The 2019 Tony Award nominations were announced on Tuesday morning (April 30) and the recently-opened musical Hadestown topped all nominees with notices in 14 categories including best musical, where it will go up against Ain't Too Proud -- The Life and Times of the Temptations, Beetlejuice, The Prom and Tootsie. Some of the well-known TV and movie actors who earned nods include: Bryan Cranston, Jeff Daniels, Laurie Metcalf and Adam Driver. This year's Tony Awards will air at 8:00 p.m. on CBS on June 9 from Radio City Music Hall, with James Corden serving as host.<doc-sep>Nominations for the 73rd annual Tony Awards were announced on April 30 by two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth (“Sweet Charity,” “Chicago”) and three-time nominee Brandon Victor Dixon. While the roster of contenders was determined by 48 theater professionals, the winners will be decided by 831 members of the Broadway community. Three years after making his Emmy-winning debut as the host of these top theater honors, James Corden is returning to preside over the June 9 ceremony from Radio City Music Hall that will air live on CBS. This edition of the Tonys celebrate the best of the 2018/2019 theater season. Corden won a Tony in 2012 for his comic turn in the play “One Man, Two Guvnors.” The full and complete list below includes all 26 competitive categories. MUSICALS Best Musical “Ain’t Too Proud” “Beetlejuice” “Hadestown” “The Prom” “Tootsie” Best Musical Revival “Kiss Me, Kate” “Oklahoma!” Best Actor (Musical) Brooks Ashmanskas, “The Prom” Derrick Baskin, “Ain’t Too Proud” Alex Brightman, “Beetlejuice” Damon Daunno, “Oklahoma!” Santino Fontana, “Tootsie” Best Actress (Musical) Stephanie J. Block, “The Cher Show” Caitlin Kinnunen, “The Prom” Beth Leavel, “The Prom” Eva Noblezada, “Hadestown” Kelli O’Hara, “Kiss Me, Kate” Best Featured Actor (Musical) Andre De Shields, “Hadestown” Andy Grotelueschen, “Tootsie” Patrick Page, “Hadestown” Jeremy Pope, “Ain’t Too Proud” Ephraim Sykes, “Ain’t Too Proud” Best Featured Actress (Musical) Lilli Cooper, “Tootsie” Amber Gray, “Hadestown” Sarah Stiles, “Tootsie” Ali Stroker, “Oklahoma!” Mary Testa, “Oklahoma!” Best Director (Musical) Rachel Chavkin, “Hadestown” Scott Ellis, “Tootsie” Daniel Fish, “Oklahoma!” Des McAnuff, “Ain’t Too Proud” Casey Nicholaw, “The Prom” Best Choreography Camille A. Brown, “Choir Boy” Warren Carlyle, “Kiss Me, Kate” Denis Jones, “Tootsie” David Neumann, “Hadestown” Sergio Trujillo, “Ain’t Too Proud” Best Book of a Musical “Ain’t Too Proud” “Beetlejuice” “Hadestown” “The Prom” “Tootsie” Best Original Score “Be More Chill” “Beetlejuice” “Hadestown” “The Prom” “To Kill a Mockingbird” “Tootsie” Best Orchestrations “Ain’t Too Proud” “Hadestown” “Kiss Me, Kate” “Oklahoma!” “Tootsie” Best Costume Design (Musical) “Ain’t Too Proud” “Beetlejuice” “The Cher Show” “Hadestown” “Tootsie” Best Lighting Design (Musical) “Ain’t Too Proud” “Beetlejuice” “The Cher Show” “Hadestown” “King Kong” Best Scenic Design (Musical) “Ain’t Too Proud” “Beetlejuice” “Hadestown” “King Kong” “Oklahoma!” Best Sound Design (Musical) “Ain’t Too Proud” “Beetlejuice” “Hadestown” “King Kong” “Oklahoma!” DISCUSS all the Tony contenders with Broadway insiders in our notorious forums PLAYS Best Play “Choir Boy” “The Ferryman” “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” “Ink” “What the Constitution Means to Me” Best Play Revival “All My Sons” “The Boys in the Band” “Burn This” “Torch Song” “The Waverly Gallery” Best Actor (Play) Paddy Considine, “The Ferryman” Bryan Cranston, “Network” Jeff Daniels, “To Kill a Mockingbird” Adam Driver, “Burn This” Jeremy Pope, “Choir Boy” Best Actress (Play) Annette Bening, “All My Sons” Laura Donnelly, “The Ferryman” Elaine May, “The Waverly Gallery” Janet McTeer, “Bernhardt/Hamlet” Laurie Metcalf, “Hillary and Clinton” Heidi Schreck, “What the Constitution Means to Me” Best Featured Actor (Play) Bertie Carvel, “Ink” Robin De Jesús, “The Boys in the Band” Gideon Glick, “To Kill a Mockingbird” Brandon Uranowitz, “Burn This” Benjamin Walker, “All My Sons” Best Featured Actress (Play) Fionnula Flanagan, “The Ferryman” Celia Keenan-Bolger, “To Kill a Mockingbird” Kristine Nielsen, “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” Julie White, “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” Ruth Wilson, “King Lear” Best Director (Play) Rupert Goold, “Ink” Sam Mendes, “The Ferryman” Bartlett Sher, “To Kill a Mockingbird” Ivo van Hove, “Network” George C. Wolfe, “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” Best Costume Design (Play) “Bernhardt/Hamlet” “The Ferryman” “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” “To Kill a Mockingbird” “Torch Song” Best Lighting Design (Play) “The Ferryman” “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” “Ink” “Network” “To Kill a Mockingbird” Best Scenic Design (Play) “The Ferryman” “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” “Ink” “Network” “To Kill a Mockingbird” Best Sound Design (Play) “Choir Boy” “The Ferryman” “Ink” “Network” “To Kill a Mockingbird” Join in the fun debate over the 2019 Tonys taking place right now in our theater forums. Read more Gold Derby entertainment news.<doc-sep>The nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards were announced April 30 — and leave it to the nominators to upend everyone’s expectations and best-laid plans. Here are the nine biggest snubs and surprises. SNUB: “To Kill a Mockingbird” This one came early in the Tony nominations announcement, and it was a doozy. The hit adaptation of one of America’s most beloved novels is one of the strongest selling entries of the season, and it seemed a surefire contender in top categories. But while “To Kill a Mockingbird” did plenty well with a total of nine nominations (including one for star Jeff Daniels), Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway return didn’t make the cut for the biggest prize for new play. Chalk it up to an unusually crowded slate that gave “Mockingbird” a lot of competition, and to nominators who took things in a direction no one expected them to. SURPRISE: “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” That new-play nomination that everyone thought would go to “Mockingbird”? It went to “Gary,” the brash, bloody, smarter-than-it-looks Broadway debut from award-winning downtown experimentalist Taylor Mac. The show mostly baffled critics, but nominators rewarded it with a total of seven nods (including acting noms for Kristine Nielsen and Julie White). Not bad for a play that most of Broadway seemed to believe nobody likes. SNUB: Glenda Jackson in “King Lear” Jackson is acting royalty, and just last season she took home a Tony Award for “Three Tall Women,” her Broadway return after 30 years. This season she’s playing the title character in “King Lear,” which is the kind of massive role that cries out for awards recognition. But this production of “Lear” was widely disliked by critics and industry types, and mostly ignored by nominators, leaving Jackson out of the competition for lead actress in a play. (In the end, “Lear” earned only one nod, for Ruth Wilson in the featured actress race.) SURPRISE: “Beetlejuice” Broadway’s musical adaptation of the iconic Tim Burton comedy got a mixed bag of reviews — including a high-profile, dismissive pan in the New York Times — and some in the industry thought nominators would ignore it, too. They didn’t: “Beetlejuice” scored a nod for best musical, the night’s biggest prize, among a total of eight noms overall. SNUB: Some of this season’s biggest stars Sure, there are plenty of big-name actors among this year’s pool of nominees: Annette Bening, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Daniels, Adam Driver, Elaine May, Laurie Metcalf. But that still left other notables out in the cold, including the aforementioned Jackson (“King Lear”) as well as John Lithgow (“Hillary and Clinton”), Jonny Lee Miller (“Ink”), Keri Russell (“Burn This”), Kerry Washington (“American Son”) and Tony favorite Nathan Lane (“Gary”), the only member of his three-person cast not to make the cut. SURPRISE: Janet McTeer in “Bernhardt/Hamlet” McTeer always grabs attention when she shows up on Broadway, where she won a Tony for “A Doll’s House” in 1997. Still, few thought nominators would remember her muscular performance as Sarah Bernhardt in “Bernhardt/Hamlet,” which came and went in the fall after earning mixed reviews. But with a category expanded to six nominees, they found a spot for her. SNUB: “Network” This cleverly staged adaptation of the 1976 movie seemed like a good bet for a best play nomination, thanks to its unexpectedly timely take on the news business and a stellar lead performance by Bryan Cranston (who scored an acting nom). The show got a total of five nods, but in a competitive season, it was nudged off the list for best play. SURPRISE: Jeremy Pope It’s been a breakout season (and his first on Broadway) for Pope, and a nomination seemed likely. He didn’t get one, though — he surprised awards watchers by racking up two: one for lead actor in a play in “Choir Boy,” and another for featured actor in Temptations bio “Ain’t Too Proud.” SNUB: “Be More Chill” This musical comedy — about high school, fitting in and an ingestible microcomputer that makes you cool — has a legion of young fans, thanks to the score’s viral popularity online. The show has yet to win over the theater-snob demo, though, so its partisans were hoping to score an attention-getting spot in the race for best musical. No luck on that front, although nominators did give a nod to fan-fave composer Joe Iconis for his score. The 73rd Annual Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden, will be broadcast live from Radio City Musical Hall June 9 on CBS.<doc-sep>The 73rd annual Tony Awards nominations will be announced online and on CBS Tuesday morning. Bebe Neuwirth and Brandon Victor Dixon will read the nominees live on “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday, April 30, at 8:30 a.m. ET from the Library of the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Viewers can also tune into the live stream online to watch the announcement on the Tony Awards Facebook page. Neuwirth won Tony Awards for her performances in “Sweet Charity” in 1986 and “Chicago” in 1996, also appearing in the 2006 and 2014 revivals. She played matriarch Morticia Addams in “The Addams Family” and had roles in “Funny Gir,” “Damn Yankees” and “Little Me.” On screen, she won two Emmys for her role as Lilith Sternin on “Cheers” and and appeared in the “Frasier” spinoff. Dixon helped take home Tony and Drama Desk Awards for the 2014 revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” He earned Tony nominations for outstanding featured actor for “The Color Purple” in 2006 and “Get Along” in 2016, plus an Emmy nod for his role as Judas in the 2018 “Jesus Christ Superstar” TV musical. In 2016, he took over for Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton” and has appeared in “Motown: The Musical” and “The Scottsboro Boys.” A three-way race has begun for best musical as “Hadestown,” “Tootsie” and “The Prom” appear to be the frontrunners. Jeff Daniels, Adam Driver and Bryan Cranston should lead the pack for lead actor, while Elaine May, Laurie Metcalf and Glenda Jackson are shoe-ins for lead actress. James Corden hosts this year’s awards show at the Radio City Musical Hall on June 9 on CBS.<doc-sep>
Products in this story are independently selected and featured editorially. If you make a purchase using these links we may earn commission. CBS will broadcast the 73rd annual Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden, live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 9 (at 8 p.m) The nominees for the 73rd annual Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning. Broadway vets Brandon Victor Dixon and Bebe Neuwirth revealed the names of those vying for the honor, which is considered the highest achievement in theater. It’s presented each year by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. Only two musical revivals opened this year: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. They’ll both go head-to-head for the revival spot. HADESTOWN_3901 Amber Grey in Hadestown | Credit: Matthew Murphy Opening Night Of "To Kill A Mocking Bird" On Broadway Jeff Daniels in To Kill a Mockingbird | Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for "To Kill A Mockingbird" Select 2019 nominees include: Best Revival of a Musical Kiss Me, Kate Oklahoma! Best Revival of a Play All My Sons Burn This The Boys in the Band The Waverly Gallery Torch Song Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical Stephanie J. Block, The Cher Show Caitlin Kinnunen, The Prom Beth Leavel, The Prom Eva Noblezada, Hadestown Kelli O’Hara, Kiss Me, Kate Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Brooks Ashmanskas, The Prom Derrick Baskin, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations Alex Brightman, Beetlejuice Damon Daunno, Oklahoma! Santino Fontana, Tootsie Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play Annette Bening, All My Sons Laura Donnelly, The Ferryman Elaine May, The Waverly Gallery Laurie Metcalf, Hillary and Clinton Janet McTeer, Bernhardt/Hamlet Heidi Schreck, What the Constitution Means To Me Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play Paddy Considine, The Ferryman Bryan Cranston, Network Jeff Daniels, To Kill a Mockingbird Adam Driver, Burn This Jeremy Pope, Choir Boy Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical Lilli Cooper, Tootsie Amber Gray, Hadestown Sarah Stiles, Tootsie Ali Stroker, Oklahoma! Mary Testa, Oklahoma! Best Performance by a Feature Actor in a Musical André de Shields, Hadestown Andy Grotelueschen, Tootsie Patrick Page, Hadestown Jeremy Pope, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations Ephraim Sykes, Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Fionnula Flanagan, The Ferryman Celia Keenan-Bolger, To Kill a Mockingbird Kristine Nielsen, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Julie White, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus Ruth Wilson, King Lear Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Benjamin Walker, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons Bertie Carvel, Ink Robin de Jesus, The Boys in the Band Gideon Glick, To Kill a Mockingbird Brandon Uranowitz, Burn This For the full list of nominees, click here. Tootsie the musical Santino Fontana in Tootsie | Credit: Matthew Murphy Screen Shot 2019-02-08 at 11.38.50 AM The cast of The Prom | Credit: Deen Van Meer Though all will have to wait until Tony night to find out if they won, some can already start prepping their speeches. Honorary recipients for the 73rd annual ceremony include Judith Light (the Isabelle Stevenson Award); Terrence McNally, Rosemary Harris, and Harold Wheeler (Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre recipients); as well as Broadway Inspirational Voices, Peter Entin, Joseph Blakely Forbes, and FDNY Engine 54 (all given Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre). The late Marin Mazzie, who died last year at the age of 57 following a battle with ovarian cancer, is being given a special Tony posthumously to recognize her legacy of leadership and advocacy work. Other special Tony trophies will go to Jason Michael Webb, who brought gospel arrangements to Choir Boy, and the folks behind the towering pupped in King Kong, Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company.