This Week on Broadway for June 8, 2015: 2015 Tony Awards Post Game Report

Peter Filichia, Michael Portantiere and James Marino talk about last night's Tony Awards. ---------------------------------- This Week on Broadway has been coming to you (mostly) every week since March 16, 2009 and is the longest running Broadway and theatrical podcast with more then 300 shows giving thousands of reviews and hundreds of interviews. Please take the BroadwayRadio survey by CLICKING HERE. Subscribe to BroadwayRadio in iTunes by CLICKING HERE. ---------------------------------- If you would like to listen to the podcast, click on the arrow in the player below. Panel: Peter Filichia | peter@broadwayradio.com | Facebook PETER FILICHIA is a theater journalist and historian with a number of books, his most recent is, "The Great Parade", available everywhere. His columns appear at MTI, Kritzerland, Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.   James Marino | james@broadwayradio.com | Twitter | Facebook BroadwayStars   Michael Portantiere | michael@broadwayradio.com | Facebook MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist, whose work appears at TalkinBroadway, The Sondheim Review and BroadwayStars. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. Notes and links for the podcast.   The 69th Annual Tony Awards (2015):   What number will Finding Neverland do next year? Tony Awards Ratings Lowest in History of Show, Down 25% from Last Year by Roger Friedman

Given their long downward ratings spiral, I wonder how much longer the Tonys will be able to persuade a major network to telecast them.

— Terry Teachout (@terryteachout) June 8, 2015

Mark Harris: Why are the Tony Awards so afraid of the Tony Awards? In Memoriam - Josh Groban Tommy Tune     BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY PF: Steven Boyer for Hand to God Bradley Cooper for The Elephant Man Ben Miles for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two Bill Nighy for Skylight *** MP + JM: Alex Sharp for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY Geneva Carr for Hand to God *** PF + JM: Helen Mirren for The Audience Elisabeth Moss for The Heidi Chronicles Carey Mulligan for Skylight Ruth Wilson for Constellations BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL *** MP: Michael Cerveris for Fun Home Robert Fairchild for An American in Paris PF + JM: Brian d'Arcy James for Something Rotten! Ken Watanabe for The King and I Tony Yazbeck for On the Town BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL MP + PF + JM: Kristin Chenoweth for On the Twentieth Century Leanne Cope for An American in Paris Beth Malone for Fun Home *** Kelli O'Hara for The King and I Chita Rivera for The Visit BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY Matthew Beard for Skylight K. Todd Freeman for Airline Highway *** Richard McCabe for The Audience Alessandro Nivola for The Elephant Man Nathaniel Parker for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two PF + JM: Micah Stock for It's Only a Play BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY *** MP: Annaleigh Ashford for You Can't Take It with You Patricia Clarkson for The Elephant Man PF: Lydia Leonard for Wolf Hall Parts One & Two JM: Sarah Stiles for Hand to God Julie White for Airline Highway BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL *** Christian Borle for Something Rotten! Andy Karl for On the Twentieth Century PF + JM: Brad Oscar for Something Rotten! Brandon Uranowitz for An American in Paris Max von Essen for An American in Paris BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL Victoria Clark for Gigi PF + JM: Judy Kuhn for Fun Home MP: Sydney Lucas for Fun Home *** Ruthie Ann Miles for The King and I Emily Skeggs for Fun Home BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE *** PF + MP + JM: Fun Home, Music: Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics: Lisa Kron The Last Ship, Music & Lyrics: Sting Something Rotten! Music & Lyrics: Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick The Visit, Music: John Kander, Lyrics: Fred Ebb BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL Craig Lucas for An American in Paris *** JM: Lisa Kron for Fun Home PF: Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell for Something Rotten! Terrence McNally for The Visit BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY The Elephant Man *** MP + JM: Skylight This Is Our Youth PF: You Can't Take It with You BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL *** MP + JM: The King and I On the Town PF: On the Twentieth Century BEST PLAY *** MP + PF + JM: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Disgraced Hand to God Wolf Hall Parts One & Two BEST MUSICAL PF: An American in Paris *** Fun Home JM: Something Rotten! The Visit   Next Week:  An Act of God Ever After (Paper Mill Playhouse) Michael: DC report Peter: Boston report   Explicit: No   Music: Ring of Keys from Fun Home, Original Cast Recording Getting to Know You from The King and I (2015) Original Broadway Cast Recording     Contact Info: Email addresses: see above Phone / Voicemail: +1-888-285-4666 BroadwayStars: Twitter | Facebook Subscribe: Stitcher: Stitcher App iPhone/iPod: iTunes Listen on BroadwayWorld Radio Wednesdays at noon, Thursdays at 7pm and Saturdays at 2pm We need Listener Volunteers to help out with a few projects. If you have a few hours and would like to help out, contact james@broadwayradio.com.