The nominees for best musical are “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations,” “Beetlejuice,” “Hadestown,” “The Prom” and “Tootsie.”
Best play nominees are “Choir Boy,” “The Ferryman,” “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” “Ink” and “What the Constitution Means to Me.”
Among the boldfaced names nominated were Annette Bening, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Daniels, Adam Driver, Elaine May and Laurie Metcalf.
The awards ceremony will take place at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, June 9, at Radio City Music Hall, and will be broadcast on CBS. James Corden is the host.
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The nominations were notable not only for those they honored, but for those they ignored. “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Network,” two costly dramas that have been big hits at the box office, did not get nominated in the best new play category. But they did not come away empty-handed — “Mockingbird” was nominated in nine other categories and “Network” in five.
The current Broadway season, much to the surprise of many who worried that the industry is being swallowed by big brand blockbuster musicals, was dominated by plays — 21 in all, many of them new, several of them profitable and some quite adventurous.
The Tony race for best new play is now likely to be a faceoff between “The Ferryman,” Jez Butterworth’s gripping family drama set in a troubled Northern Ireland in 1981, and the much more intimate “What the Constitution Means to Me,” an autobiographical piece by Heidi Schreck about gender and American legal history, inspired by her adolescent experience giving speeches about the Constitution to win scholarship money.
The other contenders for best new play are “Choir Boy,” “Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus” and “Ink.”
The race for best play revival is wide open, but among the hopefuls are “The Waverly Gallery,” a Kenneth Lonergan drama, first produced in 1999, about how Alzheimer’s disease affects a woman and her family, and “The Boys in the Band,” a pioneering 1968 play by Mart Crowley about a group of gay men gathered for a birthday party. Neither play had ever been staged on Broadway before.
Also nominated: “All My Sons,” “Burn This” and “Torch Song.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.