Rachel McAdams, the Alicia Keys musical, Daniel Radcliffe and more earned Tony Award nominations this Tuesday morning.
Ariana DeBose, who won an Oscar for Steven Spielberg’s movie adaptation of the Broadway classic West Side Story, will host this year’s Tonys on June 16.
Some of the highest-profile categories were announced Tuesday on CBS, read out by Renee Elise Goldsberry and Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
The rest of the nominations were unveiled later the same day, via the official YouTube page for the Tony Awards.
One of the nominees for best musical is Hell’s Kitchen, a jukebox musical featuring songs by Alicia and loosely based on her life.
Rachel McAdams (pictured onstage in Mary Jane), Alicia Keys, Liev Schreiber and more stars earned Tony Award nominations this Tuesday morning
The other best musical nominees include Suffs, a show about the suffragette movement that has Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai among its producers.
Illinoise, a jukebox musical of Sufjan Stevens’ work, and The Outsider, based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, are also up for the top prize.
The best musical nominations were rounded out by Water For Elephants, an adaptation of the bestselling novel that was previously made into a movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon.
Rachel McAdams was nominated for best lead actress in a play in honor of her work in Mary Jane, starring her as the mother of a son with cerebral palsy.
She is up against Sarah Paulson for Appropriate, a dark comedy about a man’s grown children feuding over his estate after his death.
Jessica Lange is also up for Mother Play, playing the mother of teens portrayed by Tony winner Celia Keenan-Bolger and The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons.
So is Betsy Aiden in Prayer For The French Republic, a dark comedy by Joshua Harmon about mounting antisemitism in France.
Rachel’s category is rounded out by Amy Ryan for the lead role in John Patrick Shanley’s classic drama Doubt: A Parable, which was made into an acclaimed movie starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis.
Liev Schreiber is nominated for best lead actor in a play for Doubt: A Parable, playing the role of the priest accused of molesting a young boy.
He is up against a formidable group of thespians including Succession star Jeremy Strong in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People.
William Jackson Harper is also nominated in that category for Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, as is Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through The Cotton Patch and Michael Stuhlbarg for Patriots.
Jim Parsons in Mother Play is nominated for best featured actor in a play, against Corey Stoll for Appropriate and Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka, all three for the play Stereophonic about a rising 1970s rock band.
The best featured actress in a play nods went to Quincy Tyler Bernstine in Doubt, Juliana Canfield and Sarah Pidgeon for Stereophonic, Celia Keenan-Berger in Mother Play and Kara Young in Purlie Victorious.
Daniel Radcliffe is nominated for best supporting actor in a musical for his role in a revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, a polarizing 1980s piece that unfolds backwards in time.
His competitors are Roger Bart in Back To The Future: The Musical, Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch in The Outsiders, Brandon Victor Dixon in Hell’s Kitchen and Steven Skybell in the new revival of Cabaret.
Cabaret, with a score by Fred Ebb and John Kander and a book by Joe Masteroff, first opened on Broadway in 1966 and became an instant sensation, later adapted into a movie starring Liza Minnelli and directed by Bob Fosse.