After two years of Broadway disruptions due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the 75th annual Tony Awards were staged on Sunday night to recognize the best performances in the theatre industry. Ariana DeBose, the winner of the Academy Award and nominee for the Tony Award, hosted the ceremony from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Best Musical and Best Book for a Musical was awarded to “A Strange Loop,” which entered the evening with the most nominations of any play, eleven. Jennifer Hudson, one of the show’s producers, received the Tony Award for Best Musical, making her the seventeenth individual to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award (EGOT).

Hudson has received an Oscar in 2007 for her performance in “Dreamgirls,” a Daytime Emmy in 2021, and two Grammy Awards, one for Best R&B Album in 2009 and another for Best Musical Theater Album in 2017.

The program comprised musical numbers from “The Music Man,” “A Strange Loop,” and “Company,” among others.

Best Orchestrations

• Simon Hale, “Girl From the North Country” — Winner
• David Cullen, “Company”
• Jason Michael Webb and David Holcenberg, “MJ”
• Charlie Rosen, “A Strange Loop”
• Tom Curran, “Six: The Musical”

Best Choreography

• Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ” — Winner
• Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, “Six: The Musical”
• Bill T. Jones, “Paradise Square”
• Camille A. Brown, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
• Warren Carlyle, “The Music Man”

Best Sound Design of a Play

• Mikhail Fiksel, “Dana H.” — Winner
• Nick Powell and Dominic Bilkey, “The Lehman Trilogy”
• Palmer Hefferan, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
• Mikaal Sulaiman, “Macbeth”
• Justin Ellington, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf”

Best Sound Design of a Musical

• Gareth Owen, “MJ” — Winner
• Simon Baker, “Girl From the North Country”
• Paul Gatehouse, “Six: The Musical”
• Drew Levy, “A Strange Loop”
• Ian Dickinson for Autograph, “Company”

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

• Natasha Katz, “MJ” — Winner
• Neil Austin, “Company”
• Bradley King, “Flying Over Sunset”
• Jen Schriever, “A Strange Loop”
• Tim Deiling, “Six: The Musical”
• Donald Holder, “Paradise Square”

Best Lighting Design of a Play

• Jon Clark, “The Lehman Trilogy” — Winner
• Jane Cox, “Macbeth”
• Yi Zhao, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
• Joshua Carr, “Hangmen”
• Jiyoun Chang, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf”

Best Costume Design of a Play

• Montana Levi Blanco, “The Skin of Our Teeth” — Winner
• Sarafina Bush, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
• Jennifer Moeller, “Clyde’s”
• Emilio Sosa, “Skeleton Crew”
• Jane Greenwood, “Plaza Suite”

Best Costume Design of a Musical

• Gabriella Slade, “Six: The Musical” — Winner
• Fly Davis, “Caroline, or Change”
• Santo Loquasto, “The Music Man”
• Paul Tazewell, “MJ”
• Toni-Leslie James, “Paradise Square”
• William Ivey Long, “Diana, the Musical”

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

• Bunny Christie, “Company” — Winner
• Derek McLane and Peter Nigrini, “MJ”
• Allen Moyer, “Paradise Square”
• Beowulf Boritt and 59 Productions, “Flying Over Sunset”
• Arnulfo Maldonado, “A Strange Loop”

Best Featured Actress in a Musical

• Patti LuPone, “Company” — Winner
• Jeannette Bayardelle, “Girl From the North Country”
• Shoshana Bean, “Mr. Saturday Night”
• L Morgan Lee, “A Strange Loop”
• Jennifer Simard, “Company”
• Jayne Houdyshell, “The Music Man”

Best Scenic Design of a Play

• Es Devlin, “The Lehman Trilogy” — Winner
• Beowulf Boritt, “POTUS”
• Anna Fleischle, “Hangmen”
• Scott Pask, “American Buffalo”
• Adam Rigg, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
• Michael Carnahan and Nicholas Hussong, “Skeleton Crew”

Best Featured Actor in a Musical

• Matt Doyle, “Company” — Winner
• Sidney DuPont, “Paradise Square”
• Jared Grimes, “Funny Girl”
• John-Andrew Morrison, “A Strange Loop”
• A.J. Shively, “Paradise Square”

Best Featured Actress in a Play

• Phylicia Rashad, “Skeleton Crew” — Winner
• Uzo Aduba, “Clyde’s”
• Julie White, “POTUS”
• Kara Young, “Clyde’s”
• Rachel Dratch, “POTUS”
• Kenita R. Miller, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”

Best Leading Actress in a Musical

• Joaquina Kalukango, “Paradise Square” — Winner
• Sharon D Clarke, “Caroline, or Change”
• Sutton Foster, “The Music Man”
• Mare Winningham, “Girl From the North Country”
• Carmen Cusack, “Flying Over Sunset”

Best Featured Actor in a Play

• Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Take Me Out” — Winner
• Alfie Allen, “Hangmen”
• Michael Oberholtzer, “Take Me Out”
• Jesse Williams, “Take Me Out”
• Chuck Cooper, “Trouble in Mind”
• Ron Cephas Jones, “Clyde’s”

Best Leading Actor in a Musical

• Myles Frost, “MJ” — Winner
• Billy Crystal, “Mr. Saturday Night”
• Rob McClure, “Mrs. Doubtfire”
• Jaquel Spivey, “A Strange Loop”
• Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man”

Best Leading Actor in a Play

• Simon Russell Beale, “The Lehman Trilogy” — Winner
• Adam Godley, “The Lehman Trilogy”
• Sam Rockwell, “American Buffalo”
• Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Lackawanna Blues”
• David Threlfall, “Hangmen”
• Adrian Lester, “The Lehman Trilogy”
• David Morse, “How I Learned to Drive”

Best Leading Actress in a Play

• Deirdre O’Connell, “Dana. H” — Winner
• Gabby Beans, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
• Ruth Negga, “Macbeth”
• Mary-Louise Parker, “How I Learned to Drive”
• LaChanze, “Trouble in Mind”

Best Direction of a Play

• Sam Mendes, “The Lehman Trilogy” — Winner
• Camille A. Brown, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf”
• Neil Pepe, “American Buffalo”
• Les Waters, “Dana H.”
• Lileana Blain-Cruz, “The Skin of Our Teeth”
• Best Direction of a Musical

• Marianne Elliott, “Company” — Winner
• Stephen Brackett, “A Strange Loop”
• Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, “Six: The Musical”
• Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”
• Conor McPherson, “Girl From the North Country”

Best Book of a Musical

• Michael R. Jackson, “A Strange Loop” — Winner
• Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan, “Paradise Square”
• Conor McPherson, “Girl From the North Country”
• Lynn Nottage, “MJ”
• Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, “Mr. Saturday Night”
• Best Original Score

• “Six: The Musical,” music and lyrics: Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss — Winner
• “Mr. Saturday Night,” music by Jason Robert Brown; lyrics by Amanda Green
• “Paradise Square,” music by Jason Howland and Larry Kirwan; lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare
• “A Strange Loop,” music and lyrics: Michael R. Jackson
• “Flying Over Sunset,” music by Tom Kitt; lyrics by Michael Korie

Best New Play

• “The Lehman Trilogy” — Winner
• “Hangmen”
• “The Minutes”
• “Skeleton Crew”
• “Clyde’s”
• Best Play Revival

• “Take Me Out” — Winner
• “American Buffalo”
• “How I Learned to Drive”
• “Trouble in Mind”
• “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”

Best Musical Revival

• “Caroline, or Change”
• “The Music Man”
• “Company” — Winner

Best New Musical

• “A Strange Loop” — Winner
• “Girl From the North Country”
• “Paradise Square”
• “Six: The Musical”
• “MJ”
• “Mr. Saturday Night”

Who Won the Most Tonys 2022?

Along with “Lehman,” the production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s London-based 1970 musical “Company” won the most Tony Awards with five. The finest musical of the previous year, “Moulin Rouge!,” won ten awards (in a thin field).