(New York) After two years disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Broadway shows and musicals will offer their annual awards on June 12, among a list of nominees unveiled Monday in New York.
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A Strange Loopa play written by Michael Jackson (namesake of the singer and dancer who died in 2009) and whose text has already won a Pulitzer Prize, competes in 11 categories of the Tony Awards, which are compared to the Oscars for theater.
The play, which is up for the most prestigious Tony for musical of the year, chronicles the struggles of a “black and queer “.
A Strange Loop will fight for the title of best musical against Girl from the North Countrya show set during the period of the Great Depression in the United States, with songs by Bob Dylan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It will also take into account GMbiographical piece on Michael Jackson (ten nominations), Mr Saturday Night, remake from the 1992 film by Billy Crystal, Paradise Squareon race relations in New York from the 19and century (ten nominations), and Sixretracing the lives of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England.
The hit piece Company by Stephen Sondheim, a Broadway legend who died in November 2021 at the age of 91, is in the running for nine Tony Awards.
At last, The Lehman Trilogywhich tells the story of the American investment bank Lehman Brothers whose fall in 2008 triggered a global financial crisis, is seeking eight awards.
The Tony Awards ceremony will be presided over by actress Ariana DeBose, who just won an Oscar for her performance as Anita in the film West Side Story by Steven Spielberg, and will be broadcast on June 12 on Paramount Plus and CBS from the famous Radio City Music Hall, in the heart of Manhattan.
The previous ceremony, in September 2021, had made a triumph for the musical Red Mill ! by rewarding plays from the 2019-2020 season, which was brutally interrupted in March 2020 for 18 months due to the COVID-19 epidemic, which had particularly bruised New York.