NEWS'How I Met Your Mother' Star Neil Patrick Harris Hosts 2012 Tony Awards — Winners List!
June 11 2012, Published 12:04 p.m. ET
Third time's a charm! Last night as Neil Patrick Harris dazzled the crowd in NYC at the Beacon Theatre by hosting the Tony Awards for the third time, there were definitely a lot of celebrity sightings.
Whether it was Amanda Seyfried in the opening number, Nick Jonas presenting an award, Andrew Garfield in the audience or the cameo of Jesse Tyler Ferguson from Modern Family, the How I Met Your Mother Star proved yet again he definitely has chops to sing and dance.
Opening the show with a one-liner saying it's "50 Shades of Gay," Neil's song and dance routine alluded to how life should be more like theater. He crooned, "Imagine if everywhere you went you heard a band, wouldn't life be so much sweeter if you could cue the weather with your hand? Cool. What if all of your rhyming answers and you never left home without your back up dancers? What if life were more like theater, wouldn't life be grand?"
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Amidst hosting duties which included hanging upside down a la Spider-Man, Neil Patrick's closing number joked about how he didn't have enough time to perform as it recapped the night's highlights including more than one win for Once.
Without further ado, here's a list of winners from the 2012 Tony Awards!
Best Play
Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris
Best Musical
Once
Revival of a Play
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Revival of a Musical
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Book of a Musical
Once, Enda Walsh
Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics)
Newsies
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
James Corden, One Man, Two Guvnors
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
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Steve Kazee, Once
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Audra McDonald, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Christian Borle, Peter and the Starcatcher
Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Judith Light, Other Desert Cities
Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Judy Kaye, Nice Work If You Can Get It
Scenic Design of a Play
Donyale Werle, Peter and the Starcatcher
Scenic Design of a Musical
Bob Crowley, Once
Costume Design of a Play
Paloma Young, Peter and the Starcatcher
Costume Design of a Musical
Gregg Barnes, Follies
Choreography
Christopher Gattelli, Newsies
Direction of a Play
Mike Nichols, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
Direction of a Musical
John Tiffany, Once
Special Tony Award
Actors’ Equity Association
Hugh Jackman
