Tony Awards

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‘The Lost Boys’ and ‘Schmigadoon!’ earn 12 Tony nominations each to lead the field

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each earned a leading 12 Tony Award nominations Tuesday, as nominators also made June Squibb the oldest Tony-nominated actor in history at 96. Danny Burstein is now the most-nominated male actor in Tony history.

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What we learned about the Tony Awards

The Tonys—short for the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre—are the live theater version of other US prestigious creative industry awards like the Grammys, Oscars, and Emmys. Since the Tonys debuted in 1947, more than 1,000 actors, directors, playwrights, and others have received awards.

 

Although the number of award categories has increased over the years, they have always fallen into three general buckets: performance, show and technical, and special honors. The self-governing, 24-member board of the Tony Awards Administration Committee selects roughly 50 individuals—a mix of theater professionals—to serve staggered terms of up to three years on the nomination committee. They must see every Broadway show during the yearlong April-to-April season—typically 30 to 40 productions.

 

Ceremonies often feature songs from nominated musicals and scenes from nominated plays, a tradition particularly popular since the event was first televised in 1967.

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