The singer's musical Kinky Boots (which scored a whopping 13 nominations), took home seven awards tonight during the 2013 Tony Awards, including Best Original Score, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and—the biggy—Best Musical.
"OK, I can't say I wasn't practicing in front of the shower curtain for a couple of days for this speech," an emotional Lauper admitted during her acceptance speech for Best Original Score. "I gotta thank my mom for sharing all that wonderful music. I wrecked all her Broadway musicals when I was a kid, the cast albums. That's how I learned how to sing."
It was also a good night for Diane Paulus and Pam MacKinnon, who both broke the mold for women in the industry by each winning directing Tonys. Paulus won her first Tony for directing the revival of the musical Pippin, while MacKinnon won for directing the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2013 Tony Award Winners...
Best Musical: Kinky Boots
Best Revival of a Musical: Pippin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Patina Miller, Pippin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Cicely Tyson, The Trip To Bountiful
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Billy Porter, Kinky Boots
Best Book of a Musical: Matilda The Musical
Best Revival of a Play: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Play: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Andrea Martin, Pippin
Best Scenic Design of a Play: John Lee Beatty, The Nance
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rob Howell, Matilda The Musical
Best Lighting Design of a Play: Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Hugh Vanstone, Matilda The Musical
Best Choreography: Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theater: Cyndi Lauper, Kinky Boots
Best Direction of a Play: Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Best Direction of a Musical: Diane Paulus, Pippin
Best Sound Design of a Play: Leon Rothenberg, The Nance
Best Sound Design of a Musical: John Shivers, Kinky Boots
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Gabriel Ebert, Matilda The Musical
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Judith Light, The Assembled Parties
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Courtney B. Vance, Lucky Guy
Best Costume Design of a Play: Ann Roth, The Nance
Best Costume Design of a Musical: William Ivey Long, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
Best Orchestrations: Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots
Watch: Tony Awards 2013 Opening Number - Neil Patrick Harris and Mike Tyson
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