The 2021 Tony Awards winners list

The cast of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."

By Jevon PhillipsMultiplatform Editor

Sept. 26, 2021 Updated 7:37 PM PT

“Moulin Rouge! The Musical” is the big winner at the 74th Tony Awards, with ten wins from its 14 nominations. “Jagged Little Pill” picked up two Tonys, including one for Diablo Cody for best book of a musical. In play categories, “A Christmas Carol” leads with five wins, mostly in craft categories, while Matthew Lopez’s “The Inheritance” emerged as something of a surprise with wins for best play, actors Lois Smith and Andrew Burnap as well as for director Stephen Daldry.

Audra McDonald hosted a two-hour awards ceremony streaming on Paramount+, which is now being followed by Leslie Odom Jr. hosting “The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!” — a two-hour live concert event featuring Broadway entertainers on CBS. The three top awards — best play, best play revival and best musical — will end the event, staged at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre.

In the streamed version of the awards, individual musical numbers were performed by Jennifer Holliday, Jennifer Nettles and 2019 Tony winner Ali Stroker. On the “Broadway’s Back” special, group performances from “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical,” “Jagged Little Pill” and “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” were among the productions that graced the stage.

These are the winners for this year’s Tony Awards.

Best musical

¤ WINNER: “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

Best play

¤ WINNER: “The Inheritance”
¤ “Grand Horizons”
¤ “Sea Wall/A Life”
¤ “Slave Play”
¤ “The Sound Inside”

Best revival of a play

¤ WINNER: “A Soldier’s Play”
¤ “Betrayal”
¤ “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”

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

¤ WINNER: Adrienne Warren, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”
¤ Karen Olivo, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Elizabeth Stanley, “Jagged Little Pill”

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

¤ WINNER: Mary-Louise Parker, “The Sound Inside”
¤ Joaquina Kalukango, “Slave Play”
¤ Laura Linney, “My Name is Lucy Barton”
¤ Audra McDonald, “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune”

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

¤ WINNER: Aaron Tveit, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”

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

¤ WINNER: Andrew Burnap, “The Inheritance”
¤ Ian Barford, “Linda Vista”
¤ Jake Gyllenhaal, “Sea Wall/A Life”
¤ Tom Hiddleston, “Betrayal”
¤ Tom Sturridge, “Sea Wall/A Life”
¤ Blair Underwood, “A Soldier’s Play”

Best direction of a musical

¤ WINNER: Alex Timbers, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Phyllida Lloyd, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”
¤ Diane Paulus, “Jagged Little Pill”

Best direction of a play

¤ WINNER: Stephen Daldry, “The Inheritance”
¤ David Cromer, “The Sound Inside”
¤ Kenny Leon, “A Soldier’s Play”
¤ Jamie Lloyd, “Betrayal”
¤ Robert O’Hara, “Slave Play”

Best choreography

¤ WINNER: Sonya Tayeh, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Anthony Van Laast, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

Best orchestrations

¤ WINNER: Justin Levine, with Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen and Matt Stine, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Tom Kitt, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Ethan Popp, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

Best book of a musical

¤ WINNER: “Jagged Little Pill” — Diablo Cody
¤ “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” — John Logan
¤ “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical” — Katori Hall, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins

Best original score (music and/or lyrics) written for the theater

¤ WINNER: “A Christmas Carol” — music: Christopher Nightingale
¤ “The Inheritance” — music: Paul Englishby
¤ “The Rose Tattoo” — music: Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb
¤ “Slave Play” — music: Lindsay Jones
¤ “The Sound Inside” — music: Daniel Kluger

Best sound design of a play

¤ WINNER: Simon Baker, “A Christmas Carol”
¤ Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid, “The Inheritance”
¤ Lindsay Jones, “Slave Play”
¤ Daniel Kluger, “Sea Wall/A Life”
¤ Daniel Kluger, “The Sound Inside”

Best sound design of a musical

¤ WINNER: Peter Hylenski, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Jonathan Deans, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Nevin Steinberg, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

Best lighting design of a musical

¤ WINNER: Justin Townsend, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Bruno Poet, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”
¤ Justin Townsend, “Jagged Little Pill”

Best costume design of a musical

¤ WINNER: Catherine Zuber, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Emily Rebholz, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Mark Thompson, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

Best scenic design of a musical

¤ WINNER: Derek McLane, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Riccardo Hernández and Lucy Mackinnon, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

Best lighting design of a play

¤ WINNER: Hugh Vanstone, “A Christmas Carol”
¤ Jiyoun Chang, “Slave Play”
¤ Jon Clark, “The Inheritance”
¤ Heather Gilbert, “The Sound Inside”
¤ Allen Lee Hughes,” A Soldier’s Play”

Best costume design of a play

¤ WINNER: Rob Howell, “A Christmas Carol”
¤ Dede Ayite, “Slave Play”
¤ Dede Ayite, “A Soldier’s Play”
¤ Bob Crowley, “The Inheritance”
¤ Clint Ramos, “The Rose Tattoo”

Best scenic design of a play

¤ WINNER: Rob Howell, “A Christmas Carol”
¤ Bob Crowley, “The Inheritance”
¤ Soutra Gilmour, “Betrayal”
¤ Derek McLane, “A Soldier’s Play”
¤ Clint Ramos, “Slave Play”

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

¤ WINNER: Lauren Patten, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Kathryn Gallagher, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Celia Rose Gooding, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Robyn Hurder, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Myra Lucretia Taylor, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

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

¤ WINNER: Lois Smith, “The Inheritance”
¤ Jane Alexander, “Grand Horizons”
¤ Chalia La Tour, “Slave Play”
¤ Annie McNamara, “Slave Play”
¤ Cora Vander Broek, “Linda Vista”

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

Danny Burstein as Harold Ziegler in "Moulin Rouge! The Musical."

¤ WINNER: Danny Burstein, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Derek Klena, “Jagged Little Pill”
¤ Sean Allan Krill, vJagged Little Pill”
¤ Sahr Ngaujah, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical”
¤ Daniel J. Watts, “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical”

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

¤ WINNER: David Alan Grier, “A Soldier’s Play”
¤ Ato Blankson-Wood, “Slave Play”
¤ James Cusati-Moyer, “Slave Play”
¤ John Benjamin Hickey, “The Inheritance”
¤ Paul Hilton, “The Inheritance”