Airdate: The 64th Annual Tony Awards

June is Cabaret Month on the Bio. Channel, led by the live telecast of The 64th Annual Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall on Monday June 14, at 10.00am AEST. A host is yet to be announced.

Bio will also bring Saturday night cabaret specials

Some of the nominees this year include:

Best Play:
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl
Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts
Red by John Logan
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

Best Musical:
American Idiot
Fela!
Memphis
Million Dollar Quartet

Best Book of a Musical:
Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott for Everyday Rapture
Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones for Fela!
Joe DiPietro for Memphis
Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux for Million Dollar Quartet

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre:
Andrew Lippa (music and lyrics) for The Addams Family
Adam Cork (music) and Lucy Prebble (lyrics) for Enron
Branford Marsalis (music) for Fences
David Bryan (music and lyrics) and Joe DiPietro (lyrics) for Memphis

Best Revival of a Musical::
Finian’s Rainbow
La Cage aux Folles
A Little Night Music
Ragtime

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play:
Jude Law in Hamlet
Alfred Molina in Red
Liev Schreiber in A View from the Bridge
Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington in Fences

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play:
Viola Davis in Fences
Valerie Harper in Looped
Linda Lavin in Collected Stories
Laura Linney in Time Stands Still
Jan Maxwell in The Royal Family

Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre to Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Marian Seldes

Tony Nominations by Production:
Fela! – 11
La Cage aux Folles – 11
Fences – 10
Memphis – 8
Red – 7
A View from the Bridge – 6
Ragtime – 6