Nominations for the 2013 Tony Awards are out – and they’re all about Kinky Boots . Harvey Fierstein/Cyndi Lauper musical is represented 13 times, including a nod for its leading lady in her first-ever Broadway role. Elsewhere, Matilda earned 12 nominations, while Pippin scored 10 and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella came out with 9. The ceremony will be broadcast June 9 on CBS and here is a rundown of all the categories: BEST PLAY Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike The Testament of Mary Lucky Guy The Assembled Parties BEST MUSICAL Bring It On: The Musical A Christmas Story, The Musical Kinky Boots Matilda The Musical BEST PLAY REVIVAL Golden Boy Orphans Trip to Bountiful Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? BEST REVIVAL OF MUSICAL Annie The Mystery of Edwin Drood Pippin Cinderella BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY Tom Hanks, Lucky Guy Nathan Lane, The Nance Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? David Hyde Pierce, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Tom Sturridge, Orphans BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place Amy Morton, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Kristine Nielsen, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Holland Taylor, Ann Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful BEST LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Santino Fontana, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella Rob McClure, Chaplin Billy Porter, Kinky Boots Stark Sands, Kinky Boots BEST LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Stephanie J. Block, The Mystery of Edwin Drood Carolee Carmello, Scandalous Valisia LeKae, Motown The Musical Patina Miller, Pippin Laura Osnes, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
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2013 Tony Awards Nominations: Kinky Boots Leads the Way
