Tony awards: The Band's Visit and Harry Potter triumph in politically charged ceremony
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The Band’s Visit, an Israel-based musical adapted from a 2007 movie, was the major winner at this year’s Tony awards, winning 10 trophies at American theatre’s biggest night of the year.
Ari’el Stachel, who won the Tony for best featured actor in a musical for his role in the show, said the musical was “a small story about Arabs and Israelis getting along, at a time when we need that more than ever”.
It was also a big night for British stars and productions with the Broadway transfer of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child winning seven awards, including best play. Glenda Jackson also won best lead actress in a play for her role in Three Tall Women.
She said she would like to thank the audience, who were “from every other country in the world” which she said were welcoming of others. “And America has never needed that more. And America is always great,” she said.
Andrew Garfield was named best lead actor in a play for his role in Angels in America. The 1980s-set play by American playwright Tony Kushner was revived recently by the National Theatre in London and is now taking Broadway by storm, decades after it first smashed taboos on stage with its dramatisation of love and loss at the height of the Aids crisis.
The prize was deemed a contest between Garfield and Denzel Washington for his performance in another revival, The Iceman Cometh.
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