'Kinky Boots,' 'Matilda' Lead Tony Awards Nominations [Full List Posted]

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Two tuners -- "Kinky Boots" and "Matilda" -- led theTony Awards nominations announced Tuesday morning with 13 and 12 bids respectively.

"Kinky Boots" is the tuner version of a 2005 movie and was adaptated for the stage by Tony darling Harvey Fierstein and rocker Cindy Lauper, who picked up nominations. At the center of the show is Best Musical Actor frontrunner Billy Porter who plays a drag queen who comes to the rescue of a dilapidated shoe factory.

While that show is set in England, it is American made. Compare that to "Matilda," the imported Brit hit based on the classic Roald Dahl children's book. The tuner set the record at last year's Oliviers, winning seven awards, including Best Musical. While the quartet who alternated in the title role in the West End won Best Actress at the Oliviers, the Tonys disqualified them. However, Bertie Carvel, who claimed the Olivier for his cross-dressing performance as the hag of a headmistress, will contend for Best Actor (Musical).

The other tuners in the top race are two shows that closed months ago: "A Christmas Story" and "Bring It On." The jukebox musical "Motown" was a surprise snub given its boffo box office.

"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" could win playwright Christopher Durang his first Tony after decades of success off-Broadway. While his muse Sigourney Weaver was snubbed, two of the cast reaped bids -- four-time Emmy champ David Hyde Pierce and theater vet Kristine Nielsen.

Two-time Oscar champ Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia," "Forrest Gump") is on track to take home his first Tony for his starring role in "Lucky Guy." The win will be bittersweet for Hanks as his pal who penned the play, Nora Ephron ("Sleepless in Seattle") died before it opened. In all, the show picked up six nominations.

The frontrunner in the race for Best Actress (Play) is three-time Emmy champ Cicely Tyson who headlines the first rialto revival of Horton Foote's 1953 play "The Trip to Bountiful." This remount raked in four nominations including Best Play Revival.

"Pippin" reaped 10 bids, including Best Musical Revival and for the leading performance of Patina Miller, who is the frontrunner following the bouncing of the "Matilda" mites.

Right behind with nine nods is the remounting of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella." That show started out as a 1957 television spectacular starring Julie Andrews.

1986 Best Musical champ The Mystery of Edwin Drood" picked up five nominations for its first rialto revival.

The 1977 top tuner "Annie" is back and in the race for Best Musical Revival as well. However, that is its sole bid.

Two-time Oscar nominee Bette Midler will have to be content with the special Tony she won in 1973 for her one-woman show. She was snubbed for her return to the rialto four decades later in another solo effort as 70s superagent Sue Mengers in "I'll Eat You Last."

The 67th annual edition of these top theater kudos will be handed out on Sunday, June 9 at New York's Beacon Theater and air live on CBS. Nominees were determined by 42 theater professionals and winners will be voted on by 851 members of the Broadway community.

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The 67th annual edition of these top theater kudos will be handed out on Sunday, June 9 at New York's Beacon Theater and air live on CBS. Nominees were determined by 42 theater professionals and winners will be voted on by 851 members of the Broadway community. (Read full report here.)

MUSICALS

Best Musical
Bring It On: The Musical
A Christmas Story, The Musical
Kinky Boots
Matilda The Musical

Best Musical Revival
Annie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pippin
Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best Actor (Musical)
Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical
Santino Fontana, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella
Rob McClure, Chaplin
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Stark Sands, Kinky Boots

Best Actress (Musical)
Stephanie J. Block, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Carolee Carmello, Scandalous
Valisia LeKae, Motown The Musical
Patina Miller, Pippin
Laura Osnes, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best Featured Actor (Musical)
Charl Brown, Motown The Musical
Keith Carradine, Hands on a Hardbody
Will Chase, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
Terrence Mann, Pippin

Best Featured Actress (Musical)
Annaleigh Ashford, Kinky Boots
Victoria Clark, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella
Andrea Martin, Pippin
Keala Settle, Hands on a Hardbody
Lauren Ward, Matilda The Musical

Best Book of a Musical
A Christmas Story, The Musical
Joseph Robinette

Kinky Boots
Harvey Fierstein

Matilda The Musical
Dennis Kelly

Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella
Douglas Carter Beane

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater
A Christmas Story, The Musical
Music and Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Hands on a Hardbody
Music: Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green
Lyrics: Amanda Green

Kinky Boots
Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper

Matilda The Musical
Music & Lyrics: Tim Minchin

Best Director (Musical)
Scott Ellis, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Diane Paulus, Pippin
Matthew Warchus, Matilda The Musical

Best Choreography
Andy Blankenbuehler, Bring It On: The Musical
Peter Darling, Matilda The Musical
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Chet Walker, Pippin

Best Costume Design (Musical)
Gregg Barnes, Kinky Boots
Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical
Dominique Lemieux, Pippin
William Ivey Long, Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best Lighting Design (Musical)
Kenneth Posner, Kinky Boots
Kenneth Posner, Pippin
Kenneth Posner, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical

Best Scenic Design (Musical)
Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical
Anna Louizos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Scott Pask, Pippin
David Rockwell, Kinky Boots

Best Sound Design (Musical)
Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm, Pippin
Peter Hylenski, Motown The Musical
John Shivers, Kinky Boots
Nevin Steinberg, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Best Orchestrations
Chris Nightingale, Matilda The Musical
Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
Ethan Popp and Bryan Crook, Motown The Musical
Danny Troob, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

PLAYS

Best Play
The Assembled Parties Author: Richard Greenberg
Lucky Guy Author: Nora Ephron
The Testament of Mary Author: Colm Toíbín
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Author: Christopher Durang

Best Play Revival
Golden Boy
Orphans
The Trip to Bountiful
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Actor (Play)
Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy
Nathan Lane, The Nance
Tracy Letts, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Tom Sturridge, Orphans

Best Actress (Play)
Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place
Amy Morton, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Holland Taylor, Ann
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Featured Actor (Play)
Danny Burstein, Golden Boy
Richard Kind, The Big Knife
Billy Magnussen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Tony Shalhoub, Golden Boy
Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy

Best Featured Actress (Play)
Carrie Coon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Shalita Grant, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Judith Ivey, The Heiress
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Condola Rashad, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Director (Play)
Pam MacKinnon, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nicholas Martin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Bartlett Sher, Golden Boy
George C. Wolfe, Lucky Guy

Best Costume Design (Play)
Soutra Gilmour, Cyrano de Bergerac
Ann Roth, The Nance
Albert Wolsky, The Heiress
Catherine Zuber, Golden Boy

Best Lighting Design (Play)
Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
Donald Holder, Golden Boy
Jennifer Tipton, The Testament of Mary
Japhy Weideman, The Nance

Best Scenic Design (Play)
John Lee Beatty, The Nance
Santo Loquasto, The Assembled Parties
David Rockwell, Lucky Guy
Michael Yeargan, Golden Boy

Best Sound Design (Play)
John Gromada, The Trip to Bountiful
Mel Mercier, The Testament of Mary
Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
Peter John Still and Marc Salzberg, Golden Boy

I think Kinky Boots will win a lot and I hope Cyndi wins.

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