MY FAIR LADY Cast And Creative React To Tony Award Nominations

BroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning! We caught up with the nominated cast and creative from My Fair Lady on Broadway to get their first reactions at being up for Tony Awards this season.

My Fair Lady is nominated for 10 awards which are Best Revival of a Musical, Best Leading Actor in a Musical - Henry Hadden-Paton, Best Leading Actress in a Musical - Lauren Ambrose, Best Featured Actor in a Musical - Norbert Leo Butz, Best Featured Actress in a Musical - Diana Rigg, Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Michael Yeargan, Best Costume Design of a Musical - Catherine Zuber, Best Lighting Design of a Musical - Donald Holder, Best Direction of a Musical - Bartlett Sher, Best Choreography of a Musical - Christopher Gattelli.

See reactions below, and stay tuned for more! See reactions from all the shows here!

Norbert Leo Butz, My Fair Lady, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
I'm thrilled and honored! This project has been a dream job from the beginning. The role, the script and score, a brilliant Bart Sher at the helm, a dream cast and design team, and to top it all off, that wonderful, legendary Vivian Beaumont stage at LCT. I heard about the nomination from my manager (and, yes, I had to be woken up. My 7 year old was up throughout the night with a fever and sore throat, so dad was sleeping in. One of the ironic benefits of having a sick kid the morning of Tony Nominations is that one tends to forget the nominations are coming out! Which removes a lot of useless stress over the whole thing! On the down side , however, I may infect the entire cast with Strep Throat in the next 24 hours)

Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
I was walking my daughter to kindergarten this morning and my husband said, "I think you should check your phone. You might have just been nominated for a Tony Award."My phone was blowing up! And my agent and friends are like, "Why are you not picking up?" I guess I'm famous for that [Laughs]. I'm just so happy! I happy for the whole show. It seems like we were honored in so many ways and it's a result of so many people's hard work. I just feel honored to be a part of it an amazing show. We have an early show tonight, so I'll probably celebrate by taking a nap! And maybe I'll even vaccum!

Christopher Gattelli, My Fair Lady and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Best Choreography
I'm beside myself. Literally. To say I'm honored and overwhelmed is an understatement. I'm incredibly grateful, but I'm even more so excited about our shows. Both SpongeBob and My Fair Lady being recognized as they were. Both teams and casts are truly special led by our brilliant leaders Tina and Bart, that that made me more happy and proud than anything. I tried to go about my morning like any other and thought, well, if I hear my phone "bing" that could be a good thing... and it did, and I found out from Seth Rudetsky who was the first to text. Which made it all the more special as I basically started this phase of my career choreographing with Seth doing numbers for Broadway Cares and that's when the bug really bit me. So to hear from Seth was pretty special."

Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
"Thank you to the Tony nominators, André Bishop and Lincoln Center Theater, and to our director Bartlett Sher for believing in me. I truly could not have imagined a better and more welcoming Broadway experience and am continuously grateful to our cast, crew, and to my family for their amazing dedication to the work, and support. Not-to-mention the wonderful and loyal theatergoers who make this job such an absolute pleasure. Cheers to all the nominees."

Dame Diana Rigg, My Fair Lady, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
"I'm thrilled"

Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady, Best Direction of a Musical
"I am genuinely excited for our show. My Fair Lady was the largest undertaking I have ever attempted at LCT. It was a huge risk and I felt very fortunate to share this work with such an astonishing group of artists. People don't realize how hard it is to make these musicals, and how intense the pressure is, and how close a company can become. So the recognition from the Tony Awards is well deserved for all us, and it feels especially good because it acknowledges profoundly all of our commitment and hard work .

And I feel especially honored to be in the company of such an amazing group of nominees. All of my fellow nominees have done mind blowing work. They are all exceptional artists and I am honored to be in their company.

I am really looking forward to the joyful celebrations ahead."

Michael Yeargan, My Fair Lady, Best Scenic Design of a Musical
"What a thrill that all the visual aspects of My Fair lady have been recognized with these nominations! I'm so grateful to be part of this amazing team and in the company of fellow nominees who have all done such amazing and diverse work."

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Lincoln Center Theater presents its new production of Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady at the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65 Street). Opening night for My Fair Lady, considered the most beloved musical of all time, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, directed by Bartlett Sher, was Thursday, April 19.

Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady features a cast of 37 headed by Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton, Norbert Leo Butz, Diana Rigg, Allan Corduner, Jordan Donica, Linda Mugleston, and Manu Narayan. Harry Hadden-Paton and Diana Rigg are appearing with the support of Actors' Equity Association.

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lernerand music by Frederick Loewe, premiered on Broadway on March 15, 1956. The legendary original production won 6 Tony Awards including Best Musical and ran for 2,717 performances making it, at the time, the longest-running musical in Broadway history.

Boasting a score that contains such now-classic songs as "I Could Have Danced All Night," "Get Me to the Church on Time," "Wouldn't It Be Loverly," "On the Street Where You Live," "The Rain in Spain," and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," My Fair Ladywas hailed by The New York Times as "one of the best musicals of the century," by the Christian Science Monitor as "a work of theatre magic," and by the NY Herald Tribune as "a miraculous musical."