Prior to announcing the winner for Best Play at the 71st Tony Awards June 11, John Lithgow (a two-time Tony winner himself) walked the red carpet to discuss his Broadway debut 44 years ago.
Prior to announcing the winner for Best Play at the 71st Tony Awards June 11, John Lithgow (a two-time Tony winner himself) walked the red carpet to discuss his Broadway debut 44 years ago.
“My Broadway debut, at age 27, was March 7, 1973 and I won a Tony Award on March 25,” Lithgow recalls on the red carpet. “I must have the record for the quickest award following a Broadway debut in history.”
That year, Lithgow received the Best Featured Actor in a Play Tony for The Changing Room; in 2002 he won for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for Sweet Smell of Success. He has also been nominated four other times.
The musical's "show before the show" series has been revived in support of this year's Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical Tony nominees.
Broadway is basically one big Jodie Comer fan club.
The Obie-winning lighting designer is currently making his Broadway debut with the Tony-nominated revival of Camelot.
The prolific costume designer walks through his career, from his beginnings on Project Runway to how he didn't know much about Sweeney Todd before he signed on.
And now she’s a 2023 Tony nominee for directing Kimberly Akimbo.
They are one of the first non-binary actors to be nominated for a Tony Award. Their ethos: "You have to free yourself to see yourself.”
The designer explains how many cornstalks are on stage in Shucked and how he built a moving train for Some Like It Hot.
As always, Playbill will be live on Instagram to broadcast the performance for those who can't attend in person.
The theatre teacher will be celebrated at the 76th Annual Tony Awards June 11.
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