Tony Awards history was made Sunday when Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee became the first nonbinary people to win Tonys for acting.
"Thank you for the humanity. Thank you for my incredible company who raised me up every single day," said leading actor in a musical winner Ghee, who stars in"Some Like It Hot," the adaptation of the classic cross-dressing comedy film.
The British-Czech playwright, who now has five best play Tony Awards, joked he won his first in 1968 and noted that playwrights were"getting progressively devalued in the food chain" despite being"the sharp ends of the inverted pyramid." Host Ariana DeBose speaks onstage during The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater on June 11, 2023 in New York City.Winners demonstrated their support for the striking writers either at the podium or on the red carpet with pins. Miriam Silverman, who won the Tony for best featured actress in a play for"The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," ended her speech with:"My parents raised me to believe in the power of labor and workers being compensated and treated fairly.
Suzan-Lori Parks'"Topdog/Underdog," a Pulitzer Prize winning play about sibling rivalry, inequality and society's false promises, won the Tony for best play revival. She thanked director Kenny Leon and stars Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II:"They showed up to be large in a world that often does not much want the likes of us living at all."
"This is a very big deal," he said."When your own community honors you, it's very humbling and a little bit scary."
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