scutt, Cabaret 
Paul Tazewell, Suffs

Dede Ayite is having an awesome week!!

Finest Lighting Design of a Play

Isabella Byrd, An Enemy of the Individuals
Amith Chandrashaker, Prayer for the French Republic
Jiyoun Chang, Stereophonic
Jane Cox, Applicable
Natasha Katz, Gray Home

Finest Lighting Design of a Musical

Brandon Stirling Baker, Illinoise
Isabella Byrd, Cabaret 
Natasha Katz, Hell’s Kitchen
Bradley King and David Bengali, Water for Elephants
Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim, The Outsiders

Finest Sound Design of a Play

Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Leah Gelpe, Mary Jane
Tom Gibbons, Gray Home
Bray Poor and Will Pickens, Applicable
Ryan Rumery, Stereophonic

Finest Sound Design of a Musical

M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer, Right here Lies Love
Kai Harada, Merrily We Roll Alongside
Nick Lidster, Autograph
Nick Lidster, Cabaret 
Gareth Owen, Hell’s Kitchen
Cody Spencer, The Outsiders

Finest Path of a Play

Daniel Aukin, Stereophonic
Anne Kauffman, Mary Jane
Kenny Leon, Purlie Victorious
Lila Neugebauer, Applicable
Whitney White, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

Finest Path of a Musical

Maria Friedman, Merrily We Roll Alongside
Michael Greif, Hell’s Kitchen
Leigh Silverman, Suffs
Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants
Danya Taymor, The Outsiders

Finest Choreography

Annie-B Parson, Right here Lies Love
Camille A. Brown, Hell’s Kitchen
Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman, The Outsiders
Justin Peck, Illinoise
Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll, Water for Elephants

Finest Orchestrations

Timo Andres, Illinoise
Will Butler and Justin Craig, Stereophonic
Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Probability), The Outsiders
Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone, Hell’s Kitchen
Jonathan Tunick, Merrily We Roll Alongside

I await your ideas!

PS: Doesn’t Renée Elise Goldsberry look so cute on this picture? I really like her.

(Photograph by Jenny Anderson/Getty Pictures for Tony Awards Productions)