Bigger is DEFINITELY better! And no one does it bigger than Neil Patrick Harris, who as usual did an AH-Mazing job hosting the 2013 Tony Awards!
Ch-ch-check out the video (above) to see the HIGHlarious, jaw-dropping opening number featuring more singers and dancers than you can fit into a disappearing box! Wha?? All that and Mike Tyson too!
Go, Neil, go!
And in case you missed it, here’s a complete list of this years winners:
Best Play – Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang
Best Revival Of A Play – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
Best Musical – Kinky Boots
Best Revival Of A Musical – Pippin
Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role In A Play – Tracy Letts in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role In A Play – Cicely Tyson in The Trip to Bountiful
Best Performance By An Actor In A Leading Role In A Musical – Billy Porter in Kinky Boots
Best Performance By An Actress In A Leading Role In A Musical – Patina Miller in Pippin
Best Performance By An Actor In A Featured Role In A Play – Courtney B Vance in Lucky Guy
Best Performance By An Actress In A Featured Role In A Play – Judith Light in The Assembled Parties
Best Performance By An Actor In A Featured Role In A Musical – Gabriel Ebert in Matilda the Musical
Best Performance By An Actress In A Featured Role In A Musical – Andrea Martin in Pippin
Best Direction Of A Play – Pam MacKinnon for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Best Direction Of A Musical – Diane Paulus for Pippin
Best Book Of A Musical – Matilda the Musical, Dennis Kelly
Best Original Score (music and/or lyrics) Written for the Theatre – Kinky Boots, music and lyrics: Cyndi Lauper
Best Scenic Design Of A Play – John Lee Beatty for The Nance
Best Scenic Design Of A Musical – Rob Howell for Matilda The Musical
Best Costume Design Of A Play – Ann Roth for The Nance
Best Costume Design Of A Musical – William Ivey Long for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Best Lighting Design Of A Play – Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer for Lucky Guy
Best Lighting Design Of A Musical – Hugh Vanstone for Matilda the Musical
Best Sound Design Of A Play – Leon Rothenberg for The Nance
Best Sound Design Of A Musical – John Shivers for Kinky Boots
Best choreography – Jerry Mitchell for Kinky Boots
Best orchestrations – Stephen Oremus for Kinky Boots
Special Tony award for lifetime achievement in the theatre – Bernard Gersten, Paul Libin, Ming Cho Lee
Regional Theatre Award – Huntington Theatre Company, Boston
Isabelle Stevenson Award – Larry Kramer
Tony honour for excellence in the theatre – Career Transition for Dancers – William Craver, Peter Lawrence, The Lost Colony
