Stereophonic turned essentially the most nominated play in Tony Awards historical past on Tuesday, scoring a surprisingly robust 13 nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, together with performing nods for nearly your entire solid. A number of different reveals additionally noticed most of their main roles nominated, together with Days of Wine and Roses, which closed early however nonetheless noticed nominations for its leads Kelli O’Hara and Brian D’Arcy James, in addition to Merrily We Roll Alongside, which noticed nominations for its three leads, Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez.
Stereophonic additionally landed a finest rating nomination, a bit uncommon because the manufacturing is a play, but it surely options authentic songs written by ex-Arcade Hearth member Will Butler for the fictional band on the middle of the story. Whereas the songs within the play have been praised, the nomination is a bit atypical on condition that many of the songs featured within the musical are delivered in snippets, as a part of the band’s recording course of, quite than as full songs.
In the meantime, Ingrid Michaelson was a shock snub in the perfect rating class, failing to land a nomination for her music for The Pocket book.
Tuesday morning’s nominations additionally noticed surprising snubs in Amber Ruffin’s The Wiz failing to land a single nomination and quite a few high-profile productions solely receiving one nomination every.
The very best musical class was significantly unsure this yr, with greater than a dozen reveals vying for a nomination and largely no clear entrance runner, when it comes to each field workplace efficiency and critiques. The variety of contenders meant that there would at all times be 5 nominees, however there was the potential for as much as seven if there have been a two-way or three-way tie for the final slot. Ultimately 5 had been chosen, and musical contenders together with Lempicka, a musical concerning the artist Tamara de Lempicka, Again to the Future, a well-attended musical primarily based on the film which opened final summer season and The Pocket book, primarily based on the film and e book, had been amongst those who didn’t get a nomination.
The revival of The Wiz, which includes a revised e book by Amber Ruffin, didn’t obtain any Tony nominations, amid middling critiques, however reward from critics for the performers.
Various high-profile productions solely landed one nomination every together with The Nice Gatsby; Gutenberg! The Musical!, starring Ebook of Mormon alums Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad; Monty Python’s Spamalot and The Who’s Tommy. Tommy was nominated for 10 Tony Awards and gained 5 when it was initially on Broadway from 1993 to 1995 and Spamalot was nominated for 12 Tonys and gained three, together with finest musical, in 2005.
In the perfect play class, the Netflix-backed Patriots, starring Michael Stuhlbarg, concerning the rise of Vladimir Putin and the billionaire who helped him, didn’t obtain a nomination — although Stuhlbarg did, scoring the one nomination for the manufacturing.
Various well-known movie and TV actors landed noms together with Rachel McAdams, Jessica Lange, Jeremy Sturdy and Daniel Radcliffe, with the Harry Potter alum incomes his first Tony nomination. Nonetheless, Steve Carell, making his Broadway debut in Uncle Vanya, didn’t obtain a nomination, after blended critiques for the revival. And Michael Imperioli was surprisingly not nominated for his work in An Enemy of the Individuals.