Carnegie Mellon Alumni Win Two Tony Awards
Broadway is back, and so are The Tony Awards. During a live ceremony at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City tonight, the American Theatre Wing's 74th Annual Tony Awards honored performances and productions from 2019-2020.
Â鶹¹ÙÍø alumni Peter Hylenski and Jamie deRoy had reason to celebrate at the awards, which streamed live on Paramount+. Hylenski, a 1997 graduate, won Best Sound Design of a Musical for "Moulin Rouge! The Musical." deRoy, Class of 1967, won as a producer for Best Play, "The Inheritance."
Immediately following The Tony Awards, Leslie Odom, Jr., who graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2003, hosted "The Tony Awards Present: Broadway's Back!" — Sunday's live concert event celebrating the return of Broadway — on the CBS Network. Odom won a 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Aaron Burr in "Hamilton." He also won a Grammy as a principal soloist on the original cast recording.
"We congratulate our Â鶹¹ÙÍø Tony nominees and winners, and all the artists nominated-and we applaud Leslie Odom, Jr., on a wonderful job hosting 'Broadway's Back,'" said Anne Mundell, interim head of the Â鶹¹ÙÍø School of Drama. "Additional kudos to the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League for their leadership and perseverance during such extraordinary times for the performing arts community."
Â鶹¹ÙÍø has a long tradition of producing top talent onstage and behind-the-scenes. Â鶹¹ÙÍø is the first, exclusive higher education partner of the Tony Awards. Its School of Drama is the oldest degree-granting drama school in the country and consistently ranks as one of the world's best drama schools.
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Highlights from the Tony Awards
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First time Tony-winner Peter Hylenski on the presented by backstage at the 74th annual .
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Have ya heard? Broadway is BACK! And if anyone tells you any differently show them this opening number! 😌
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