Tony Awards 2018: Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants Lead the Nominees

CBS will broadcast the 72nd annual ceremony live from Radio City Music Hall on June 10

By Zach Johnson May 01, 2018 1:05 PMTags
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Former Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. and current Waitress star Katharine McPhee announced the nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards Tuesday morning, live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. CBS will broadcast the 72nd annual ceremony, as it's done for the past 40 years, from Radio City Music Hall on June 10 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

Broadway stars Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban will co-host the three-hour event.

Productions that opened during the 2017-2018 Broadway season on or before the Apr. 26, 2018 cut-off date were eligible for nominations this year across the 26 competitive categories.

Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical lead with 12 nods each, followed by Angels in America, The Band's Visit and Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel with eleven each.

Here is the complete list of nominees:

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BEST PLAY

The Children

Farinelli and The King

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two 

Junk

Latin History for Morons

BEST MUSICAL

The Band's Visit 

Frozen

Mean Girls 

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY

Angels in America 

Edward Albee's Three Tall Women 

Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh 

Lobby Hero 

Travesties

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

My Fair Lady

Once On This Island

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

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BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY

Marianne Elliott, Angels in America

Joe Mantello, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

Patrick Marber, Travesties

John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

George C. Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

Michael Arden, Once On This Island

David Cromer, The Band's Visit

Tina Landau, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls

Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY

Andrew Garfield, Angels in America

Tom Hollander, Travesties

Jamie Parker, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Mark Rylance, Farinelli and the King

Denzel Washington, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY

Glenda Jackson, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

Condola Rashad, Saint Joan

Lauren Ridloff, Children of a Lesser God

Amy Schumer, Meteor Shower

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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL

Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady

Joshua Henry, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Tony Shalhoub, The Band's Visit

Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL

Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady

Hailey Kilgore, Once On This Island

LaChanze, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit

Taylor Louderman, Mean Girls

Jessie Mueller, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY

Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Michael Cera, Lobby Hero

Brian Tyree Henry, Lobby Hero

Nathan Lane, Angels in America

David Morse, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY

Susan Brown, Angels in America

Noma Dumezweni, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Deborah Findlay, The Children

Denise Gough, Angels in America

Laurie Metcalf, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL

Norbert Leo Butz, My Fair Lady

Alexander Gemignani, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Grey Henson, Mean Girls

Gavin Lee, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Ari'el Stachel, The Band's Visit

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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL

Ariana DeBose, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical

Renée Fleming, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Lindsay Mendez, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Ashley Park, Mean Girls

Diana Rigg, My Fair Lady

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

The Band's Visit, Itamar Moses

Frozen, Jennifer Lee

Mean Girls, Tina Fey

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Kyle Jarrow

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE

Angels in America, Adrian Sutton (Music)

The Band's Visit, David Yazbek (Music and Lyrics)

Frozen, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Music and Lyrics)

Mean Girls, Jeff Richmond (Music)
and Nell Benjamin (Lyrics)

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper and Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! at the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani and Lil'C (Music and Lyrics)

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BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY

Adam Cork, Travesties

Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Angels in America

Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Tom Gibbons, 1984

Dan Moses Schreier, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Kai Harada, The Band's Visit

Peter Hylenski, Once On This Island

Scott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Brian Ronan, Mean Girls

Walter Trarbach and Mike Dobson, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

BEST ORCHESTRATIONS

John Clancy, Mean Girls

Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Annmarie Milazzo and Michael Starobin, Once On This Island

Jamshied Sharifi, The Band's Visit

Jonathan Tunick, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

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BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY

Miriam Buether, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

Jonathan Fensom, Farinelli and The King

Christine Jones, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Santo Loquasto, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

Ian MacNeil and Edward Pierce, Angels in America

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Dane Laffrey, Once On This Island

Scott Pask, The Band's Visit

Scott Pask, Finn Ross and Adam Young, Mean Girls

Michael Yeargan, My Fair Lady

David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY

Neil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Paule Constable, Angels in America

Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

Paul Russell, Farinelli and The King

Ben Stanton, Junk

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Kevin Adams, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Once On This Island

Donald Holder, My Fair Lady

Brian MacDevitt, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

Tyler Micoleau, The Band's Visit

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY

Jonathan Fensom, Farinelli and The King

Nicky Gillibrand, Angels in America

Katrina Lindsay, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Ann Roth, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

Ann Roth, Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

Gregg Barnes, Mean Girls

Clint Ramos, Once On This Island

Ann Roth, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Christopher Gattelli, My Fair Lady

Christopher Gattelli, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical

Steven Hoggett, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two

Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls

Justin Peck, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE

Chita Rivera

Andrew Lloyd Webber

SPECIAL TONY AWARDS

John Leguizamo

Bruce Springsteen

REGIONAL THEATRE TONY AWARD

La MaMa E.T.C.

New York City

ISABELLE STEVENSON TONY AWARD

Nick Scandalios

TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE

Sara Krulwich

Bessie Nelson

Ernest Winzer Cleaners

The ceremony is presented by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture between the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League. White Cherry Entertainment' Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers, and Weiss will direct the show for the 19th year in a row.