![]() ![]() Maybe you’ve heard of him.Īs for the argument that the Tonys need to stay young and fresh: Please. This year, they were up against a first-time musical writer named Sting. John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, nominated for the score of their final collaboration The Visit, accumulated more than a dozen nominations apiece as a result of their forty-year partnership. Terrence McNally, who was nominated this year for writing the book of the musical The Visit, is a seven-time nominee he’s won the award twice (for Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman) as well as two Tonys for Best Play. Craig Lucas, who wrote a tough and insightful book that gave An American in Paris a historical specificity that the movie didn’t have, is also a librettist, a screenwriter, and a three-time Tony nominee whose Broadway work includes the play Prelude to a Kiss and the musical The Light in the Piazza. Let’s set aside Tesori and Kron’s considerable achievement and talk about some of the other people who were nominated for Best Book or Best Musical Score this year.
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