Broadway Loves the Small Screen! Tony Awards, Sweeney Todd & Numerous Stage Favorites Among 2015 Emmy Nominees

The nominations for the 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced on July 16. Broadway fans had reasons to celebrate as the 2014 Tony Awards telecast, Peter Pan Live! and Live from Lincoln Center’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street picked up nominations, as did several Tony winners and stage favorites, including Alan Cumming, Jane Krakowski and Darren Criss.

Numerous Tony winners picked up Emmy nods this year: Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder), Cumming (The Good Wife), She Love Me’s Krakowski (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Christine Baranski (The Good Wife), Kevin Spacey (House of Cards), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan), Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall), Frances McDormand (Olive Kitteridge) and Lily Tomlin (Grace and Frankie).

Additional nominees include Broadway alums Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black), Kyle Chandler (Bloodline), Claire Danes (Homeland), Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Timothy Hutton (American Crime), Felicity Huffman (American Crime), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honorable Woman), William H. Macy (Shameless), Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie), Allison Janney (Mom), Damian Lewis (Wolf Hall), Zoe Kazan (Olive Kitteridge) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones).

Among the stage names to earn nominations for guest appearances are upcoming star of The Gin Game Cicely Tyson (How to Get Away with Murder), F. Murray Abraham (Homeland), Alan Alda (The Blacklist), Pablo Schreiber (Orange is the New Black), Beau Bridges (Masters of Sex), Margo Martindale (The Americans), Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones), Janney (Masters of Sex) and Baranski (The Big Bang Theory)

Tony winner Mel Brooks received nominations for his guest spot in The Comedians and for Mel Brooks Live at the Geffen. FX’s A Tribute to Mel Brooks earned a nod for Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program.

The 68th annual Tony Awards, hosted by Hugh Jackman on June 8, 2014, received nominations in the following categories: Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special for Glenn Weiss, Outstanding Special Class Program and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Limited Series, Movie or Special.

The NBC telecast of Peter Pan Live! also received three nods: Outstanding Production Design for Variety, Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Programming, Outstanding Music Direction for David Chase and Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Limited Series, Movie or a Special.

American Horror Story: Freak Show, which, in typical Ryan Murphy fashion, featured several stage favorites, received 19 nominations including Oustanding Limited Series. Broadway alums to receive nominations for their performances include Jessica Lange, Tony winner Denis O’Hare, Finn Wittrock, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates.

The Live From Lincoln Center broadcast of Sweeney Todd picked up three nominations, including one for Thompson’s performance as Mrs. Lovett, as well as Outstanding Special Class Program and Outstanding Music Direction.

Glee favorites Criss (currently on Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and former Annie star Jane Lynch picked up nods for the original Glee song “This Time” and hosting Hollywood Game Night, respectively.

Criss was not the only Broadway name to earn a nomination for his musical talents. Frozen duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and EGOT winner Robert Lopez received nods for the song “Moving Pictures” at the Oscars and for the tune “Kiss an Old Man” from The Comedians. Elf composer Matthew Sklar earned a nomination for Outstanding Music Direction for the NBC animated special, as did Tony winner Stephen Oremus for the Oscars.

Click here for a complete list of nominations. The 67th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by Andy Samberg, will air on Fox on September 20. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards are set for September 12.