2018 Tony Award Nominations Include SpongeBob SquarePants, Mean Girls and Frozen
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The nominations for the 72nd annual Tony Awards are in. This year’s ceremony will take place on Sunday, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall and it will be hosted by Tony Award nominees Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. The show will be broadcast live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET.
Nominations in 26 competitive categories were announced Tuesday at the Tony Award Nominations ceremony at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The nominees were selected by an independent committee of 43 theatre professionals appointed by the Tony Awards Administration Committee.
Nominees for the prestigious Best Musical Award include Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical, Mean Girls, Frozen and The Band’s Visit. Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical and Mean Girls are tied for the most nominations of any production this year with 12 nods. The nominees for Best Play include The Children, Farinelli and The King, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Parts One and Two), Junk and Latin History for Morons.
It was also announced this morning that a Special Tony Award will be presented to Bruce Springsteen and John Leguizamo. Springsteen is receiving a Special Tony Award for his ongoing production Springsteen on Broadway, while Leguizamo will be recognized for his body of work and for three decade-long commitment to the theatre. As previously announced, the 2018 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre will be presented to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Chita Rivera.
Tickets for the 2018 Tony Awards will go on sale on May 15 on TonyAwards.com and TicketMaster.com. Check out the full list of 2018 Tony Award nominations below.
Best Book of a Musical
The Band’s Visit (Itamar Moses)
Frozen (Jennifer Lee)
Mean Girls (Tina Fey)
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical (Kyle Jarrow)
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Angels in America
The Band’s Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Andrew Garfield, Angels in America
Tom Hollander, Travesties
Jamie Parker, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two
Mark Rylance, Farinelli and The King
Denzel Washington, Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Glenda Jackson, Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women
Condola Rashad, Saint Joan
Lauren Ridloff, Children of a Lesser God
Amy Schumer, Meteor Shower
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady
Joshua Henry, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel
Tony Shalhoub, The Band’s Visit
Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady
Hailey Kilgore, Once On This Island
LaChanze, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
Katrina Lenk, The Band’s Visit
Taylor Louderman, Mean Girls
Jessie Mueller, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel