Sandra Clark 
2024 Tony Awards Nominations have been presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing at Sofitel New York.
The 77th Annual Tony Awards nominees were announced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson & Renee Elise Goldsberry and the final award ceremony of the 77th Tony Awards will be held on June 16, 2024, to recognize the achievements during the 2023–24 season.
Ariana DeBose will be hosting this year for the third time.
Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic received 13 nominations each in the 2024 Tony Awards.
You can get the complete list of nominations at the Tony Award website.
We have gathered some interesting facts about the Tony Awards with the shortest and longest play titles and more.
When was the Tony Award established?
The American Theatre Wing established the Tony Awards on April 6, 1947, to celebrate excellence in the theatre.
Which play received the most Tony Award Nominations so far?
Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play has received 12 nominations in 2020.
Which Play productions won the most Tony Awards?
Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia won seven awards in 2007.
Which musical production has the most Tony nominations?
Hamilton received 16 nods in 2016.
Which musical production won the most Tony Awards?
The Producers, the new Mel Brooks musical won 12 awards in 2001.
Which Musical revival has the most Tony nominations?
Kiss Me, Kate had 12 nominations in 2000.
Which Musical revival has the most Tony awards?
South Pacific had won 7 awards in 2008.
Which performer has the most Tony nominations?
Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, and Julie Harris had 10 nominations.
Which performer won the most Tony awards?
Audra McDonald, Angela Lansbury, and Julie Harris have won six Tony Awards.
Who hosted the most Tony Awards?
Angela Lansbury has hosted the Tony Awards five times. Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman hosted four times.
Which is the longest-running best musical?
The Phantom of the Opera is the longest-running best musical from (1988-2023).
Which Theatre Housed Most Tony-winning Best Plays and Best Musicals
Richard Rodgers Theatre – 11
Which composer won the most Tony Awards?
Stephen Sondheim has won eight Tony Awards.
Which play won the most Tony Awards?
Tom Stoppard’s epic trilogy The Coast of Utopia (2007) earned seven Tony Awards, it received 10 nominations.
When does the Tony Awards ceremony take place?
The 77th Annual Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 16 (8:00-11:00 PM, LIVE ET/5:00-8:00 PM, LIVE PT), Live on the CBS Network, and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.
Where will the 2024 Tony Awards ceremony take place?
The 77th Annual Tony Awards will be held in the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center in New York City.
Interesting Facts
- Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific has won 17 Tony Awards, more than any other musical.
- Three generations won Tony-Adam Guettel- His grandfather, Richard Rodgers-Guettel’s mother, Mary Rodgers (Richard’s daughter).
- Director/producer Harold Prince received 21 Tonys, the most in multiple categories (Roger Berlind won 25 Tony Awards, all for producing.)
- Bob Fosse won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction.
- Jason Robards Jr. received more Tony Award nominations, eight than any other male actor. However, he only won one Tony Award, for The Disenchanted.
- The Scottsboro Boys in 2011 and Mean Girls in 2018 each received 12 nominations but won no awards. Same with Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris in 2020—12 nominations including Best Play, but no awards.
- The play Indiscretions (1995) won no awards despite having received nine nominations.
- “Da”, (1978) is the shortest title of the Tony Award-winning.
- The Tony Award-winning play with the longest title was The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade by Peter Weiss (1966). Total 51 letters, 26 words, 44 syllables. It was known as Marat/Sade for short.