'Some Like It Hot' leads Tony Award nominations with 13 nods

NEW YORK --"Some Like It Hot," a musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, waltzed away Tuesday with a leading 13 Tony Award nominations.

In the best new play category, nods were distributed to Tom Stoppard's"Leopoldstadt," which explores Jewish identity with an intergenerational story, and"Fat Ham," James Ijames' Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Shakespeare's"Hamlet" set at a Black family's barbecue in the modern South. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Ariana DeBose will return to host The 76th Annual Tony Awards, broadcast live from the United Palace in New York on Sunday, June 11.

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'Some Like It Hot' leads Tony Award nominations with 13 nods“Some Like It Hot,” a musical adaptation of the cross-dressing movie comedy that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, has waltzed away with the most number of Tony Award nominations. Three shows tied with nine nominations each: “& Juliet,” which reimagines “Romeo and Juliet” and adds some of the biggest pop hits of the past few decades, “New York, New York,” which combined two generations of Broadway royalty in John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and “Shucked,” a surprise lightweight musical comedy studded with corn puns. “Kimberly Akimbo,” with Victoria Clark playing a teen who ages four times faster than the average human, rounds out the best musical category.
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