'Once,' 'Clybourne Park' Win Top Tony Awards; Complete Winners List

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"Once" won eight of its 11 bids at the Tony Awards Sunday. As our panel of Experts predicted this adaptation of the 2007 Oscar-winning film about an Irish songwriter and his Czech muse won Best Musical, Musical Book, Director (Musical), Orchestrations and Sound Design (Musical) and pulled off three surprises -- Steve Kazee for his lead performance, Lighting Design (Musical) and Scenic Design (Musical). (See full list of winners here.)

While "Newsies" lost its Best Musical bid, it did win eight-time Oscar champ Alan Menken his first Tony for Best Score. This tuner version of the 1992 Disney movie about the Gotham newsboys strike of 1899 also won Choreography.

As our pundits predicted Audra McDonald won Best Actress (Musical) for "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess." This is her first Tony in a lead category after two wins in each featured actress race for the musicals "Carousel" (1994) and "Ragtime" (1998) and the plays "Master Class" (1996) and "A Raisin in the Sun" (2004). She is now tied with two titans of the Broadway stage -- Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury -- for the most awards. Her show upset frontrunner "Follies" for Best Musical Revival which had to settle for just one win from eight bids -- Costumes (Musical).

The featured acting prizes for musicals went to the two scene-stealers from "Nice Work If You Can Get It") -- Michael McGrath and Judy Kaye. They were the sole wins for this Gershwin trunk show which had 10 bids in all including Best Musical. Kaye, who was the frontrunner, won this prize in 1988 for "The Phantom of the Opera." McGrath edged out Michael Cerveris from "Evita." The final Best Musical nominee was "Leap of Faith," which contended only in that category.

As predicted, last year's Pulitzer Prize winner "Clybourne Park" won Best Play but lost its three other races. This revisiting by Bruce Norris of the landscape first explored by Lorraine Hansberry in "A Raisin in the Sun" delves into race relations and gentrification in the changing face of a Chicago neighborhood.

Its chief rival for the top prize was the searing domestic drama "Other Desert Cities." This first play by Jon Robin Baitz to run on the rialto was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer. It pits a returning liberal daughter against her conservative parents who balk when she threatens to expose a long-held secret. It won one of its five bids: Featured Actress (Play) for Judith Light.

"Peter and the Starcatcher" led among all plays with nine nominations and won five awards. "Smash" star Christian Borle claimed Featured Actor (Play) and went four for four in the design categories -- costume, lighting, scenery, sound -- equalling the sweep by "South Pacific" in 2008. Rick Elice adapted the 2004 children's bestseller by Dave Barry and Ridely Pearson for the stage. This tale imagines what life was like for Peter Pan long before he met Wendy and the rest of the Darlings.

The final Best Play nominee, "Venus in Fur," may have lost that race but David Ives' two-hander about sexual politics made a star of Nina Arianda who pulled off an upset with her Best Actress (Play) win over Tracie Bennett who portrayed Judy Garland in "End of the Rainbow."

Likewise, James Corden pulled off an surprise with his Best Actor (Play) win for "One Man Two Guvnors." He beat Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote") who had been predicted to be the first Oscar champ to win Best Actor (Play) for portraying Willie Loman in "Death of a Salesman." George C. Scott, who turned down his 1970 Academy Award for "Patton," contended in 1975 for the first Broadway revival of this 1949 Best Play winner; he lost to John Wood ("Travesties"). Dustin Hoffman was snubbed for his 1984 performance though the production won Best Revival and he claimed an Emmy in 1986 for the TV version. (Jeremy Irons won Best Actor that year for the original production of "The Real Thing."). The most recent remounting of "Salesman" was in 1999 and both star Brian Dennehy and the production won Tony Awards.

This remounting of "Death of a Salesman" won two of its seven bids: Best Play Revival for a record third time accepted by the newest EGOT champ, producer Scott Rudin, while another EGOT winner Mike Nichols claimed Director (Play) for a record sixth time. While Broadway newcomer Andrew Garfield was a frontrunner for featured actor, he will have to settle for contending for kudos for his upcoming screen appearance as Spider-Man.

The other three Play Revival nominees -- "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," "Master Class" and "Wit" were shut out.

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The 66th annual edition of these top theater kudos were handed out on Sunday, June 10 at New York's Beacon Theater and air live on CBS. Nominees were determined by 22 theater professionals and winners were voted on by 851 members of the Broadway community.

Best Play
X -- Clybourne Park
Other Desert Cities
Peter and the Starcatcher
Venus in Fur

Best Musical
Leap of Faith
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
X -- Once

Best Play Revival
X -- Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
Master Class
Wit

Best Musical Revival
Evita
Follies
X -- The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Actor (Play)
X -- James Corden - One Man, Two Guvnors
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
James Earl Jones - Gore Vidal’s The Best Man
Frank Langella - Man and Boy
John Lithgow - The Columnist

Best Actress (Play)
X -- Nina Arianda - Venus in Fur
Tracie Bennett - End of the Rainbow
Stockard Channing - Other Desert Cities
Linda Lavin - The Lyons
Cynthia Nixon - Wit

Best Actor (Musical)
Danny Burstein - Follies
Jeremy Jordan - Newsies
X -- Steve Kazee - Once
Norm Lewis - The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Ron Raines - Follies

Best Actress (Musical)
Jan Maxwell - Follies
X -- Audra McDonald - The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Cristin Milioti - Once
Kelli O’Hara - Nice Work If You Can Get It
Laura Osnes - Bonnie & Clyde

Best Featured Actor (Play)
X -- Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher
Michael Cumpsty, End of the Rainbow
Tom Edden, One Man, Two Guvnors
Andrew Garfield, Death of a Salesman
Jeremy Shamos, Clybourne Park

Best Featured Actress (Play)
Linda Emond, Death of a Salesman
Spencer Kayden, Don’t Dress for Dinner
Cella Keenan-Bolger, Peter and the Starcatcher
X -- Judith Light, Other Desert Cities
Condola Rashad, Stick Fly

Best Featured Actor (Musical)
Phillip Boykin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Michael Cerveris, Evita
David Allen Grier, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
X -- Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Josh Young, Jesus Christ Superstar

Best Featured Actress (Musical)
Elizabeth A. Davis, Once
Jayne Houdyshell, Follies
X -- Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Jesse Mueller, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ghost

Best Director (Play)
Nicholas Hytner, One Man, Two Guvnors
Pam MacKinnon, Clybourne Park
X -- Mike Nichols, Death of a Salesman
Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Director (Musical)
Jeff Calhoun, Newsies
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Diane Paulus, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
X -- John Tiffany, Once

Best Book of a Musical
Lysistrata Jones
Newsies
Nice Work If You Can Get It
X -- Once

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Bonnie & Clyde
X -- Newsies
One Man, Two Guvnors
Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Evita
X -- Christopher Gattelli, Newsies
Steven Hoggett, Once
Kathleen Marshall, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Best Orchestrations
William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Bill Elliott, Nice Work If You Can Get It
X -- Martin Lowe, Once
Danny Troob, Newsies

Best Costume Design (Play)
William Ivey Long, Don’t Dress for Dinner
Paul Tazewell, A Streetcar Named Desire
Mark Thompson, One Man, Two Guvnors
X -- Paloma Young, Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Costume Design (Musical)
X -- Gregg Barnes, Follies
ESosa, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Eiko Ishioka, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
Martin Pakledinaz, Nice Work If You Can Get It

Best Lighting Design (Play)
X -- Jeff Croiter, Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter Kaczorowski, The Road to Mecca
Brian MacDevitt, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Kenneth Posner, Other Desert Cities

Best Lighting Design (Musical)
Christopher Akerlind, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Natasha Katz, Follies
X -- Natasha Katz, Once
Hugh Vanstone, Ghost the Musical

Best Scenic Design (Play)
John Lee Beatty, Other Desert Cities
Daniel Ostling, Clybourne Park
Mark Thompson, One Man, Two Guvnors
X -- Donyale Werle, Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Scenic Design (Musical)
X -- Bob Crowley, Once
Rob Howell and Jon Driscoll, Ghost the Musical
Tobin Ost and Sven Ortel, Newsies
George Tsypin, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark

Best Sound Design (Play)
Paul Arditti, One Man, Two Guvnors
Scott Lehrer, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Gareth Owen, End of the Rainbow
X -- Darron L. West, Peter and the Starcatcher

Best Sound Design (Musical)
Acme Sound Partners, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
X -- Clive Goodwin, Once
Kai Harada, Follies
Brian Ronan, Nice Work If You Can Get It

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