Adapted from S.E. Hinton’s book and Francis Ford Coppola’s film, The Outsiders took home the award for best musical at last night’s 2024 Tony Awards while David Adjmi’s highly-acclaimed Stereophonic earned the coveted best play award at the 2024 Tony Awards, as the best achievements in live Broadway theater performances during the 2023-24 season were honored at the Lincoln Center.
You might also enjoy Record-breaking Stereophonic toasts big win at the Tonys Stereophonic set a new record for the play productions with the most Tony nominations (13) and came away with five awards : Best Play, Best Direction of a Play, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play, Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Scenic Design of a Play while Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Appropriate also took home multiple awards, winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play, Best Revival of a Play, Best Lighting Design of a Play.
Ariana DeBose , hosting the ceremony for the third year running was in charge of handing out the awards to recipients as the 77th edition of the Tonys celebrated the best of Broadway. Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen was one of the productions that was expected to do well - it received 10 nominations, and picked up two awards on the night: Maleah Joi Moon won the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical and Kecia Lewis took home the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical.
2024 Tony Awards: full list of winners
Best PlayStereophonic Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Mary Jane Mother Play Prayer for the French Republic
Best MusicalThe Outsiders Hell’s Kitchen Illinoise Suffs Water for Elephants
Best Book of a MusicalSuffs - Shaina Taub Hell’s Kitchen - Kristoffer Diaz The Notebook - Bekah Brunstetter The Outsiders - Adam Rapp with Justin Levine Water for Elephants - Rick Elice
Best Original ScoreSuffs - Music & Lyrics - Shaina Taub Days of Wine and Roses - Music & Lyrics - Adam Guettel Here Lies Love - Lyrics - David Byrne - Music- David Byrne and Fatboy Slim The Outsiders - Music & Lyrics - Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine Stereophonic - Music & Lyrics - Will Butler
Best Revival of a PlayAppropriate (Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins) An Enemy of the People - New Version- Amy Herzog Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
Best Revival of a MusicalMerrily We Roll Along Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Gutenberg! The Musical! - Book, Music & Lyrics - Scott Brown & Anthony King The Who’s Tommy
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a PlayJeremy Strong for An Enemy of the People William Jackson Harper for Uncle Vanya Leslie Odom, Jr. for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch Liev Schreiber for Doubt: A Parable Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a PlaySarah Paulson for Appropriate Betsy Aidem for Prayer for the French Republic Jessica Lange for Mother Play Rachel McAdams for Mary Jane Amy Ryan for Doubt: A Parable
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a MusicalJonathan Groff for Merrily We Roll Along Brody Grant for The Outsiders Dorian Harewood for The Notebook Brian d’Arcy James for Days of Wine and Roses Eddie Redmayne for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a MusicalMaleah Joi Moon for Hell’s Kitchen Eden Espinosa for Lempicka Kelli O’Hara for Days of Wine and Roses Maryann Plunkett for The Notebook Gayle Rankin for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a PlayWill Brill for Stereophonic Eli Gelb for Stereophonic Jim Parsons for Mother Play Tom Pecinka for Stereophonic Corey Stoll for Appropriate
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a PlayKara Young for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch Quincy Tyler Bernstine for Doubt: A Parable Juliana Canfield for Stereophonic Celia Keenan-Bolger for Mother Play Sarah Pidgeon for Stereophonic
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a MusicalDaniel Radcliffe for Merrily We Roll Along Roger Bart for Back to the Future: The Musical Joshua Boone for The Outsiders Brandon Victor Dixon for Hell’s Kitchen Sky Lakota-Lynch for The Outsiders Steven Skybell for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a MusicalKecia Lewis for Hell’s Kitchen Shoshana Bean for Hell’s Kitchen Amber Iman for Lempicka Nikki M. James for Suffs Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for Monty Python’s Spamalot Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll Along Bebe Neuwirth for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
Best Scenic Design of a PlayDavid Zinn for Stereophonic dots for An Enemy of the People dots for Appropriate Derek McLane for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch David Zinn for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Best Scenic Design of a MusicalTom Scutt for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini for Hell’s Kitchen AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian for The Outsiders Takeshi Kata for Water for Elephants David Korins for Here Lies Love Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini for Lempicka Tim Hatley and Finn Ross for Back to the Future: The Musical
Best Costume Design of a PlayDede Ayite for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Dede Ayite for Appropriate Enver Chakartash for Stereophonic Emilio Sosa for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch David Zinn for An Enemy of the People
Best Costume Design of a MusicalLinda Cho for The Great Gatsby Dede Ayite for Hell’s Kitchen David Israel Reynoso for Water for Elephants Tom Scutt for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Paul Tazewell for Suffs
Best Lighting Design of a PlayJane Cox for Appropriate Isabella Byrd for An Enemy of the People Amith Chandrashaker for Prayer for the French Republic Jiyoun Chang for Stereophoni Natasha Katz for Grey House
*Best Lighting Design of a MusicalBrian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim for The Outsiders Brandon Stirling Baker for Illinoise Bradley King and David Bengali for Water for Elephants Isabella Byrd for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Natasha Katz for Hell’s Kitchen
Best Sound Design of a PlayRyan Rumery for Stereophonic Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding Leah Gelpe for Mary Jane Tom Gibbons for Grey House Bray Poor and Will Pickens for Appropriate
Best Sound Design of a MusicalCody Spencer for The Outsiders Nick Lidster for Autograph for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club Kai Harada for Merrily We Roll Along Gareth Owen for Hell’s Kitchen M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer for Here Lies Love
Best Direction of a PlayDaniel Aukin for Stereophonic Anne Kauffman for Mary Jane Kenny Leon for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch Lila Neugebauer for Appropriate Whitney White for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
Best Direction of a MusicalDanya Taymor for The Outsiders Maria Friedman for Merrily We Roll Along Michael Greif for Hell’s Kitchen Leigh Silverman for Suffs Jessica Stone for Water for Elephants
Best ChoreographyJustin Peck for Illinoise Camille A. Brown for Hell’s Kitchen Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll for Water for Elephants Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman for The Outsiders Annie-B Parson for Here Lies Love
Best OrchestrationsJonathan Tunick for Merrily We Roll Along Timo Andres for Illinoise Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone for Hell’s Kitchen Will Butler and Justin Craig for Stereophonic Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) for The Outsiders
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the TheatreJack O’Brien for Jack O’Brien George C. Wolfe for George C. Wolfe
Special Tony AwardAbe Jacob Alex Edelman Nikiya Mathis
Tony Honors for Excellence in the TheatreColleen Jennings-Roggensack Dramatists Guild Foundation Judith O. Rubin The Samuel J. Friedman Health Center for the Performing Arts Wendall K. Harrington The Wilma Theater
The Tony Awards have been an important part of the Broadway community since their inception in 1947 . Winning a Tony is considered one of the highest honors in the theater industry.
The awards created by the American Theatre Wing during the post-war years. Theater director and producer Brock Pemberton , the professional partner of co-founder Antoinette Perry , is credited with coining the name the Tonys and hosted the first edition of the ceremony which was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan on 6 April 1947.