No script at Tony Awards, but plenty of song, dance, high spirits and history-making wins

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The ceremony also touched on the specter of anti-Semitism in very different places: World War II Europe, with best play winner “Leopoldstadt," and early 20th-century America, with “Parade,” winner for best musical revival. Brandon Uranowitz of “Leopoldstadt,” Tom Stoppard’s sweeping play about a Jewish family in Vienna, thanked the celebrated playwright “for writing a play about Jewish identity and antisemitism and the false promise of assimilation,” and noted his ancestors, “many of whom did not make it out of Poland, also thank you.” Uranowitz, who won for featured actor in a play, added a humorous note that the thing he wanted most in life was to repay his parents for the sacrifices they made for him — only he couldn’t, because he works in the theater. “THIS IS FOR YOU” J. Harrison Ghee was the second non-binary actor of the night to make history, winning best actor in a musical for their role in “Some Like It Hot,” based on the classic 1959 film, as a male musician fleeing the mob disguised as a woman in what becomes a voyage of discovery about gender. Ghee also chatted with last year’s winner of the same award, Myles Frost, who played Michael Jackson in “MJ.” Asked their main takeaway of the night, Ghee replied, “Our industry is shifting forward!