The 2025 Tony Awards by the numbers

Discover fun facts and stats about the nominees up for top honors at the 78th annual theatre awards ceremony, hosted on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall.

This year marks the 78th annual Tony Awards, with 29 plays and musicals up for 26 prizes that collectively celebrate 1 thing: the best Broadway theatre of the 2024-25 season.

Those are just a few numbers associated with this year's ceremony, scheduled for June 8 at Radio City Music Hall. Before watching the CBS/Paramount+ broadcast at 8 p.m. that night, check out these fun facts and stats about the 2025 Tony Award nominees, and tune in to see who ends up number one.

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78 years of the Tonys

The 2025 Tony Awards are the 78th annual ceremony. The first Tonys — short for the Antoinette Perry Awards — took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in 1947. It looked very different than today's ceremonies: Instead of trophies, the winners received different accessories depending on their gender. There was no televised broadcast, and there were only eight categories:

• Actor in a Play
• Actress in a Play
• Best Performer in a Musical
• Outstanding Newcomer
• Director
• Choreographer
• Costume Designer
• Composer

26 competitive award categories

Over the years, the number of competitive Tony Awards has grown to recognize performers, directors, writers, choreographers, and designers. Most categories are split between plays and musicals. Learn more about all the competitive Tonys categories.

There are also special honors awarded each year: Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, Regional Theatre Tony Award, and other Special Tony Awards. Learn more about the special Tony Awards and this year's honorees.

29 shows nominated out of 42 eligible

In the 2024-25 season — which ran from April 26, 2024, to April 27, 2025 — 42 shows were eligible for Tony nominations. That count includes 14 new musicals, 14 new plays, 7 musical revivals, and 7 play revivals. Twenty-nine received at least one nomination, while 13 shows, only 4 of which are still running, were shut out.

A total of 43 new productions appeared on Broadway this season, but one — a three-week concert residency by Ben Platt — was not eligible for Tony Awards.

3 shows with 10 nominations (and 4 with 7)

Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, and Maybe Happy Ending are the most nominated shows of 2025 with 10 each, including Best Musical. Hot on their heels, in a four-way tie for second place with seven nods each, are the musicals Dead Outlaw and Sunset Boulevard and the plays John Proctor Is the Villain and the now-closed The Hills of California.

The fact that no single show outran all the others is a testament to the wide array of strong talent in the 2024-25 season.

3 Broadway "revivals"

Did you know some shows up for Best Revival of a Musical and Play have never been on Broadway before? The Tonys have a "classics" rule that states a new-to-Broadway show can be eligible as a revival if it's become well-established in the theatre canon after many years, or else if it played off Broadway years ago with much of the same creative team and/or cast.

Under this rule, the Broadway debut of Tina Landau and Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins (which premiered off Broadway 30 years ago) got nominated for Best Revival of a Musical. Those of David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face (a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Jonathan Spector's Eureka Day (from 2018) were classified among the nominees for Best Revival of a Play.

The Last Five Years, the Broadway-debut production of Jason Robert Brown's 2002 romantic drama, was also eligible as a revival but was not nominated.

63 first-time nominees

A total of 63 individuals are first-time nominees in 2025. This count encompasses actors, directors, writers, choreographers, and designers.

Some first-timers are already household names that happen to be newer to the Broadway scene, like George Clooney, Sarah Snook, Bob Odenkirk, and Nicole Scherzinger. Other stars, like Mia Farrow and Darren Criss, are up for their first honors after years of stage appearances.

Out of those 63, 31 — including Clooney, Snook, Scherzinger, and Odenkirk — are nominated for their Broadway debuts. Alongside those 31, some nominated creatives are making debuts of a kind. For example, after contributing additional material to multiple Broadway shows, Best Book of a Musical nominee Marco Pennette finally gets to call the script for Death Becomes Her entirely his own.

14 double nominees — and 1 triple

Will Aronson, the co-creator and orchestrator of Maybe Happy Ending, is this year's only triple nominee (Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Orchestrations). Thirteen other individuals are doubly nominated, some against themselves — like set designer Derek McLane, for two musicals — while some multi-hyphenates are contenders in multiple different categories.

Cole Escola, for one, is up for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play for writing and starring in Oh, Mary!, and Darren Criss is up for Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical as a producer and star of Maybe Happy Ending.

Learn more about the individuals with multiple Tony nominations in 2025.

61-year nominee age range

Nineteen-year-old rising star Fina Strazza is the youngest acting nominee for her performance as booksmart Beth in John Proctor Is the Villain, a comedy-drama that reexamines The Crucible through the eyes of teenage girls. The oldest acting nominee is 80-year-old stage and screen veteran Mia Farrow, who returned to Broadway after a decade as Sharon, an unassuming divorcée who gets a new lease on life in fall 2024's The Roommate.

Strazza and Farrow prove it's never too early to be a breakout star — or too late to make a shining comeback.

11 record-setting nominations for Audra McDonald

Audra McDonald is now the most Tony Award-nominated performer in history after getting her 11th nod for playing titanic "stage mother" Momma Rose in Gypsy. On top of that, she's already been the most Tony-winning performer in history for a decade, with six prizes as of 2014. Iconic all around.

4 consecutive nominations for Kara Young

Performer Kara Young has the impressive honor of being Tony-nominated for every Broadway role she's played. Since earning her first Best Featured Actress in a Play nod in 2022 for her debut in Clyde's, she's been nominated in the category each year since: for Cost of Living in 2023, Purlie Victorious (for which she won) in 2024, and now, Purpose in 2025. We hope the streak never ends.

1 historic first for Daniel Dae Kim

Daniel Dae Kim just made history as the first Asian American to be nominated for Best Leading Actor in a Play. In David Henry Hwang's farce Yellow Face, Kim played a version of the playwright, who mistakenly cast a white actor in an Asian part. The recognition also marks Kim's first Tony nomination — and hopefully not his last!

1 sibling duo

Family photo! The Picture of Dorian Gray director/adapter Kip Williams and sound designer Clemence Williams are siblings. They're nominated for Best Director of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Play, respectively, and both make their Broadway debuts with the show. Siblings that "play" together stay together!

1 married couple

Justin Peck is no stranger to the Tonys — he's got two Best Choreography prizes under his belt already, for 2018's Carousel and 2024's Illinoise. But Buena Vista Social Club marks the first time he and his wife, acclaimed ballet dancer Patricia Delgado, have worked together on a Broadway show. Delgado is also making her Broadway choreography debut!

5 former Little Shop of Horrors cast members

The latest revival of Little Shop of Horrors has played off Broadway for more than five years, and its alumni are blossoming. In fact, four people who played the lead role of Seymour are Tony nominees this year – and three are up against each other!

Maybe Happy Ending's Darren Criss, Just in Time's Jonathan Groff, and Floyd Collins's Jeremy Jordan are all competing for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, while Oh, Mary!'s Conrad Ricamora is up for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

Also a Little Shop alum is Joy Woods, who starred as Audrey and is now a Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominee for Gypsy.