Tony Award FeaturesPHOTO CALL: 2010 Tony Award Preview — Leading Actor in a Play/Musical NomineesPlaybill.com offers a look at the nominees for the 64th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards in the categories of Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play and Musical.
By
Ernio Hernandez
June 07, 2010
Sean Hayes will host this season's Tony Awards ceremony June 13. CBS-TV will broadcast the event live from Radio City Music Hall. The nominees for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play follow: Jude Law, Hamlet Alfred Molina, Red Liev Schreiber, A View from the Bridge Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane Denzel Washington, Fences
The nominees for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical follow: Kelsey Grammer, La Cage aux Folles Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles Chad Kimball, Memphis Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!
Here is a look at the nominated actors in their productions:
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.