“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda tearfully dedicated a sonnet to the Orlando massacre victims at the Tony Awards Sunday night.
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One of the most moving moments of the night came as he read a sonnet onstage, referencing tragedy and urging “love and love and love…” Hate will never win. “I’m heartbroken. I think everybody is feeling it, so we are at least all coming together to celebrate and not live in fear”, he said on the carpet.
Last night Broadway toasted the unlikely musical blockbuster about the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, awarding Hamilton with 11 Tonys from its record-breaking 16 nominations, including Best Score, Best Book, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, Best Actor, Best Direction and Best Musical.
When giving his acceptance speech for Best Original Score, Miranda addressed the tragic Orlando nightclub shooting that claimed 50 peoples’ lives early Sunday (June 12) morning.
However, the hip hop musical did win the big prize of the night: Best Musical.
Thomas Kail won the Tony for directing “Hamilton”.
“When senseless acts of tragedy remind us”.
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The “Hamilton” cast performed “History Has Its Eyes on You” and “Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down), with the latter performance including a noted difference between the Broadway production and the Tony performance”. Art, she added, can “at times like these console us”.
Organisation “Moms Demand Action”, a group that aims to reform gun laws in America, also gathered outside the Tony’s wearing orange ribbons in honor of the victims – with a rainbow ribbon attached. “It’s so diverse that Donald Trump has threatened to build a wall around this theater”. Onstage before the “On Your Feet” medley began, Emilio Estefan joked that all the Latino cast of the musical was in the country legally, in a jab at Trump.
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Bebe Neuwirth also led a 20th anniversary tribute to the revival of long-running musical “Chicago”, the show which earned her second Tony Award in 1997.
