The new musical Once, based on the film about a couple of struggling musicians whose hearts connect in Dublin, topped the list of nominations for Broadway's biggest prize, announced Tuesday morning. It earned 11 nods, with ten each going to The Gershwins'Porgy and Bess, a musical-theater staging of the folk opera, and Nice Work If You Can Get It, inspired by breezier jazz-age confections and also featuring beloved Gershwin tunes. Both the latter garnered mixed reviews but proved more endearing to audiences.
Other high-scoring musicals inlcude a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies and Disney's new Newsies, each up for eight trophies.
Among plays, Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the children's novel, received the most nominations, nine in all. Mike Nichols' celebrated revival of Death of A Salesman and the hilarious U.K. import One Man, Two Guvnors (based on the 18th-century Commedia dell'Arte work The Servant of Two Masters) followed with seven each.
For best new play, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park will vie against the similarly acclaimed Other Desert Cities as well as the fantastic Peter and the erotic Venus In Fur. Venus's breakout star Nina Arianda will compete against Tracie Bennett, Stockard Channing, Linda Lavin and Cynthia Nixon for best actress in a play.
The category of best actor in a play is the starriest, pitting Salesman's Philip Seymourr Hoffman against James Earl Jones, Frank Langella, John lLithgow and One Man star James Corden. Christian Borle and Andrew Garfield, respectively of Peter and Salesman, are among those duking it out for featured actor in a play.
Not all eligible name actors were recognized. Matthew Broderick, who got lukewarm notices for his performance in Nice Work, did not share in the show's bounty. The omissions of The Mountaintop co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett were similarly unsurprising, as that Olivier Award-winning reflection on Martin Luther King, Jr. proved disappointing to numerous American critics, many of whom also panned a new A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood and Nicole Ari Parker. Less predictably, Tyne Daly's bravura stint in last summer's revival of Master Class was overshadowed by more recent star turns.
As announced Monday, special Tony Awards will also go to Hugh Jackmanâ€" whose 2011 critical and commercial smash Hugh Jackman, Back On Broadway was, as a concert stint, not eligible for any of the Tonys awarded book musicals â€" for his contributions to the Broadway community, and to Actors' Equity Association, celebrating its 100th anniversary in June. And Bernadette Peters will receive the Isabelle Stevenson A ward, which recognizes indviduals for humanitarian and charity work. (With Mary Tyler Moore, Peters founded the program Broadway Barks!, which promotes the adoption of animals from shelters.)
The 66th annual Tony Awards will air live from New York's Beacon Theatre on CBS on June 10 at 8 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. CT.
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