Tony Awards Nominations 2019: 'Hadestown' And 'Ain't Too Proud' Lead The Count

The 2018-2019 Broadway season hurtled to a close, with 14 plays and musicals opening in March and April, before the Tony Award nominations were announced on Tuesday morning. And some of the late entries into the race were handsomely rewarded. Hadestown , a retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, opened just two weeks ago and took 14 nominations, including one for best musical. Another recent entry, a reworking of the 1980s film comedy Tootsie , took 11 nominations, also including best musical. Rounding out the best musical category were a jukebox musical , Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations , with 12 nominations; an adaptation of the film Beetlejuice , with eight; and an original musical, The Prom , with seven. Santino Fontana (center) stars in Tootsie , one of the productions up for the Tony Award for best musical. Fontana is also nominated for best leading actor in a musical. Matthew Murphy / Courtesy of Tootsie One of the