Don’t Peek: The Answers To The “Too Late For Tonys” Quiz

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Kelli O’Hara lost the Best Actress In A Musical Tony to her friend Jessie Mueller. What do Miller and O’Hara have in common besides lovely voices?
 Mueller replaced O’Hara as the lead in Nice Work If You Can Get It.

2) Kelli O’Hara (we’re not too obsessed) shares three things with Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth besides lovely voices and blonde hair. What are they?
They are both from Oklahoma, they both attended Oklahoma City University and they both studied with voice teacher Florence Birdwell.

3) Who starred in the Jefferson Mays part in the film that was based on the same book as A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder?
Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

4) Easy one: What part time Miami Beach resident has the most Tony Awards?
Hal Prince, although no one ever sees him at theater in South Florida.

5) In accepting his award for Best Play, Robert Schenkkan said, “You go a long time between drinks of water in this town.” Specifically, what was he referring to?
5) His last Tony nomination was in 1994 for the Pulitzer-winning The Kentucky Cycle.

6 ) Another easy one: What major element of the Tony ceremony was omitted from the broadcast this year for the first time in many years?
6 ) The In Memoriam section.

7) Yes, the Awards are named for actress/director, Antoinette Perry, who founded the American Theater Wing. But she is really known for only one other high-profile assignment that involved James Stewart. What was the show and the job?
Directing Harvey

8) What two shows tie for holding the most nominations?
The Producers and Bill Elliot with 15 each.

9) What straight play has had the most nominations with seven (It was nominated for 10)?
Tom Stoppard’s The Coast Of Utopia in 2007

10) What actor has the most nominations of another male colleague with eight nods but only one win? Hint: His father, an actor, had none.
Jason Robards Jr. received more Tony Award nominations than any other male actor. His eight nominations were for Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1957), The Disenchanted (1959), Toys in the Attic (1960), After the Fall (1964), Hughie (1965), The Country Girl (1972), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1974), and A Touch of the Poet (1978). Out of all of those nominations, he only won one Tony Award, for The Disenchanted.

11) What show has been shut out completely with the most nominations?
The Scottsboro Boys, 0 for 12 in 2011.

12) Much-honored costume designer William Ivey Long has another high-profile position. What is it?
He is the current chairman of the American Theater Wing.

13) One play which won a Best Play Tony originally also won Best Revival three times, in 1984, 1999, and 2012. What is it?

Death of a Salesman

14) Last but not least, Andrew Kato, artistic director of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, has worked for the Tony Awards for ten years. Name either of his titles.
Creative Consultant or Coordinating Producer

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