Arts & Entertainment
Lamorinda/Campolindo Alum Bryce Pinkham Nominated for TONY!
Nominations for the 68th Tony Awards were announced this morning and Pinkham's play, "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," led with 10 nods.
The nominations for the 68th Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning in Manhattan, and “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” led the Tony field with 10 nominations.
Pinkham's stellar performance as an "antihero, played with brash innocence lightly sprinkled with arsenic," was praised in a New York Times review here.
Pinkham is up against four other actors in the TONY category, including Neil Patrick Harris. The 2014 nominees for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical:
- Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Ramin Karimloo, Les Misérables
- Andy Karl, Rocky
- Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
- Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Pinkham's reaction was reported today by the BroadwayWorld.com news desk.
(Full version here.) An edited version:
"I'm actually in DC now visiting my girlfriend, and I was initially resolved to thinking whatever happens happens. But when I woke up this morning I shot out of bed and I said to myself, 'What were you thinking? I want to remember this moment!' So I got up and left the house, and I actually walked down to the nation's capital," Pinkham said.
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"And my phone was just going berserk with all the well wishes. I think I might have scared the school groups waiting to take the tour of the capital," he added.
"I'll celebrate tonight by doing the show, and sharing the moment with the cast - they all worked so hard to bring the show to its Broadway home," he said.
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"And I had a chance to talk to my parents in California, wake them up with the good news."
The 2014 Tony Awards, hosted by Hugh Jackman, will be broadcast live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall, New York City, on June 8.
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