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Angels, wizards and SpongeBob vie for Tony award honors

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Chris Michaud, Reuters

<blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BdvSA1BDCuf/" data-instgrm-version="8" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:50.0% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BdvSA1BDCuf/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by SpongeBob Broadway (@spongebobbway)</a> on <time dateTime="2018-01-09T18:28:23+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Jan 9, 2018 at 10:28am PST</time></p></div></blockquote><div><script async="" defer="" src="https://www.instagram.com/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>NEW YORK -- The wizarding world of Harry Potter, a singing SpongeBob, an AIDS-ravaged Roy Cohn and a gang of Tina Fey&#x27;s &quot;Mean Girls&quot; are the stuff of hit shows taking center stage as Sunday&#x27;s annual Tony Awards honor the best of Broadway theater.</p><p>But with a nod to theater history, acclaimed revivals of classic musicals &quot;Carousel&quot; and &quot;My Fair Lady&quot; and Eugene O&#x27;Neill&#x27;s play &quot;The Iceman Cometh&quot; shared this season&#x27;s spotlight, while Glenda Jackson returned to Broadway after 30 years, mostly spent as a British politician.</p><p>Stars whose wattage belies the need for anything more than a single name -- De Niro, Denzel -- will be on hand as triple-threat singer-songwriter-actors Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles co-host Sunday&#x27;s ceremony at Radio City Music Hall in New York.</p><p>Add a rare live television performance by Bruce Springsteen and it&#x27;s clear that Broadway and the Tonys are reaching beyond their traditional demographic. The Boss will be on hand to collect a special Tony for his solo concert show which has extended its sold-out run.</p><p>The Tonys cap another record year on Broadway with $1.7 billion in box office receipts, despite the smallest number of new productions in 20 years.</p><p>&quot;It was an exciting season with something for everyone, from teens and tweeners to 20-somethings and then the rest of us,&quot; said Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League, which puts on the Tonys with the American Theatre Wing.</p><p>&quot;The Broadway audience is getting younger,&quot; St. Martin added, noting that last season a fourth of the audience was under 25, the youngest in history and a trend she sees continuing.</p><p>Armed with rave reviews and a fervent fan base, the two-part &quot;Harry Potter and the Cursed Child&quot; is a shoo-in for best play.</p><p>The play, about the grown wizard&#x27;s troubled relationship with his teen-aged son, has 10 nominations and at $69 million is the most expensive play in Broadway history.</p><p>Another monumental two-part drama, the revival of “Angels in America,” goes into Sunday&#x27;s ceremony with 11 nominations, a record for a non-musical. The saga of AIDS in Reagan-era America is seen winning Tonys for stars Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, who plays closeted conservative lawyer Cohn, and taking the Tony for best play revival.</p><p>Legendary actress Jackson, 82, meanwhile is virtually sure to win her first Tony for her star turn in Edward Albee&#x27;s &quot;Three Tall Women.&quot;</p><p>Among musicals, a David and Goliath scenario has &quot;The Band’s Visit,” about Egyptian musicians stranded in a small Israeli town, squaring off with splashy crowd-pleasers &quot;SpongeBob SquarePants,&quot; Disney&#x27;s &quot;Frozen&quot; and Tina Fey&#x27;s adaptation of her 2004 hit comedy film &quot;Mean Girls.&quot;</p><p>While &quot;SpongeBob&quot; and &quot;Mean Girls&quot; topped all shows with 12 nominations each, the widely praised &quot;Band&#x27;s Visit&quot; is expected to prevail as best musical, while star Tony Shaloub is in a virtual horse race with SpongeBob actor, Ethan Slater.</p>

<p>The wizarding world of Harry Potter, a singing SpongeBob, an AIDS-ravaged Roy Cohn and a gang of Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" are the stuff of hit shows taking center stage as Sunday's annual Tony Awards honor the best of Broadway theater.</p>

The wizarding world of Harry Potter, a singing SpongeBob, an AIDS-ravaged Roy Cohn and a gang of Tina Fey's "Mean Girls" are the stuff of hit shows taking center stage as Sunday's annual Tony Awards honor the best of Broadway theater.

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Angels, wizards and SpongeBob vie for Tony award honors

Chris Michaud,

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Published Jun 10, 2018 07:56 PM PHT

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