Tony Awards nominations led by The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! with 12 each
The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! topped the Tony field with 12 nominations each, while Ragtime followed closely with 11 in a rare 12-12-11 split.
The Tony Awards nominations landed with an unusually tight race at the top, as The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! led the 79th field with 12 nominations apiece and Lincoln Center Theater’s Ragtime followed with 11. That 12-12-11 split set up a season in which no single production ran away with the ballot, a striking contrast in a year when Broadway voters spread attention across musicals, revivals and original plays.
The 79th Tony Awards will honor productions that opened between April 28, 2025, and April 26, 2026, across 26 competitive categories. Nominations were chosen by a 55-member committee of theater professionals and then voted on by 857 designated Tony voters, giving the final list the weight of both expert screening and broad industry participation. Best Musical was rounded out by Titanique and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), while Death of a Salesman emerged as the most-nominated play with nine nods, including Best Revival of a Play.
The play categories also showed a sharp divide between revivals and originals. Death of a Salesman was joined in Best Revival of a Play by Becky Shaw, Every Brilliant Thing, Fallen Angels and Oedipus. On the original side, The Balusters led all new plays with five nominations, including a place in Best Play alongside Giant, Liberation and Little Bear Ridge Road. Two plays also landed nominations in Best Original Score, a reminder that Broadway’s writing categories continued to reward work that crosses the boundary between straight plays and musical composition.
The season’s other headline was history. June Squibb, 96, became the oldest acting nominee in Tony history for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Marjorie Prime. Danny Burstein’s nomination for the same production gave him nine career Tony nominations, the most ever for a male performer. The nominations were announced by Uzo Aduba and Darren Criss on CBS, with the full slate released starting at 9 a.m. ET on the Tony Awards’ official YouTube channel.
The ceremony will take place June 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, with P!NK hosting the broadcast on CBS and Paramount+ from 8 p.m. ET to 11 p.m. ET. CBS and Pluto TV will also present Tony Awards: Act One. Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre will go to André Bishop, Jules Fisher and James Lapine, while Mary-Mitchell Campbell will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre will go to 1/52 Project, Jake Bell, Kenn Lubin and Loren Plotkin, closing out a season that rewarded both marquee titles and long-term institutional contributions.
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