Select list of nominees for 2022 Tony Awards

May 9, 2022, 6:22 AM | Updated: May 10, 2022, 12:39 am

This image released by O & M Co./DKC shows Myles Frost during a performance of the musical "MJ." (M...

This image released by O & M Co./DKC shows Myles Frost during a performance of the musical "MJ." (Matthew Murphy/O & M Co./DKC via AP)

(Matthew Murphy/O & M Co./DKC via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Select nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards, announced Monday.

Best Musical: “Girl From the North Country,” “MJ,” “Mr. Saturday Night,” “Paradise Square,” “Six: The Musical,” “A Strange Loop”

Best Play: “Clyde’s,” “Hangmen,” “The Lehman Trilogy,” “The Minutes,” “Skeleton Crew”

Best Revival of a Play: “American Buffalo,” “How I Learned to Drive,” “Take Me Out,” “Trouble in Mind,” “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”

Best Revival of a Musical: “The Music Man,” “Company,” “Caroline, or Change”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Simon Russell Beale, “The Lehman Trilogy”; Adam Godley, “The Lehman Trilogy”; Adrian Lester, “The Lehman Trilogy”; David Morse, “How I Learned to Drive”; Sam Rockwell, “American Buffalo”; Ruben Santiago-Hudson, “Lackawanna Blues”; David Threlfall, “Hangmen”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Gabby Beans, “The Skin of Our Teeth”; LaChanze, “Trouble in Mind”; Ruth Negga, “Macbeth”; Deirdre O’Connell, “Dana H.”; Mary-Louise Parker, “How I Learned to Drive”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Billy Crystal, “Mr. Saturday Night”; Myles Frost, “MJ”; Hugh Jackman, “The Music Man”; Rob McClure, “Mrs. Doubtfire”; Jaquel Spivey, “A Strange Loop”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Sharon D Clarke, “Caroline, or Change”; Carmen Cusack, “Flying Over Sunset”; Sutton Foster, “The Music Man;” Joaquina Kalukango, “Paradise Square”; Mare Winningham, “Girl From the North Country”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Jeannette Bayardelle, “Girl From the North Country”; Shoshana Bean, “Mr. Saturday Night”; Jayne Houdyshell, “The Music Man”; L Morgan Lee, “A Strange Loop”; Patti LuPone, “Company”; Jennifer Simard, “Company”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Matt Doyle, “Company”; Sidney DuPont, “Paradise Square”; Jared Grimes, “Funny Girl”; John-Andrew Morrison, “A Strange Loop”; A.J. Shively, “Paradise Square”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Uzo Aduba, “Clyde’s”; Rachel Dratch, “POTUS”; Kenita R. Miller, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”; Phylicia Rashad, “Skeleton Crew”; Julie White, “POTUS”; Kara Young, “Clyde’s”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Alfie Allen, “Hangmen”; Chuck Cooper, “Trouble in Mind”; Jesse Tyler Ferguson, “Take Me Out”; Ron Cephas Jones, “Clyde’s”; Michael Oberholtzer, “Take Me Out”; Jesse Williams, “Take Me Out”

Best Direction of a Play: Lileana Blain-Cruz, “The Skin of Our Teeth”; Camille A. Brown, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”; Sam Mendes, “The Lehman Trilogy”; Neil Pepe, “American Buffalo”; Les Waters, “Dana H.”

Best Direction of a Musical: Stephen Brackett, “A Strange Loop”; Marianne Elliott, “Company”; Conor McPherson, “Girl From the North Country”; Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage, “Six: The Musical”; Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”

Best Choreography: Camille A. Brown, “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”; Warren Carlyle, “The Music Man”; Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, “Six: The Musical”; Bill T. Jones, “Paradise Square”; Christopher Wheeldon, “MJ”

Best Book of a Musical: “Girl From the North Country,” Conor McPherson; “MJ,” Lynn Nottage; “Mr. Saturday Night,” Billy Crystal, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel; “Paradise Square,” Christina Anderson, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan; “A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson

Best Original Score: “Flying Over Sunset,” music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Michael Korie; “Mr. Saturday Night,” music by Jason Robert Brown, lyrics by Amanda Green; “Paradise Square,” music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare; “Six: The Musical,” music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss; “A Strange Loop,” music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson

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              This image released b O & M Co./DKC shows Katrina Lenk during a performance of the Broadway musical "Company."  (Matthew Murphy/O & M Co./DKC via AP)
            
              This image released by The Press Room shows, foreground from left, Hailee Kaleem Wright, Karen Burthwright and Sidney Dupont during a performance of "Paradise Square." (Alessandra Mello/The Press Room via AP)
            
              This image released by O & M Co./DKC shows Myles Frost during a performance of the musical "MJ." (Matthew Murphy/O & M Co./DKC via AP)

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Select list of nominees for 2022 Tony Awards