{"id":221093,"date":"2026-05-05T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:38:39","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-check-out-the-ct-actors-nominated-for-the-79th-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221093\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Check Out The Ct Actors Nominated For The 79th Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The nominations for this year&#8217;s Tony awards are in, and Connecticut is being represented.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Leading the pack are &#8220;The Lost Boys&#8221; and &#8220;Schmigadoon!&#8221; \u2013 both shows are nominated in 12 categories.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">HBO\u2019s \u201cGirls\u201d star and Greenwich native Christopher Abbott is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for his role as Biff Loman in \u201cArthur Miller\u2019s Death of a Salesman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sara Chase, of West Hartford, is nominated in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical category for her role as Melissa Gimble in \u201cSchmigadoon!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hannah Cruz, of Newtown, is nominated in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical category for her role as Svetlana Sergievsky in \u201cChess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Westport resident Kelli O&#8217;Hara is nominated for Best Lead actress in \u201cFallen Angels.\u201d She plays Julia Sterroll.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The award show is being hosted by Pink on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">To see the full list of nominations, click <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tonyawards.com\/nominees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nominations for this year&#8217;s Tony awards are in, and Connecticut is being represented. Leading the pack are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-221093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}