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[0:01] Alan Seales: Hey everyone, this is Alan Seales, and I just wanted to quickly throw out this bonus episode to give a quick recap on the Tony nominations, which just came out today, May 2nd, 2023.

[0:11] Alan Seales: And I'm going to get into the high level overview here and then go into the specifics. So I'll give you the details real quick, real fast here. The most Tony nominated show of the season is Some Like It Hot with 13 Tony nominations followed by Anne Juliet with nine, Camelot with five, A Doll's House with six, Fat Ham with five, Goodnight Oscar with three, Kimberly Akimbo with eight, Leopoldstadt with six, Life of Pi with five, New York, New York with nine, Parade with six, Prima Facie got four, Schacht got nine, Summer 1976 got one Tony nomination, and Sweeney Todd got eight.

[1:00] Alan Seales: So that's the high level. I'm going to get into the specifics now. The nominations were actually announced this morning by Lea Michele, currently starring in Funny Girl, and Miles Frost, who won his Tony Award for his portrayal of Michael Jackson last year, 2022, in MJ.

[1:17] Alan Seales: Let's see. So they read it live, blah, blah, blah, lots of other things you can already find online. Okay, so best new play, Ain't No Mo', Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living, Fat Ham and Leopoldstadt. Best new musical nominees, Anne Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, Schacht, and Some Like It Hot.

[1:39] Alan Seales: Best play revival are A Doll's House, The Piano Lesson, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, and Top Dog, Underdog. For best musical revival, there's only four in the category, Camelot, Into the Woods, Parade, and Sweeney Todd. That is going to be a heated category there.

[1:57] Alan Seales: Best leading actor in a play are Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for Top Dog, Underdog, Corey Hawkins again for Top Dog, Underdog, Sean Hayes for Goodnight Oscar, Stephen McKinley Henderson for Between Riverside and Crazy, and Wendell Pierce for Death of a Salesman.

[2:12] Alan Seales: Best leading actress in a play, Jessica Chastain for A Doll's House, Jodi Comer for Prima Facie, Jessica Hecht for Summer 1976, that's their one nomination, and Audra McDonald, the one and only, Ohio State Murders.

[2:27] Alan Seales: Best leading actress in a musical, of course, Annaleigh Ashford for the revival of Sweeney Todd. I think she steals the show. Sara Bareilles for Into the Woods, Victoria Clark for Kimberly Akimbo, Lorna Courtney, of course, for Anne Juliet and Michaela Diamond for Parade.

[2:42] Alan Seales: Best leading actor in a musical, Christian Borle for Some Like It Hot, Jay Harrison Gee for Some Like It Hot, Josh Groban, of course, again, for Sweeney Todd, Brian Darcy James for Into the Woods, Ben Platt for Parade, and now Colton Ryan for New York, New York, which just squeaked in under the eligibility deadline last week.

[3:02] Alan Seales: For best featured actor in a play is Jordan E. Cooper for Ain't No Mo', Samuel L. Jackson for The Piano Lesson, Ariane Moyad for A Doll's House, Brandon Uranowitz for Leopoldstadt. Oh my God, I agree with that. I still think about his performance. David Zayas for Cost of Living.

[3:19] Alan Seales: Best featured actress in a play, Nikki Crawford for Fat Ham, Crystal Lucas Perry for Ain't No Mo', Miriam Silverman for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Katie Sullivan for Cost of Living, and Cara Young for Cost of Living.

[3:33] Alan Seales: For best featured actor in a musical, Kevin Cahoon for Shucked, Justin Cooley for Kimberly Akimbo, Kevin Del Aguila for Some Like It Hot, Jordan Donica for Camelot, and Alex Newell for Shucked. Alex put themselves forward for best actor in a musical.

[3:48] Alan Seales: Best featured actress in a musical is Julia Lester, Into the Woods, Ruthie Ann Miles for Sweeney Todd. Oh, she's incredible too. Bonnie Milligan, the one and only Kimberly Akimbo, Natasha Yvette Williams for Some Like It Hot, Betsy Wolfe for Anne Juliet.

[4:05] Alan Seales: Best direction of a play goes to Saheem Ali for Fat Ham, Joe Bonny for Cost of Living, Jamie Lloyd for A Doll's House, Patrick Marber for Leopoldstadt, Stevie Walker Webb for Ain't No Mo', and Max Webster for Life of Pi.

[4:19] Alan Seales: Best direction of a play, Michael Arden, no surprise there, for Parade, Lear de Bossonette for Into the Woods, Casey Nichola again, no surprise for Some Like It Hot, Jack O'Brien for Shucked, and Jessica Stone for Kimberly Akimbo.

[4:31] Alan Seales: Best book of a musical, David Lindsay-Aber for Kimberly Akimbo, Robert Horn for Shucked, Matthew Lopez and Amber Ruffin for Some Like It Hot, David Westreid and Juliet, who coincidentally also is an Emmy Award winner for Schitt's Creek, and then David Thompson and Sharon Washington for New York, New York.

[4:51] Alan Seales: And oh, not lastly, there's more. Best original score, Almost Famous, Tom Kitt, lyrics by Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt, Kimberly Akimbo, music by Janine Tesori and lyrics by David Lindsay-Aber, K-Pop, music and lyrics by Helen Park and Max Vernon, Shucked, music and lyrics by Shane McAnally and Brandon Clark, Some Like It Hot, music and lyrics, Mark Shaman and Scott Whitman.

[5:16] Alan Seales: Best choreography, Stephen Hoggett for Sweeney Todd, and then Casey Nichola gets another nom for Some Like It Hot, Susan Stroman, of course, for New York, New York, and then Jennifer Weber for Anne Juliet and Jennifer Weber again for K-Pop. She had two shows this season, which are incredible.

[5:33] Alan Seales: There are additional categories such as best orchestrations, best scenic design of a play and a musical, best costume design of play and musical, and sound design, of course, lighting design. I'm going to post the full list in the show notes for this bonus episode.

[5:49] Alan Seales: So, congratulations to all of this year's nominees. Break many, many legs, and I just got to say, I'm glad Broadway is back. Thanks for listening. Take a deep breath, make the world a little colorful.