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Moulin Rouge! The Musical and A Christmas Carol led the way with multiple wins at the 2020 Tony Awards, which aired on Sunday (Sept. 26).
The winners were announced over the course of two broadcast events. At 7 p.m. ET, Audra McDonald hosted the awards ceremony, which streamed on Paramount+. The special then continued on CBS at 9 p.m. ET with a live show titled The Tony Awards Present Broadway’s Back! hosted by Leslie Odom Jr.
Featuring a powerful performance of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” and a lively rendition of “Burning Down the House” by David Byrne, the event celebrated the return of Broadway after an 18-month shutdown due to COVID-19.
Here’s the complete list of winners. (Three winners will be named during the CBS special. This story will be updated as those winners are announced.) The categories are listed in alphabetical order.
Best book of a musical
Jagged Little Pill, Diablo Cody — WINNER
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, John Logan
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar, and Kees Prins
Best choreography
Jagged Little Pill, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Sonya Tayeh — WINNER
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Anthony Van Laast
Best costume design in a musical
Jagged Little Pill, Emily Rebholz
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Mark Thompson
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Catherine Zuber — WINNER
Best costume design in a play
Slave Play, Dede Ayite
A Soldier’s Play, Dede Ayite
The Inheritance, Bob Crowley
A Christmas Carol, Rob Howell — WINNER
The Rose Tattoo, Clint Ramos
Best direction of a musical
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Phyllida Lloyd
Jagged Little Pill, Diane Paulus
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Alex Timbers — WINNER
Best direction of a play
The Sound Inside, David Cromer
The Inheritance, Stephen Daldry — WINNER
A Soldier’s Play, Kenny Leon
Betrayal, Jamie Lloyd
Slave Play, Robert O’Hara
Best lighting design of a musical
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Justin Townsend — WINNER
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Bruno Poet
Jagged Little Pill, Justin Townsend
Best lighting design in a play
Slave Play, Jiyoun Chang
The Inheritance, Jon Clark
The Sound Inside, Heather Gilbert
A Soldier’s Play, Allen Lee Hughes
A Christmas Carol, Hugh Vanstone — WINNER
Best musical
Jagged Little Pill
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Best orchestration
Jagged Little Pill, Tom Kitt
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen, Matt Stine and Justin Levine — WINNER
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Ethan Popp
Best original score (music and/or lyrics written for the theatre)
A Christmas Carol, Christopher Nightingale (music) — WINNER
The Inheritance, Paul Englishby
The Rose Tattoo, Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb (music)
Slave Play, Lindsay Jones (music)
The Sound Inside, Daniel Kluger (music)
Best performance by a featured actor in a musical
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Danny Burstein — WINNER
Jagged Little Pill, Derek Klena
Jagged Little Pill, Sean Allan Krill
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Sahr Ngaujah
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Daniel J. Watts
Best performance by a featured actress in a musical
Jagged Little Pill, Kathryn Gallagher
Jagged Little Pill, Celia Rose Gooding
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Robyn Hurder
Jagged Little Pill, Lauren Patten — WINNER
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Myra Lucretia Taylor
Best performance by a featured actor in a play
Slave Play, Ato Blankson-Wood
Slave Play, James Cusati-Moyer
A Soldier’s Play, David Alan Grier — WINNER
The Inheritance, John Benjamin Hickey
The Inheritance, Paul Hilton
Best performance by a featured actress in a play
Grand Horizons, Jane Alexander
Slave Play, Chalia La Tour
Slave Play, Annie McNamara
The Inheritance, Lois Smith — WINNER
Linda Vista, Cora Vander Broek
Best performance by a leading actor in a musical
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Aaron Tveit — WINNER
Best performance by a leading acress in a musical
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Karen Olivo
Jagged Little Pill, Elizabeth Stanley
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Adrienne Warren — WINNER
Best performance by a leading actor in a play
Linda Vista, Ian Barford
The Inheritance, Andrew Burnap — WINNER
Sea Wall/A Life, Jake Gyllenhaal
Betrayal, Tom Hiddleston
Sea Wall/A Life, Tom Sturridge
A Soldier’s Play, Blair Underwood
Best performance by a leading actress in a play
Slave Play, Joaquina Kalukango
My Name Is Lucy Barton, Laura Linney
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Audra McDonald
The Sound Inside, Mary-Louise Parker — WINNER
Best play
Grand Horizons, Bess Wohl
The Inheritance, Matthew Lopez — WINNER
Sea Wall/A Life, Simon Stephens and Nick Payne
Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris
The Sound Inside, Adam Rapp
Best revival of a play
Betrayal
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
A Soldier’s Play — WINNER
Best scenic design in a musical
Jagged Little Pill, Riccardo Hernández and Lucy MacKinnon
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Derek McLane — WINNER
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg
Best scenic design in a play
The Inheritance, Bob Crowley
Betrayal, Soutra Gilmour
A Christmas Carol, Rob Howell — WINNER
A Soldier’s Play, Derek McLane
Slave Play, Clint Ramos
Best sound design of a musical
Jagged Little Pill, Jonathan Deans
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Peter Hylenski — WINNER
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Nevin Steinberg
Best sound design of a play
The Inheritance, Paul Arditti and Christopher Reid
A Christmas Carol, Simon Baker — WINNER
Slave Play, Lindsay Jones
Sea Wall/A Life, Daniel Kluger
The Sound Inside, Daniel Kluger
Britney Spears returned to Instagram after a brief hiatus recently, and she’s back to sharing some of her selfies.
Friday night (Sept. 24), the pop star posted a pair of pictures of herself in which she’s seen sweetly gazing up at the camera. With a floral crop top and her hair pulled half back, Spears’ look in the snapshots apparently reminded her of some old photos — her yearbook pictures.
“These pics look like my high school yearbook pics … kinda cheesy but hey !!!” she wrote.
Some of Spears’ actual yearbook portraits have circulated around the internet in the past. (A quick Google image search will pull them up.)
Fiancé Sam Asghari commented on her Instagram post, which was shared on the same day that the documentary Controlling Britney Spears premiered on FX and Hulu, with four heart emojis. The latest doc about Spears continued to pull back the curtain on what she endured throughout the conservatorship that was first established by her father Jamie Spears in 2008.
See her latest pictures below.
Lauren Patten called attention to the conversations around Jagged Little Pill‘s gender non-conforming representation, thanking her nonbinary and trans colleagues, while accepting the award for best featured actress in a musical at Sunday’s 74th Tony Awards.
“It is such a joy to finally be able to celebrate all of these phenomenal artists in this room after this long, long pause. It is also a strange time for awards. We are in the middle of a reckoning in our industry. And first and foremost I want to thank my trans and nonbinary friends and colleagues who have engaged with me in difficult conversations, that have joined me in dialogue about my character Jo,” Patten said.
“I believe that the future for the change we need to see on Broadway comes from these kinds of conversations that are full of honesty and empathy and respect for our shared humanity. And I am so excited to see the action that comes from them, and to see where that leads our future as theatre artists in this country,” she concluded.
Patten’s comments follow the news that the show’s lead producers, Vivek J. Tiwary, Arvind Ethan David and Eva Price, had hired the external firm Jay Hewlin and The Hewlin Group to investigate allegations made by former cast members, including nonbinary actor Nora Schell, who alleged in a social media post mistreatment by stage management and other members of the show’s creative leadership in regards to their health care. The producers also announced they are immediately launching an external review of the show’s policies and procedures.
That followed a lengthy Sept. 17 statement to the production’s website and social media, acknowledging missteps in how they publicly spoke about and identified Patton’s character Jo, a lovestruck teen dealing with religious parents, their sexuality and a souring relationship while also going on their own gender journey, which has no confirmed outcome in the show. The letter also outlined significant changes to the productions on an off-stage approach to trans and nonbinary identities.
A day after the statement, Patten shared a video conversation with Shakina Nayfack, trans writer, actress and activist, to increase transparency around the conversations that were being had about Jo, and to be accountable for harm resulting from the erasure of Jo’s gender journey. Patten linked her comments to a broader conversation on Broadway about transparency and the production changes that have occurred in regards to representation, particularly over the last year.
“The truth is that I did not know as much as I should and stepping into something that I did know would resonate with a lot of folks — a lot of queer folks and a lot of trans folks,” Patten said. “I should have known more how to talk about it. I should have known how to exactly, as you said, affirm the experience without trying to be it.”
This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.
BTS kicked off the 2021 Global Citizen Festival with a feel-good performance of “Permission to Dance” from Seoul.
The group took part in this year’s live event — which aims to raise awareness and spark global change — on Saturday (Sept. 25). Global Citizen featured countless artists performing across several continents this weekend.
In New York City, where a star-studded lineup took the stage in Central Park as part of the festivities, Coldplay’s set featured another welcome appearance by BTS.
“We collaborated with a band and we took their average age up about 15 years, but it’s been one of the most fun things we’ve ever done,” singer Chris Martin told the crowd. “This is a song we did with BTS. This is a song about love who you love, and only that.”
The band launched into new single “My Universe,” virtually joining forces with BTS, who were on a big screen behind them.
At one point, even Martin turned around to look up in awe at BTS.
“My Universe,” which is sung in both English and Korean, just dropped on Friday. It’s the second single Coldplay has released ahead of the release of their upcoming studio album Music of the Spheres.
Watch “Permission to Dance” and “My Universe” performed for Global Citizen Live below.
Olivia Rodrigo took a daring plunge with her latest gala ensemble, a sophisticated black evening gown with a dramatically deep neckline.
Rodrigo was in attendance Saturday night (Sept. 25) to celebrate the anticipated Sept. 30 opening of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Lady Gaga, Cher, Jennifer Hudson and Katy Perry were among the other music stars (joining a list of notable actors, filmmakers and more in glamorous style) to make appearances for the unveiling of the movie museum. Gaga performed a set at the gala, which was co-chaired by Ava DuVernay, Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum, Vogue reports.
Rodrigo’s dress, according to a report by Vogue, was a Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello design.
The “Good 4 U” singer was recently seen in another chic black choice — a Saint Laurent lace bodysuit with an off-the-shoulder ruffle cut — at the Met Gala on Sept. 13.
“I personally love American punk music, and I think Saint Laurent does a really good job of making punk rock feminine,” Rodrigo had said at the Met Gala.
See a full-length photo of Rodrigo’s Academy Museum gala look below.
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SHEIN is putting a spin on the typical fashion show.
The shopping e-commerce company is presenting on Sunday (Sept. 26) its SHEIN x Rock the Runway show, an hybrid special event that is part concert, part choreographed dance sequence all while showing off SHEIN’s top trends for fall/winter 2021 in five individual segments. Saweetie, The Chainsmokers, Darren Criss, Thuy, Willie Gomez, Riley Clemmons, Blu DeTiger and more are all set to take the stage at the star-studded event.
“I love that SHEIN’s goal for this event is to create a one-stop destination for fashionistas to discover up and coming creators across all aspects of the industry,” Saweetie tells Billboard of the opportunity. “I love that SHEIN is opening that door for everyone by shining a light on the biggest of stars to the indie artists. I’m passionate about so many things… music, fashion, beauty, and I’ve been so fortunate to pursue my dreams. Music is my ultimate love and it’s opened the door for all these other amazing things.”
Fellow performer Darren Criss is equally excited to be included in such a unique opportunity, telling Billboard, “I really like the idea of not your typical fashion show and it being more of a celebration of dance and music and contextualizing the clothes via the music and performative elements and seeing how clothes look on all different kinds of people with different kinds of movement and music. That thinking out of the box factor of a typical fashion show was immediately appealing to me.”
Saweetie shared that for her performance, which will showcase the Ski Party looks, fans should expect “lots of dancing” choreographed by Brya Woods and assistant choreographer Aahkilah Cornelius.
Criss is gearing up to perform his new single “For a Night Like This,” which he describes as an “unapologetically celebratory jam.”
“It’s all about celebrating with the people you love,” he adds. “It’s such a vibrant song and the creativity that they were going for with this fashion show was a really great match for the song I wanted to perform. I’m happy I can showcase that vibrancy and colorfulness.”
Criss, whose performance will accompany the City Sleek styles, emphasized his gratitude for SHEIN bringing his song to life with “a hundred dancers of all different backgrounds, shapes and sizes, with a variety of movement. That is something that really takes a song to the next level. It takes it from a song to a spectacle and a visually exciting experience. It’s something we all hope can happen with our songs when we write them.”
“Any opportunity I have to be around dancers and have dancing in my life – I’m not a dancer myself, but any time I can have that in my life, whether it’s through one of my songs or walking through life, I embrace that opportunity,” he continues. “The more dance, the better.”
SHEIN x Rock the Runway will also help raise awareness and donations to benefit National Action Network, one of the nation’s leading civil rights organizations and Youth Emerging Stronger, which helps to build futures for foster and homeless youth. SHEIN is donating $350,000 across both charities.
“While I love to use my platforms to entertain, it’s just as important for me to educate and make a positive impact on the world and I love that SHEIN is acting on this by partnering with these organizations,” Saweetie says of the event’s charitable aspect. “I’m huge supporter of education and giving everyone access to the knowledge that will help them to grow and succeed in the world regardless of their background.”
“It’s obviously the bonus for anything you do,” Criss agrees. “You’re happy to support anything that supports others beyond the preliminary presentation of ‘Here are some cool clothes, here are some amazing dancers, here’s a cool song.’ In the process, we’re also shining a light on an organization that are doing a lot of good in the world. I always prefer that to be a component in anything I do.”
Since this is a fashion show, after all, how would Saweetie and Darren Criss describe their personal style? “My style is always growing and evolving,” Saweetie explains, “Because I am constantly researching and studying designers and their collections throughout the past. I love to play with fashion and take risks with my style – anything glam! I draw a lot of inspiration from the 90s and early 2000s and try to mix these retro and nostalgic elements with the feminine aesthetic of old Hollywood glamour.”
“I’m a big believer in dressing for the party,” Criss says. “This is a much larger idea that goes into music, that goes into how I approach everything in life, which is knowing what the venue is, honoring what the dress code is and then doing your own spin on it to be a little unique and not like everybody else. Just enough of something that is accessible so that people feel comfortable around your choice, but you’re also pushing it a little bit. I like toeing that line in general. I’m not saying I’m a fashionista at all, but it depends what day of the week it is, what coffee shop I’m walking to and what part of town. All those variables have their own set of rules that I like to abide by. But I’m definitely not one type of thing and am never thoughtless, that’s for sure.”
Catch the SHEIN x Rock the Runway event when its streams on Sunday (Sept. 26) at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the SHEIN app, and the company’s Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook pages. Shop the SHEIN x Rock the Runway looks here.
Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes shared the stage — and some PDA — at this year’s Global Citizen Festival.
In front of a screaming New York City crowd on Saturday (Sept. 25), Cabello joked about “introducing this next person in a formal way” before bringing boyfriend Mendes out. “That’s kinda weird ’cause we kinda know each other pretty well, and I think you guys know we know each other pretty well,” she quipped.
The couple, dressed in coordinating colors (royal purple, blue and orange on Cabello, and a rusty orange on Mendes) delivered their familiar duet “Señorita” effortlessly as part of the star-studded fest that kicked off on Saturday with performances across several continents. The New York part of the event took place at Central Park.
They started and ended the song kissing, as the crowd cheered on.
Cabello’s Global Citizen Live set also included favorites “Havana” and “Never Be the Same,” new single “Don’t Go Yet” and a shortened cover of “Empire State of Mind.”
Watch her “Señorita” and “Empire State of Mind” performances in the fan-uploaded clips below.
Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel were seen together again during Global Citizen Live 2021.
The Fugees reunited for the first time in 15 years just in time for this weekend’s 24-hour, star-studded festival, with a video of them performing their 1996 single “Ready or Not” hitting YouTube on Saturday (Sept. 25).
Their participation in the fest comes ahead of their recently announced international reunion tour in celebration of the 25th anniversary of their landmark sophomore album The Score.
The performance that aired during the massive Global Citizen Live event on Saturday (Sept. 25) was filmed on Wednesday, when the group put on a surprise pop-up concert at Pier 17 in New York City on the heels of announcing their tour. Global Citizen featured countless artists performing across several continents in an effort to spark global change and to urge world leaders and corporations to defend the planet and defeat poverty.
The Fugees’ upcoming tour will bring them to Chicago, Oakland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Newark, Washington, D.C., Paris, London, Nigeria and Ghana this fall.
The Score, the Fugees’ second and final studio album, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in 1996 and brought hits including “Killing Me Softly,” “Fu-Gee-La” and “Ready or Not.”
“The Fugees have a complex but impactful history. I wasn’t even aware the 25th anniversary had arrived until someone brought it to my attention,” Hill said in a statement about the reunion plans. “I decided to honor this significant project, its anniversary, and the fans who appreciated the music by creating a peaceful platform where we could unite, perform the music we loved, and set an example of reconciliation for the world.”
Watch them perform “Ready or Not” below.
Ciara took fans for a ride with her latest TikTok clip in which she dances to Normani’s “Wild Side” for Russell Wilson.
The singer posted a steamy short video set to Normani’s single Saturday night (Sept. 25), along with the caption “I love his wild side” (and a few choice emojis).
Ciara was on theme in a pair of animal-print pants as she danced in front of the camera and hopped atop a chair to give her husband a better view. Wilson makes a silly cameo at the end of the clip.
The sultry song that inspired the moment features Cardi B and debuted in the top 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and in the top 5 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in July. Normani most recently took “Wild Side” to the VMAs to perform a show-stopping rendition of the tune.
Watch Ciara’s moves in her TikTok take on “Wild Side” below.
