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Airdate: Tony Awards 2013

Australian Tim Minchin has been nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway musical Matilda.

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2013-05-01_1111Note to Logies organisers: here’s another American awards show airing live to Australian viewers…

Next month Arena screens the 67th Annual Tony Awards, which features 12 nominations for Tim Minchin’s musical Matilda.

Leading the nominees is the musical Kinky Boots with 13 nods. Host, presenters and performers are yet to be announced.

Australian Tim Minchin’s Broadway musical Matilda has scored an impressive 12 nominations for the 67th Annual Tony Awards. Foxtel’s Arena will broadcast the Awards exclusively live from Radio City Hall in New York City from 10am on Monday June 10, 2013.

Based on the classic Roald Dahl book, Matilda, the box office smash musical has scored nominations for Best Musical and in writing, choreography, direction and for Minchin’s and music and lyrics – Best Original Score Written for the Theatre.

Leading the nominations, Kinky Boots has picked up 13 nominations including Best Musical and Best Original Score by Cyndi Lauper. Pippin has received 10 nominations including Best Revival of a Musical.

Hollywood royalty including Tom Hanks, Nathan Lane, David Hyde Pierce, Laurie Metcalf, Holland Taylor and Cicely Tyson are all nominated for the prestigious Award.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing’s 67th Annual Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards were announced today by Tony winning-actress Sutton Foster and star of both stage and screen, Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

The complete list of 2013 nominations, previous Tony Awards winners and other news and information is available at www.tonyawards.com

10am on Monday June 10 Arena.

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  1. David – I have just ditched Foxtel (obvious) reasons and I lose signal 0n June 9! Any word on a free-to-air broadcast of the Tony’s?

    Will.

  2. @ David – I realise that (with my comment “run by a public broadcaster” referring to SBS) but I would have liked SBS to have brought the rights instead of Foxtel/Arena as they are much more deserving and fitting of the genre.

  3. I know this has previously been shown on Bio. but now that Foxtel have taken Arena in house it is a better fit, but the best fit would be Studio. The poor channel run by a public broadcaster deserves to have some A-grade programming to highlight what a great job it does.

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