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Tony Award Nominations and Honorees The Tony Award nominations were announced on Tuesday. See the full list of nominees , check out my Culturalists ( Best Nominations and Worst Snubs ) and then head to Pinterest for Tony photos throughout the season. Also announced on Tuesday: The hosts of the Tony Awards. This year, Tony winners Kristin Chenoweth (a nominee this year for On the Twentieth Century ) and Alan Cumming ( Cabaret ) will be our guides. (Visit Broadway.com for more about their hosting gig.) In addition to the competitive Tony Awards, some special, non-competitive awards will be handed out on June 7: John Cameron Mitchell will receive the 2015 Special Tony Award , recognizing his artistry and his journey with Hedwig and the Angry Inch . (In addition to co-creating the show in the 90s, Mitchell just returned to the role, playing on Broadway for the last few months.)  Stephen Schwartz will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award , the Tonys' humanitarian award....

Update : An American in Paris will launch a London production on 4 March 2017 at the Dominion Theatre. Broadway stars Robert Fairchild and Leanne Cope will reprise their roles as Jerry and Lise. Visit the Dominion Theatre website for more information and to purchase tickets. Christopher Wheeldon never disappoints. The choreographer makes a triumphant Broadway directorial debut with this beautiful musical, inspired by the beloved and Oscar-winning Gene Kelly movie musical, and featuring a score of iconic George and Ira Gershwin songs and compositions. Set in post-World War II Paris, just after the liberation, the action centers on Jerry Mulligan (Robert Fairchild), an American soldier who, rather than returning to the States, decides to remain in Paris and explore all the romance it has to offer. He befriends a composer, Adam (Brandon Uranowitz), our narrator and a fellow American, and Henri (Max von Essen), a Frenchman who longs to break free from his family's expectatio...