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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
The Tony Awards are the New York theatre industry's equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for film. A person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. The Tony Awards are the U.S. equivalent of the United Kingdom's Laurence Olivier Awards and France's Molière Awards.
Ariana DeBose hosted for the third year in a row. [3] The Outsiders won Best Musical. Stereophonic won Best Play and the most awards of the night. [4] For the first time in the history of the ceremony, all eight winners in the performance categories were receiving the award for the first time, with six of them winning for their first career ...
Nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning seven including Best Musical. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: 1979 Stephen Sondheim Sondheim Hugh Wheeler 1979: 1980: It won eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. The West End revivals in 1993 and 2012 won their respective Olivier Awards for Best Revival. Thoroughly Modern Millie: 2002
Memphis (musical) Million Dollar Quartet (musical) Les Misérables (musical) Miss Saigon; MJ the Musical; The Most Happy Fella; Moulin Rouge! (musical) Movin' Out (musical) Mr. President (musical) The Music Man; My Fair Lady; My Favorite Year (musical) My One and Only (musical) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical)
The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The award goes to the producers of the winning musical.
In addition, Caroline Siede from The A.V. Club gave the show a B−, expanding in her review, "All in all, this was a mostly satisfying, if not completely exhilarating year for the Tonys. I'll remember the winners and I'll remember some of the musical performances, but I doubt I'll remember James Corden's opening number in the way I still do ...
The award was originally called the Tony Award for Actors—Musical. It was first presented to Paul Hartman at the 2nd Tony Awards for his portrayal of various characters in Angel in the Wings . Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public; [ 2 ] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".