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NEW YORK | The Latest: 'Once On This Island' wins musical revival Tony
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NEW YORK | The Latest: 'Once On This Island' wins musical revival Tony
NEW YORK — The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
10:35 p.m.
“Once On This Island” has been named the best musical revival Tony Award winner.
The 1990 musical with a Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s calypso-infused score unfolds as a group of storytellers — caught in the midst of an unrelenting storm — recount the tale of a Caribbean island country girl in love with an aristocrat.
The revival is made to resonate deeply for today’s audiences, who are all too familiar with the devastating impact hurricanes have on a community. Many of the characters play instruments made out of found objects, including trash bins, flexible piping and more.
It stars Lea Salonga, Phillip Boykin and newcomer Hailey Kilgore.
The revival beat out “My Fair Lady” and “Carousel.”
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10:20 p.m.
A British revival of “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s monumental, two-part drama about AIDS, life and love during the 1980s, has won the Tony Award for best play revival.
The show is an astonishing kaleidoscopic seven hours with an assortment of characters that includes Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a young man living with AIDS, his cowardly ex-lover, a Mormon housewife, the world’s oldest living Bolshevik and a high-flying winged creature.
The latest version stars Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, and it won the best revival Olivier Award. It is directed by Marianne Elliott, a veteran of “War Horse” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
It beat out “Three Tall Women,” ”The Iceman Cometh,” ”Lobby Hero” and “Travesties.”
Both Lane and Garfield won acting Tony Awards earlier Sunday.
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10:10 p.m.
J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” franchise has cast its spell on Broadway, winning the best new play Tony Award.
The win for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” adds to the franchise’s haul of seven bestselling books and eight blockbuster films.
The two-part play, which picks up 19 years from where Rowling’s last novel left off and portrays Potter and his friends as grown-ups, won nine Olivier Awards in London before coming to America and bewitching critics and audiences alike.
It beat out “The Children,” ”Farinelli and The King,” ”Junk” and “Latin History for Morons.”
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9:50 p.m.
John Tiffany has won his second directing Tony Award for his work on the two-part play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany previously won a Tony for directing the musical “Once.” He also was nominated for the 2014 revival of “The Glass Menagerie.” Tiffany won the directing Olivier Award for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012. Some of his other credits include “Black Watch” and “The Ambassador.”
He beat out Marianne Elliott, Joe Mantello, Patrick Marber and George C. Wolfe.
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9:45 p.m.
David Cromer has won his first Tony Award for directing “The Band’s Visit.”
The musical is based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, has songs by David Yazbek and a sardonic story by Itamar Moses. It centers on members of an Egyptian police orchestra booked to play a concert at an Israeli city who accidentally end up in the wrong town.
Cromer directed the short-lived Neil Simon revival of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” in 2009 and the 2011 revival of John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves.” He drew acclaim for two productions at the off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre — “Tribes” and “Our Town,” for which played the Stage Manager in addition to directing.
He grew up outside Chicago in Skokie, Illinois, and won a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2010. He taught acting and directing at Columbia College Chicago for 15 years and has often returned to the works of Tennessee Williams.
He beat out Michael Arden, Casey Nicholaw, Tina Landau and Bartlett Sher.
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9:30 p.m.
Glenda Jackson has added to her impressive resume with a Tony Award for best actress in a play.
The 82-year-old British actress won her first Tony for playing a flinty woman facing the end of her life in the new revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.”
Jackson has two Academy Awards, for 1970’s “Women in Love” and 1973’s “A Touch of Class, and credits in such films as “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” ”Mary, Queen of Scots” and “Hedda.” She won two Emmys for starring in the television miniseries “Elizabeth R.”
She stepped back from acting in the early 1990s to enter politics and is famous for a 2013 speech she gave after the death of Margaret Thatcher, bitterly decrying the late prime minister.
She beat Condola Rashad, Lauren Ridloff and Amy Schumer.
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9:15 p.m.
A heroic drama teacher who nurtured many of the young people demanding change following the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been honored from the Tony Award stage.
Melody Herzfeld, the one-woman drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was cheered by the crowd at Radio City Music Hall.
Herzfeld saved 65 lives by barricading students into a small classroom closet on Valentine’s Day when police say a former student went on a school rampage, killing 17 people.
She then later encouraged many of her pupils to lead the nationwide movement for gun reform, including organizing the March For Our Lives demonstration and the charity single “Shine.”
Members of Herzfeld’s drama department then took the stage to sing “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.”
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9 p.m.
Nathan Lane has won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his role in “Angels in America.”
Laurie Metcalf won best featured actress in a play earlier Sunday for her role in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” It is Metcalf’s second Tony win — she won best actress last year for “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”
Lane’s win is the second of the evening for an “Angels in America” actor. Andrew Garfield won for best leading actor earlier in the evening.
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8:10 p.m.
Andrew Garfield has won the Tony Award for best leading actor in a play for his work in “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s monumental drama about life and love during the 1980s.
Garfield plays a young gay man living with AIDS in the sprawling, seven-hour revival opposite Nathan Lane.
He previously was nominated for a featured role in “Death of a Salesman” opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Garfield has been nominated for an Oscar for his work in “Hacksaw Ridge.” His other film work includes “The Social Network” in 2010 and the 2012 superhero film “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its 2014 sequel.
He beat out Tom Hollander, Jamie Parker, Mark Rylance and Denzel Washington.
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8:05 p.m.
Tony Award co-hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles have gotten the show started with a self-parodying duet on piano for all the losers out there — including them.
Neither Bareilles nor Groban have won a Grammy or a Tony despite selling millions of albums and appearing on Broadway in hit shows. They turned that into a playful song.
“Let’s not forget that 90 percent of us leave empty-handed tonight. So this is for the people who lose/Most of us have been in your shoes,” they sang in the upbeat opening number. “This one’s for the loser inside of you.”
The co-hosts then noted that such noted shows like “Hair” and “Into the Woods” didn’t win the best musical prize. Nor did “Waitress,” the show Bareilles wrote music for.
At the end of the song, the pair were joined by over a dozen members of the ensemble from each this year’s nominated musicals.
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7:55 p.m.
Condola Rashad has a special reason to celebrate on the Tony Award red carpet Sunday. She also just closed her show, “Saint Joan.”
The actress says she has “a lot of emotions today.”  She likened it to the last day of school mixed with prom and graduation at the same time. She says: “It’s a celebration.”
The daughter of Phylicia Rashad and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad earned a best actress in a play nomination for playing Joan of Arc in the play by George Bernard Shaw, which ended its run with Sunday’s matinee. Her dad and sisters were her dates to the Tonys.
She says “it’s been a really great opportunity for us to come together.”
Rashad also earned a 2012 Tony nomination for “Stick Fly” and plays a district attorney on the Showtime series “Billions.”
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7:45 p.m.
Broadway’s SpongeBob, Ethan Slater, has walked the red carpet with a ribbon supporting the American Civil Liberties Union pinned to one lapel.
He says the organization is “incredibly important to our country” when it comes to guarding civil liberties. He called his show “aligned with the values of the ACLU.”
How exactly? Well, in terms of diversity, for one.
The “SpongeBob SquarePants” musical includes Sandy the squirrel, a scapegoat for Bikini Bottom’s problems who is targeted for banishment.
Slater calls the story line “really relevant to the Muslim ban” in the United States and the way he says that “Muslim-Americans have been treated.”
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7:25 p.m.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has no problem with nerves as he heads into the Tony Awards. His accolade to come once inside is all sewn up as an honorary tribute.
The musical theater legend says the feeling is wonderful: “I don’t have to worry about it.” He says all he has to do is “just go and get it.”
Webber says this season on Broadway is exciting, in particular amid musicals with many fine new writers. He also praised the night’s co-host, Sara Bareilles, for her work in the recently televised rock opera he co-created back in 1970, “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Webber describes Bareilles as an “extraordinary actress,” especially through music.
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6:50 p.m.
Andrew Garfield says the social message of “Angels in America” is a huge part of why he agreed to star as Pryor Walter.
The nominee says on the Tony red carpet that he doesn’t want to “tell a story unless it has the potential to change people.”
The British actor says the eight-hour play is as relevant today as it was 25 years ago, when Tony Kushner first staged it and won a Pulitzer Prize for his trouble.
Garfield says theater must be political and mirror the times we’re in. Otherwise, he says, “we’re wasting everyone’s time.”
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6:20 p.m.
Josh Groban is promising “a really fun” Tony Awards.
Says the first-time co-host: “I feel really excited about the show we have ready for everybody tonight.” He says it’s been a fun season and he called co-host Sara Bareilles “brilliant.”
He says the chance to collaborate and bounce ideas off her has been “nothing less than a dream come true.”
He adds “We’re just going to go out and be ourselves.” Groban promises the show will be a combination of slick and two musical theater geeks being “total weirdos.”
For her part, Bareilles says she “just wants to stay present.” She added that her job is to make sure everyone else is having a good time, saying “that’s the goal — people pleasing.”
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6:10 p.m.
Cynthia Erivo and Brian Tyree Henry say the theater is a perfect place to deal with social issues.
Says Henry, who is nominated for his work in “Lobby Hero”: “It’s happening right in front of your face.” He adds that something about the stage encourages tough issues to be worked on by strangers.
He says the cast and audience of a show go on a ride together and hopefully it creates a platform for discussion.
Erivo, winner of the best actress in a musical award for her work in “The Color Purple” in 2016, agreed: “People can see themselves live.” She says theater gives people a chance to express themselves freely.
John Leguizamo adds there are no “gatekeepers” in theater, which allows many points of view to emerge.
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5:45 p.m.
“Frozen” songwriters Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, walked the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday for the first time as equal nominees.
Robert Lopez co-conceived and co-wrote the smash-hit musicals “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon,” both earning him Tony Awards. “Frozen” marks Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s first nomination.
“I’m so proud of her,” her husband said. “She’s been here before as my plus-one.” His advice to her was “enjoy this thing.” It might be scary, but he calls it like a “prom.”
Anderson-Lopez acknowledged she was going to be nervous for the cast of “Frozen” and suspected that she would share their butterflies. Joked her husband: “She’ll be mouthing every word along with them.”
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2:45 p.m.
The Tony Awards dress rehearsal — normally with few actual stars in attendance — got a shock of A-listers this year, including Tina Fey, Kelli O’Hara, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Leguizamo, Tituss Burgess — and Bruce Springsteen.
The four-hour rehearsal at Radio City Music Hall allows producers to go through the show from start to finish before the Sunday telecast. Usually, stand-ins are used for Hollywood presenters, who prefer to hit the snooze button.
But the audience this time cheered loudly when Patti Lupone, Uzo Aduba, Ming-Na Wen, Melissa Benoist, Tatiana Maslany, Christopher Jackson, James Monroe Iglehart and Rachel Brosnahan showed up in the flesh.
The highlight was Springsteen, who walked onstage in a T-shirt and jeans, performed one song on the piano from his sold-out one-man show and departed to a standing ovation.
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12:15 a.m.
The Tony Awards kick off on Sunday night with a pair of first-time hosts, no clear juggernaut like “Hamilton” to cheer for, but a likely assist by Bruce Springsteen.
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles face their biggest audience yet and a careful political balancing act when they co-host the CBS telecast from the massive 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall.
Getting buzz from appearing on the telecast can dictate a show’s future, both on Broadway and on tour. Broadway producers will be thankful this year that the telecast won’t compete with any NBA Finals or Stanley Cup playoff games.
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DAVID PROEBER, THE PANTAGRAPH
May 25, 2017
Tyler Wilson of Bloomington place his weight into placing a U.S. flag on a veteran’s grave May 25, 2017 at East Lawn Memorial Gardens, Bloomington. He was among volunteers assisting members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 454 place 1,000 flags at East Lawn at observance of Memorial Day. Tyler was helping his uncle, Randy Wilcox, a U.S. Air Force veteran, set the flags.
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Jan 11, 2017
Protesters for and against Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan, D-Chicago, collect at the University of Illinois-Springfield where members of the 100th General Assembly were sworn in Jan. 11, 2017 at Sangamon Auditorium.
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Jan 28, 2017
The Mattoon High School dance group plays during the Illinois High School Association’s Competitive Dance Competition held at U.S. Mobile Coliseum on Jan. 28, 2017.
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Feb 3, 2017
Eli Exner, 14, brings a cap over the head of his brother, Evan, 1, even as they prepare to remain the night at their dad’s van through the Night in a Car homelessness awareness event on Feb. 3, 2017, outside Trinity Lutheran Church, 801 S. Madison St., Bloomington. The second Night at a Car was scheduled for overnight Feb. 2, 2018, to raise money for Home Sweet Home Ministries’ homeless shelter.
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Feb 1, 2017
In the left, Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner, Imam Sheikh Abu Emad Al-Talla of Masjid Ibrahim and Normal Mayor Chris Koos raise their hands in unity during a rally on immigration Feb. 1, 2017 at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.
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Mar 7, 2017
Rivian Automotive CEO RJ Scaringe, centre, points out details of this new Rivian production facility to Gov. Bruce Rauner, left, along with State Rep. Dan Brady, R-Bloomington, at a news conference March 7, 2017 at the plant, formerly used by Mitsubishi Motors North America. Normal Mayor Chris Koos is far right.
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Apr 11, 2017
Normal Patrol Officer Joe Benner constituting an aggressive motorist moving toward Bloomington High School sophomore Yasimine Hamilton, 16, who was playing a patrol officer making a traffic stop through the Badge, also a Law Enforcement Expertise For the Community, April 11, 2017 at Illinois State University’s Horton Field House, Normal.   The free, public event was sponsored by local law enforcement along with the Minority and Police Partnership. Participating agencies included the Bloomington, Normal, Illinois State University and McLean County sheriff’s police departments as well as the McLean County state’s attorney’s office.
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May 11, 2017
Larry Marxman’s wife, Jeri, allows him to shoot a back brace after a dawn of gardening at their home in rural Dawson. Larry stated his wife’s help was key to him being in a position to endure chronic pain and overcome a dependence on opioid-based painkillers.
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May 12, 2017
Re-enactors portraying Union soldiers fire a volley through Civil War Daze on May 12, 2017 at Tri-Valley schools in Downs.   Almost 1,000 students from Central Illinois schools visited for the annual educational event.
Abraham Lincoln, depicted by Kevin Wood, walks down a flight of stairs July 15, 2017 at the McLean County Museum of History, Bloomington, during the Lincoln’s Festival on Route 66.   In the museum, visitors might dive deeper in the history of Lincoln and the way the 16th president was linked to that which became Route 66. Museum volunteers dished out facts and awards while kids created Lincoln sun catchers.
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Jul 6, 2017
An Illinois State Police honor guard takes the body of fallen condition trooper Ryan Albin out of a funeral ceremony at Blue Ridge High School at Farmer City into his final resting spot at Bellflower Township Cemetery on July 6, 2017. Albin died June 28 following injuries suffered from a two-vehicle crash on westbound Interstate 74 at mile mark 155, only west of Farmer City.
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Jul 18, 2017
A tearful Sarah Mellor turns to confer with the household of her husband, Mark, since she read a statement through her sentencing hearing July 18, 2017 at the Woodford County Courthouse, Eureka. The highly considered Bloomington High School teacher might serve up to eight years in prison for a knifing passing her defense asserted was unintended.
Cast members for the Miller Park Summer Theatre production “Once Upon A Mattress” collect on stage to their final rehearsal at the bandstand at Miller Park, Bloomington on July 26, 2017.   Originating at the Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department from the 1980s, the Miller Park Summer Theatre program offers an Chance for youth and adults to participate in an outdoor summer musical.
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Jul 28, 2017
Dr. Melvin Hinton, leader of mental health and addiction agencies, clarifies the usage of desk chairs that allow patients to attend classroom sessions, even when they must be restrained, through a tour of some Behavioral Management Unit at Joliet on July 26, 2017.
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Aug 4, 2017
Hannah Johnson, 11, also a part of this Wild Oats 4-H Club, shows her off “mop” Romo through the puppy costume judging at the McLean County Fair on Aug. 4, 2017 at the Interstate Center, Bloomington.
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Aug 21, 2017
With no more than 1 set of special viewing glasses between these, Maurice Smith of Plainfield and Malea Holm of all Newman share a view of the solar panel Aug. 21, 2017 at Illinois State University. Pupils at basic schools and universities across Central Illinois appeared to the sky to split the once-in-a-lifetime adventure.  
Six-year-old Easton Kretschmer, right, describes what he has seen so far while his dad Stephen Kretschmer chooses a gander through the screening of this solar panel Aug. 21, 2017 at Heartland Community College in Normal.
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Sep 14, 2017
Workers for River City Construction build steel girders as construction of the top floors of their enlarged McLean County Law and Justice Center progresses Sept. 14, 2017 in downtown Bloomington. The 79,817 square foot addition would provide room for 260 new Inmate Beds and join the present jail with a skywalk bridge.
Angie Atkins of Bloomington is infused with a kiss Sept. 9, 2017 as volunteers help give 110 dogs, originally from Houston-area shelters following Hurricane Harvey, a brand new chance at adoption from the Midwest. “I’ve always been an animal person and I really like helping puppies,” Atkins said. “It is important to help them if they can’t help themselves”
Traditional Fire Chief Mick Humer, centre, celebrates after dividing a fire hose to resemble a ribbon cutting edge, through an open house to the division’s new headquarters fire station at 606 S. Main St. on Oct. 28, 2017. Joining Humer isalso, from left, Congressman Darin LaHood, State Sen. Jason Barickman, State Rep. Dan Brady and Normal City Council member Jeff Fritzen.   Almost 150 people attended the dedication ceremony for the $4 million, also 25,000-square-foot station, with a training room that can hold 100 people, a state-of-the-art living room, a rooftop place overlooking Main Streetplus a whole industrial kitchen plus a small theater space. “It is not only a major garage with an office attached,” explained Humer. It is our residence.”
Noah Beaty, 7, of Bloomington gathers slushy snow off the trunk of his family’s van since they obtained their Thanksgiving meal components during the very first day of their annual Give Thanks distribution Nov. 18, 2017 inside the Midwest Food Bank, 2031 Warehouse Road, Normal.   Officials anticipated to hand out 2,000 meal boxes during the distribution, feeding 10,000 people.   Things and capital to help to meet the boxes were donated by the community since October.
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Nov 27, 2017
Workers stack new cells for the expansion of the prison in the Law and Justice Center Nov. 27, 2017 in downtown Bloomington. The self-healing cells contain wiring and plumbing and are set up as modules.
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Dec 6, 2017
Olaya Landa-Vialard, assistant professor of reduced vision and blindness at Illinois State University, holds up a signal among roughly 150 students who assembled Dec. 6, 2017 on Schroeder Plaza at the Normal campus to protest pending tax reform legislation which might have taxed pupil’s tuition waivers. In the end, the students won as the proposal has been scrapped in final legislation.
Despite sporting a Grinch-style face paint design, Elaina Lancaster, 6, of Bloomington has been still in a fantastic mood as she takes aim at the basket during a disc golf game during the 35th annual Children’s Christmas Party for Unemployed lands on Dec. 16, 2017 at Bloomington High School.   Over 350 children turned out for the action-packed party, which was sponsored by the McLean County Chamber of Commerce along with the Bloomington and Normal Trades and Labor Assembly.
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Dec 25, 2017
Normal Community West High School junior Konnor Halsey, 16, writes music on his laptop when sitting in his favorite corner of the college’s music space.   “There are him there for three to four hours every day,” explained Lisa Preston, a Normal West group director. Halsey composed “Happy Madness,” an award winning article for woodwinds, horns and percussion, that will be performed at Carnegie Hall in nyc.
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Psychic Medium in Chicago Ridge IL 60415
The following article goes into detail about psychic medium in Chicago Ridge Illinois 60415 A medium can either be natural born or develop later in life, though they will already possess medium skills which they just haven't recognised yet. It is the view of many life long spiritualists that the days of old were more productive in terms of the natural abilities and volumes of those having these abilities. The Victorian era saw mediumship as being highly fashionable with seances and parlour tricks providing entertainment for the curious, whilst being underpinned by the realisation of the power and greatness of mediumship itself when pure evidential readings left the sitter in no doubts as to its validity. Materialisations, levitation and apports were regular events and the great late Daniel Douglas Home was one Scottish medium who did these things. An astonished and varied gathering of well to do towns folk and journalists witnessed him float up into the air and they also saw a human arm materialise in front of them which was firm to the touch and seemingly unattached to anything. Daniel was quoted as being the most gifted medium, and sought to avoid contact with other spiritualists stating they could teach him nothing. He remains an enigma for many who merely thought mediumship was an illusion or trick. During the scandal, Home was apparently at his best when it came to producing incredible phenomena. In December 1868, his most famous feat took place at the home of Lord Adare. During the evening, Home reportedly went into a trance and floated out the window of the third floor, then floated back in another window - all before the eyes of a number of stunned witnesses. The event occurred in front of three irreproachable members of London's high society, Lord Adare, his cousin Captain Charles Wynne and the Master of Lindsay. There is no doubt the world lost an astonishing man when Daniel passed to the higher life.
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NEW YORK | The Latest: 'Angels in America' wins best revival Tony Award
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NEW YORK | The Latest: 'Angels in America' wins best revival Tony Award
NEW YORK— The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
10:20 p.m.
A British revival of “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s monumental, two-part drama about AIDS, life and love during the 1980s, has won the Tony Award for best play revival.
The show is an astonishing kaleidoscopic seven hours with an assortment of characters that includes Roy Cohn, Ethel Rosenberg, a young man living with AIDS, his cowardly ex-lover, a Mormon housewife, the world’s oldest living Bolshevik and a high-flying winged creature.
The latest version stars Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, and it won the best revival Olivier Award. It is directed by Marianne Elliott, a veteran of “War Horse” and “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
It beat out “Three Tall Women,” ”The Iceman Cometh,” ”Lobby Hero” and “Travesties.”
Both Lane and Garfield won acting Tony Awards earlier Sunday.
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10:10 p.m.
J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” franchise has cast its spell on Broadway, winning the best new play Tony Award.
The win for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” adds to the franchise’s haul of seven bestselling books and eight blockbuster films.
The two-part play, which picks up 19 years from where Rowling’s last novel left off and portrays Potter and his friends as grown-ups, won nine Olivier Awards in London before coming to America and bewitching critics and audiences alike.
It beat out “The Children,” ”Farinelli and The King,” ”Junk” and “Latin History for Morons.”
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9:50 p.m.
John Tiffany has won his second directing Tony Award for his work on the two-part play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany previously won a Tony for directing the musical “Once.” He also was nominated for the 2014 revival of “The Glass Menagerie.” Tiffany won the directing Olivier Award for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012. Some of his other credits include “Black Watch” and “The Ambassador.”
He beat out Marianne Elliott, Joe Mantello, Patrick Marber and George C. Wolfe.
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9:45 p.m.
David Cromer has won his first Tony Award for directing “The Band’s Visit.”
The musical is based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, has songs by David Yazbek and a sardonic story by Itamar Moses. It centers on members of an Egyptian police orchestra booked to play a concert at an Israeli city who accidentally end up in the wrong town.
Cromer directed the short-lived Neil Simon revival of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” in 2009 and the 2011 revival of John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves.” He drew acclaim for two productions at the off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre — “Tribes” and “Our Town,” for which played the Stage Manager in addition to directing.
He grew up outside Chicago in Skokie, Illinois, and won a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2010. He taught acting and directing at Columbia College Chicago for 15 years and has often returned to the works of Tennessee Williams.
He beat out Michael Arden, Casey Nicholaw, Tina Landau and Bartlett Sher.
___
9:30 p.m.
Glenda Jackson has added to her impressive resume with a Tony Award for best actress in a play.
The 82-year-old British actress won her first Tony for playing a flinty woman facing the end of her life in the new revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.”
Jackson has two Academy Awards, for 1970’s “Women in Love” and 1973’s “A Touch of Class, and credits in such films as “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” ”Mary, Queen of Scots” and “Hedda.” She won two Emmys for starring in the television miniseries “Elizabeth R.”
She stepped back from acting in the early 1990s to enter politics and is famous for a 2013 speech she gave after the death of Margaret Thatcher, bitterly decrying the late prime minister.
She beat Condola Rashad, Lauren Ridloff and Amy Schumer.
___
9:15 p.m.
A heroic drama teacher who nurtured many of the young people demanding change following the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been honored from the Tony Award stage.
Melody Herzfeld, the one-woman drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was cheered by the crowd at Radio City Music Hall.
Herzfeld saved 65 lives by barricading students into a small classroom closet on Valentine’s Day when police say a former student went on a school rampage, killing 17 people.
She then later encouraged many of her pupils to lead the nationwide movement for gun reform, including organizing the March For Our Lives demonstration and the charity single “Shine.”
Members of Herzfeld’s drama department then took the stage to sing “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.”
___
9 p.m.
Nathan Lane has won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his role in “Angels in America.”
Laurie Metcalf won best featured actress in a play earlier Sunday for her role in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” It is Metcalf’s second Tony win — she won best actress last year for “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”
Lane’s win is the second of the evening for an “Angels in America” actor. Andrew Garfield won for best leading actor earlier in the evening.
___
8:10 p.m.
Andrew Garfield has won the Tony Award for best leading actor in a play for his work in “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s monumental drama about life and love during the 1980s.
Garfield plays a young gay man living with AIDS in the sprawling, seven-hour revival opposite Nathan Lane.
He previously was nominated for a featured role in “Death of a Salesman” opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Garfield has been nominated for an Oscar for his work in “Hacksaw Ridge.” His other film work includes “The Social Network” in 2010 and the 2012 superhero film “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its 2014 sequel.
He beat out Tom Hollander, Jamie Parker, Mark Rylance and Denzel Washington.
___
8:05 p.m.
Tony Award co-hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles have gotten the show started with a self-parodying duet on piano for all the losers out there — including them.
Neither Bareilles nor Groban have won a Grammy or a Tony despite selling millions of albums and appearing on Broadway in hit shows. They turned that into a playful song.
“Let’s not forget that 90 percent of us leave empty-handed tonight. So this is for the people who lose/Most of us have been in your shoes,” they sang in the upbeat opening number. “This one’s for the loser inside of you.”
The co-hosts then noted that such noted shows like “Hair” and “Into the Woods” didn’t win the best musical prize. Nor did “Waitress,” the show Bareilles wrote music for.
At the end of the song, the pair were joined by over a dozen members of the ensemble from each this year’s nominated musicals.
___
7:55 p.m.
Condola Rashad has a special reason to celebrate on the Tony Award red carpet Sunday. She also just closed her show, “Saint Joan.”
The actress says she has “a lot of emotions today.”  She likened it to the last day of school mixed with prom and graduation at the same time. She says: “It’s a celebration.”
The daughter of Phylicia Rashad and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad earned a best actress in a play nomination for playing Joan of Arc in the play by George Bernard Shaw, which ended its run with Sunday’s matinee. Her dad and sisters were her dates to the Tonys.
She says “it’s been a really great opportunity for us to come together.”
Rashad also earned a 2012 Tony nomination for “Stick Fly” and plays a district attorney on the Showtime series “Billions.”
___
7:45 p.m.
Broadway’s SpongeBob, Ethan Slater, has walked the red carpet with a ribbon supporting the American Civil Liberties Union pinned to one lapel.
He says the organization is “incredibly important to our country” when it comes to guarding civil liberties. He called his show “aligned with the values of the ACLU.”
How exactly? Well, in terms of diversity, for one.
The “SpongeBob SquarePants” musical includes Sandy the squirrel, a scapegoat for Bikini Bottom’s problems who is targeted for banishment.
Slater calls the story line “really relevant to the Muslim ban” in the United States and the way he says that “Muslim-Americans have been treated.”
___
7:25 p.m.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has no problem with nerves as he heads into the Tony Awards. His accolade to come once inside is all sewn up as an honorary tribute.
The musical theater legend says the feeling is wonderful: “I don’t have to worry about it.” He says all he has to do is “just go and get it.”
Webber says this season on Broadway is exciting, in particular amid musicals with many fine new writers. He also praised the night’s co-host, Sara Bareilles, for her work in the recently televised rock opera he co-created back in 1970, “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Webber describes Bareilles as an “extraordinary actress,” especially through music.
___
6:50 p.m.
Andrew Garfield says the social message of “Angels in America” is a huge part of why he agreed to star as Pryor Walter.
The nominee says on the Tony red carpet that he doesn’t want to “tell a story unless it has the potential to change people.”
The British actor says the eight-hour play is as relevant today as it was 25 years ago, when Tony Kushner first staged it and won a Pulitzer Prize for his trouble.
Garfield says theater must be political and mirror the times we’re in. Otherwise, he says, “we’re wasting everyone’s time.”
___
6:20 p.m.
Josh Groban is promising “a really fun” Tony Awards.
Says the first-time co-host: “I feel really excited about the show we have ready for everybody tonight.” He says it’s been a fun season and he called co-host Sara Bareilles “brilliant.”
He says the chance to collaborate and bounce ideas off her has been “nothing less than a dream come true.”
He adds “We’re just going to go out and be ourselves.” Groban promises the show will be a combination of slick and two musical theater geeks being “total weirdos.”
For her part, Bareilles says she “just wants to stay present.” She added that her job is to make sure everyone else is having a good time, saying “that’s the goal — people pleasing.”
___
6:10 p.m.
Cynthia Erivo and Brian Tyree Henry say the theater is a perfect place to deal with social issues.
Says Henry, who is nominated for his work in “Lobby Hero”: “It’s happening right in front of your face.” He adds that something about the stage encourages tough issues to be worked on by strangers.
He says the cast and audience of a show go on a ride together and hopefully it creates a platform for discussion.
Erivo, winner of the best actress in a musical award for her work in “The Color Purple” in 2016, agreed: “People can see themselves live.” She says theater gives people a chance to express themselves freely.
John Leguizamo adds there are no “gatekeepers” in theater, which allows many points of view to emerge.
___
5:45 p.m.
“Frozen” songwriters Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, walked the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday for the first time as equal nominees.
Robert Lopez co-conceived and co-wrote the smash-hit musicals “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon,” both earning him Tony Awards. “Frozen” marks Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s first nomination.
“I’m so proud of her,” her husband said. “She’s been here before as my plus-one.” His advice to her was “enjoy this thing.” It might be scary, but he calls it like a “prom.”
Anderson-Lopez acknowledged she was going to be nervous for the cast of “Frozen” and suspected that she would share their butterflies. Joked her husband: “She’ll be mouthing every word along with them.”
___
2:45 p.m.
The Tony Awards dress rehearsal — normally with few actual stars in attendance — got a shock of A-listers this year, including Tina Fey, Kelli O’Hara, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Leguizamo, Tituss Burgess — and Bruce Springsteen.
The four-hour rehearsal at Radio City Music Hall allows producers to go through the show from start to finish before the Sunday telecast. Usually, stand-ins are used for Hollywood presenters, who prefer to hit the snooze button.
But the audience this time cheered loudly when Patti Lupone, Uzo Aduba, Ming-Na Wen, Melissa Benoist, Tatiana Maslany, Christopher Jackson, James Monroe Iglehart and Rachel Brosnahan showed up in the flesh.
The highlight was Springsteen, who walked onstage in a T-shirt and jeans, performed one song on the piano from his sold-out one-man show and departed to a standing ovation.
___
12:15 a.m.
The Tony Awards kick off on Sunday night with a pair of first-time hosts, no clear juggernaut like “Hamilton” to cheer for, but a likely assist by Bruce Springsteen.
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles face their biggest audience yet and a careful political balancing act when they co-host the CBS telecast from the massive 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall.
Getting buzz from appearing on the telecast can dictate a show’s future, both on Broadway and on tour. Broadway producers will be thankful this year that the telecast won’t compete with any NBA Finals or Stanley Cup playoff games.
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NEW YORK | The Latest: 'Harry Potter' wins best new play Tony Award
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NEW YORK | The Latest: 'Harry Potter' wins best new play Tony Award
NEW YORK — The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
10 p.m.
J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” franchise has cast its spell on Broadway, winning the best new play Tony Award.
The win for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” adds to the franchise’s haul of seven bestselling books and eight blockbuster films.
The two-part play, which picks up 19 years from where Rowling’s last novel left off and portrays Potter and his friends as grown-ups, won nine Olivier Awards in London before coming to America and bewitching critics and audiences alike.
It beat out “The Children,” ”Farinelli and The King,” ”Junk” and “Latin History for Morons.”
___
9:50 p.m.
John Tiffany has won his second directing Tony Award for his work on the two-part play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany previously won a Tony for directing the musical “Once.” He also was nominated for the 2014 revival of “The Glass Menagerie.” Tiffany won the directing Olivier Award for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012. Some of his other credits include “Black Watch” and “The Ambassador.”
He beat out Marianne Elliott, Joe Mantello, Patrick Marber and George C. Wolfe.
___
9:45 p.m.
David Cromer has won his first Tony Award for directing “The Band’s Visit.”
The musical is based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, has songs by David Yazbek and a sardonic story by Itamar Moses. It centers on members of an Egyptian police orchestra booked to play a concert at an Israeli city who accidentally end up in the wrong town.
Cromer directed the short-lived Neil Simon revival of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” in 2009 and the 2011 revival of John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves.” He drew acclaim for two productions at the off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre — “Tribes” and “Our Town,” for which played the Stage Manager in addition to directing.
He grew up outside Chicago in Skokie, Illinois, and won a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2010. He taught acting and directing at Columbia College Chicago for 15 years and has often returned to the works of Tennessee Williams.
He beat out Michael Arden, Casey Nicholaw, Tina Landau and Bartlett Sher.
___
9:30 p.m.
Glenda Jackson has added to her impressive resume with a Tony Award for best actress in a play.
The 82-year-old British actress won her first Tony for playing a flinty woman facing the end of her life in the new revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.”
Jackson has two Academy Awards, for 1970’s “Women in Love” and 1973’s “A Touch of Class, and credits in such films as “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” ”Mary, Queen of Scots” and “Hedda.” She won two Emmys for starring in the television miniseries “Elizabeth R.”
She stepped back from acting in the early 1990s to enter politics and is famous for a 2013 speech she gave after the death of Margaret Thatcher, bitterly decrying the late prime minister.
She beat Condola Rashad, Lauren Ridloff and Amy Schumer.
___
9:15 p.m.
A heroic drama teacher who nurtured many of the young people demanding change following the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been honored from the Tony Award stage.
Melody Herzfeld, the one-woman drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was cheered by the crowd at Radio City Music Hall.
Herzfeld saved 65 lives by barricading students into a small classroom closet on Valentine’s Day when police say a former student went on a school rampage, killing 17 people.
She then later encouraged many of her pupils to lead the nationwide movement for gun reform, including organizing the March For Our Lives demonstration and the charity single “Shine.”
Members of Herzfeld’s drama department then took the stage to sing “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.”
___
9 p.m.
Nathan Lane has won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his role in “Angels in America.”
Laurie Metcalf won best featured actress in a play earlier Sunday for her role in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” It is Metcalf’s second Tony win — she won best actress last year for “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”
Lane’s win is the second of the evening for an “Angels in America” actor. Andrew Garfield won for best leading actor earlier in the evening.
___
8:10 p.m.
Andrew Garfield has won the Tony Award for best leading actor in a play for his work in “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s monumental drama about life and love during the 1980s.
Garfield plays a young gay man living with AIDS in the sprawling, seven-hour revival opposite Nathan Lane.
He previously was nominated for a featured role in “Death of a Salesman” opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Garfield has been nominated for an Oscar for his work in “Hacksaw Ridge.” His other film work includes “The Social Network” in 2010 and the 2012 superhero film “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its 2014 sequel.
He beat out Tom Hollander, Jamie Parker, Mark Rylance and Denzel Washington.
___
8:05 p.m.
Tony Award co-hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles have gotten the show started with a self-parodying duet on piano for all the losers out there — including them.
Neither Bareilles nor Groban have won a Grammy or a Tony despite selling millions of albums and appearing on Broadway in hit shows. They turned that into a playful song.
“Let’s not forget that 90 percent of us leave empty-handed tonight. So this is for the people who lose/Most of us have been in your shoes,” they sang in the upbeat opening number. “This one’s for the loser inside of you.”
The co-hosts then noted that such noted shows like “Hair” and “Into the Woods” didn’t win the best musical prize. Nor did “Waitress,” the show Bareilles wrote music for.
At the end of the song, the pair were joined by over a dozen members of the ensemble from each this year’s nominated musicals.
___
7:55 p.m.
Condola Rashad has a special reason to celebrate on the Tony Award red carpet Sunday. She also just closed her show, “Saint Joan.”
The actress says she has “a lot of emotions today.”  She likened it to the last day of school mixed with prom and graduation at the same time. She says: “It’s a celebration.”
The daughter of Phylicia Rashad and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad earned a best actress in a play nomination for playing Joan of Arc in the play by George Bernard Shaw, which ended its run with Sunday’s matinee. Her dad and sisters were her dates to the Tonys.
She says “it’s been a really great opportunity for us to come together.”
Rashad also earned a 2012 Tony nomination for “Stick Fly” and plays a district attorney on the Showtime series “Billions.”
___
7:45 p.m.
Broadway’s SpongeBob, Ethan Slater, has walked the red carpet with a ribbon supporting the American Civil Liberties Union pinned to one lapel.
He says the organization is “incredibly important to our country” when it comes to guarding civil liberties. He called his show “aligned with the values of the ACLU.”
How exactly? Well, in terms of diversity, for one.
The “SpongeBob SquarePants” musical includes Sandy the squirrel, a scapegoat for Bikini Bottom’s problems who is targeted for banishment.
Slater calls the story line “really relevant to the Muslim ban” in the United States and the way he says that “Muslim-Americans have been treated.”
___
7:25 p.m.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has no problem with nerves as he heads into the Tony Awards. His accolade to come once inside is all sewn up as an honorary tribute.
The musical theater legend says the feeling is wonderful: “I don’t have to worry about it.” He says all he has to do is “just go and get it.”
Webber says this season on Broadway is exciting, in particular amid musicals with many fine new writers. He also praised the night’s co-host, Sara Bareilles, for her work in the recently televised rock opera he co-created back in 1970, “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Webber describes Bareilles as an “extraordinary actress,” especially through music.
___
6:50 p.m.
Andrew Garfield says the social message of “Angels in America” is a huge part of why he agreed to star as Pryor Walter.
The nominee says on the Tony red carpet that he doesn’t want to “tell a story unless it has the potential to change people.”
The British actor says the eight-hour play is as relevant today as it was 25 years ago, when Tony Kushner first staged it and won a Pulitzer Prize for his trouble.
Garfield says theater must be political and mirror the times we’re in. Otherwise, he says, “we’re wasting everyone’s time.”
___
6:20 p.m.
Josh Groban is promising “a really fun” Tony Awards.
Says the first-time co-host: “I feel really excited about the show we have ready for everybody tonight.” He says it’s been a fun season and he called co-host Sara Bareilles “brilliant.”
He says the chance to collaborate and bounce ideas off her has been “nothing less than a dream come true.”
He adds “We’re just going to go out and be ourselves.” Groban promises the show will be a combination of slick and two musical theater geeks being “total weirdos.”
For her part, Bareilles says she “just wants to stay present.” She added that her job is to make sure everyone else is having a good time, saying “that’s the goal — people pleasing.”
___
6:10 p.m.
Cynthia Erivo and Brian Tyree Henry say the theater is a perfect place to deal with social issues.
Says Henry, who is nominated for his work in “Lobby Hero”: “It’s happening right in front of your face.” He adds that something about the stage encourages tough issues to be worked on by strangers.
He says the cast and audience of a show go on a ride together and hopefully it creates a platform for discussion.
Erivo, winner of the best actress in a musical award for her work in “The Color Purple” in 2016, agreed: “People can see themselves live.” She says theater gives people a chance to express themselves freely.
John Leguizamo adds there are no “gatekeepers” in theater, which allows many points of view to emerge.
___
5:45 p.m.
“Frozen” songwriters Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, walked the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday for the first time as equal nominees.
Robert Lopez co-conceived and co-wrote the smash-hit musicals “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon,” both earning him Tony Awards. “Frozen” marks Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s first nomination.
“I’m so proud of her,” her husband said. “She’s been here before as my plus-one.” His advice to her was “enjoy this thing.” It might be scary, but he calls it like a “prom.”
Anderson-Lopez acknowledged she was going to be nervous for the cast of “Frozen” and suspected that she would share their butterflies. Joked her husband: “She’ll be mouthing every word along with them.”
___
2:45 p.m.
The Tony Awards dress rehearsal — normally with few actual stars in attendance — got a shock of A-listers this year, including Tina Fey, Kelli O’Hara, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Leguizamo, Tituss Burgess — and Bruce Springsteen.
The four-hour rehearsal at Radio City Music Hall allows producers to go through the show from start to finish before the Sunday telecast. Usually, stand-ins are used for Hollywood presenters, who prefer to hit the snooze button.
But the audience this time cheered loudly when Patti Lupone, Uzo Aduba, Ming-Na Wen, Melissa Benoist, Tatiana Maslany, Christopher Jackson, James Monroe Iglehart and Rachel Brosnahan showed up in the flesh.
The highlight was Springsteen, who walked onstage in a T-shirt and jeans, performed one song on the piano from his sold-out one-man show and departed to a standing ovation.
___
12:15 a.m.
The Tony Awards kick off on Sunday night with a pair of first-time hosts, no clear juggernaut like “Hamilton” to cheer for, but a likely assist by Bruce Springsteen.
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles face their biggest audience yet and a careful political balancing act when they co-host the CBS telecast from the massive 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall.
Getting buzz from appearing on the telecast can dictate a show’s future, both on Broadway and on tour. Broadway producers will be thankful this year that the telecast won’t compete with any NBA Finals or Stanley Cup playoff games.
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By Associated Press
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NEW YORK | The Latest: John Tiffany wins Tony for best play director
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NEW YORK | The Latest: John Tiffany wins Tony for best play director
NEW YORK — The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
9:50 p.m.
John Tiffany has won his second directing Tony Award for his work on the two-part play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany previously won a Tony for directing the musical “Once.” He also was nominated for the 2014 revival of “The Glass Menagerie.” Tiffany won the directing Olivier Award for “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
Tiffany was Associate Director of the National Theatre of Scotland from 2005 to 2012. Some of his other credits include “Black Watch” and “The Ambassador.”
He beat out Marianne Elliott, Joe Mantello, Patrick Marber and George C. Wolfe.
___
9:45 p.m.
David Cromer has won his first Tony Award for directing “The Band’s Visit.”
The musical is based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, has songs by David Yazbek and a sardonic story by Itamar Moses. It centers on members of an Egyptian police orchestra booked to play a concert at an Israeli city who accidentally end up in the wrong town.
Cromer directed the short-lived Neil Simon revival of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” in 2009 and the 2011 revival of John Guare’s “The House of Blue Leaves.” He drew acclaim for two productions at the off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre — “Tribes” and “Our Town,” for which played the Stage Manager in addition to directing.
He grew up outside Chicago in Skokie, Illinois, and won a MacArthur “genius” grant in 2010. He taught acting and directing at Columbia College Chicago for 15 years and has often returned to the works of Tennessee Williams.
He beat out Michael Arden, Casey Nicholaw, Tina Landau and Bartlett Sher.
___
9:30 p.m.
Glenda Jackson has added to her impressive resume with a Tony Award for best actress in a play.
The 82-year-old British actress won her first Tony for playing a flinty woman facing the end of her life in the new revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.”
Jackson has two Academy Awards, for 1970’s “Women in Love” and 1973’s “A Touch of Class, and credits in such films as “Sunday, Bloody Sunday,” ”Mary, Queen of Scots” and “Hedda.” She won two Emmys for starring in the television miniseries “Elizabeth R.”
She stepped back from acting in the early 1990s to enter politics and is famous for a 2013 speech she gave after the death of Margaret Thatcher, bitterly decrying the late prime minister.
She beat Condola Rashad, Lauren Ridloff and Amy Schumer.
___
9:15 p.m.
A heroic drama teacher who nurtured many of the young people demanding change following the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has been honored from the Tony Award stage.
Melody Herzfeld, the one-woman drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, was cheered by the crowd at Radio City Music Hall.
Herzfeld saved 65 lives by barricading students into a small classroom closet on Valentine’s Day when police say a former student went on a school rampage, killing 17 people.
She then later encouraged many of her pupils to lead the nationwide movement for gun reform, including organizing the March For Our Lives demonstration and the charity single “Shine.”
Members of Herzfeld’s drama department then took the stage to sing “Seasons of Love” from “Rent.”
___
9 p.m.
Nathan Lane has won the Tony Award for best featured actor in a play for his role in “Angels in America.”
Laurie Metcalf won best featured actress in a play earlier Sunday for her role in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women.” It is Metcalf’s second Tony win — she won best actress last year for “A Doll’s House, Part 2.”
Lane’s win is the second of the evening for an “Angels in America” actor. Andrew Garfield won for best leading actor earlier in the evening.
___
8:10 p.m.
Andrew Garfield has won the Tony Award for best leading actor in a play for his work in “Angels in America,” Tony Kushner’s monumental drama about life and love during the 1980s.
Garfield plays a young gay man living with AIDS in the sprawling, seven-hour revival opposite Nathan Lane.
He previously was nominated for a featured role in “Death of a Salesman” opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Garfield has been nominated for an Oscar for his work in “Hacksaw Ridge.” His other film work includes “The Social Network” in 2010 and the 2012 superhero film “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its 2014 sequel.
He beat out Tom Hollander, Jamie Parker, Mark Rylance and Denzel Washington.
___
8:05 p.m.
Tony Award co-hosts Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles have gotten the show started with a self-parodying duet on piano for all the losers out there — including them.
Neither Bareilles nor Groban have won a Grammy or a Tony despite selling millions of albums and appearing on Broadway in hit shows. They turned that into a playful song.
“Let’s not forget that 90 percent of us leave empty-handed tonight. So this is for the people who lose/Most of us have been in your shoes,” they sang in the upbeat opening number. “This one’s for the loser inside of you.”
The co-hosts then noted that such noted shows like “Hair” and “Into the Woods” didn’t win the best musical prize. Nor did “Waitress,” the show Bareilles wrote music for.
At the end of the song, the pair were joined by over a dozen members of the ensemble from each this year’s nominated musicals.
___
7:55 p.m.
Condola Rashad has a special reason to celebrate on the Tony Award red carpet Sunday. She also just closed her show, “Saint Joan.”
The actress says she has “a lot of emotions today.”  She likened it to the last day of school mixed with prom and graduation at the same time. She says: “It’s a celebration.”
The daughter of Phylicia Rashad and sportscaster Ahmad Rashad earned a best actress in a play nomination for playing Joan of Arc in the play by George Bernard Shaw, which ended its run with Sunday’s matinee. Her dad and sisters were her dates to the Tonys.
She says “it’s been a really great opportunity for us to come together.”
Rashad also earned a 2012 Tony nomination for “Stick Fly” and plays a district attorney on the Showtime series “Billions.”
___
7:45 p.m.
Broadway’s SpongeBob, Ethan Slater, has walked the red carpet with a ribbon supporting the American Civil Liberties Union pinned to one lapel.
He says the organization is “incredibly important to our country” when it comes to guarding civil liberties. He called his show “aligned with the values of the ACLU.”
How exactly? Well, in terms of diversity, for one.
The “SpongeBob SquarePants” musical includes Sandy the squirrel, a scapegoat for Bikini Bottom’s problems who is targeted for banishment.
Slater calls the story line “really relevant to the Muslim ban” in the United States and the way he says that “Muslim-Americans have been treated.”
___
7:25 p.m.
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has no problem with nerves as he heads into the Tony Awards. His accolade to come once inside is all sewn up as an honorary tribute.
The musical theater legend says the feeling is wonderful: “I don’t have to worry about it.” He says all he has to do is “just go and get it.”
Webber says this season on Broadway is exciting, in particular amid musicals with many fine new writers. He also praised the night’s co-host, Sara Bareilles, for her work in the recently televised rock opera he co-created back in 1970, “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
Webber describes Bareilles as an “extraordinary actress,” especially through music.
___
6:50 p.m.
Andrew Garfield says the social message of “Angels in America” is a huge part of why he agreed to star as Pryor Walter.
The nominee says on the Tony red carpet that he doesn’t want to “tell a story unless it has the potential to change people.”
The British actor says the eight-hour play is as relevant today as it was 25 years ago, when Tony Kushner first staged it and won a Pulitzer Prize for his trouble.
Garfield says theater must be political and mirror the times we’re in. Otherwise, he says, “we’re wasting everyone’s time.”
___
6:20 p.m.
Josh Groban is promising “a really fun” Tony Awards.
Says the first-time co-host: “I feel really excited about the show we have ready for everybody tonight.” He says it’s been a fun season and he called co-host Sara Bareilles “brilliant.”
He says the chance to collaborate and bounce ideas off her has been “nothing less than a dream come true.”
He adds “We’re just going to go out and be ourselves.” Groban promises the show will be a combination of slick and two musical theater geeks being “total weirdos.”
For her part, Bareilles says she “just wants to stay present.” She added that her job is to make sure everyone else is having a good time, saying “that’s the goal — people pleasing.”
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6:10 p.m.
Cynthia Erivo and Brian Tyree Henry say the theater is a perfect place to deal with social issues.
Says Henry, who is nominated for his work in “Lobby Hero”: “It’s happening right in front of your face.” He adds that something about the stage encourages tough issues to be worked on by strangers.
He says the cast and audience of a show go on a ride together and hopefully it creates a platform for discussion.
Erivo, winner of the best actress in a musical award for her work in “The Color Purple” in 2016, agreed: “People can see themselves live.” She says theater gives people a chance to express themselves freely.
John Leguizamo adds there are no “gatekeepers” in theater, which allows many points of view to emerge.
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5:45 p.m.
“Frozen” songwriters Robert Lopez and his wife, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, walked the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday for the first time as equal nominees.
Robert Lopez co-conceived and co-wrote the smash-hit musicals “Avenue Q” and “The Book of Mormon,” both earning him Tony Awards. “Frozen” marks Kristen Anderson-Lopez’s first nomination.
“I’m so proud of her,” her husband said. “She’s been here before as my plus-one.” His advice to her was “enjoy this thing.” It might be scary, but he calls it like a “prom.”
Anderson-Lopez acknowledged she was going to be nervous for the cast of “Frozen” and suspected that she would share their butterflies. Joked her husband: “She’ll be mouthing every word along with them.”
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2:45 p.m.
The Tony Awards dress rehearsal — normally with few actual stars in attendance — got a shock of A-listers this year, including Tina Fey, Kelli O’Hara, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Leguizamo, Tituss Burgess — and Bruce Springsteen.
The four-hour rehearsal at Radio City Music Hall allows producers to go through the show from start to finish before the Sunday telecast. Usually, stand-ins are used for Hollywood presenters, who prefer to hit the snooze button.
But the audience this time cheered loudly when Patti Lupone, Uzo Aduba, Ming-Na Wen, Melissa Benoist, Tatiana Maslany, Christopher Jackson, James Monroe Iglehart and Rachel Brosnahan showed up in the flesh.
The highlight was Springsteen, who walked onstage in a T-shirt and jeans, performed one song on the piano from his sold-out one-man show and departed to a standing ovation.
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12:15 a.m.
The Tony Awards kick off on Sunday night with a pair of first-time hosts, no clear juggernaut like “Hamilton” to cheer for, but a likely assist by Bruce Springsteen.
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles face their biggest audience yet and a careful political balancing act when they co-host the CBS telecast from the massive 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall.
Getting buzz from appearing on the telecast can dictate a show’s future, both on Broadway and on tour. Broadway producers will be thankful this year that the telecast won’t compete with any NBA Finals or Stanley Cup playoff games.
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By Associated Press
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