Angelina Jolie & Debra Martin Chase Win Best Musical Tony for ‘The Outsiders’
The category was the most up in the air leading up to the ceremony.
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Angelina Jolie and Debra Martin Chase earned the Tony Award for best musical for The Outsiders.
The showtakes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend, Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders” battle with their rivals, the Socs.
Over the course of the show, nominated for 12 Tonys, the family members dream about who they want to be in a world that may never accept them.
Please read about Coppola’s 1983 movie, The Outsiders
The musical was up against Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Suffs and Water for Elephants for the final award of the evening.
Among industry members, the best musical category was the most suspenseful up to the ceremony, though Hell’s Kitchen and The Outsiders were viewed as the leading contenders. The musical also won best direction, lighting design and sound design.
The Outsiders‘ Joshua Boone, Brody Grant and Sky Lakota-Lynch performed at show.
Other performances included Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club‘s Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne; Hell’s Kitchen‘s Alicia Keys, Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis and Maleah Joi Moon; Illinoise‘s Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck; Merrily We Roll Along‘s Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe; Suffs‘ Nikki M. James and Shaina Taub; Pete Townshend with the cast of The Who’s Tommy; and Water for Elephants‘ Grant Gustin and the musical’s acrobatic cast.
Jolie explained how she first became involved with the musical:
“My daughter Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to. She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about five times and was telling me about it, and I had read the book, and I’d seen the film years ago. Then she asked me to come see it with her. Danya speaks of how important it is to teenagers, how it was written by somebody who’s the age of my daughter, right? So, really, as a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her.”
“It was a very different experience of understanding, of how this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she’s communicating something to me, and that is the power of this material, which was in really good shape even by then,” Jolie continued. “I had the privilege of watching everyone work over this last year to make it into what it is, and Vivienne has been there the whole way.”
The Tony Awards 2024 aired in two parts on Sunday night, live from New York’s David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Act One, the preshow, was hosted by Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar and featured a presentation of the first round of awards.
The main ceremony, hosted by Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, took place immediately after.
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Angelina Jolie & Debra Martin Chase Win Best Musical Tony for ‘The Outsiders’
The category was the most up in the air leading up to the ceremony.
Angelina Jolie and Debra Martin Chase earned the Tony Award for best musical for The Outsiders.
The show takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Ponyboy Curtis, his best friend, Johnny Cade and their Greaser family of “outsiders” battle with their rivals, the Socs.
Over the course of the show, nominated for 12 Tonys, the family members dream about who they want to be in a world that may never accept them.
Please read about Coppola’s 1983 movie, The Outsiders
Outsiders, The: How Coppola Launched the Careers of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon in his 1983 Movie (emanuellevy.com)
The musical was up against Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Suffs and Water for Elephants for the final award of the evening.
Among industry members, the best musical category was the most suspenseful up to the ceremony, though Hell’s Kitchen and The Outsiders were viewed as the leading contenders. The musical also won best direction, lighting design and sound design.
Jolie explained how she first became involved with the musical:
“My daughter Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to. She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about five times and was telling me about it, and I had read the book, and I’d seen the film years ago. Then she asked me to come see it with her. Danya speaks of how important it is to teenagers, how it was written by somebody who’s the age of my daughter, right? So, really, as a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her.”
“It was a very different experience of understanding, of how this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she’s communicating something to me, and that is the power of this material, which was in really good shape even by then,” Jolie continued. “I had the privilege of watching everyone work over this last year to make it into what it is, and Vivienne has been there the whole way.”