Tony Awards 2017: My favorites, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Gavin Creel won and a lot of Dear Evan Hansen
I didn't quite get the time to watch the Tony yesterday. Coming home after a coding workout(? I like that), I learned that my favorite songwriting team, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, just won their first Tony for best original score (and later best musical) after their La La Land win for the Oscars. My favorite theater male vocalist, Gavin Creel, has also won his first Tony for best featured actor. Oh... and Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Gavin Creel happen to all graduate from one public university in the Midwest. (Definitely bragging!) And, Dear Evan Hansen (by Pasek and Paul) won the best musical, too. Ben Platt's best actor winning speech is quite good :) Bette Midler's best actress winning speech is just so awesome LOL Finally, the first U.S. actor that I think I ever hear of, Kevin Kline, not Tom Cruise, also got his third Tony, in the Best Actor in a Play category. He is pretty cool in his winning speech :)