Tony Award Nominations 2024: Tuesday morning, Jonathan Groff, a native of Ronks, PA, was nominated for a Tony Award for the third time in his career.
Tony Award Nominations 2024
His role in the Stephen Sondheim musical “Merrily We Roll Along” earned Groff his second Tony nod, this time for best actor in a musical. First George III in “Hamilton” off Broadway and then Jonathan took over that part too on Broadway lead to his second Tony nomination as King George III.
“Hangdog Harry” Radcliffe and fellow Mer-refugee and Tony winner Lindsay Mendez also picked up Tony nominations Tuesday as featured players in the modest, swanlike vehicle of smiles that was Jade Jon Zimmerman’s “Merrily We Roll Along.” This is Radcliffe’s first crack at a Tony.
“Merrily “‘s 2022 off-Broadway production opened on Broadway October 22, 2023, and was nominated for best revival of a musical. Its shows run until July 7 at the Hudson Theatre, bringing in a seven-man Tony nomination haul in total.
This year’s Tony Ceremony is scheduled for CBS-TV.
Conestoga Valley High School graduate Groff was nominated for a Tony Award as the lead actor in a musical during his work in “Spring Awakening.” He was also nominated for best actor for his “Hamilton” role.
If Groff wins the award this year, he will have two more in the trilogy leading to an awards “EGOT.” With the original cast recording of “Hamilton” winning Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and a copy of his own to on, he’s already halfway there.
Groff was also nominated for an Emmy award for the Disney+ streamed version of the “Hamilton” musical.
Similarly, on April 22, the Drama League announced that Groff will be receiving its Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater award for 2024. Groff, Radcliffe and Mendez are all nominated for the Drama League’s distinguished performance award, and the show is up for best musical revival. Those prizes will be presented at a New York ceremony Friday, May 17.
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Then, in 2024, he will sing the leading role of Bob Tate in the all-new Off Broadway musical, “Whoopee!”
“It’s a great part to land,” Groff said. “You get to be funny, romantic and menacing all at the same time—plus you get to sing a song,” Groff said. “I’ve always wanted to play the leading man in a musical.”
At the 2018 Tony Awards, Michael Arden’s production of “Once on This Island” was nominated for best musical and eight other awards. With Groff playing the 42nd Street Natatorium, cast members shared three awards for best ensemble creation and practice.
Groff’s co-stars in the musical “Once on This Island,” Brittany Bradford and Martina Sykes, received the award for best female dancers in a Musical and best female solo dancer in a Musical, respectively; as a whole, the cast was honored as best ensemble.
In “Merrily,” a role that garnered him both the Outer Critics Circle Award and a nomination for the Drama Desk Award, Groff played Franklin Shepard.
Nominations by both organizations gave “Merrily” a ringing endorsement as one of 1982’s best Broadway musicals. The Outer Critics named Groff the best actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Franklin Shepard, while Plandingsdorf took second place in the Drama Desk’s “best book” category.
Objects and Newsgathering Techniques: The Lancaster Report, a limited run off-Broadway musical about what happens among a news weekly’s reporter and copy editor, featured Warwick Township’s Eliseo Roman (now on Broadway, at Nestor Fineman; Roman is both a McCaskey High School graduate and Broadway actor).
The Dramas Desk Awards announced Monday, April 29 that the show had received eight nominations, including outstanding new musical, and on Sunday, April 23 the Ouiter Critics Circle gave it three nominations, with “outstand down ing music” going to all people involved.
Also on April 22, Groff presided at the wedding of Mendez to her TV “All Rise” co-star J. Alex Brinson, according to Playbill.com, with Radcliffe as the ringbearer.
Two other musicals whose cast had connections to Lancaster made headlines recently, too.
“Whose Money is it Anyway?, a revue directed by its creator Martin Charnin off Broadway, featured Walnut Street Theatre’s Weston Lloyd and Pat Proett from York Little Theatre among the performers.
New staging tours of “Passion” (now on Broadway), directed by Norman Jewison and starring Barry Bostwick, and “Beach Blanket Babylon” under the stage leadership of Gary Waldman, recently completed unprecedented sellout runs in Atlantic City, N.J. Productions at both houses took advantage of their roots as reputable companies with a choice of themes and tonalities.
The Broadway musical “Back to the Future,” with Manheim Township’s Nathaniel Hackmann in the role of Biff, has been nominated for two Tony Awards in addition to five Outer Critics Circle nominations. Hackmann has performed at the Fulton Theatre.
Groff, who performed on stages in Lancaster County before moving to New York after high school, will appear in an unknown role in the new season of the long-running British science fiction show “Doctor Who,” which begins streaming May 10 on Disney+.
Groff’s TV work, in addition to “Glee” and “Mind hunter”, has been shown, as he has taken on film operations like “Knock at the Cabin”.He has also appeared in the Disney “Frozen” films. His newest movie, A Nice Indian Boy, a rom-com produced by Ashok Amritraj, was recently released at the South By Southwest film festival.
