The Tony Awards are considered the most prestigious accolade for musicals and plays in the USA. On Sunday evening, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe won the award for Best Supporting Role.
Daniel Radcliffe, known for his role as Harry Potter, has won the most significant musical award in the USA. The 34-year-old received the Tony Award on Sunday night (local time) in New York for Best Supporting Role in a Broadway musical for “Merrily We Roll Along.”
Highlights from the Tony Awards Night
The play also won the award for Best Revival of a Musical and received a total of four awards, including a Tony for Jonathan Groff as Best Leading Actor. The award for Best New Musical went to an adaptation of the young adult novel “The Outsiders.” The Best New Play of the Year was “Stereophonic,” a loose retelling of Fleetwood Mac’s band history, which became the most successful production of the year with a total of five awards.
13 Nominations for Alicia Keys’ Musical “Hell’s Kitchen”
The Tony for Best Revival of a Play was awarded to the family drama “Appropriate.” Acting awards also went to Jeremy Strong, known for his role as Kendall Roy in the TV series “Succession,” for “Enemy of the People,” and Sarah Paulson for “Appropriate.” The Best Leading Actress in a Musical was Maleah Joi Moon in Alicia Keys’ musical “Hell’s Kitchen,” which had 13 nominations but won only two awards.
The Tony Awards are recognized as the most important honor for musicals and plays in the USA. They consider only productions that were newly staged in one of the 41 Broadway theaters in New York’s theater district over the past year. This year, 36 productions were in the running. The nomination decisions are made by 44 people, mostly theater experts.