{"id":49558,"date":"2019-06-11T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=49558"},"modified":"2019-06-11T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T09:54:11","slug":"jewish-directors-dominate-at-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jewish-directors-dominate-at-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish directors dominate at Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 \u201cHadestown,\u201d a musical about the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the underworld, won best new musical at the Tony Awards, and a coveted prize for its Jewish director.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Chavkin won the Tony Award for best director of a musical for \u201cHadestown,\u201d the tenth woman ever to win best director for a Broadway play or musical, during the award ceremony on Sunday night. She followed Julie Taymor, Susan Stroman and Diane Paulus as Tony-winning female directors of musicals.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Mendes, the Jewish director of the \u201cThe Ferryman,\u201d also won for best director of a play. \u201cThe Ferryman\u201d also earned a Tony for Best Play. Mendes is known for his work on the James Bond films \u201cSkyfall\u201d and \u201cSpectre,\u201d and won an Academy Award for directing \u201cAmerican Beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Actress and comedy legend&nbsp;Elaine May received her first Tony award \u2014 for best leading actress in a play. She stars in Jewish playwright Kenneth Lonergan\u2019s \u201cThe Waverly Gallery,\u201d his semi-autobiographical play about a family dealing with the declining health of its matriarch.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Bryan Cranston, whose father is of Austrian Jewish descent, won the Tony Award for best leading man in a play for his performance as newscaster Howard Beale in \u201cNetwork.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sound designer&nbsp;Nevin Steinberg, was awarded with Jessica Paz for their sound design of \u201cHadestown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James Corden hosted the awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Jewish%20directors%20dominate%20at%20Tony%20Awards\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49559,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49558\/revisions\/49559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}