African American Actors Score Big At Tony Awards

 (l-r) PATINA MILLER, CICELY TYSON and BILLY PORTER

It was a great night for African American actors Sunday night, as four took home Tony Awards.  An emotional Cicely Tyson, won for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for A Trip to Bountiful; Billy Porter, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Kinky Boots; Patina Miller, for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Pippin; and Courtney B. Vance, for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Lucky Guy.

Following is a complete list of winners.

Best Play: "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."

Best Musical: "Kinky Boots."

Best Book of a Musical: "Matilda the Musical."

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: "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 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."

COURTNEY B. VANCE

 

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."

Best Direction of a Play: Pam MacKinnon, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

Best Direction of a Musical: Diane Paulus, "Pippin"

Best Choreography: Jerry Mitchell, "Kinky Boots"

Best Orchestrations: Stephen Oremus, "Kinky Boots"

Best Scenic Design of a Play: John Lee Beatty, "The Nance"

Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rob Howell, "Matilda the Musical"

Best Costume Design of a Play: Ann Roth, "The Nance"

Best Costume Design of a Musical: William Ivey Long, "Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella"

Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, "Lucky Guy"

Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Hugh Vanstone, "Matilda the Musical"

Best Sound Design of a Play: Leon Rothenberg, "The Nance"

Best Sound Design of a Musical: John Shivers, "Kinky Boots"

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre: Bernard Gersten, Paul Libin, Ming Cho Lee

Regional Theatre Award: Huntington Theatre Company

Isabelle Stevenson Award: Larry Kramer

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre: Career Transition For Dancers, William Craver, Peter Lawrence, "The Lost Colony" and the four actresses who created the title role of "Matilda The Musical" on Broadway -- Sophia Gennusa, Oona Laurence, Bailey Ryon and Milly Shapiro