Tony nominations 2024: Rachel McAdams, the Alicia Keys musical, Daniel Radcliffe and more earn nods as Hollywood stars conquer Broadway
Rachel McAdams, the Alicia Keys musical, Daniel Radcliffe and more earned Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning.
Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of the Broadway classic West Side Story, will host this year’s Tonys on June 16.
Some of the most notable categories were announced Tuesday on CBS, read by Renee Elise Goldsberry and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
The rest of the nominations were announced later that same day via the official YouTube page for the Tony Awards.
One of the nominees for best musical is Hell’s Kitchen, a jukebox musical with songs by Alicia and loosely based on her life.
Rachel McAdams (pictured onstage in Mary Jane), Alicia Keys, Liev Schreiber and more stars earned Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning
Among the nominees for best musical is Hell’s Kitchen, a jukebox musical featuring songs by Alicia and loosely based on her life; Alicia is pictured at the opening night earlier this month
Daniel Radcliffe is nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his role in a revival of Merrily We Roll Along, which he is promoting at the 92nd Street Y
Hell’s Kitchen was the most nominated musical, with 13 nods – a feat matched this year only by the straight-up play Stereophonic about a 1970s rock band.
The other nominees for best musical include Suffs, a show about the suffragettes with Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai as producers.
Illinoise, a jukebox musical based on the work of Sufjan Stevens, and The Outsider, based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, are also in the running for the top prize.
Rounding out the best musical nominations were Water For Elephants, an adaptation of the bestselling novel that was previously made into a film starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.
Notable critical acclaim for best musical included the Britney Spears show Once Upon A One More Time, as well as the adaptations of classic films Back To The Future, The Notebook and Days Of Wine And Roses.
Rachel McAdams was nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Play in honor of her work in Mary Jane, starring her as the mother of a son with cerebral palsy.
She takes on Sarah Paulson in Appropriate, a dark comedy about three siblings who feud over their father’s estate after his death.
Jessica Lange is up for Mother Play and plays the mother of teenagers played by Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger and The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.
Daniel is pictured on the opening night of Merrily We Roll along with Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, who are also nominated for their roles in the show
Amy Ryan (left) and Liev Schreiber (right) are both pictured at the opening night of Doubt: A Parable, in roles played by Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman
A new revival of the 1960s show Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne, pictured on opening night and nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Musical
The category includes Betsy Aidem in Prayer For The French Republic, a dark comedy by Joshua Harmon about rising anti-Semitism in France.
Rachel’s category is completed by Amy Ryan for the lead role in John Patrick Shanley’s classic drama Doubt: A Parable, which was made into a critically acclaimed film starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis.
Liev Schreiber is nominated for best lead actor in a play for Doubt: A Parable, in which he plays the priest accused of abusing a young boy.
He takes on a formidable group of actors, including Succession star Jeremy Strong, in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People.
William Jackson Harper is also nominated in that category for Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, as are Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.
Jim Parsons in Mother Play is nominated for best actor in a play, against Corey Stoll for Appropriate and Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka, all three for the play Stereophonic about an emerging rock band from the 1970s.
Best actress in a play nods to Quincy Tyler Bernstine in Doubt, Juliana Canfield and Sarah Pidgeon in Stereophonic, Celia Keenan-Bolger in Mother Play and Kara Young in Purlie Victorious.
Daniel Radcliffe is nominated for best supporting actor in a musical for his role in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a polarizing 1980s play that unfolds back in time.
Jessica Lange (centre) and Jim Parsons (right) are both nominated for Mother Play, on whose opening night they are pictured with their co-star Celia Keenan-Bolger (left)
Notable snubs include Britney Spear’s jukebox musical Once Upon A One More Time
His competitors include Roger Bart in Back To The Future: The Musical, Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch in The Outsiders, Brandon Victor Dixon in Hell’s Kitchen and Steven Skybell in the new revival of Cabaret.
Cabaret, with a score by Fred Ebb and John Kander and a book by Joe Masteroff, first opened on Broadway in 1966 and became an instant sensation, later adapted into a film starring Liza Minnelli and directed by Bob Fosse.
Now renamed Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne stars in the revival of the Master of Ceremonies.
Eddie has been nominated for best leading actor in a musical, in a category that also includes Looking star Jonathan Groff in Merrily We Roll along.
Dorian Harewood is also up for the musical of The Notebook, the Nicholas Sparks novel that was made into a beloved film, starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling.
Broadway veteran Brian D’Arcy James is nominated for his leading role in the musical of the 1962 film Days Of Wine And Roses, in which his role was played by Jack Lemmon, and the category is completed by Brody Grant in The Outsiders.
The nominees for best leading actress in a musical include Wicked alumna Eden Espinosa for the title role in Lempicka, the story of controversial interwar Polish painter Tamara Lempicka, whose posthumous fan base includes Madonna.
She is up against Maleah Joi Moon, who plays Alicia Keys in Hell’s Kitchen, as well as Kelli O’Hara for Days Of Wine And Roses, Maryann Plunkett for the role of Rachel McAdams in The Notebook and Gayle Rankin for the role of Liza Minnelli in Cabaret.
Broadway titan Bebe Neuwirth has earned a nomination for best actress in a musical for her role as landlady Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club.
She’s in a category with Shoshana Bean and Kecia Lewis for Hell’s Kitchen, Amber Iman for Lempicka, Nikki M James for Suffs, Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll along and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for a revival of Monty Python’s Spamalot.
In the best original score for a musical category, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim have been nominated for their compelling musical Here Lies Love about Imelda Marcos.
This also applies to Adam Guettel, the grandson of The Sound Of Music composer Richard Rodgers, for the score of Days Of Wine And Roses.
The Best Original Score category includes Shaina Taub for Suffs, Will Butler for Stereophonic and Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance and Justin Levine for The Outsiders.
Meanwhile, best book of musical nominations went to Kristoffer Diaz for Hell’s Kitchen, Bekah Brunstetter for The Notebook, Adam Rapp and Justin Levine for The Outsider, Shaina Taub for Suffs and Rick Elice for Water For Elephants.
For best piece, Jocelyn Bioh is nominated for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Amy Herzog for Mary Jane, Paula Vogel for Mother Play, Joshua Harmon for Prayer For The French Republic and David Adjmi for Stereophonic.
The Best Revival of a Musical Nominee was Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Merrily We Roll along and The Who’s Tommy.
Appropriate, An Enemy Of The People and Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch are in the running for best revival of a play.