Here are some photos from last night’s Tony Awards. The Writers Guild had to give the Tony Award producers special permission to go on, but the catch was that the striking writers could not write the awards patter for the show. That led to a chaotic awards show, but still, it’s funny that the show was allowed to go on even in the middle of a writers’ strike and what feels like an incoming actors’ strike. No matter what, “awards shows matter” to the entertainment community. Kimberly Akimbo won the Tony for Best Musical, Leopoldstadt won best play. Jodie Comer – in her Broadway debut – won the Best Actress Tony for Prima Facie and Sean Hayes won Best Actor. You can see more about the awards here.
Jessica Chastain made the case that the hair stylists might be on strike too – she wore this very dated-looking Gucci gown in sunshine yellow, but her hair looked like she just pulled it back to wash off her makeup.
Jodie Comer looked amazing in Thom Browne.
Lea Michele wore Emilia Wickstead and she LOST. Not only did she lose, she watched as Alex Newell (a former Glee costar) become the first nonbinary performer to win a Tony.
Lupita Nyong’o wore Misha Japanwala – that’s a metal breastplate, it’s not Lupita just spray-painting her chest.
Lin Manuel Miranda and his wife. Such an attractive couple.
Rachel Brosnahan in Versace. Unexpected and pretty good.
Uzo Aduba is expecting her first child! Congrats to her!
Tatiana Maslany looked awful!
Michelle Williams supported her husband Thomas Kail – I love Michelle’s dress here.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Lin-Manuel Miranda and Vanessa Nadal BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Alex Newell BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Jessica Chastain BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Jessica Chastain BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Rachel Brosnahan BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Lea Michele BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Uzo Aduba BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Jodie Comer BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Tatiana Maslany BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Lupita Nyong’o BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York City, NY – The 76th Annual Tony Awards at United Palace Theater in New York City. Pictured: Michelle Williams and Thomas Kail BACKGRID USA 11 JUNE 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: MediaPunch / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
I don’t think Lea was nominated for Funny Girl. I don’t think she was eligible because she didn’t start out in the role when it opened. So I know we don’t like her but let’s be accurate.
I was going to say the same thing! She wasn’t nominated, but she got to close the show with a number from Funny Girl.
Came to say the same, she had the moral loss though not to be the first glee kid to get a Tony, I think maybe that’s what the writer meant, at least that’s how I took it, because she wasn’t even nominated because she was not in contention.
Wasn’t Alex Newell the one who accused Lea of bullying them? If so, that must have felt like sweet revenge in the moment, to be awarded a Tony while Lea watched and got nothing (even if Lea was not nominated, which means that she didn’t get the part in the first place to lead to a nomination).
The post is about Tony Awards fashion, so I interpreted Kaiser’s line about Lea Michelle losing to mean that she did not like her dress – she lost fashion-wise.
IMO, everyone except Jodie Comer and Michelle Williams looks awful here. Poor tailoring and fit, poor styling, with way too much scraped back hair and forehead on display and garish make up. A whole lot of hot mess.
I like the shape of Lea Michele’s dress very much. It fit her well and was flattering. But I hated the print. That dress is a bold color or some other print would have been lovely.
The way that pattern was matched is killing me. Maybe it doesn’t matter any more, and I’m a fuddy duddy who learned about fashion and fabric in the ancient times, but patterns should match similar to wallpaper so they flow instead of just slapped together. It’s distracting to see the mis-match on the seams and detracts from the pattern. Makes an expensive dress and fabric seem cheaper than it should.
I know it contributes to fabric waste, but there are better solutions in pattern creation and patterning in general than just mismatching on a front seam.
While I agree with your assessment of the fabric not matching, if you look closely it is because they are long pleats. The fabric at the bottom is the only part that would match as the pleats come out. It does look funny though
Completely get it with the way the dress is sewn with continuous pieces instead of a seam at the waist. I would prefer either a better pattern choice, a solid fabric, or a mismatch buried somewhere else in the gown (perhaps on the side seams) v. just right down the torso where everyone is seeing it. It’s egregious IMO but what do I know? I’m not a fashion designer. 🙂
ETA: Now I’m imagining this in a gorgeous rich solid color with something to pick out the details of the long pleats and I want to see it. It really did fit her well.
I don’t like Jessica’s necklace Heart of the Ocean style necklace. The dress is meh too. Lupita was a bit edgy with the Breastplate but overall just okay. I didn’t like Lea’s dress and her over eager face. I didn’t like Lin’s wifes look at all. Cormier looked nice and Michelle’s dress was lovely too. Everyone was just okay.
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Oh noooooooooooo Jessica, gurl what did you do to your face?? I honestly had to click through to the article because I didn’t know who the thumbnail photo was. Full facelift, eye work, fillers and Botox or some combination thereof, I don’t know but that is some terrible plastic surgery. And she was always so gorgeous, I’ve never been a huge fan of her acting but now she’s gone and done a Renee Zellweger and it’s so sad….
I know I need to finish my coffee to function but I thought it was Sophie Turner at first.
Right? She’s done way too much and it’s not great. She doesn’t look like herself.
I feel like she’s been overly botoxed for a while now.
I wonder if stars do the tight pony if their work hasn’t quite settled so they can just say “oh no it’s just my hairstyle making my face look totally different!” That slightly bitchy assumption aside, I actually think Jessica looks fantastic lol!
Congrats to Jodie, I’m so desperate to see her Prima Facie performance, I hope it streams or we can buy it soon. She looks gorgeous but seems like she didn’t dress like she thought she would win? Very understated.
Lin Manuel’s wife looks cute, the purse!
I know, I can’t wait to see Prima Facie! It’s been under lock and key, was streaming in Britain for a few months maybe under membership but I missed it. She’s just so talented, and the reviews have been so amazing.
Jodie looks amazing.
Lupita is always beautiful but I really hate that outfit.
Ditto on your second point. Lupita is so gorgeous and usually has the most amazing outfits, but wow, I really dislike that breastplate.
At first I scrolled by Rachel Brosnahan’s dress but I went back up a couple times because it really caught my eye. The pattern on the inside, which you can see near the bottom is different from the outside and the top part was interesting. I quite like it.
Betsy Wolfe looked gorgeous in her purple gown! The feathers! The cape!
I also thought Jodie Comer looked great in her simple black gown (wish I could see her Prima Facie performance).
Lin and his wife are pretty much always adorable.
And while I would have been terrified of a wardrobe malfunction as a fellow chesty girl, Bonnie Milligan’s dress was such a pretty color and I loved its sparkle.
Jodie Comer and Rachel Brosnahan wore my favorite looks, and the others were all pretty ghastly in my book. Lupita is a huge fan favorite, but this look simply isn’t great.
Alex Newell for best dressed and best performance. They can SING!!
I came to say this. That dress is gorgeous.
Can I be honest and say everyone looks hideous? I love Jessica and Lupita – both are such beautiful ladies – but their outfits are all hideous.
I’m in total agreement. Just not feeling any of their outfits.
All these looks are big misses.
I always find JC’s gown color choices interesting. As a pale strawberry blonde, it always strikes me as if she chooses a color she likes, without worrying about how it compliments her complexion / hair color.
It’s like she’s gorgeous and the looks she’s choosing are beautiful and/or striking, but together the whole is less than the sum of its parts – either washing her out or fighting with her coloring.
She may really like her choices, but I’m always bummed because I keep hoping to find colors, styles, looks I can adapt for me and instead see stuff that would wash me out or overwhelm me.
I think Lupita’s outfit is just too much. She’s gorgeous. I’d rather look at her face than at someone else’s bare breasts, but the top of that outfit is so weird that it’s hard not to look at it.
Jodie looks lovely. Her dress is classic and flattering, but it’s a little basic.
Tatiana is such a good actress but I agree that outfit is dreadful.
I love Rachel’s dress.
Jessica’s look is actually the only one here that I like — her dress also looked REALLY pretty when it was moving.
Me too I love her dress and her hair was in a high swingy pony so this pic doesn’t do it justice.
Lupita is a beautiful woman, but that outfit is not doing her any favors. I ALMOST would be OK with the breast plate if the breasts were slightly fuller. And is her head shaved and her “hair” spray painted on? It kinda looks cool, but I’m confused.
Lea might be annoying, but I think she and Uzo have the best outfits in this post.
Same–Lea’s the worst but she looks fantastic here. The dress is unique and gorgeous, and her hair/makeup are the perfect match to the look.
I like Lea’s dress too. Not a fan of Lea though.
I was so happy for Uzo, I saw her announcement on instagram before I read this. She seems like a really great person and is so talented, I’m thrilled for her and her family.
I was thrown when I first saw Lupita’a top on instagram, but when you read about the artist who made it and the reasoning for it, it’s beautiful and wonderful. Props to Lupita for having the bravery to do this and give this artist and her work such a platform! That’s being an ally. I love her. And I love the design on her head too.
I’m all for Lupita’s look. I think it’s a very avant-garde melding of fine art and fashion which I think she pulled off really well here. Then again, art is my jam. 😁
1. Lea Michele wasn’t nominated for anything.
2. The Tony awards actually do matter to shows because they can help boost ticket sales for both Broadway shows and national tours. Not having the Tonys go on would have been devastating for a community that is still struggling with coming back from the pandemic, and the WGA (particularly the eastern faction) understood this.
Totally agree. Before last night I would have never have considered going to Shucks and after last I would definitely go to see it if it comes to my area.
Tatiana’s dress is a true 80’s flashback: the black lace gloves, the ruffles at the bottom of the skirt, the GOLD LAME!
I would have so worn that outfit to a middle school dance and would have LOVED it!
Tatiana Maslany should sue – look how they massacred my boy!
I’m so happy for Sean Hayes winning! Congrats to him!
You guys know I think Lupita is maybe the most beautiful woman on the planet. Seriously who can touch her? Angelina Jolie. Duckie Thot. There are not many people in this league. This is the first time i dislike what she has on at a red carpet event. I hate this look.
I love Jessica’s dress but not on her. Not with her coloring. It sort of washes her out. I don’t like the pony tail with the dress either. I would love to see Jodie Turner or Viola in this dress. Or Lupita.
I’m in the minority. I prefer Jessica Chastain’s dress and like the color combo with her hair and pale skin. I also like the necklace. Lupita! I don’t like that top. I like the pants. Love Lupita though! I liked Jodie Comer dress less after looking at. It’s fine. I don’t like Lea Michele, but I like the dress. I would like Rachel Brosnahan dress if it wasn’t for the print. Uzo Aduba is pregnant! Yay! I like her suit. Michelle Williams dress is okay! I don’t like the fit. Yep, Jessica for the win for me. Easily!
I agree. Jessica was the best dressed for me hands down. And I like Jodie Comer’s dress though it’s fairly boring
I hate that breast plate. Ew.
Me, too. I understand that it’s art. I just don’t like it as clothing.
Agreed! I’m sorry, but whoever was Lupita’s STYLIST for that occasion needs not to be employed by anyone anymore, IMVHPO! Btw, she (Lupita) didn’t look at herself really well in the mirror BEFORE making a decision? Cutting edge or not, this is a NO-NO!
I love Jessica’s whole look. Beautiful. Not a fan of Lupita’s look with the breastplate. Tatiana would have looked fine had she not been horribly styled with the gloves and the choker.
I love lupita’s style, always. I kinda love the concept of the metallic breast plate. I just think the Tony Awards was the wrong event for it. That red carpet seemed way too sophisticated and high brow. I think it would have been great for the Met Gala for example.
Lupita is so beautiful.
But I really dislike that breastplate as fashion.
I wish all the sheer dresses, thigh high slits, breasts on display would all go out of style.
Fashion with excellent tailoring, gorgeous fabric and jewelry, great design vs. skin on display is my favorite, old Hollywood glamour.
Katherine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Audrey, Ginger Rogers those dresses moved and were beautiful.
Hair, gowns, jewelry, all of it made the women look wonderful.
That gold dress with the frills and layers and black platform shoes is really bad.
Congratulations!!! 🎊🍾🎉🎈
The best dressed was Denee Benton, if only because she got onstage and called DeSantis a GrandWizard. On camera. And was cheered like crazy.
She wins.