The nominations for the 76th Tony Awards had been introduced immediately, and there are some notable music names within the combine past one’s typical Broadway fare.
The nation songwriter Brandy Clark, who’s releasing a brand new solo album later this month, is up for Best Original Score (Music And/Or Lyrics) Written For The Theatre for Shucked, which she wrote with Shane McAnally. Also nominated in that class are Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt for the ill-fated Almost Famous musical that closed after two months, and the equally ill-fated KPOP musical that closed after two weeks. Shucked can be nominated for Best Musical, with a complete of 9 nominations.
The Max Martin jukebox musical & Juliet, which made its method to Broadway final yr after debuting on the West End in 2019, additionally has 9 nominations, and Martin himself is nominated as one of many many producers of & Juliet, alongside his frequent collaborators Dr. Luke and Shellback, within the Best Musical class. And Mariah Carey slips in with a nomination for a Tony as considered one of a protracted checklist of producers for Some Like It Hot, additionally up for Best Musical.
In the appearing classes, Josh Groban picked up a nomination for Best Performance By A Leading Actor In A Musical for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street because the titular demon barber, and Sara Bareilles received one other Tony nomination so as to add to her checklist, this time for taking part in the Baker’s Wife in Into The Woods.
View the total checklist of Tony nominees right here. The ceremony airs on Sunday, June 11.