Breaking News: Final 2014 Tony Awards Eligibility from LADY DAY to CABARET!

By: Apr. 25, 2014
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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met today for the fourth and final time this season to determine the eligibility of eighteen Broadway productions for the 2014 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards®, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. The Tony Awards Administration Committee has met a total of four times throughout the 2013-2014 season to decide the eligibility for the 68th Annual Tony Awards.

The eighteen productions discussed include: All the Way, Rocky, Aladdin, LES MISERABLES, Mothers and Sons, If/Then, A Raisin in the Sun, The Realistic Joneses, Bullets Over Broadway, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, Of Mice and Men, Act One, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Violet, The Velocity of Autumn, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Casa Valentina and Cabaret.

The committee made the following determinations:

Andy Karl will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for his performance in Rocky.

Adam Jacobs and Courtney Reed will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Aladdin.

Ramin Karimloo and Will Swenson will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for their respective performances in LES MISERABLES.

Tyne Daly and Frederick Weller will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress/Actor in a Leading Role in a Play categories for their respective performances in Mothers and Sons.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category for her performance in A Raisin in the Sun.

Zach Braff will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for his performance in Bullets Over Broadway.

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

Santino Fontana and Tony Shalhoub will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for their respective performances in Act One.

The Cripple of Inishmaan will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

Violet will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Musical category.

Colin Donnell, Alexander Gemignani and Joshua Henry will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical category for their respective performances in Violet.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Musical category.

UPDATE: Michelle Williams, and the other cast members of Cabaret will be eligible in their respective acting categories, Alan Cumming will be ineligible, having previously won for playing the role. The production will be eligible as Best Revival of a Musical, but none of the production elements will be eligible.

All other eligibility determinations were consistent with the show's opening night credits.

The 2014 Tony Awards, hosted by Hugh Jackman, will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on Sunday, June 8th, (8:00 - 11:00 p.m. ET/PT time delay) on the CBS Television Network.

The Tony Nominations, hosted by Lucy Liu and Jonathan Groff will take place on Tuesday, April 29that the Paramount Hotel's Diamond Horseshoe.



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