The Tony Awards 2023 nominations list has been published. Which Broadway play or musical is this year’s favorite? HOLR breaks it down.
Photo Credits: Jenny Anderson/GI for Tony Awards Productions
As the Tony Awards 2023 ceremony is due to happen soon, the list of nominations was published on Tuesday and people are already talking about this year’s favorite. The play Some Like It Hot, a jazzy adaptation of the beloved 1959 comedy, has received 13 nominations which made it this year’s favorite, as Variety notes.
Here is part of the Tony nominations list of 2023:
Best Play
Ain’t No Mo’
Between Riverside and Crazy
Cost of Living
Fat Ham
Leopoldstadt
Best Musical
& Juliet
Kimberly Akimbo
New York, New York
Shucked
Some Like It Hot
Best Revival of a Play
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson
A Doll’s House
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog
Best Revival of a Musical
Into the Woods
Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot
Parade
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Book of a Musical
& Juliet
David West Read
Kimberly Akimbo
David Lindsay-Abaire
New York, New York
David Thompson & Sharon Washington
Shucked
Robert Horn
Some Like It Hot
Matthew López & Amber Ruffin
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Almost Famous
Music: Tom Kitt
Lyrics: Cameron Crowe & Tom Kitt
Kimberly Akimbo
Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire
KPOP
Music & Lyrics: Helen Park & Max Vernon
Shucked
Music and Lyrics: Brandy Clark & Shane McAnally
Some Like It Hot
Music: Marc Shaiman
Lyrics: Scott Wittman & Marc Shaiman
Click here to see the full nominations list!
Who has won the most Tony Awards?
Photo Credits: Paul Kolnik
According to Billboard, the play with the most Tony Awards ever received is The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical (2001), which won 12 awards.
Published by HOLR Magazine.