Kinky Boots, with songs by pop star and Broadway newcomer Cyndi Lauper, was made for walking away with a leading six Tony Awards last night. Among the honors won by Kinky Boots at the show, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris? Best musical, best original score and best leading man. Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike won the best play Tony, while Matilda the Musical and Pippin won four awards each. Two other shows, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Nance , shared three awards each, while Tom Hanks’ Lucky Guy came away empty-handed. See the full list of winners from the 2013 Tony Awards below: BEST PLAY Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang BEST MUSICAL Kinky Boots, The Musical BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL Matilda, The Musical Dennis Kelly BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL Pippin BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE Kinky Boots Music & Lyrics: Cyndi Lauper BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL Billy Porter, Kinky Boots BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL Patina Miller, Pippin BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY Judith Light, The Assembled Parties BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL Andrea Martin, Pippin BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY John Lee Beatty, The Nance BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL Rob Howell, Matilda, The Musical BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY Ann Roth, The Nance BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY Leon Rothenberg, The Nance BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL John Shivers, Kinky Boots BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL Diane Paulus, Pippin BEST CHOREOGRAPHY Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots BEST ORCHESTRATIONS Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
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Tony Awards 2013: List of Winners!
