NEW YORK — “Billy Elliot,” the big British musical about a coal miner’s son who dreams to dance, bowled over Broadway on Sunday, winning 10 Tonys, including best musical and a unique best actor prize for the three young performers — David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish — who share the title character.
“Billy Elliot” collected eight other awards, including director of a musical, book of a musical and choreography.
“God of Carnage,” Yasmina Reza’s savage comedy of manners about two liberal, middle-class couples whose children get into a fight, was named best play and picked up two other major awards, one for its director, Matthew Warchus, and the other for actress Marcia Gay Harden.
“The Norman Conquests,” Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy, received the revival-play prize, while “Hair,” the iconic 1960s rock extravaganza roared to a win in the musical-revival category.
Geoffrey Rush’s extravagant portrait of a dying monarch in “Exit the King” took the top actor prize.
Angela Lansbury received her fifth Tony, this time in the featured-actress category for her performance as the dotty medium Madame Arcati in a revival of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit.”
Roger Robinson’s portrayal of a mystical shamanlike character in “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” was honored with the featured-acting prize.
Featured actress-musical went to Karen Olivo as the spitfire Anita in the revival of “West Side Story.”
Bret Michaels, star of the reality show “Rock of Love” and frontman of the band Poison, was injured just after the show’s opening production number when he rocked it out with a number from “Rock of Ages.”
As Michaels exited the stage, a descending set piece smacked him on the head and knocked him to the ground.
The extent of his injury was not immediately known.
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