Tony Awards 2017: Winners

The 71st annual Tony Awards were held last night in the famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

This year’s award show was hosted by award-winning actor, Kevin Spacey, and celebrated the best musicals and theatre productions over the past year.

Recently Broadway has seen many a revival of famed musicals and plays, such as the classic, ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and other theatre classics such as ‘The Glass Menagerie’.

Presenters of the glitzy award show included Tina Fey, Olivia Wilde, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Legend and Whoopi Goldberg, amongst others.

Below is a list of some of the night’s biggest winners:

Special Tony Award

Nina Lannan and Alan Wasser; Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin

Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

James Earl Jones

Isabelle Stevenson Award

Baayork Lee

BEST MUSICAL

WINNER: Dear Evan Hansen

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Come From Away

Groundhog Day: The Musical

BEST PLAY

WINNER: Oslo

Sweat

Indecent

A Doll’s House, Part 2

BEST ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

WINNER: Bette Midler, Hello, Dolly!

Christine Ebersole, War Paint

Patti LuPone, War Paint

Eva Noblezada, Miss Saigon

Denée Benton, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

BEST ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

WINNER: Ben Platt, Dear Evan Hansen

Andy Karl, Groundhog Day: The Musical

David Hyde Pierce, Hello, Dolly!

Josh Groban, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Christian Borle, Falsettos

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY

WINNER: Laurie Metcalf, A Doll’s House, Part 2

Cate Blanchett, The Present

Jennifer Ehle, Oslo

Laura Linney, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes

Sally Field, The Glass Menagerie

BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY

WINNER: Kevin Kline, Present Laughter

Jefferson Mays, Oslo

Chris Cooper, A Doll’s House, Part 2

Denis Arndt, Heisenberg

Corey Hawkins, Six Degrees of Separation