"Hello, Dolly!" won four Tonys, including best revival of a musical but "Dear Evan Hansen" was the star of the night with six, including best musical and leading actor for its 23-year-old star Ben Platt. Appearing as his "House of Cards" character Frank Underwood, he wisecracked that he'd better leave, "before Bette Midler thanks anyone else".
Last but not least, the play titled Oslo won Best Play, a production composed by J.T. Rogers. When the orchestra tried to goose her along with swelling instruments, Midler was not having it. "This has the ability to lift your spirits in these awful, bad times", she said of her show. Kevin's featured Dear Evan Hansen to start and went into such musicals as Groundhog Day and Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.
Come From Away, Evan Hansen's closest competition for Best Musical, had to settle for just one award, for director Christopher Ashley.
In his acceptance speech, Platt encouraged young people to be odd, because "the thing that make you unusual are the things that make you powerful".
Watching Dear Evan Hansen songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul rush to the stage in a moment of pure elation felt like a win for theatre kids everywhere.
This was Bette's first Tony Award for acting.
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Kevin Kline's shout-out to the National Endowment for the Arts. And in choreography, Andy Blankenbuehler joined his "Hamilton" colleague Lacamoire with a repeat win this year, this time for "Bandstand". A Doll's House, Part 2 star Laurie Metcalf won her first Tony Award for best performance by an actress in a play. Spacey remarked, prompting Goldberg to respond, "Well, Kevin, it depends on who you ask!"
The Tony Awards honor the best plays and musicals on Broadway.
The 71st Tony Awards ceremony was predicted to be a horse race in the musical categories, but it turned out to be dominated by "Dear Evan Hanson", the show about a high school student whose world is turned upside-down in the wake of a classmate's death.
The show's comedy had zings for Democrats and Republicans alike, with Colbert mocking President Donald Trump as if he were a show from Washington with bad hair and makeup that will be "closing early" due to poor reviews. "My wife", Spacey continued, still impersonating Bill Clinton. The original cast recording from Broadway's COME FROM AWAY comes in at No. 19.
Christopher Ashley tells CTV News Channel that the Gander residents who welcomed thousands of Americans after their flights were grounded on September 11, 2001 took "extraordinarily good care" of strangers.
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