Tony Awards: Patti LuPone Eligible For ‘Featured’ Category & More

Patti LuPone will be eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical category category for this year's Tony Awards despite her above-the-title billing.
Patti LuPone in COMPANY (screen capture)
The powers that be at the Tony Awards decided that Patti LuPone will be eligible in the ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical’ category for her performance in Company despite her above-the-title billing. Check out her full performance of “The Ladies Who Lunch” via the show’s Twitter account:

Playbillreports

the committee also ruled Sutton Foster will be eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical category for her performance as Marian Paroo in The Music Man.

More from Playbill:

The 75th Annual Tony Awards will return to its traditional summer time slot for the first time since 2019, with the Broadway League and American Theatre Wing setting the ceremony for June 12 at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall.

Nominations for the honors will be announced May 3. With a simultaneous live stream available via Paramount+, this year’s awards will be the first in Tony history to be available live nationwide.

The awards will honor the 2021-2022 Broadway season, with productions opening between February 20, 2020 (one day following the retroactively determined cut-off eligibility date for last year’s honors) and April 28, 2022 eligible for nominations.

The Tony Awards returned last September after a two and a half year absence due to Broadway being shut down during the pandemic.


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