Cate Blanchett, Sally Field and Bette Midler received acting nominations for Broadway's Tony Awards on Tuesday, while "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" led the pack with 12 nods including the top prize, best musical.
Close behind was the hit revival of "Hello, Dolly!" which took 10 nominations, including one for lead actor David Hyde Pierce. He will compete against Josh Groban making his Broadway debut in "Natasha, Pierre," a lavish spectacle based on a snippet of Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
"Groundhog Day The Musical," "Come From Away" and teen-aged angst drama "Dear Evan Hansen," which won rave reviews and took nine nominations, were other best musical nominees.
Best play nominees were led by "A Doll's House, Part 2" with eight nominations including ones for stars Laurie Metcalf and Chris Cooper, "Oslo," about the 1993 Oslo peace accords, Pulitzer Prize winning drama "Sweat" and "Indecent."
Only three shows were nominated for best musical revival: "Falsettos," "Miss Saigon" and "Hello, Dolly!".
In a year crowded with dozens of new plays and musicals, major productions of "Cats," "Sunset Boulevard" starring Glenn Close, "A Bronx Tale" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" were shut out.
Big names appearing this season who were not nominated included Diane Lane, Mark Ruffalo and Allison Janney.
The best play revival nominees were "Present Laughter," "August Wilson's Jitney," "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes," which won nominations for actresses Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon.
Nixon, who has been exchanging roles with Linney during the play's run, said she found out about her featured actress nomination by text message and had not yet heard from Linney. "I'm sure we will be chatting this morning," she added.
Joining Midler, whose turn in "Hello, Dolly!" has been breaking box office records, as best actress in a musical, are Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole in "War Paint," newcomer Denée Benton for "Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812" and Eva Noblezada in "Miss Saigon."
Blanchett, who made her Broadway debut in "The Present," is joined by Jennifer Ehle ("Oslo") in addition to Field ("The Glass Menagerie"), Linney and Metcalf.
Best play actor nominees included Denis Arndt in "Heisenberg," Kevin Kline in "Present Laughter," Jefferson Mays in "Oslo" and Corey Hawkins in "Six Degrees of Separation."
The Tony Awards will be presented on June 11 at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall in a ceremony headlined by film and stage star Kevin Spacey.
Reuters
Wed May 03 2017
Singer Bette Midler arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars Party in West Hollywood, California March 2, 2014. - Photo Reuters/Danny Moloshok/Files
Hidup bersama secara aman antara 10 resolusi Persidangan Antarabangsa Ketua-Ketua Agama
Resolusi itu dibacakan oleh Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) Datuk Hakimah Mohd Yusoff.
Lintasan Karem Shalom dibuka semula
Susulan tindak kejam israel menutup lintasan Rafah, satu-satunya laluan bantuan kemanusiaan memasuki Gaza.
Amerika Syarikat berkata, mereka dimaklumkan bahawa lintasan Karem Shalom, yang sebelum ini ditutup Israel akan dibuka semula pada Rabu.
Amerika Syarikat berkata, mereka dimaklumkan bahawa lintasan Karem Shalom, yang sebelum ini ditutup Israel akan dibuka semula pada Rabu.
Operasi Israel di Rafah berbentuk terhad
Penasihat keselamatan White House, John Kirby mengesahkan operasi Israel di Rafah bertujuan mengekang penyeludupan senjata dan dana kepada Hamas.
Henti serang Rafah, atau tiada gencatan senjata – Hamas
Kumpulan pejuang Hamas, memberi kata putus kepada Israel untuk menghentikan serangan ke atas Rafah, atau ia menarik diri daripada perjanjian gencatan senjata.
Isu teknikal: Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa UK alami masalah sistem e-gate
Sistem laluan automatik (e-gate) di beberapa lapangan terbang antarabangsa United Kingdom mengalami masalah teknikal pada malam Selasa menyebabkan orang ramai terpaksa beratur panjang dan menunggu lebih lama.
TikTok saman kerajaan Amerika Syarikat
TikTok dan syarikat induknya di China, ByteDance memfailkan saman ke atas kerajaan Amerika Syarikat susulan tindakan pengharaman aplikasi itu.
Dasar Pengurusan Bencana Negara akan disemak semula - Ahmad Zahid
Dasar Pengurusan Bencana Negara akan disemak semula bagi meningkatkan daya tahan serta mengukuhkan kesiapsiagaan dan keupayaan negara dalam menguruskan bencana dengan lebih baik.
Empat stesen monorel ditutup sementara - Rapid Rail
Empat stesen monorel ditutup sementara untuk kerja-kerja pembersihan dan baik pulih susulan insiden pokok tumbang berhampiran Stesen Monorel Bukit Nanas petang Selasa.
Kenaikan gaji penjawat awam: Cuepacs harap harga barang tidak naik
Harga yang ditawarkan di pasaran mestilah setara dan adil dengan pendapatan pengguna.
PM bentang pendigitalan & kecerdasan buatan dalam mesyuarat Kabinet
Perdana Menteri mengesahkan akan membentangkan mengenai pendigitalan & pengadaptasian kecerdasan buatan (AI) dalam kerajaan ketika mesyuarat kabinet hari ini.