lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2015

Awards

Best Musical: “Fun Home” Best Play: “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” Best Book of a Musical:“Fun Home” Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater: “Fun Home” Best Revival of a Play:“Skylight” Best Revival of a Musical: “The King and I” Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Alex Sharp, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Helen Mirren, “The Audience” Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Michael Cerveris, “Fun Home” Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Kelli O’Hara, “The King and I” Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Richard McCabe, “The Audience” Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Annaleigh Ashford, “You Can’t Take It With You”

Winners Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Christian Borle, “Something Rotten!” Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Ruthie Ann Miles, “The King and I”.

Helen Mirren accepts the award for performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for ‘The Audience’.

Annaleigh Ashford accepts the award for Ruthie Ann Miles pose backstage with her Richard McCabe accepts the award for best Christian Borle accepts the award for best per- Alex Sharp accepts the award for best perform- best performance by an actress in a featured award for the best featured actress in a musi- performance by an actor in a featured role in a formance by an actor in a featured role in a ance by an actor in a leading role in a play for ‘The role in a play for ‘You Can’t Take it With You’. cal for her performance in The King and I. play for ‘the Audience’. musical for ‘Something Rotten’. Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’.

Corey Mitchell poses backstage with the Chita Rivera, standing, and the cast of “The Visit” per- Kristin Chenoweth, center, and the cast of ìOn the Twentieth Centuryî Simon Stephens, second right, Michael Morris, second left, and the crew Excellence in Theater Education award. form on stage. perform on stage. accept the award for best play for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”.

Crazy ride The telecast on CBS at Radio City Music Hall featured appearances by Jennifer Lopez, Sting, Jim Parsons, Amanda Seyfried, Kiefer Sutherland, Bryan Cranston, Sutton Foster, Jennifer Nettles, Taye Diggs and Ashley Tisdale, among many others. Some non-theater celebrities including Kendall Jenner, Monica Lewinsky and Anna Wintour were also in the audience. Two Broadway favorites - Annaleigh Ashford and Christian Borle - won for best featured roles. He plays a sexy William Shakespeare in “Something Rotten!” and she played an incompetent ballet dancer in “You Can’t Take It With You.” It was her first and his second awards. “I can’t believe I am standing here right now for the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway,” Ashford said. “The King Alan Cumming, center, and dancers perform a tribute to Tommy Tune, Bunny Christie, left, and Finn Ross accept the award Singer Keiza poses on arrival. and I” was crowned the best musical revival and it won for best actress in O’Hara and best musical costumes. One of winner of the lifetime achievement award. for best scenic design of a play for “The Curious its stars, Ruthie Ann Miles, won in her Broadway debut as Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”. best featured actress in a musical. She read her speech off her phone and thanked, among many others, her husband. “Thank you for agreeing to come on this crazy ride. Where are you? There you are. There’s a lot of people here.” Josh Groban led a moving “In Memoriam” section when he sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Carousel,” backed by the casts of all the shows appearing on the telecast. The nominated musicals “On the Twentieth Century,” “Something Rotten!” “The Visit,” “The King and I,” “On the Town,” “Fun Home” and “An American in Paris” had songs performed. A few other non-nominated shows, including like Vanessa Hudgens’ “Gigi” and Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer with “Finding Neverland,” also got spots. The cast of “Jersey Boys” ended the show with “Oh What a Night.” Producers are hoping to beat last year’s average of 7.02 million viewers. But as happened last year, the Tonys Jennifer Lopez, from left, Nick Jonas and Kiesza Brian D’Arcy James, center, and the cast of ‘Something Rotten!’ per- Alan Cumming, left, and Kristin Chenoweth appear on stage. competed against Game 2 of the NBA Finals.-AP introduce a performance. form on stage.

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler Bernadette Peters poses on arrival. Kelli O’Hara, left and Ken Watanabe of Kendall Jenner and Francisco Costa. ‘The King and I’ perform. Laura Michelle Kelly