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
