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2023 Tony Award winners announced

Kimberly Akimbo was the most awarded show of the night, taking home five prizes including Best Musical, with Leopoldstadt and Some Like It Hot tied with four.

Gillian Russo
Gillian Russo

The 2023 Tony Awards are proceeding in a modified format, with no scripted content, amid the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. However, one thing remains the same: the awards presentations. At this year's awards, prizes went to the best of Broadway in the 2022-23 season.

Kimberly Akimbo, the new musical based on David Lindsay-Abaire's same-named play, won the most prizes of the night with five, including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Original Score. Two of its stars, Bonnie Milligan and Victoria Clark, also took home awards.

Tied for second with four wins each are Best Musical nominee Some Like It Hot and Best Play winner Leopoldstadt, which made playwright Tom Stoppard the most awarded writer in Tonys history. He now has five Best Play awards; he was previously tied with Terrence McNally, who had four total Best Play and Best Book awards.

Read more about historic wins among this year's honorees.

Ariana DeBose hosted the Tonys, broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ from 8-11 p.m., for the second year in a row. Julianne Hough and Skylar Astin hosted the pre-show, The Tony Awards: Act One, from 6:30-8 p.m., during which the first round of award winners, including the special awards and multiple competitive awards, was announced.

Multiple special Tony honors were awarded. Actor/director Joel Grey and composer John Kander received a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Jerry Mitchell received the 2023 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for theatre artists who do extensive charitable or humanitarian work, in recognition of his work with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and others.

California's Pasadena Playhouse received the 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award. Production stage manager Lisa Dawn Cave, Theatre Development Fund executive director Victoria Bailey, and theatrical accountant Robert Fried each received a 2023 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre prize, given annually to organizations or people who have made outstanding contributions to the theatre.

The competitive Tony Award winners, denoted in bold and with an asterisk, will continue to be updated below as they are announced.

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Best Musical

Best Play

Best Revival of a Musical

Best Revival of a Play

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Best Book of a Musical

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Best Direction of a Musical

Best Direction of a Play

Best Choreography

Best Orchestrations

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Best Costume Design of a Play

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Best Sound Design of a Play

Best Sound Design of a Musical

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