So for those of you that religiously follow the Tony Awards as much as I do, you'd know the nominations for this year's Tony Awards were released today. Here's the official link to look up all of the awards given: http://www.tonyawards.com/mobile/en_US/nominees/index.html
I'm so excited for the awards—I can't wait for them to be on already! So in honor of the Tony Awards being a little more than a month away (June 8), I will try to post as much as I can about some of the nominees, starting with the nominations for Best Musical.
The first one I will try to talk about is the musical After Midnight, a semi juke-box musical taking place in the era where the Cotton Club (if you don't know about this place, now's the time to do some research!) was in full swing.
The show celebrates Duke Ellington's years at this place using his original compositions and performed by a "world-class big band of 17 musicians." To be honest, I haven't really found anything that indicates there's an actual plot to the show but maybe I will be proven wrong in the future!
This show was nominated for 7 Tony Awards which are; Best Musical, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Adriane Lenox), Best Direction of a Musical (Warren Carlyle), Best Coreography (Warren Carlyle), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Isabel Toledo), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Howell Binkley), and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Peter Hylenski). If this musical was nominated in seven categories, there definitely must be some hype that I'm missing!
Here's a clip of a First Look of After Midnight (For all of you Psych fans: yes, that is Dulé Hill (Gus) in the beginning of the video).
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