Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda didn’t only express gratitude in his speeches.
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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…”
“Hamilton” actors had rehearsed segments earlier in the day, but the staged gunfire “made everyone uncomfortable”, given what had happened in Orlando, so it was cut, a Tonys source said. Still, the show went on, and several of the night’s most prominent figures gave heartfelt tributes to the victims throughout the show. “Hate will never win”. Together we have to make sure of that.
Corden told reporters on the carpet that “We have to reference it” in the show and that a message had to be sent that “we stand with” the victims.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical biography about the first USA treasury secretary won 11 Tonys, just short of breaking the 12-Tony record held by “The Producers”. Actor Leslie Odom Jr. won Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role as Aaron Burr in “Hamilton”.
On a night when diversity was celebrated – all of the acting awards in the musical categories went to African-Americans for the first time – Broadway paused to remember those who died in Orlando.
She’s the ideal symphony of one. Daveed Diggs also won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his dual roles as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. It is the largest audience for the show since 2001. After the applause, he continued, “It is so diverse, Donald Trump has threatened to build a wall around this theater”.
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The creatives scooped up many of their awards including Andy Blankenbuehler for Best Choreography, Paul Tazewell for Best Costume Design of a Musical and Howell Binkley for Best Lighting of a musical. That’s its highest rating in the advertiser demographic in 13 years. In 2014, it reached 7.02 million and captured 7.24 million in 2013.
