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75th Tony Awards
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DateJune 12, 2022
VenueRadio City Music Hall
Hosted byAriana DeBose
Darren Criss and Julianne Hough (preshow)
Most winsCompany and The Lehman Trilogy (5)
Most nominationsA Strange Loop (11)
Websitetonyawards.com
Television/radio coverage
NetworkCBS
Paramount+
Viewership3.9 million
Produced byRicky Kirshner
Glenn Weiss
Directed byGlenn Weiss
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The 75th Tony Awards were held on June 12, 2022, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2021–22 season. The ceremony was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, with Ariana DeBose serving as host of the main ceremony, and Darren Criss and Julianne Hough co-hosting a streaming pre-show.

The most-awarded productions of the season were the new play The Lehman Trilogy, which won five awards, including Best Play, and the revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Company, which also won five awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Strange Loop was the most-nominated show of the season, with 11 nominations, and won Best Musical, becoming the first Best Musical winner to win only two awards total since 42nd Street (1981).

With her nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in A Strange Loop, L Morgan Lee became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Tony.[1] Additionally, with her win as a lead producer of A Strange Loop, Jennifer Hudson became the 17th person to win the EGOT in their entertainment career.[2]

Ceremony information

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Ariana DeBose hosted the ceremony.

Returning to its usual June scheduling, the ceremony's telecast was split between Paramount+ and CBS. Paramount+ streamed an hour-long pre-show, The Tony Awards: Act One, which was hosted by Darren Criss and Julianne Hough and featured "special performances" and the presentation of selected awards.[3] It was followed by the main ceremony telecast on CBS and Paramount+, which was hosted by Ariana DeBose. For the first time, the ceremony was televised live nationally.[4][5][6]

Eligibility

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The Tony Awards eligibility cut-off date for the 2021–22 season was May 4, 2022 for all Broadway productions which meet all other eligibility requirements.[7] Nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards were announced by Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry on May 9, 2022. They were initially going to be announced on May 3, but were extended a week to accommodate possible COVID-19 outbreaks.[8][9][10][11] A revival of West Side Story that opened on February 20, 2020 was considered ineligible for the 74th Tony Awards because too few nominators and voters had seen it before Broadway shut down on March 12, 2020 due to the pandemic, and it did not resume when Broadway reopened in September 2021.

34 shows were eligible. All eligible shows are below.[12]

Winners and nominees

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Simon Russell Beale, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play winner
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Deirdre O'Connell, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play winner
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Joaquina Kalukango, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical winner
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play winner
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Phylicia Rashad, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play winner
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Matt Doyle, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical winner
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Patti LuPone, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical winner
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Sam Mendes, Best Direction of a Play winner
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Marianne Elliott, Best Direction of a Musical winner
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Michael R. Jackson, Best Book of a Musical winner
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Toby Marlow, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre co-winner
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Lucy Moss, Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre co-winner
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Es Devlin, Best Scenic Design of a Play winner
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Bunny Christie, Best Scenic Design of a Musical winner
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Montana Levi Blanco, Best Costume Design of a Play winner
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Jon Clark, Best Lighting Design of a Play winner
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Natasha Katz, Best Lighting Design of a Musical winner
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Mikhail Fiksel, Best Sound Design of a Play winner
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Gareth Owen, Best Sound Design of a Musical winner
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Christopher Wheeldon, Best Choreography winner
Simon Hale, Best Orchestrations winner

Winners are listed first, and are highlighted in boldface:[13]

‡ The award is presented to the producer(s) of the musical or play.

Productions with multiple nominations and awards

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Non-competitive awards

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Names Accolade
Robert E. Wankel[a] Isabelle Stevenson Award[14]
Angela Lansbury Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement.[15]
Asian American Performers Action Coalition Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre[16][17]
Broadway for All
music copyist Emily Grishman
Feinstein's/54 Below
United Scenic Artists (Local USA 829, IATSE)
Court Theatre The Regional Tony Award[18]
James C. Nicola, retiring artistic director of the NYTW Special Tony Award.[19]

Presenters and performers

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Act One:

Presenters
Names Notes
Vanessa Hudgens presented Best Original Score
Judith Light presented Best Costume Design in a Play and Best Costume Design in a Musical
Wilson Cruz presented Best Scenic Design in a Play and Best Scenic Design in a Musical
Jeremy Pope presented Best Lighting Design in a Play and Best Lighting Design in a Musical
Len Cariou presented Special Tony Award to Angela Lansbury and introduced New York City Gay Men's Chorus
George Takei presented Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical
Gaten Matarazzo presented Best Orchestrations
Bebe Neuwirth presented Best Choreography

Main Show:

Presenters
Names Notes
Jessica Chastain and Colman Domingo presented Best Featured Actor in a Play
Patrick Wilson Introduced The Music Man
Kelli O'Hara and Ruthie Ann Miles presented Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Prince Jackson and Paris Jackson introduced MJ the Musical
Josh Lucas and Sarah Paulson presented Best Direction of a Play and Best Direction of a Musical
Sarah Silverman Introduced Mr. Saturday Night
Skylar Astin and Marcia Gay Harden presented Best Featured Actress in a Play
Patina Miller introduced Company
Lilli Cooper and Julia Schick Special presentation on the Tonys' history
LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Samuel L. Jackson presented Best Revival of a Play
Anthony Edwards Introduced Girl from the North Country
Utkarsh Ambudkar and Raúl Esparza presented Best Featured Actor in a Musical
Lin-Manuel Miranda presenter of the Stephen Sondheim tribute
Darren Criss and Julianne Hough presented Best Book of a Musical
Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo presented Best Revival of a Musical
Jennifer Hudson and RuPaul Charles Introduced A Strange Loop
Telly Leung presented Excellence in Theatre Education Award
Zach Braff and Lea Michele Introduced the original cast of Spring Awakening
Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane presented Best Play
David Alan Grier Introduced Paradise Square
Tony Goldwyn and Bryan Cranston presented Best Actor in a Play
Tony Shalhoub and Danny Burstein presented Best Actress in a Play
Laurence Fishburne presenter of the In Memoriam tribute
Adrienne Warren and Aaron Tveit presented Best Actor in a Musical
Danielle Brooks and Cynthia Erivo presented Best Actress in a Musical
Bowen Yang Introduced Six
Chita Rivera presented Best Musical

Performances

The following shows and performers performed on the ceremony's telecast:[20]

Act One:

Performers
Names Song
Darren Criss and Julianne Hough "Set the Stage"
New York City Gay Men's Chorus "Mame"

Main Show:

Performers
Names Song(s)
Ariana DeBose "This Is Your Round of Applause"
The Music Man "Seventy-Six Trombones"
MJ "Smooth Criminal"
Mr. Saturday Night "Stick Around" / "Buddy's First Act"
Company "Company"
Girl from the North Country "Like a Rolling Stone" / "Pressing On"
Bernadette Peters "Children Will Listen"
A Strange Loop "Intermission Song" / "Today"
The Original Cast of Spring Awakening "Touch Me"
Paradise Square "Paradise Square" / "Let It Burn"
Billy Porter "On the Street Where You Live"
Six "Ex-Wives" / "Six"
Ariana DeBose "This Is Your Round of Applause" (Reprise)

Reception

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Reviews

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The ceremony received generally favorable reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the program received six positive and two negative reviews, for an approval rating of 75%.[21]

In Variety, Gordon Cox praised the opening number of the CBS telecast and DeBose's performance as host therein, singling out the performance as "hip and queer and sexy, and it satisfied the old-school avids as much as it made Broadway look like a place the cool kids might want to check out, too".[22] Jennifer Vanasco of NPR also praised DeBose, writing "Let Ariana DeBose host everything [...] She was funny and playful, strutting into the audience and sitting on Andrew Garfield's lap. She was poignant, coming to tears as she talked about her theater teacher mentor. She was honest, gently commenting on the racial disparities in the theater industry".[23] Writing for the Associated Press, Jocelyn Noveck called the telecast "exuberant" and said that it showed "Broadway is back, with verve and creativity, and it is here to stay. It just needs even more people filling the seats".[24]

Johnny Oleksinski of the New York Post panned the show, describing it as "low-energy, poorly put-on", writing that DeBose's "songs and banter were forced and unfunny", and heavily criticizing the ceremony's tribute to Stephen Sondheim, which he deemed "far too modest [...] a total afterthought".[25]

Ratings

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The CBS telecast was watched by 3.86 million viewers in the United States, marking a 39% increase from the previous year's ceremony, the lowest-rated Tony Awards broadcast since viewership was measured. However, when compared to the 73rd Tony Awards in 2019, which were the last one before the 75th to run three hours and the last one before the COVID-19 pandemic, viewership declined 29% between 2019 and 2022.[26]

In Memoriam

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Actor Billy Porter Performed On the Street Where You Live From The musical My Fair Lady.

See also

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