The Antoinette Perry Awards, a.k.a. The Tony Awards
This week, The American Theatre Wing released the nominees for this year’s annual Tony Awards. Making news in the nominations were In the Heights, Patrick Stewart, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, among others.
In the Heights was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Musical. The revival of South Pacific was not far behind with 11 nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical. In the Heights creatively combines Latin music with several vignettes about life in Washington Heights for Latinos. As a landmark musical in theater history, South Pacific joins other Broadway classics, Gypsy, Grease, and Sunday in the Park with George in the Best Revival of a Musical category.
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