Photos: Scenes from the 75th Tony Awards
A collection of images from the 75th Tony Awards held Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday night:
The final curtain came down Sunday on New York’s production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” ending Broadway’s longest-running show with thunderous standing ovations, champagne toasts and gold confetti.
“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.
Tony Award history was made Sunday when Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first nonbinary persons to win Tonys for acting as the Broadway community seized the moment amid a Hollywood writers’ strike that left theater’s biggest night without a script.