“Purpose” won best play and Maybe Happy Ending best musical at the 78th annual Tony Awards, “Eureka Day” best play revival, Sunset Blvd best revival of a musical.

Below the full list of winners:

(Here’s a guide to the entire Broadway 2024-2025 Season, including shows not nominated)
(Here is a list of the nominees I, and you, wanted to see win, and why)

Winners have a check mark ✔️:

Best Play

English
The Hills of California
John Proctor is the Villain
Oh, Mary
✔️Purpose

Best Musical

Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
✔️Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat

Best Revival of a Play

✔️Eureka Day
Romeo + Juliet
Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
Yellow Face

Best Revival of a Musical

Floyd Collins
Gypsy
Pirates! The Penance Musical
✔️Sunset Blvd.

Best Book of a Musical

Buena Vista Social Club
Dead Outlaw
Death Becomes Her
✔️Maybe Happy Ending
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Dead Outlaw
Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna

Death Becomes Her
Music & Lyrics: Julia Mattison and Noel Carey

✔️Maybe Happy Ending
Music: Will Aronson
Lyrics:  Will Aronson and Hue Park

Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Music & Lyrics: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
Music & Lyrics: Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
✔️Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!
Jon Michael Hill, Purpose
Daniel Dae Kim, Yellow Face
Harry Lennix, Purpose
Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California
Mia Farrow, The Roommate”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Purpose
Sadie Sink, John Proctor is the Villain
✔️Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray Broadway

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

✔️Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending
Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw
Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.
Jonathan Groff, Just in Time
James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her
Audra McDonald, Gypsy
Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
✔️Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.
Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Glenn Davis, Purpose
Gabriel Ebert, John Proctor is the Villain
✔️Francis Jue, Yellow Face
Bob Odenkirk, Glengarry Glen Ross
Conrad Ricamora, Oh, Mary!

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Tala Ashe, English
Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day
Marjan Neshat, English
Fina Strazza, John Proctor is the Villain
✔️Kara Young, Purpose

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Brooks Ashmanskas, SMASH
Jeb Brown, Dead Outlaw
Danny Burstein, Gypsy
✔️Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
Taylor Trensch, Floyd Collins

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

✔️Natalie Venetia Belcon, Buena Vista Social Club
Julia Knitel, Dead Outlaw
Gracie Lawrence, Just in Time
Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves: The Musical
Joy Woods, Gypsy

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Marsha Ginsberg, English
Rob Howell, The Hills of California
Marg Horwell and David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
✔️Miriam Buether and 59, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Scott Pask, Good Night, and Good Luck

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Rachel Hauck, Swept Away
✔️Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending
Arnulfo Maldonado, Buena Vista Social Club
Derek McLane, Death Becomes Her
Derek McLane, Just in Time

Best Costume Design of a Play

Brenda Abbandandolo, Good Night, and Good Luck
✔️Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Rob Howell, The Hills of California
Holly Pierson, Oh, Mary!
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Costume Design of a Musical

Dede Ayite, Buena Vista Social Club
Gregg Barnes, BOOP! The Musical
Clint Ramos, Maybe Happy Ending
✔️Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her
Catherine Zuber, Just in Time

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Natasha Chivers, The Hills of California
✔️Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Heather Gilbert and David Bengali, Good Night, and Good Luck
Natasha Katz and Hannah Wasileski, John Proctor is the Villain
Nick Schlieper, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

✔️Jack Knowles, Sunset Blvd.
Tyler Micoleau, Buena Vista Social Club
Scott Zielinski and Ruey Horng Sun, Floyd Collins
Ben Stanton, Maybe Happy Ending
Justin Townsend, Death Becomes Her

Best Sound Design of a Play

✔️Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Palmer Hefferan, John Proctor is the Villain
Daniel Kluger, Good Night, and Good Luck
Nick Powell, The Hills of California
Clemence Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Sound Design of a Musical

✔️Jonathan Deans, Buena Vista Social Club
Adam Fisher, Sunset Blvd.
Peter Hylenski, Just in Time
Peter Hylenski, Maybe Happy Ending
Dan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins

Best Direction of a Play

Knud Adams, English
Sam Mendes, The Hills of California
✔️Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!
Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain
Kip Williams, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Direction of a Musical

Saheem Ali, Buena Vista Social Club
✔️Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending
David Cromer, Dead Outlaw
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Jamie Lloyd, Sunset Blvd.

Best Choreography

Joshua Bergasse, SMASH
Camille A. Brown, Gypsy
Christopher Gattelli, Death Becomes Her
Jerry Mitchell, BOOP! The Musical
✔️Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista Social Club

Best Orchestrations

Andrew Resnick and Michael Thurber, Just in Time
Will Aronson, Maybe Happy Ending
Bruce Coughlin, Floyd Collins
✔️Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club
David Cullen and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sunset Blvd.

SPECIAL TONY AWARDS

Special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Harvey Fierstein

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award
Celia Keenan-Bolger,

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre
Great Performances on PBS, Michael Price, executive director of Goodspeed Musicals, New 42, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Special Tony Awards
The musicians who make up the band of “Buena Vista Social Club”: Marco Paguia (music director, conductor/piano), David Oquendo (associate music director, guitar), Renesito Avich (tres), Gustavo Schartz (bass), Javier Días, Román Diaz, Mauricio Herrera (percussion), Jesus Ricardo (trumpet), Eddie Venegas (trombone), Hery Paz (woodwinds) and Leonardo Reyna (piano).

The illusions-and-technical-effects team of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”: Jamie Harrison, Chris Fisher, Gary Beestone and Edward Pierce

Excellence in Theatre Education Award
Gary Edwin Robinson, head of the Theatre Arts Program at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Regional Theatre Tony Award
The Muny