South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have taken Broadway by storm with ‘The Book of Morman’, getting 14 Tony nominations for their musical comedy (co-created with Robert Lopez) about Mormon missionaries who travel to Africa.
The musical ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ received 12 nominations, and the revival of “Anything Goes” had nine.
Here’s the list of nominees for the major categories:
Best musical
The Book of Mormon
Catch Me if You Can
The Scottsboro Boys
Sister Act
Best play
Good People (David Lindsay-Abaire)
Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth)
The Mother… With the Hat (Stephen Adly Guirgis)
War Horse (Nick Stafford)
Best revival of a musical
Anything Goes
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Best revival of a play
Arcadia
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Merchant of Venice
The Normal Heart
Best book of a musical
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Alex Timbers)
The Book of Mormon (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone)
The Scottsboro Boys (David Thompson)
Sister Act (Cheri Steinkellner, Bill Steinkellner and Douglas Carter Beane)
Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the theater
The Book of Mormon (music and lyrics: Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone)
The Scottsboro Boys (music and lyrics: John Kander and Fred Ebb)
Sister Act (Music: Alan Menken; lyrics: Glenn Slater)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (music and lyrics: David Yazbek)
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play
Brian Bedford, The Importance of Being Earnest
Bobby Cannavale, The Mother… With the Hat
Joe Mantello, The Normal Heart
Al Pacino, The Merchant of Venice
Mark Rylance, Jerusalem
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play
Nina Arianda, Born Yesterday
Frances McDormand, Good People
Lily Rabe, The Merchant of Venice
Vanessa Redgrave, Driving Miss Daisy
Hannah Yelland, Brief Encounter
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical
Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can
Josh Gad, The Book of Mormon
Joshua Henry, The Scottsboro Boys
Andrew Rannells, The Book of Mormon
Tony Sheldon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical
Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Beth Leavel, Baby It’s You!
Patina Miller, Sister Act
Donna Murphy, The People in the Picture
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play
Mackenzie Crook, Jerusalem
Billy Crudup, Arcadia
John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart
Arian Moayed, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Yul Vázquez, The Mother… With the Hat
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play
Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart
Edie Falco, The House of Blue Leaves
Judith Light, Lombardi
Joanna Lumley, La Bête
Elizabeth Rodriguez, The Mother… With the Hat
Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical
Colman Domingo, The Scottsboro Boys
Adam Godley, Anything Goes
John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Forrest McClendon, The Scottsboro Boys
Rory O’Malley, The Book of Mormon
Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical
Laura Benanti, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Tammy Blanchard, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Victoria Clark, Sister Act
Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon
Patti LuPone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Best direction of a play
Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, War Horse
Joel Grey & George C. Wolfe, The Normal Heart
Anna D. Shapiro, The Mother… with the Hat
Daniel Sullivan, The Merchant of Venice
Best direction of a musical
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys
Best choreography
Rob Ashford, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Casey Nicholaw, The Book of Mormon
Susan Stroman, The Scottsboro Boys