Tony Awards' biggest winners: 'Maybe Happy Ending,' Cole Escola, Nicole Scherzinger

The 2025 Tony Awards person each been handed out, and the night’s large winners were led by the philharmonic “Maybe Happy Ending,” which earned six awards including champion philharmonic arsenic good arsenic pb histrion honors for Darren Criss. “Buena Vista Social Club” besides did well, finishing with 4 awards.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer Prize-winner “Purpose” took champion play honors implicit Cole Escola’s crowd-pleasing romp “Oh, Mary!” and Kimberly Belflower’s “John Proctor Is the Villain,” a reexamination of “The Crucible.” But Escola scored arguably the astir thunderous applause of the nighttime erstwhile Escola’s sanction was work arsenic champion pb histrion successful a play.

Cynthia Erivo brought down the location with a dazzling opening number, and the ceremonial that followed was punctuated by plentifulness of Hollywood prima power, including victor Sarah Snook arsenic good arsenic nominees George Clooney, Sadie Sink, Mia Farrow, Daniel Dae Kim, Bob Odenkirk, Conrad Ricamora and Jonathan Groff.

Here’s the implicit database of winners:

Musical

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

Revival of a musical

WINNER: “Sunset Blvd.”
“Floyd Collins”
“Gypsy”
“Pirates! The Penzance Musical”

Glenn Davis, left, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins judge the Tony for champion play for “Purpose.”

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Play

WINNER: “Purpose” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
“English” by Sanaz Toossi
“The Hills of California” by Jez Butterworth
“John Proctor Is the Villain” by Kimberly Belflower
“Oh, Mary!” by Cole Escola

Revival of a play

WINNER “Eureka Day”
“Romeo + Juliet”
“Thornton Wilder’s Our Town”
“Yellow Face”

Lead histrion successful a musical

WINNER: Nicole Scherzinger, “Sunset Blvd.”
Megan Hilty, “Death Becomes Her”
Audra McDonald, “Gypsy”
Jasmine Amy Rogers, “Boop! The Musical”
Jennifer Simard, “Death Becomes Her”

Lead histrion successful a musical

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

Lead histrion successful a play

WINNER: Sarah Snook, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Laura Donnelly, “The Hills of California”
Mia Farrow, “The Roommate”
LaTanya Richardson Jackson, “Purpose”
Sadie Sink, “John Proctor Is the Villain”

Sarah Snook

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Lead histrion successful a play

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

Cole Escola

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Direction of a musical

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

Direction of a play

WINNER: Sam Pinkleton, “Oh, Mary!”
Knud Adams, “English”
Sam Mendes, “The Hills of California”
Danya Taymor, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Kip Williams, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Featured histrion successful a musical

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

Natalie Venetia Belcon

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Featured histrion successful a play

WINNER: Kara Young, “Purpose”
Tala Ashe, “English”
Jessica Hecht, “Eureka Day”
Marjan Neshat, “English”
Fina Strazza, “John Proctor Is the Villain”

Featured histrion successful a musical

WINNER: Jak Malone, “Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical”
Brooks Ashmanskas, “Smash”
Jeb Brown, “Dead Outlaw”
Danny Burstein, “Gypsy”
Taylor Trensch, “Floyd Collins”

Featured histrion successful a play

WINNER: Francis Jue, “Yellow Face”
Glenn Davis, “Purpose”
Gabriel Ebert, “John Proctor Is the Villain”
Bob Odenkirk, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
Conrad Ricamora, “Oh, Mary!”

Francis Jue

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Original score

WINNER: “Maybe Happy Ending” (music by Will Aronson, lyrics by Will Aronson and Hue Park)
“Dead Outlaw” (music and lyrics. by David Yazbek and Erik Della Penna)
“Death Becomes Her” (music and lyrics. by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey)
“Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical” (music and lyrics by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts)
“Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” (music and lyrics by Joy Huerta and Benjamin Velez)

Costume plan of a musical

WINNER: Paul Tazewell, “Death Becomes Her”
Dede Ayite, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Gregg Barnes, “Boop! The Musical”
Clint Ramos, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Catherine Zuber, “Just successful Time”

Costume plan of a play

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

Cynthia Erivo brings down the location during the opening fig to the 78th Tony Awards connected Sunday.

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Scenic plan of a musical

WINNER: Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Rachel Hauck, “Swept Away”
Arnulfo Maldonado, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Derek McLane, “Death Becomes Her”
Derek McLane, “Just successful Time”

Scenic plan of a play

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

Lighting plan of a musical

WINNER: 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”

Lighting plan of a play

WINNER: Jon Clark, “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”
Natasha Chivers, “The Hills of California”
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”

Choreography

WINNER: Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Joshua Bergasse, “Smash”
Camille A. Brown, “Gypsy”
Christopher Gattelli, “Death Becomes Her”
Jerry Mitchell, “Boop! The Musical”

Orchestrations

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

Sound plan of a musical

WINNER: Jonathan Deans, “Buena Vista Social Club”
Adam Fisher, “Sunset Blvd.”
Peter Hylenski, “ Just successful Time”
Peter Hylenski, “Maybe Happy Ending”
Dan Moses Schreier, “Floyd Collins”

Sound plan of a play

WINNER: 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”

Book of a musical

WINNER: “Maybe Happy Ending,” Will Aronson and Hue Park
“Buena Vista Social Club,” Marco Ramirez
“Dead Outlaw,” Itamar Moses
“Death Becomes Her,” Marco Pennette
“Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical,” David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson and Zoë Roberts