“We rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer/And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love can not be killed or swept aside”, said “Hamilton” creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda while accepting the award for “Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for rhe Theatre”.
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The 70th Annual Tony Awards brought in a big viewership of 8.73 million viewers for CBS, the network said on Monday.
The significance of this moment wasn’t lost on organizers of the award show, host James Corden referred to the Tonys as like the Oscars, but “with diversity”, during his opening monologue.
The Broadway smash “Hamilton” to the surprise of no one won the Tony Award for best new musical.
“Hamilton” went into the night with 16 nominations and with an hour to go had won nine – best score, best book, direction, orchestration, choreography and best featured actor and actress statuettes for Renee Elise Goldsberry and Daveed Diggs. In a show of support for Orlando victims, the troupe left their prop muskets cased for their brief musical performance depicting the Battle of Yorktown, during which Hamilton was an important aide to Gen. Washington. But the story behind numerous headlines you’ll read today is the history making moment as all four awards for actors and actresses in a musical went to Black men and women.
This was in response to the mass shooting that took place in Orlando on Sunday morning.
That nothing here is promised, not one day. “This show is proof that history remembers We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger We rise and fall and light from dying embers remembrance that hope and love last forever”. The show won three of the four musical acting prizes-and with the fourth, Lead Actress in a Musical, going to Cynthia Erivo for The Color Purple, it meant that for the first time ever all four musical acting winners were black.
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See the full list of winners here.
