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The 75th Tony Awards were held on June 12, 2022, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2021–22 season. The ceremony was held at
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in New York City, with Ariana DeBose serving as host of the main ceremony, and
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and Julianne Hough co-hosting a streaming pre-show. The most-awarded productions of the season were the new play '' The Lehman Trilogy'', which won five awards, including Best Play, and the revival of
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's musical ''
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'', which also won five awards, including Best Revival of a Musical. The
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-winning musical '' A Strange Loop'' was the most-nominated show of the season, with 11 nominations, and won Best Musical, becoming the first Best Musical winner to win only two awards total since '' 42nd Street'' (1981). With her nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in ''A Strange Loop'', L Morgan Lee became the first openly
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person to be nominated for a Tony. Additionally, with her win as a lead producer of ''A Strange Loop'',
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became the 17th person to win the
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in their entertainment career.


Ceremony information

Returning to its usual June scheduling, the ceremony's telecast was split between
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and CBS. Paramount+ streamed an hour-long pre-show, ''The Tony Awards: Act One'', which was hosted by
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and Julianne Hough and featured "special performances" and the presentation of selected awards. It was followed by the main ceremony telecast on CBS and Paramount+, which was hosted by Ariana DeBose. For the first time, the ceremony was televised live nationally.


Eligibility

The Tony Awards eligibility cut-off date for the 2021–22 season was May 4, 2022 for all Broadway productions which meet all other eligibility requirements. Nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards were announced by Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry on May 9, 2022. They were initially going to be announced on May 3, but were extended a week to accommodate possible COVID-19 outbreaks. A revival of ''
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'' that opened on February 20, 2020 was considered ineligible for the 74th Tony Awards because too few nominators and voters had seen it before Broadway shut down on March 12, 2020 due to the
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, and it did not resume when Broadway reopened in September 2021. 34 shows were eligible. All eligible shows are below. ;Original plays * '' Birthday Candles'' * '' Chicken & Biscuits'' * '' Clyde's'' * '' Dana H.'' * '' Hangmen'' * ''Is This a Room'' * ''Pass Over'' * '' POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are
Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
'' * '' Skeleton Crew'' * '' The Lehman Trilogy'' * '' The Minutes'' * '' Thoughts of a Colored Man'' ;Original musicals * '' A Strange Loop'' * '' Diana'' * '' Flying Over Sunset'' * '' Girl from the North Country'' * '' MJ'' * '' Mr. Saturday Night'' * '' Mrs. Doubtfire'' * '' Paradise Square'' * '' Six'' ;Play revivals * '' American Buffalo'' * '' for colored girls who have considered
suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
'' * '' How I Learned to Drive'' * '' Lackawanna Blues'' * ''
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'' * '' Plaza Suite'' * ''
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'' * '' The Skin of Our Teeth'' * '' Trouble in Mind'' ;Musical revivals * '' Caroline, or Change'' * ''
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'' * '' Funny Girl'' * ''
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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, and are highlighted in boldface: ‡ The award is presented to the producer(s) of the musical or play.


Productions with multiple nominations and awards


Non-competitive awards


Presenters and performers

Act One: Main Show: Performances The following shows and performers performed on the ceremony's telecast: Act One: Main Show:


Reception


Reviews

The ceremony received generally favorable reviews from critics. On the review aggregator
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, the program received six positive and two negative reviews, for an approval rating of 75%. In '' Variety'', Gordon Cox praised the opening number of the CBS telecast and DeBose's performance as host therein, singling out the performance as "hip and queer and sexy, and it satisfied the old-school avids as much as it made Broadway look like a place the cool kids might want to check out, too". Jennifer Vanasco of NPR also praised DeBose, writing "Let Ariana DeBose host everything ..She was funny and playful, strutting into the audience and sitting on
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's lap. She was poignant, coming to tears as she talked about her theater teacher mentor. She was honest, gently commenting on the racial disparities in the theater industry". Writing for the
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, Jocelyn Noveck called the telecast "exuberant" and said that it showed "Broadway is back, with verve and creativity, and it is here to stay. It just needs even more people filling the seats". Johnny Oleksinski of the ''
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'' panned the show, describing it as "low-energy, poorly put-on", writing that DeBose's "songs and banter were forced and unfunny", and heavily criticizing the ceremony's tribute to
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, which he deemed "far too modest ..a total afterthought".


Ratings

The CBS telecast was watched by 3.86 million viewers in the United States, marking a 39% increase from the previous year's ceremony, the lowest-rated Tony Awards broadcast since viewership was measured. However, when compared to the 73rd Tony Awards in 2019, which were the last one before the 75th to run three hours and the last one before the COVID-19 pandemic, viewership declined 29% between 2019 and 2022.


See also

* Drama Desk Awards * 2022 Laurence Olivier Awards – equivalent awards for
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productions *
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* New York Drama Critics' Circle * Theatre World Award *
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References


External links

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