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Tony Awards To Feature Big Names and Tight Contests_ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 8, 2014 5:34 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Jun 8, 2014 5:34 PM UTC Sunday evening’s [Tony Awards](http://www.tonyawards.com/index.html) show features a pack of top-notch contenders, with big shows like “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and “All the Way” in highly competitive categories. The awards, to be held at Radio City Music Hall in NEw York and broadcast live on CBS at 8 p.m. E.T., will also feature a slew of celebrities, facing off against well-established theater stars and previous Tony winners. With Hugh Jackman hosting the event and big names like Neil Patrick Harris, Idina Menzel and Chris O’Dowd up for awards, count on it being an exciting night. Here are the contenders in some of the top categories of the 68th Tony Awards. **Best Musical:** “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” an operetta about a homicidal heir featuring strong performances and an original score, is a top favorite. Another contender, “Beautiful—The Carole King Musical,” features Jessie Mueller in a powerful performance that traces the rise of Carole King’s career. Other nominees include “After Midnight” and “Aladdin.” **Best Play:** Two plays, including “Act One,” an adaptation of Moss Hart’s autobiography, and “All the Way,” a drama about Lyndon B. Johnson’s monumental first year as president, have both earned accolades. Other nominees include “Casa Valentine,” “Mothers and Sons” and “Outside Mullingar.” **Best Revival of a Musical:** Neil Patrick Harris’ feature role in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” has gained a lot of attention this year for the star’s vigorous performance as a transgender German. “Les Misérables” and “Violet” are other nominees. **Best Revival of a Play:** “The Cripple of Inishmaan” and “The Glass Menagerie” both were lauded by reviewers, but fellow nominees “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Twelfth Night” thrilled audiences as well. Here are the other nominees to watch out for in top categories: **Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play** Samuel Barnett, _Twelfth Night_ Bryan Cranston, _All the Way_ Chris O’Dowd, _Of Mice and Men_ Mark Rylance, _Richard III_ Tony Shalhoub, _Act One_ **Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play** Tyne Daly, _Mothers and Sons_ LaTanya Richardson Jackson, _A Raisin in the Sun_ Cherry Jones, _The Glass Menagerie_ Audra McDonald, _Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill_ Estelle Parsons, _The Velocity of Autumn_ **Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical** Neil Patrick Harris, _Hedwig and the Angry Inch_ Ramin Karimloo, _Les Misérables_ Andy Karl, _Rocky_ Jefferson Mays, _A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder_ Bryce Pinkham, _A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder_ **Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical** Mary Bridget Davies, _A Night With Janis Joplin_ Sutton Foster, _Violet_ Idina Menzel, _If/Then_ Jessie Mueller, _Beautiful — The Carole King Musical_ Kelli O’Hara, _The Bridges of Madison County_ ## Transcript This is a great deal of work. These are major changes. And, and a huge gamble. You already signed on for a huge gamble. I did. When you choose to work with me I had no experience and no reputation. You could have chosen any number of other projects and it would have been less of a gamble. But you said yes to once in a lifetime. You said yes to me. Now listen, you've been busy directing. And acting in it, okay? And I haven't carried my weight. I, I expected you to have all the answers and that wasn't fair to both of us. After the Harold's of you, you said that this was our play. I can't take it back or do it with someone else, I can't believe you even suggested that. I bought a life in this business, that's all I've ever wanted. Anybody can display off and I want to get it right. And do it now and with you. We're a good team. And we can fix this, George. This is the most important election of your lifetime. And the choices couldn't be clearer. Peace, or war! Brotherhood or division. Prosperity or poverty. A march into a bright future, or a retreat into a dark past. It is all or nothing. And every single one of you needs to go out there and fight for every single vote in every single part of this great country of ours. God bless you. [ INAUDIBLE ] [ NOISE ] Miranda, may I suggest you choose one person to oversee your makeover. Carrie's right. There can be many soldiers but only one general. Have a gander about and choose the person who's least likely to leave you looking like one of those Picasso creatures, with eyes going this way and nose pointing there. [ LAUGH ] Was there a reason you looked in my direction? [ LAUGH ] Only in admiration. Whenever I dine in a restaurant where I've never eaten, I have a look around to see what the fat people are having. And order the same. Who after all would know better? Miranda, darling, before you choose, might I remind you, I'm the only person present who's taught makeup professionally. I'm also the only one capable of discounting your room. I choose Valentina. [ NOISE ]. I never even tried makeup until a year ago. It almost never starts with makeup. We are all born in the hamper. Undergarment adoration. Am I the only on here old enough to have been petticoated. I can't even guess what that is. A form of punishment back from when knighthood was in vogue. Boys in my day spent their first years in dresses. And gradually worked their way up to knickers, and eventually long pants. But, a common punishment was to demote a mischievous child back into petticoats. They thought the embarrassment would shame the child into obedience. [ LAUGH ] But one boy's punishment is another boy's pleasure. Oh ho, the terrible things I do to get punished. And wear my precious gowns. I misbehaved so often my poor father swore he'd spawned the bad seed. [ LAUGH ] I finally hid the gowns under my mattress so I could wear them whenever I pleased. I was punished for that, as well. Two straight months in two. Also known as my glory days. [ MUSIC ] I know that we can't understand your loss misses Japacourt, but we are trying to respect it. If anything had happened to me before my mother died. I always thought she was worried at would, so were a lot of parents. I think she was relieved when I met Cal as much as anything. Loss, it's a terrible word. I know what loss means. Then try to respect Cal's. He lost more than your son. He lost a generation, people who might have mattered. Hamlets, Melvilles and Twains, young men who wanted to write the great American novel too. Why are you telling me this? I think people like Hal have been punished enough Misses. I try to imagine what those years were like for him and Andre but I, I don't get very far. Maybe I don't want to. The mind shuts down or the capacity to care, it's one way of dealing with it. I don't have that luxury. Of course you don't and neither this camp. What happened to gay men in the final decades of the 20th century. First, it will be a chapter in a history book, then a paragraph, then a footnote. People will shake their heads and say, what a terrible thing, how sad. It's already started to happen. I can feel it happening, all the raw edges of pain dulled. Deadened, drained away. I know what I did wrong. I didn't go out and find another Andre just as soon as I could. I am not another Andre, miss Jaoacourt. No one knows that better than I, it is presumptuous of you to think you could ever take his place. Cal didn't want another Andre. There is no other Andre. Just mine and he is gone, forever and I will mourn him, forever. I don't want peace or, closure, that's another word I detest. I want revenge. I'm Hamlet, take my picture. I'm my own poster. Vengeance! You won't find it here. Then where! I, don't know, but not in our home. But [ MUSIC ] Hi. Listen you have new. I knew it. You did not. I knew there must be something to get to with insight of the house. Just true. My cousin is coming from America. Who? Frankson Adam Railey. Adam? Imagine naming the child after the first man on Earth. [ LAUGH ] Suppose they did. He's gonna want to be brought round. He must had the bible open to the first page. [ LAUGH ] I suppose so. What do you mean brought round. He's gonna want to meet people. Which. You'd be good. Me. Why not. Why. If you wanna know the other truth, I believe Adam is coming from America in search of a wife. A wife. He has an idea that an Irish girl will be made of better stuff than these women he meets in America. There's truth in that. [ LAUGH ] You want me to help him find somebody? You could do that, I suppose. What about Mary O'Connor? Mary O'Connor, does she still have that whistling tooth? She does. And the ankles like shackles spilling over her shoes? Hard worker though. She can rip an aluminum can with her hands. God help her. I was thinking more somebody like you. Me, who's like me? Well. You are. I was thinking maybe you might let him take a look at you. [ LAUGH ] Take a look at me? In what way? Your beauty. My beauty? Yes. This is the first i've heard of it. [ LAUGHTER ] Don't pretend you don't know you're beautiful. Half of Monte Garris has been to your door. Tony Riley, you've lived at Rocks Grove since the day of me birth and this is the first that I've heard about beauty. Would you denounce me now for bringing it up? What would you do, put me in the shop window like one of those Euro floosies in Amsterdam? What the hell are you talking about, Amsterdam? Amsterdam, you know what I'm talking about, naked women on parade in the windows of Amsterdam. We're talking about my cousin, he's a solid man. He's never even been to Amsterdam I don't think. Oh, but you bring him here to look me over like I was a red heifer? I see what you mean about the smoke and then giving them up, Rosemary. 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