Darko Tresnjak accepts the award for best direction of a musical for “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” onstage at the 68th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 8, 2014, in New York.
Bryan Cranston portrays President Lyndon B. Johnson during a performance of “All the Way.”
Audra McDonald poses with her award for “Outstanding Actress in a Play” at the Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, June 1, 2014, in New York.Selected winners at the 2014 Tony Awards:Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Mark Rylance, “Twelfth Night.”Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Lena Hall, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”Best Direction of a Musical: Darko Tresnjak, “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”Best Direction of a Play: Kenny Leon, “A Raisin in the Sun.”Best Score: Jason Robert Brown, “The Bridges of Madison County.”Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: James Monroe Iglehart “Aladdin.”Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Sophie Okonedo, “A Raisin in the Sun.”Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Audra McDonald, “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.”Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Bryan Cranston, “All the Way.”Best Play: “All The Way.”Best Revival of a Play: “A Raisin in the Sun.”Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Neil Patrick Harris, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”Best Revival of a Musical: “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Jessie Mueller, “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”Best Musical: “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.”
NEW YORK – The murderous romp “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” has gotten a lot of love at the Tony Awards – it nabbed the best new musical trophy on a night that saw Audra McDonald, Bryan Cranston and Neil Patrick Harris all took home big awards.
The musical “A Gentlemen’s Guide,” in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, opened rather quietly and has had a steady increase in interest, peaking with its huge win over Disney’s “Aladdin” and the built-in love of Carole King songs from “Beautiful – The Carole King Musical.”
“The little engine that could, did,” said an ecstatic lead producer Joey Parnes. The show nabbed a total of four wins, including best book of a musical.
McDonald became the Tony’s most decorated actress, while Cranston won a best actor trophy for his Broadway debut. Harris took home best actor in a musical after years of handing out the awards to others.