Kinky Boots took top honors at tonight’s Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. The show won in six categories including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Leading Actor. The co-producer thanked his husband from the stage, saying, “You make me a better person every day we’re together.”
Best Musical: Kinky Boots
Best Revival of a Musical: Pippin
Best Actress, Musical: Patina Miller, Pippin
Best Actress, Play: Cicely Tyson, The Trip To Bountiful
Best Actor, Play: Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Actor, Musical: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Best Book of a Musical: Matilda The Musical
Best Revival of a Play: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Featured Actress, Musical: Andrea Martin, Pippin
Best Featured Actor, Musical: Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
Best Featured Actress, Play: Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Best Featured Actor, Play: Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
Best Choreography: Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Best Original Score: Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots
Best Director, Play: Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Director, Musical: Diane Paulus, Pippin
Best Costume Design of a Play: Ann Roth, The Nance
Best Costume Design of a Musical: William Ivey Long, Cinderella
Best Orchestrations: Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
Here’s Cyndi Lauper’s Best Score win for Kinky Boots. That puts her 75% of the way to her EGOT.