Tony Awards 2024 nominations list revealed

The prestigious Tony Awards have released their list of nominations for 2024 with Cabaret leading the pack with 9 nominations, including Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne for "Best Performance in a Leading Role in a Musical" categories.

The winners will be announced at the ceremony on June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater. West Side Story actor and Tony nominee Ariana DeBose will host the show.

Here are the nominees in all categories:

Best musical

1. Hell’s Kitchen 
2. Illinoise
3. The Outsiders
4. Suffs
5. Water for Elephants

Best revival of a musical

1. Cabaret
2. Guttenberg! the Musical
3. Merrily We Roll Along
4. The Who’s Tommy

Best play

1. Jaja’s African Hair Braiding 
2. Mary Jane
3. Mother Play
4. Prayer for the French Republic
5. Stereophonic

Best revival of a play

1. Appropriate
2. An Enemy of the People
3. Purlie Victorious

Best book of a musical

1. Hell's Kitchen by Kristoffer Diaz
2. The Notebook by Bekah Brunstetter
3. The Outsiders by Adam Rapp and Justin Levine
4. Suffs by Shaina Taub
5. Water for Elephants by Rick Eilce

Best scenic design of a play

1. dots for Appropriate 
2. dots for An Enemy of the People
3. Derek McLane for Purlie Victorious
4. David Zinn for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
5. David Zinn for Stereophonic

Best scenic design of a musical

1. Tom Scutt for Cabaret 
2. AMP featuring Tatiana Kahvegian for The Outsiders
3. Robert Brill and Peter Nigrini for Hell’s Kitchen
4. Takeshi Kata for Water for Elephants 
5. David Korins for Here Lies Love 
6. Riccardo Hernández and Peter Nigrini for Lempicka 
7. Tim Hatley and Finn Ross for Back To The Future: The Musical 

Best costume design of a play

1. Dede Ayite for Appropriate 
2. Dede Ayite for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
3. Enver Chakartash for Stereophonic
4. Emilio Sosa for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
5. David Zinn for An Enemy of the People  

Best costume design of a musical

1. Tom Scutt for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
2. Dede Ayite for Hell’s Kitchen 
3. Linda Cho for The Great Gatsby
4. David Israel Reynoso for Water for Elephants
5. Paul Tazewell for Suffs 

Best lighting design of a play

1. Isabella Byrd for An Enemy of the People 
2. Amith Chandrashaker for Prayer for the French Republic
3. Jiyoun Chang for Stereophonic
4. Jane Cox for Appropriate
5. Natasha Katz for Grey House 

Best lighting design of a musical

1. Isabella Byrd for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
2. Brandon Stirling Baker for Illinoise
3. Natasha Katz for Hell’s Kitchen
4. Bradley King and David Bengali for Water for Elephants
5. Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim for The Outsiders 

Best sound design of a play

1. Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding 
2. Leah Gelpe for Mary Jane
3. Tom Gibbons for Grey House
4. Bray Poor and Will Pickens for Appropriate
5. Ryan Rumery for Stereophonic

Best sound design of a musical

1. Nick Lidster (Autograph) for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
2. M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer for Here Lies Love 
3. Kai Harada for Merrily We Roll Along 
4. Gareth Owen for Hell’s Kitchen
5. Cody Spencer for The Outsiders

Best orchestrations

1. Timo Andres for Illinoise
2. Will Butler and Justin Craig for Stereophonic
3. Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley, and Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) for The Outsiders
4. Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone for Hell’s Kitchen
5. Jonathan Tunick for Merrily We Roll Along

Best choreography

1. Annie-B Parson for Hell’s Kitchen
2. Camille A. Brown for Here Lies Love
3. Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman for The Outsiders
4. Justin Peck for Illinoise
5. Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll for Water for Elephants 

Best direction of a play

1. Daniel Aukin for Stereophonic
2. Annie Kauffman for Mary Jane
3. Kenny Leon for Purlie Victorious
4. Lila Neugebauer for Appropriate
5. Whitney White for Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

Best direction of a musical

1. Maria Friedman for Merrily We Roll Along
2. Michael Greif for Hell’s Kitchen
3. Leigh Silverman for Suffs
4. Jessica Stone for Water for Elephants
5. Danya Taymor for The Outsiders 

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play

1. William Jackson Harper for Uncle Vanya
2. Leslie Odom Jr. for Purlie Victorious
3. Liev Schreiber for Doubt: A Parable
4. Jeremy Strong for An Enemy of the People
5. Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play

1. Betsy Aidem for Prayer for the French Republic
2. Jessica Lange for Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions
3. Rachel McAdams for Mary Jane
4. Sarah Paulson for Appropriate
5. Amy Ryan for Doubt

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play

1. Will Brill for Stereophonic
2. Eli Gelb for Stereophonic
3. Jim Parsons for Mother Play
4. Tom Pecinka for Stereophonic
5. Corey Stoll for Appropriate

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play

1. Quincy Tyler Bernstine for Doubt
2. Juliana Canfield for Stereophonic
3. Celia Keenan-Bolger for Mother Play
4. Sarah Pidgeon for Stereophonic
5. Kara Young for Purlie Victorious

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical

1. Eddie Redmayne for Cabaret
2. Brody Grant for The Outsiders
3. Jonathan Groff for Merrily We Roll Along
4. Dorian Harewood for The Notebook
5. Brian d’Arcy James for Days of Wine and Roses

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical

1. Gayle Rankin for Cabaret
2. Eden Espinosa for Lempicka
3. Maleah Joi Moon for Hell’s Kitchen
4. Maryann Plunkett for The Notebook
5. Kelli O’Hara for Days of Wine and Roses

Best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical

1. Steven Skybell for Cabaret
2. Roger Bart for Back to the Future: The Musical 
3. Joshua Boone for The Outsiders
4. Brandon Victor Dixon for Hell’s Kitchen
5. Sky Lakota-Lynch for The Outsiders
6. Daniel Radcliffe for Merrily We Roll Along

Best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical

1. Bebe Neuwirth for Cabaret 
2. Shoshanna Bean for Hell’s Kitchen
3. Amber Iman for Lempicka
4. Nikki M. James for Suffs
5. Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer for Monty Python’s Spamalot
6. Kecia Lewis for Hell’s Kitchen
7. Lindsay Mendez for Merrily We Roll Along

With a record-breaking year of productions to choose from, the Tony Awards certainly had its work cut out for it this season. The category of Best Musical saw some of the fiercest competition with 15 shows all vying for a spot in the final list.

But the awards aren't the only draw this year: DeBose is all set to stun and awe with her third go at hosting the ceremony, but this time she's turning up the heat with a self-choreographed opening.