If Sunday night's Tony Awards are any indication, Broadway loves its Mormons, its Larry Kramer plays, and its really big horse puppets.
The Book Of Mormon, from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, received nine awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Book Of A Musical. The drama War Horse, which features innovative use of horse puppets (one of which appeared on stage ridden by host Neil Patrick Harris) won for Best Play. And Kramer's AIDS drama The Normal Heart was named Best Revival Of A Play, and it won awards for actress Ellen Barkin and actor John Benjamin Hickey.
Other winners included Frances McDormand for her work in the play Good People, Sutton Foster for her lead performance in the revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, and Norbert Leo Butz, playing what you may know as the "Tom Hanks character" in the musical adaptation of Catch Me If You Can. (A complete list of winners is here.)
It's also very much worth noting that the Tonys gave out a handful of important statues off the televised broadcast, including a Lifetime Achievement Award to South African playwright Athol Fugard and a special award to Eve Ensler, best-known as the writer behind The Vagina Monologues.
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