Glover, Kimball, Bryan & DiPietro Talk MEMPHIS Noms!

The Tony Awards Nominations were announced this morning on Tuesday, May 4th. The Tony Awards will be broadcast in a live three-hour ceremony from Radio City Music Hall on the CBS television network on Sunday, June 13, 2010. Here's the video of the ceremony!

Click here for the full list of nominations!

Click here for the complete list of Tony Reactions being updated throughout the day! BroadwayWorld.com will be talking to nominees throughout the day so keep checking back!

"I was asleep when I got the news from my publicist!  I did the Sinatra concert at Carnegie Hall last night so I was so tired.  But talk about waking up to amazing news! Tonight, I am going to go to work and sure I congratulate every member of my cast, especially Chad for his nomination.  It is collective work on that stage and we work so hard to make sure every night is as good as it can be."
Montego Glover, nominee for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for MEMPHIS

"I took a sleeping pill so sleep through the nominations this morning since I'm a bit of a coward! So at around 8:35am my phone starts beeping and ringing and I thought, 'this must be good news!'  It was Randy Adams, once of our producers and he was screaming into the phone 'we got 8 nominations!!!!'  I was surprised. You're hopeful, but you never know.  I am so thrilled for the show - for Chad and Montego...I feel like a proud father.  I can't wait to go to theater early tonight to celebrate with the cast because this belongs to them.  And maybe I'll give my dog some extra treats this morning, too!"
Joe DiPietro, nominee for Best Book of a Musical for MEMPHIS

"I am so excited.  I am shocked, actually!  I found out about the nomination a little late, because my phone died and I accidentally e-mailed my publicist the wrong home number.  So she called some random person in New York and left a message on some poor person's phone that now thinks they are nominated for a Tony.  My manager of 12 years wound up getting a hold of me to tell me the news.  My first call was to my mother.  It's been a tough year for her, she's a stage
3 breast cancer survivor so to be able to tell her this news was really great.  I'm so happy."
Chad Kimball, nominee for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for MEMPHIS

"It's a good morning. It's unbelievable, it was great to watch the TV and on the computer -- I watched the TV and then switched over to the computer. It's amazing that they just show you three categories and then they go back to the rest of the news.

The first call that I got was from Sergio Trujillo congratulating me, and then the first one I called was Joe DiPetro. For us to go from our minds to paper to a small theatre and then from a small theatre to take this thing all the way to Broadway with a full production, great design team -- it's just great man, it's great to get recognized. It's also great to see that we have entertainment that can also teach and that's just great!"
David Bryan nominee for Best Orchestrations, and Best Music / Lyrics for MEMPHIS