2024 Tony Awards Predictions: What Should Win, and What Will Win?
It’s a Tony Awards musical mystery. No one musical seems an obvious winner at tomorrow night’s Tony Awards. Alicia Keys’ musical Hell’s Kitchen has the most nominations (13), while The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's classic 1967 novel, picked up 12 nominations.
The top play contender is clearer. David Adjmi’s critically adored play Stereophonic, about a 1970s band rehearsing and combusting in an atmospherically rendered recording studio, leads the play category by a deserved country mile, picking up 13 nominations. It has also—hooray—been granted a performing spot at the show, going out live on CBS at 8pm ET, having initially been denied one.
In a boisterously packed season of show openings, one notable snub was for movie star Steve Carell, locked out of the Best Actor Play category for his title role in Uncle Vanya—his co-star William Jackson Harper beat him to the nomination instead. (Danny DeVito was also snubbed for his role in the poorly received I Need That.) Also nominated were Leslie Odom Jr. for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, Succession star Jeremy Strong for An Enemy of the People, Liev Schreiber for Doubt, and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.