'The Humans' wins Tony for best play

NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times Eastern Daylight Time):

10:55 p.m.

"The Color Purple," which failed to beat "Jersey Boys" for the best musical Tony Award in 2006, has won the best musical revival award in 2016.

The musical adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of female empowerment opened Thursday. It's the John Doyle-directed revival that premiered at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2013.

The musical primarily focuses on Celie's journey from abuse to independence and self-esteem, an arduous trek that takes some four decades, from 1909 to 1949. It stars Cynthia Erivo as Celie and Jennifer Hudson as Shug Avery.

Doyle is known for his minimalist techniques, stripping away production elements and cutting bloat. True to form, the set here consists mostly of wooden chairs, which are used to create a bathtub, a juke joint, a jail and much more.

"The Color Purple" beat out "Fiddler on the Roof," ''She Loves Me" and "Spring Awakening."

10:50 p.m.

Tonys host James Corden took a few pokes at presumptive presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, introducing some new fictitious openings on Broadway.

Andrew Rannells, in Trump hair, walked out as Trump from the musical "The Book or Moron."

"Hello, my name is Donald Trump and I would like to build a wall that goes straight through your house," he sang.

He was followed by Glenn Close in blue Clinton pantsuit and wig, fake star of "A Clinton Line," riffing on "A Chorus Line."

She belted: "I really need this job. Oh God, I need this job. I've got to get this job."

10:35 p.m.

"The Humans," a play about a fractious family's get-together, has won the best play crown at the Tony Awards.

Stephen Karam's play is composed entirely of a single 90-minute, real-time scene set during a Thanksgiving dinner in a run-down New York apartment. Members of a family arrive putting on brave faces but resentments soon rise to the surface

What makes the drama so visceral is Karam's soundscape. There are odd noises throughout the play - mechanical rumbles, click-clacks, running footsteps, the crashes of pots and pans.

"The Humans" beat out "The Father," ''Eclipsed" and "King Charles III."

10:30 p.m.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama offered a special remote message at the Tonys in introducing a performance from "Hamilton."

They recalled when creator Lin-Manuel Miranda took the mic during a poetry jam at the White House and explained his piece was about the life of somebody who embodies hip hop - America's first treasury secretary.

"I confess we all laughed, but who's laughing now," the president said.

Michelle Obama chimed in: "It's a musical about the miracle that IS America."

And she said the country can remain strong if we remember to stay "young, happy and scrappy" like Hamilton himself.

10:20 p.m.

A bold, pared-down version of "A View From the Bridge" has won the Tony Award for best play revival.

The Arthur Miller revival led by director Ivo van Hove, who won a Tony on Sunday for its direction, has few props and no shoes. During nearly two tense hours without intermission, the barefoot cast members warily circle one another under bright lights, while a dissonant soundtrack increases the tension and unease.

This new version of Miller's 1955 play about working-class Italian-Americans in Brooklyn previously won three Olivier Awards, including best revival and best director.

"A View from the Bridge" beat another Miller revival in "The Crucible," as well as "Blackbird," ''Long Day's Journey into Night" and "Noises Off."

10:05 p.m.

Frank Langella has won a fourth Tony Award for playing a man who has begun his slide down the slippery slope of dementia in "The Father."

An astrologer told him when he first arrived in New York that his greatest successes would come later in life, he said.

"I thought she meant 30," said the 78-year-old.

Langella offered kind support for those struggling in Orlando on behalf of the greater theater community.

"I urge you, Orlando, to be strong," he said.

In "The Father," French playwright Florian Zeller - with a translation by Christopher Hampton - tells the story of a retired Parisian engineer whose mind is breaking, illustrated by the same characters in his life turning up played by different actors and the disappearance of physical items from his home.

During his long career on stage and in TV and film, Langella has specialized in meaty heroic parts, including Zorro, Leonardo da Vinci, Valmont, Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes. He won perhaps his greatest praise for portraying the 37th president, first on stage in the 2006 play "Frost/Nixon" by Peter Morgan and then in a 2008 film adaptation directed by Ron Howard.

For the Tony, Langella beat out Gabriel Byrne, Mark Strong, Tim Pigott-Smith and Jeff Daniels.

9:50 p.m.

The 9th Tony for "Hamilton' came during a commercial break, for choreography.

9:45 p.m.

Jessica Lange has won her first Tony Award for playing a drug-addled mother in the Broadway revival of the monumental "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

"This is a dream come true and it fills me with such happiness, even on such a sad day as this," she said, referring to the Orlando shootings.

Eugene O'Neill's semi-autobiographical masterwork about the disintegrating Tyrone family is familiar to the actress: Lange previously played the role of Mary Tyrone in a 2000 production in London, receiving an Olivier Award nomination.

Lange, 67, is a two-time Academy Award winner and three-time Emmy winner who has lately connected with millennials, thanks to four seasons aboard "American Horror Story," playing a washed-up Southern belle, a freak show ringmaster, a nun and a witch.

Lange beat out Laurie Metcalf, Lupita Nyong'o, Sophie Okonedo and Michelle Williams.

9:35 p.m.

Blink once and it's another Tony for "Hamilton," taking best book of a musical during another commercial break. It was No. 8.

It was the same break when host James Corden went into the audience in search of people to join him in a singalong.

He called up Sean Hayes and Jake Gyllenhaal, who was chewing gum.

Only Corden could get away with what happened next: He took the gum and put it into his own mouth, then ran out of time and they couldn't sing their song - until the next break, that is, when they worked it in.

9:15 p.m.

What we didn't see on TV: "Hamilton" won another Tony, for orchestrations, beating out "Bright Star," ''She Loves Me," ''Shuffle Along, Or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed."

9:05 p.m.

Thomas Kail has won the Tony Award for directing the smash hit "Hamilton."

He thanked "my dear Lin," adding:

"When I don't have the words you do. When I don't know where to go, I look on the page and it's always there."

The award caps a busy year for Kail, which included directing two off-Broadway plays, a triumphant "Grease: Live" for 14.6 million people and transferring that little musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about Alexander Hamilton to Broadway.

Kail, 38, grew up as a rabid sports fan in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, but didn't study theater. That happened when he joined the American Stage Company in Teaneck, New Jersey, doing eight shows in 18 months, working his way up to being a director.

He has a reputation for directing shows that are accessible to the traditional and nontraditional theatergoing audiences alike: "In the Heights," also by Miranda, introduced salsa flavors and Latin characters to Broadway, while he also attracted sports fans with the plays "Lombardi" and "Magic/Bird."

He beat George C. Wolfe, Scott Ellis, Michael Arden and John Doyle.

9:02 p.m.

Dutch visionary Ivo Van Hove has won his first Tony Award for directing an imaginative revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge."

For almost two decades, van Hove has been reinventing modern theater by peeling it down to its core, ignoring conventions and making it emotionally charged. This season he also directed a revival of Miller's "The Crucible" and a new show co-written by David Bowie called "Lazarus."

His actors are expected to have memorized their lines before the first day of rehearsal. Then he methodically goes scene-by-scene through the work from start to finish, working both collaboratively and by instinct.

For "A View from the Bridge," van Hove put it in stark set that resembles a boxing ring. During nearly two tense hours without intermission, the barefoot cast members warily circle one another under bright lights, while a dissonant soundtrack increases the tension and unease.

He beat Rupert Goold, Joe Mantello, Liesl Tommy and Jonathan Kent.

8:50 p.m.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has won the 2016 Tony Award for best score for the music to the hit "Hamilton."

He read a sonnet, breaking down in tears as he spoke of "love is love is love is love ..." and was among the few who spoke of Sunday's Orlando shooting in his acceptance speech.

Miranda, who previously won the same award for the score to his "In the Heights," has been praised for the music, which ranges from pop ballads to sexy R&B to rap battles over fiscal policy, with lyrical nods to Gilbert and Sullivan, Jason Robert Brown, "South Pacific" and the Notorious B.I.G.

"Hamilton," the groundbreaking, biographical hip-hop show about the life of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton has taken Broadway by storm.

Not surprisingly, the cast album debuted as the No. 1 Broadway Cast Album, but it also debuted as the No. 3 Rap Album and No. 9 on the Top Current Albums chart, something cast recordings rarely do. The album features 46 songs over 2ˆ½ hours.

The "Hamilton" score beat the songs by "Bright Star," ''Waitress" and "School of Rock - The Musical."

8:45 p.m.

Daveed Diggs took the Tony for featured actor in a musical for his dual roles as Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette, leaping off a table while employing a thick French accent at one moment and facing off against a Founding Father in a rap duel in the next.

"I cannot thank you all enough. This is so crazy," he said when he picked up his award.

Renee Elise Goldsberry won best featured actress in a musical for her role as Angelica Schuyler in "Hamilton."

8:15 p.m.

Jayne Houdyshell, a mainstay of the New York stage, has won her first Tony Award for playing a gossipy, gently needling mom in "The Humans."

In Stephen Karam's powerful play "The Humans," she plays a woman desperate to hold onto her marriage and give a semblance of normalcy as things fall apart during a Thanksgiving dinner. Houdyshell wins for best featured actress in a play.

She was previously Tony-nominated for "Well" by Lisa Kron, an intimate drama in which she played a chronically ill woman. She played Madame Morrible in "Wicked," Mae Peterson in "Bye Bye Birdie" and Miss Prism in "The Importance of Being Earnest." Houdyshell received a Career Achievement Drama Desk Award in 2013.

Regional roles include Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Linda Loman in "Death of a Salesman" and Lady Bracknell in "The Importance of Being Earnest." Her latest Broadway credits include "Follies," singing - what else? - "Broadway Baby" and "Fish in the Dark," written by and starring Larry David.

8 p.m.

Host James Corden opened Broadway's biggest night with a message for the fallen in Orlando:

"Our hearts go out to all of those affected by this atrocity. All we can say is you're not on your own right now. Your tragedy is our tragedy," he said in part, adding:

"Hate will never win. Together we have to make sure of that. Tonight's show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle. This is the Tony Awards."

The evening then kicked off with a riff from front-runner "Hamilton."

7:59 p.m.

The "Hamilton" train may still run through the Tonys but it won't break the record of 13 statues. It lost for scenic design of a musical to "She Loves Me."

In Tonys math, that means it can only rack up 12 wins.

7:55 p.m.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, nominated for best original score for "School of Rock," said a show about teaching music to kids takes him back to his roots, in U.S. theater anyway.

The first show to performed in America to feature his music was "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," back in 1970.

"It was performed in a college, in New Jersey," he said on the red carpet. "So to do something about a school and about a teacher teaching kids to play music is very, very close to my heart," he said.

He, too, extended condolences to the victims of the Orlando shooting.

7:35 p.m.

The man of the night, "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, said from the red carpet he learned of the Orlando tragedy after Tony rehearsals were completed so working condolences into any stage presentations may not happen, but the victims were clearly on his mind.

"It's just heavy in my heart and heavy on my mind. Today's a day of tragedy. At the same time, I'm in a room of people who made new art and new music this year and I'm happy to be celebrating that. I feel like we need it more than ever."

Miranda confirmed he will be leaving the smash hit sometime this summer but doesn't know exactly when.

7:10 p.m.

Jeffrey Seller, lead producer of "Hamilton," began what is sure to be a big evening with a heavy heart, extending condolences to the shooting tragedy in Orlando.

"My heart is saddened by it. I'm reminded of the way in which tragedy and joy interweave through my life and many other lives every single day," he said. "Our celebration tonight is tempered by it."

7 p.m.

In the why, why not category: An hour before the show, host James Corden came out to quickly greet the audience, with many already in their seats, dressed in a terry cloth bathrobe, socks and a towel turban on his head.

6:50 p.m.

Laura Benanti, nominated for best actress in a musical for "She Loves Me," will perform with other cast members and Orlando will be ever-present.

Of the victims, she said from the red carpet: "There's nothing I can say that won't seem trite. All I can say is that every note that comes out of my mouth this evening will be in remembrance of these victims and their families."

That, she said, "is all I can do, offer my voice as some sort of a tribute."

6:46 p.m.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, showed up on the Tony Awards red carpet to express solidarity with the Orlando shooting victims and celebrate Broadway at the same time.

"Usually this is just a happy, glorious day but because of what happened in Orlando, everyone has very mixed feelings," he said.

He swapped out his usual American flag pin for an orange flag, which speaks to "rational laws on gun," adding: "It's about time. We can't have more of these killings."

6:30 p.m.

There was an obvious stepped-up security presence outside the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side, with explosive-sniffing dogs and a critical response team at the ready.

Bags were being checked and credentials scrutinized after a shooting that killed at least 50 people at a gay nightclub in Florida.

On a sunny but blustery day, water bottles on silver platters were being offered to guests on the red carpet.

Some nominees were wearing a silver ribbon to show their solidarity with the victims.

3 p.m.

The shooting at an Orlando nightclub has prompted the cast of "Hamilton" to drop their Revolutionary War muskets during their performance Sunday at the Tony Awards.

The musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton will instead pantomime the use of the rifles, according to a show's spokesman.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of "Hamilton" tweeted a rainbow-hued heart with "Orlando" written beneath it.

Rory O'Malley, who plays King George in the show, tweeted: "The theatre is our church and we all need church tonight."

The Tony Awards will air live on CBS at 8 p.m. EDT.

2 p.m.

Sunday evening's Tony Awards have been dedicated to those affected by the Orlando nightclub shooting that killed at least 50 people.

In a statement Sunday, the Tony Awards said "our hearts are heavy for the unimaginable tragedy." The awards, it said, will be dedicated to the friends and family of those affected by the most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history.

Organizers didn't say how the evening's broadcast would be affected. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of "Hamilton" - expected to be the night's big winner - tweeted a rainbow-colored heart with "Orlando" written beneath it.

The Tonys are to be hosted by late-night host James Corden.