“Kinky Boots” Walks Off with Leading Six Tony Awards
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Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions(NEW YORK) — It was a “kinky” night at the Tony Awards on Sunday.
The musical Kinky Boots won six awards at the New York City ceremony, honoring the best of Broadway. It earned awards for best musical, best lead musical actor for Billy Porter, and best score for Cyndi Lauper.
Kinky Boots, based on the 2005 movie of the same name, is about a man who saves his late father’s shoe factory, thanks to some help from a drag queen. It entered the Tony Awards with a leading 13 nominations.
The award for best play went to the comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
In the upset of the night, Tom Hanks, who appears in the play Lucky Guy, lost the lead actor in a play category to Tracy Letts of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Eighty-eight-year-old Cicely Tyson claimed her first career Tony, taking the lead actress in a play prize for The Trip to Bountiful.
Neil Patrick Harris hosted the CBS telecast from Radio City Music Hall. He kicked off the show with a big musical number that featured Mike Tyson.
You can browse a list of all of the winners at TonyAwards.com. Here’s a look at the most notable categories:
Best Play
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Musical
Kinky Boots
Best Book of a Musical
Matilda the Musical
Best Original Score
Kinky Boots
Best Revival of a Play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Revival of a Musical
Pippin
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Patina Miller, Pippin
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Gabriel Ebert, Matilda the Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Andrea Martin, Pippin
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