The great Victoria Clark won a Tony Award for her performance in “Kimberly Akimbo,” and the question was always who could fill her shoes when David Lindsay Abaire and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony-winning musical went on tour. Carolee Carmello, left, Miguel Gil and Jim Hogan in the national tour of “Kimberly Akimbo.” Based on the 2000 play by Lindsay-Abaire, “Kimberly Akimbo,” …
The intimate, funny-sad musical Kimberly Akimbo nudged aside splashier rivals on Sunday to win the musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its creative muscle amid the Hollywood writers’ strike and made history with laurels for nonbinary actors J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell. Producer David Stone credited the musical’s writers for penning a magic …
The 2023 Tony Awards aired live Sunday, June 11, on CBS and Paramount+. “So to anyone who may have thought that last year was a bit unhinged, to them I say, darlings: buckle up.” Because of the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, there wasn’t an opening number by Lin-Manuel Miranda — or any pre-written witty banter by Ariana DeBose, …
CBS presents THE 76TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, which will broadcast live from the United Palace in New York City on Sunday, June 11, 2023, on the CBS Television Network and streaming live and on demand on Paramount+. ‘New York, New York,’ St. James Theatre Expectations were running high for this musical adaptation of Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film starring Robert De …