Nominations for the 78th Tony Awards have been announced, honoring the best of the 2024-2025 Broadway season. Here’s your guide to which shows, performers and creators are up for awards on Broadway’s biggest night!
- Buena Vista Social Club - 10 Nominations
- Death Becomes Her - 10 Nominations
- Maybe Happy Ending - 10 Nominations
- Dead Outlaw - 7 Nominations
- John Proctor is the Villain - 7 Nominations
- Sunset Boulevard - 7 Nominations
- The Hills of California - 7 Nominations
- Floyd Collins- 6 Nominations
- Just In Time - 6 Nominations
- Purpose - 6 Nominations
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - 6 Nominations
- English - 5 Nominations
- Good Night, and Good Luck - 5 Nominations
- Gypsy - 5 Nominations
- Oh, Mary! - 5 Nominations
- Stranger Things: The First Shadow - 5 Nominations
- Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical - 4 Nominations
- BOOP! The Musical - 3 Nominations
- Yellow Face - 3 Nominations
- Eureka Day - 2 Nominations
- Real Women Have Curves - 2 Nominations
- Smash- 2 Nominations
- A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical - 1 Nominations
- Glengarry Glen Ross - 1 Nomination
- Our Town - 1 Nomination
- Pirates! The Penzance Musical - 1 Nomination
- Romeo + Juliet - 1 Nomination
- Swept Away - 1 Nomination
- The Roommate - 1 Nomination
Buena Vista Social Club
10 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Musical
Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Natalie Venetia Belcon
Best Book of a Musical - Marco Ramirez
Best Director of a Musical - Saheem Ali
Best Choreography - Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck
Best Orchestrations - Marco Paguia
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Arnulfo Maldonado
Best Costume Design of a Musical - Dede Ayite
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Tyler Micoleau
Best Sound Design of a Musical - Jonathan Deans
Inspired by true events and featuring a world class Afro-Cuban band, this new musical transports audiences to Cuba as it brings the GRAMMY® Award-winning album of the same name to thrilling life—and tells the story of the legends who lived it. Buy tickets to Buena Vista Social Club on Broadway
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Death Becomes Her
10 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Musical
Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Megan Hilty
Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Jennifer Simard
Best Book of a Musical - Marco Pennette
Best Score of a Musical - Julia Mattison and Noel Carey
Best Director of a Musical - Christopher Gattelli
Best Choreography - Christopher Gattelli
Best Orchestrations - Marco Paguia
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Derek McLane
Best Costume Design of a Musical - Paul Tazewell
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Justin Townsend
The musical adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name comes to Broadway! Madeline Ashton and helen Sharp take the stage in Death Becomes Her, which follows the pair as they begin a new era of life thanks to a mysterious woman with a secret that's to die for. Get tickets to Death Becomes Her on Broadway!
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Maybe Happy Ending
10 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Musical
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Darren Criss
Best Book of a Musical - Will Aronson and Hue Park
Best Score of a Musical - Will Aronson and Hue Park
Best Director of a Musical - Michael Arden
Best Orchestrations - Will Aronson
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Dane Laffrey and George Reeve
Best Costume Design of a Musical - Clint Ramos
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Ben Stanton
Best Sound Design of a Musical - Peter Hylenski
Darren Criss and Helen J Shen star in this new romantic musical comedy that follows two Helper-Bot robots living in Seoul as they form a unique friendship and go on a surprising adventure. Get tickets to Maybe Happy Ending on Broadway!
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Dead Outlaw
7 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Musical
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Andrew Durand
Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Jeb Brown
Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Julia Knitel
Best Book of a Musical - Itamar Moses
Best Score of a Musical - David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna
Best Director of a Musical - David Cromer
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Sunset Boulevard
7 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Tom Francis
Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Nicole Scherzinger
Best Director of a Musical - Jamie Lloyd
Best Orchestrations - David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Daniel Aukin
Best Sound Design of a Musical - Adam Fisher
Nicole Scherzinger makes her Broadway debut as Norma Desmond in director Jamie Lloyd's thrilling and acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, navigating the intoxicating need for fame and adoration. Get tickets to Sunset Boulevard on Broadway!
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The Hills of California
7 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Play
Best Leading Actress in a Play - Laura Donnelly
Best Director of a Play - Sam Mendes
Best Scenic Design of a Play - Rob Howell
Best Costume Design of a Play - Rob Howell
Best Lighting Design of a Play - Natasha Chivers
Best Sound Design of a Play - Nick Powell
Jez Butterworth's rich family drama follows the Webb sisters in both their musical past and as they navigate the death of their matriarch.
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John Proctor is the Villain
7 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Play
Best Leading Actress in a Play - Sadie Sink
Best Featured Actor in a Play - Gabriel Ebert
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Fina Strazza
Best Director of a Play - Danya Taymor
Best Lighting Design of a Play - Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski
Best Sound Design of a Play - Palmer Heffernan
Stranger Things star Sadie Sink returns to Broadway in this new comedy by Kimberly Belflower that flips the script on American classic The Crucible. As students question the play's perspective, optimism, fury and a look to the future emerge.Buy tickets to John Proctor is the Villain on Broadway!
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Floyd Collins
6 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Jeremy Jordan
Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Taylor Trensch
Best Orchestrations - Bruce Coughlin
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun
Best Sound Design of a Musical - Dan Moses Schreier
Jeremy Jordan stars in the long-awaited Broadway debut of Adam Guettel's musical, based on the true story of a cave explorer in 1925 Kentucky. Buy tickets to Floyd Collins on Broadway!
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Just In Time
6 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Jonathan Groff
Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Gracie Lawrence
Best Orchestrations - Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Derek McLane
Best Costume Design of a Musical - Catherine Zuber
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Peter Hylenski
Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff stars as the legendary Bobby Darin in this immersive new biomusical that turns Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre into an intimate nightclub. Get ready to hear “Beyond the Sea,” “Mack the Knife” and more! Get tickets to Just In Time on Broadway!
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Purpose
6 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Play
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Jon Michael Hill
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Harry Lennix
Best Leading Actress in a Play - LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Best Featured Actor in a Play - Glenn Davis
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Kara Young
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins introduces audiences to the influential Jasper family, long a pillar in Black American politics, in the Broadway transfer of his spirited, hilarious and intriguing family drama. Buy tickets to Purpose on Broadway!
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
5 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Leading Actress in a Play - Sarah Snook
Best Scenic Design of a Play- Marg Horwell and David Bergman
Best Costume Design of a Play - Marg Horwell
Best Lighting Design of a Play - Nick Schlieper
Best Sound Design of a Play - Clemence Williams
Succession star Sarah Snook makes her Broadway debut reprising her Olivier Award-winning performance as all 26 characters in Oscar Wilde's classic about a man who yearns for eternal youth. Kip Williams directs the contemporary production, which features a combination of live performance and video. Buy tickets to The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway!
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English
5 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Play
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Tala Ashe
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Marjan Neshat
Best Director of a Play - Knud Adams
Best Scenic Design of a Play - Marsha Ginsberg
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Good Night, and Good Luck
5 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Leading Actor in a Play - George Clooney
Best Scenic Design of a Play - Scott Pask
Best Costume Design of a Play - Brenda Abbandandolo
Best Lighting Design of a Play - Heather Gilbert and David Bengali
Best Sound Design of a Play - Daniel Kluger
George Clooney makes his Broadway debut as Edward R. Murrow in this historical drama about 1950s television news, based on the 2005 film of the same name. Get Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway Tickets!
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Gypsy
5 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Revival of a Musical
Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Audra McDonald
Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Danny Burstein
Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Joy Woods
Best Choreography - Camille A. Brown
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald returns to Broadway as the ultimate stage mother Rose in the classic musical from Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim. Get tickets to Gypsy on Broadway!
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Oh, Mary!
5 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Play
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Cole Escola
Best Featured Actor in a Play - Conrad Ricamora
Best Director of a Play - Sam Pinkleton
Best Costume Design of a Play - Holly Pierson
Cole Escola’s hit comedy following the miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination has taken Broadway by storm! Buy tickets to Oh, Mary! on Broadway!
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Stranger Things: The First Shadow
5 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Louis McCartney
Best Scenic Design of a Play - Miriam Buether and 59
Best Costume Design of a Play - Brigitte Reiffenstuel,
Best Lighting Design of a Play - Jon Clark
Best Sound Design of a Play - Paul Arditti
The Olivier Award-winning prequel to the hit Netflix series arrives on Broadway featuring stunning special effects, extraordinary performances, and a storyline that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Get tickets to Stranger Things: The First Shadow on Broadway!
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Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
4 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Musical
Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Jak Malone
Best Book of a Musical - David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts
Best Score of a Musical - David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts
A combination of farce, thriller, and spy caper, the Olivier Award-winning Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical arrives on Broadway to tell both the wildly improbably and hilariously true story of a WWII era covert operation. Buy tickets to Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical on Broadway!
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BOOP! The Musical
3 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Jasmine Amy Rogers
Best Choreography - Jerry Mitchell
Best Costume Design of a Musical - Gregg Barnes
Betty Boop has made it to Broadway! Based on the iconic comic, the sassy and sweet champion of empowerment steps out of her black-and-white world and takes the stage in this new musical comedy extravaganza. Buy tickets to BOOP! The Musical on Broadway!
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Yellow Face
3 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Revival of a Play
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Daniel Dae Kim
Best Leading Actor in a Play - Francis Jue
Screen favorite Daniel Dae Kim stars in David Henry Hwang's Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist farce about a playwright who protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play.
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Eureka Day
2 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Revival of a Play
Best Featured Actress in a Play - Jessica Hecht
Jonathan Spector’s wildly relevant and bitingly funny play set at a private California elementary school as the Board of Directors struggle with the making a choice that won’t please absolutely everybody.
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Real Women Have Curves
2 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Justina Machado
Best Score of a Musical - Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez
A musical adaptation of Josefina López's play and the iconic film of the same name makes its Broadway premiere. Get tickets to Real Women Have Curves on Broadway!
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Smash
2 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING:
Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Brooks Ashmanskas
Best Choreography - Joshua Bergasse
Robyn Hurder and Caroline Bowman star in the new musical, based on the TV series of the same name. Featuring songs from the series, Smash follows the process of mounting Bombshell, a musical about the life of Marilyn Monroe. Get Smash on Broadway Tickets!
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A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
1 NOMINATION:
Best Leading Actor in a Musical - James Monroe Iglehart
Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart stars as jazz legend and American icon Louis Armstrong in this new musical about his musical career, told from the perspective of his four wives, who each had a unique impact on his life.
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Glengarry Glen Ross
1 NOMINATION:
Best Featured Actor in a Play - Bob Odenkirk
Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr and Michael McKean lead the Broadway revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning real estate drama, set in a Chicago real estate office. Get tickets to Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway!
Our Town
1 NOMINATION:
Best Revival of a Play
Pirates! The Penzance Musical
1 NOMINATION:
Best Revival of a Musical
Ramin Karimloo, David Hyde Pierce and Jinkx Monsoon lead the jazz-infused Broadway reimagining of Gilbert & Sullivan's clever romp, taking place as the title pirates dock their ship in New Orleans. Get Pirates! The Penzance Musical on Broadway Tickets!
Romeo + Juliet
1 NOMINATION:
Best Revival of a Play
Swept Away
1 NOMINATION:
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Rachel Hauck
The Roommate
1 NOMINATION:
Best Leading Actress in a Play - Mia Farrow
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