Friday, November 14, 2014

Tony Awards Administration Committee Makes First Round of Decisions

The Tony Awards Administration Committee, which meets several times throughout the year to determine in which categories certain performers and plays will be considered eligible, met for the first time this season on November 13th.  Their decisions were:

Saul Williams will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Holler If Ya Hear Me.

This Is Our Youth will be considered a Revival.

Tavi Gevinson will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play category for This Is Our Youth.

James Earl Jones, Byron Jennings, Patrick Kerr, Fran Kanz, Mark Linn-Baker, and Reg Rogers will all be eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for You Can't Take It With You.

Rose Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford, Johanna Day, Julie Halston, Kristine Nielsen, and Elizabeth Ashley will all be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play category for You Can't Take It With You.

Blythe Danner will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for The Country House.

It's Only a Play will be considered a revival.

F. Murray Abraham, Matthew Broderick, Rupert Grint, and Micah Stock will all be considered in the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play category.

Stockard Channing and Megan Mullaly will be considered in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play category.

Tony Yazbek will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category.

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