Jodie Comer has become the 100th performer to win a Tony Award for their Broadway debut for her performance in the play, “Prima Facie.”
She won Best Actress in a Play for portraying Tess, a lawyer who concentrates in providing legal defense for men who are accused of sexual assault but soon has the unthinkable happen to her. She is the 11th person to win the category for her first outing on a Broadway stage. She joins:
SEE2023 Tony Awards: Every winner (and nominee) in all 26 competitive categories
Martita Hunt, “The Madwoman of Chaillot” (1949)
Beryl Reid, “The Killing of Sister George” (1967)
Phyllis Frelich, “Children of a Lesser God” (1980)
Jane Lapotaire, “Piaf” (1981)
Joan Allen, “Burn This” (1988)
Pauline Collins, “Shirley Valentine” (1989)
Janet McTeer, “A Doll’s House” (1997)
Marie Mullen, “The Beauty Queen of Leeane” (1998)
Jennifer Ehle, “The Real Thing” (2000)
Deanna Dunagan, “August: Osage County” (2008)
Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other...
She won Best Actress in a Play for portraying Tess, a lawyer who concentrates in providing legal defense for men who are accused of sexual assault but soon has the unthinkable happen to her. She is the 11th person to win the category for her first outing on a Broadway stage. She joins:
SEE2023 Tony Awards: Every winner (and nominee) in all 26 competitive categories
Martita Hunt, “The Madwoman of Chaillot” (1949)
Beryl Reid, “The Killing of Sister George” (1967)
Phyllis Frelich, “Children of a Lesser God” (1980)
Jane Lapotaire, “Piaf” (1981)
Joan Allen, “Burn This” (1988)
Pauline Collins, “Shirley Valentine” (1989)
Janet McTeer, “A Doll’s House” (1997)
Marie Mullen, “The Beauty Queen of Leeane” (1998)
Jennifer Ehle, “The Real Thing” (2000)
Deanna Dunagan, “August: Osage County” (2008)
Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other...
- 6/12/2023
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
With 38 productions eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced on Tuesday morning. Among the most surprising 2023 Tony nominations snubs was “Life of Pi” for Best Play. The production earned nine Olivier Award nominations across the pond, winning Best New Play, Actor (Hiran Abeysekera), Featured Actor, Lighting Design and Set Design. But at the Tonys, it missed out on a Best Play bid and didn’t score a nomination for Abeysekera. The production did perform well in the design categories, though, earning five nominations including for director Max Webster.
See the complete list of 2023 Tony Awards nominees
A duo of play revivals also underperformed. The latest production of Arthur Miller‘s “Death of a Salesman” did earn a significant nomination for Best Actor for Wendell Pierce, but it missed out on major bids for Best Revival of a Play, Featured Actress...
See the complete list of 2023 Tony Awards nominees
A duo of play revivals also underperformed. The latest production of Arthur Miller‘s “Death of a Salesman” did earn a significant nomination for Best Actor for Wendell Pierce, but it missed out on major bids for Best Revival of a Play, Featured Actress...
- 5/2/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Shakespeare is getting a re-write. This fall, Juliet will finally arrive on Broadway, flipping the script on the greatest love story ever told, to the iconic pop anthems of Max Martin.Two of its stars are Broadway favorite Paulo Szot and direct from the West End, Melanie La Barrie, who play Lance and the Nurse. In this video, catch up with the pair as they continue their run in Toronto and get ready to take the show on the road to New York City.
- 7/31/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Shakespeare is getting a re-write. This fall, Juliet will finally arrive on Broadway, flipping the script on the greatest love story ever told, to the iconic pop anthems of Max Martin.Two of its stars are Broadway favorite Paulo Szot and direct from the West End, Melanie La Barrie, who play Lance and the Nurse. In this video, catch up with the pair as they continue their run in Toronto and get ready to take the show on the road to New York City.
- 7/28/2022
- by Backstage With Richard Ridge
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Two-time Tony nominee Stark Sands, currently starring in the Toronto production of the Broadway-bound musical & Juliet, has signed with Bill Butler & Michelle Kittrell at Industry Entertainment for management.
Sands, who was was Tony-nominated in 2007 in the Best Featured Actor/Play category for Journey’s End and in 2013 as Best Actor/Musical for Kinky Boots. Other Broadway credits include To Kill A Mockingbird and American Idiot.
TV credits include Six Feet Under and Generation Kill (both HBO), Fox’s Minority Report and CBS’ NYC 22, among others. Films include Pretty Persuasion, Flags of Our Fathers, Inside Llewyn Davis and Steven Spielberg’s The Post.
His current project, & Juliet, is an Olivier Award-winning musical with a book by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read and music from five-time Grammy-winning “Roar” songwriter and producer Max Martin. Producers recently announced that the musical, currently playing in Toronto, will begin Broadway previews October 28 at the...
Sands, who was was Tony-nominated in 2007 in the Best Featured Actor/Play category for Journey’s End and in 2013 as Best Actor/Musical for Kinky Boots. Other Broadway credits include To Kill A Mockingbird and American Idiot.
TV credits include Six Feet Under and Generation Kill (both HBO), Fox’s Minority Report and CBS’ NYC 22, among others. Films include Pretty Persuasion, Flags of Our Fathers, Inside Llewyn Davis and Steven Spielberg’s The Post.
His current project, & Juliet, is an Olivier Award-winning musical with a book by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read and music from five-time Grammy-winning “Roar” songwriter and producer Max Martin. Producers recently announced that the musical, currently playing in Toronto, will begin Broadway previews October 28 at the...
- 7/19/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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A pop-song infused musical take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is coming to Broadway this fall.
Featuring a book by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read, the musical, called & Juliet, envisions what would happen if Juliet did not die at the end of the story. Her journey is set to a backdrop of popular songs, written by record producer and songwriter Max Martin and collaborators, including “Since U Been Gone,” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life,” “That’s The Way It Is” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”
& Juliet begins previews at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Oct. 28, ahead of a Nov. 17 opening. The production is currently playing a run in Toronto, which will conclude before Broadway, and has been playing the West End since 2019.
Luke Sheppard is directing and the musical is choreographed by Jennifer Weber. The production...
A pop-song infused musical take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is coming to Broadway this fall.
Featuring a book by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read, the musical, called & Juliet, envisions what would happen if Juliet did not die at the end of the story. Her journey is set to a backdrop of popular songs, written by record producer and songwriter Max Martin and collaborators, including “Since U Been Gone,” “Roar,” “Baby One More Time,” “Larger Than Life,” “That’s The Way It Is” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling.”
& Juliet begins previews at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Oct. 28, ahead of a Nov. 17 opening. The production is currently playing a run in Toronto, which will conclude before Broadway, and has been playing the West End since 2019.
Luke Sheppard is directing and the musical is choreographed by Jennifer Weber. The production...
- 7/7/2022
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
& Juliet, the Olivier Award-winning musical with a book by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read, will make its Broadway debut this fall, with previews beginning October 28 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre ahead of a Nov. 17 opening.
The production will transfer directly from its current engagement in Toronto. Making the move will be the Toronto cast: newcomer Lorna Courtney as Juliet; Tony Award-winner Paulo Szot (South Pacific) as Lance; Betsy Wolfe as Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway; Stark Sands as Shakespeare; Justin David Sullivan as May; Melanie La Barrie as Nurse; Ben Jackson Walker as Romeo and Philippe Arroyo as Francois.
In addition to the book by the Schitt’s Creek Emmy winner, & Juliet features music from five-time Grammy-winning “Roar” songwriter and producer Max Martin, direction by Luke Sheppard and choreography byJennifer Weber.
The musical includes a roster of hit songs written by Martin and his collaborators, including (in addition to “Roar”) “Since U Been Gone,...
The production will transfer directly from its current engagement in Toronto. Making the move will be the Toronto cast: newcomer Lorna Courtney as Juliet; Tony Award-winner Paulo Szot (South Pacific) as Lance; Betsy Wolfe as Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway; Stark Sands as Shakespeare; Justin David Sullivan as May; Melanie La Barrie as Nurse; Ben Jackson Walker as Romeo and Philippe Arroyo as Francois.
In addition to the book by the Schitt’s Creek Emmy winner, & Juliet features music from five-time Grammy-winning “Roar” songwriter and producer Max Martin, direction by Luke Sheppard and choreography byJennifer Weber.
The musical includes a roster of hit songs written by Martin and his collaborators, including (in addition to “Roar”) “Since U Been Gone,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Myles Frost became the latest addition to the list of people who have taken home a Tony Award for their Broadway debut. His win makes him the 98th member of this particular winners’ club.
Frost, who won Best Actor in a Musical for playing Michael Jackson in “Mj,” is the 13th person to win that category for their first time stepping into a character on a Broadway stage. He joins:
Ezio Pinza, “South Pacific” (1950)
Robert Alda, “Guys and Dolls” (1951)
Robert Lindsay, “Me and My Girl” (1987)
Brent Carver, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1993)
Alan Cumming, “Cabaret” (1998)
Hugh Jackman, “The Boy From Oz” (2004)
John Lloyd Young, “Jersey Boys” (2006)
Paulo Szot, “South Pacific” (2008)
David Álvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish (joint nomination), “Billy Elliot” (2009)
Douglas Hodge, “La Cage aux Folles” (2010)
See 2022 Tony Awards: Every winner (and nominee) in all 26 categories
Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other acting categories that have...
Frost, who won Best Actor in a Musical for playing Michael Jackson in “Mj,” is the 13th person to win that category for their first time stepping into a character on a Broadway stage. He joins:
Ezio Pinza, “South Pacific” (1950)
Robert Alda, “Guys and Dolls” (1951)
Robert Lindsay, “Me and My Girl” (1987)
Brent Carver, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1993)
Alan Cumming, “Cabaret” (1998)
Hugh Jackman, “The Boy From Oz” (2004)
John Lloyd Young, “Jersey Boys” (2006)
Paulo Szot, “South Pacific” (2008)
David Álvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish (joint nomination), “Billy Elliot” (2009)
Douglas Hodge, “La Cage aux Folles” (2010)
See 2022 Tony Awards: Every winner (and nominee) in all 26 categories
Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other acting categories that have...
- 6/13/2022
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Lin-Manuel Miranda has three Tonys, three Grammys, an Emmy and a Pulitzer Prize, so it might be easy to overlook the fact that the awards magnet has yet to win a major award for his acting. But he’s an Emmy contender this year for guest-starring on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” and one of the Expert journalists we’ve polled think that’ll finally do the trick.
Miranda appeared on “Brooklyn” in the episode “The Golden Child” as David Santiago, who needs his sister Amy (Melissa Fumero) to help clear his name. Most of our Experts predict he’ll be nominated for the role, but Kelly Lawler (USA Today) is currently the only one who thinks he’ll win. Most of the other Experts are divided between Peter MacNicol (“Veep”) and John Mulaney (“Saturday Night Live”).
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“Brooklyn” has never been fully embraced by the television academy,...
Miranda appeared on “Brooklyn” in the episode “The Golden Child” as David Santiago, who needs his sister Amy (Melissa Fumero) to help clear his name. Most of our Experts predict he’ll be nominated for the role, but Kelly Lawler (USA Today) is currently the only one who thinks he’ll win. Most of the other Experts are divided between Peter MacNicol (“Veep”) and John Mulaney (“Saturday Night Live”).
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“Brooklyn” has never been fully embraced by the television academy,...
- 7/13/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
This Sunday, Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara and the cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's Kiss Me, Kate take their final bow at Studio 54. To celebrate the show's run that's been too darn hot, we're throwing it back to Kelli O'Hara's opening night in the 2008 Broadway revival of Rodgers Hammerstein's South Pacificalongside Paulo Szot, Danny Burstein, and more. Get a blast from the past by checking out the video...
- 6/27/2019
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
For only the third time this decade, none of the acting winners at this year’s Tony Awards did so for their Broadway debut. This is the 21st time that this has happened over the 73-year history of these top theater honors. Most of the winners were actually on the opposite end of the spectrum, winning for the first time after years of Broadway experience and several nominations to their name including André De Shields, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Stephanie J. Block. Check out the complete list of winners here.
The previous instances of Broadway debuts being shut out at the Tonys were in: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2001-2003, 2012 and 2017.
Below, you can see the names of all 96 people who have won Tonys for their debut on the Great White Way.
SEE2019 Tony Awards: Best Musical ‘Hadestown’ sweeps with 8 wins, ‘The Ferryman’ takes Best Play
Best Actor In A Play: 16 winners
Paul Scofield, “A Man for All Seasons” (1962)
Cliff Gorman,...
The previous instances of Broadway debuts being shut out at the Tonys were in: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2001-2003, 2012 and 2017.
Below, you can see the names of all 96 people who have won Tonys for their debut on the Great White Way.
SEE2019 Tony Awards: Best Musical ‘Hadestown’ sweeps with 8 wins, ‘The Ferryman’ takes Best Play
Best Actor In A Play: 16 winners
Paul Scofield, “A Man for All Seasons” (1962)
Cliff Gorman,...
- 6/10/2019
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
What good is sitting alone in your room this week If you don't already have plans to see a Broadway show, come out to see your favorite Broadway stars in a cabaret act instead. After Broadway orchestras begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Highlights this week include a celebration of this season's Broadway debuts, Joe Iconis amp Family, Paulo Szot, and Paul Alexander Nolan with former costars Carmen Cusack and Jessie Fisher.
- 5/5/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ari’el Stachel became the latest person to take home a Tony Award for their Broadway debut. This victory puts him in a freshman club that now has 96 members. Watch him discuss his victory in the Tonys press room in the video above.
Stachel, who won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing Haled in “The Band’s Visit,” is the ninth person to claim that particular honor for his first Broadway outing. He joins:
Harry Belafonte, “John Murray Anderson’s Almanac” (1954)
Sydney Chaplin, “Bells are Ringing” (1957)
Frankie Michaels, “Mame” (1966)
Wilson Jermaine Heredia, “Rent” (1996)
Dan Fogler, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” (2005)
Levi Kreis, “Million Dollar Quartet” (2010)
John Larroquette, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (2011)
Daveed Diggs, “Hamilton” (2016)
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Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other acting categories that claimed Tony Awards.
Best Actor In A Play: 16 winners
Paul Scofield,...
Stachel, who won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing Haled in “The Band’s Visit,” is the ninth person to claim that particular honor for his first Broadway outing. He joins:
Harry Belafonte, “John Murray Anderson’s Almanac” (1954)
Sydney Chaplin, “Bells are Ringing” (1957)
Frankie Michaels, “Mame” (1966)
Wilson Jermaine Heredia, “Rent” (1996)
Dan Fogler, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” (2005)
Levi Kreis, “Million Dollar Quartet” (2010)
John Larroquette, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (2011)
Daveed Diggs, “Hamilton” (2016)
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Below are the Broadway debuts in the seven other acting categories that claimed Tony Awards.
Best Actor In A Play: 16 winners
Paul Scofield,...
- 6/11/2018
- by Charles Bright
- Gold Derby
Back by popular demand, audiences swooned as the Tony-winning star of South Pacific headlined with a brand new show for the limited 5-night engagement. With his music director Billy Stritch, Paulo brought the romantic songs of the American Songbook and his Brazilian roots to the stage of Feinstein's54 Below. Betsy Wolfe joined Paulo Szot for the final performance of his current show at Feinstein's54 Below, and BroadwayWorld was there Check out the photos below...
- 4/10/2016
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars Well after Broadway orchestras begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including Nick Adams Hosts Broadway for Africa Greg Hildreth at 54 Below 54 SingsChaka Khan Featuring Lachanze, Lindsay Mendez, and More Paulo Szot at 54 Below and The Cast ofBroadway's Phantom of the Opera Sings the Music of Frank Wildhorn.
- 4/3/2016
- by Louisa Brady
- BroadwayWorld.com
54 Below just welcomed a slew of stars to preview their upcoming shows, including Tony Award-winning songwriting team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty with Rose Hemingway March 15 The stars of the acclaimed Broadway revival of Side Show Emily Padgett and Erin Davie March 5 Kelli Rabke March 8 Tony Award Award winner Paulo Szot February 24-28. Check out a photo preview from the preview below...
- 2/23/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
“There are many here among us / Who feel that life is but a joke / But you and I we’ve been through that / And this is not our fate.” • Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, 1967
“What’s it all about, Alfie?” • Burt Bacharach and Hal David
I’m writing this while listening to the soundtrack of the revival of South Pacific, which played at Lincoln Center here in NYC in 2008 and won eight Tony awards. It starred Kelli O’Hara as Nellie Forbush, Paulo Szot as Emile de Beque, and Matthew Morrison (Will Schuster on Glee) as Lt. Joseph Cable. The show, written by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan, opened on Broadway in 1949, and is based on James Michener’s series of short stories about the Pacific theatre, Tales of the South Pacific, which was published in 1947, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. It was...
“What’s it all about, Alfie?” • Burt Bacharach and Hal David
I’m writing this while listening to the soundtrack of the revival of South Pacific, which played at Lincoln Center here in NYC in 2008 and won eight Tony awards. It starred Kelli O’Hara as Nellie Forbush, Paulo Szot as Emile de Beque, and Matthew Morrison (Will Schuster on Glee) as Lt. Joseph Cable. The show, written by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua Logan, opened on Broadway in 1949, and is based on James Michener’s series of short stories about the Pacific theatre, Tales of the South Pacific, which was published in 1947, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. It was...
- 2/23/2015
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including Julie Halston Hosts the Fifth Annual 'Broadway Belts for Pff' 54 Sings Irving Berlin There's No Business Like Show Business Paulo Szot Bushel amp A Peck Benefit, Starring Stephanie J. Block and More and Altar Boyz 10th Anniversary Reunion Concert at 54 Below.
- 2/22/2015
- by Louisa Brady
- BroadwayWorld.com
Encores Celebrates Rodgers and Hammerstein and Hart, New York City Center's annual Gala tonight, October 27, 2014, will feature the music and lyrics of Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Lorenz Hart, sung by some of Broadway's finest talent, includingKate Baldwin, Kelli O'Hara, Laura Osnes, Steven Pasquale, and Paulo Szot, and with dance performances by Irina Dvorovenko, Chase Finlay, Jared Grimes, and Lauren Lovette.
- 10/27/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Broadway's 40 theatres aren't the only places to catch performances from your favorite stars Well after Broadway orchestra's begin their overtures, ensemble members take their dance breaks, and performers belt out their eleven- o'clock numbers, the party continues at various cabaret venues throughout New York City. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you some cabaret highlights for this week as picked by our theatre editors, including Jim Caruso's Cast Party, Patrick Page Good To Be Bad, An Evening of Garland, Saycon Sengbloh, and Paulo Szot.
- 8/24/2014
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
On October 12, 2012, The New York Pops orchestra launched its 30th Season at Carnegie Hall with Some Enchanted Evening The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke described by The New York Times as a polished, welcoming host who is young and vigorous, with a playful attitude led the orchestra in a highly-anticipated opening with Broadway favorites by beloved duo Rodgers and Hammerstein. The performance featured guest artists Aaron Lazar, Kelli OHara and Paulo Szot, along with Judith Clurmans Essential Voices USA and New York Theatre Ballet. The program included classics from Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music at Carnegie Halls Stern AuditoriumPerelman Stage.BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the concert below...
- 10/15/2012
- by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- BroadwayWorld.com
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