Nominees for the 77th Tony Awards announced

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00:00 Nominees for this year's Tony Awards were announced.

00:03 The stars nabbed a nomination for the best performance by an actress in a leading role

00:08 in a play are Betsy Aiden in Prayer for the French Republic, Jessica Lange in Mother Play,

00:15 Rachel McAdams in Mary Jane, Sarah Paulson in Appropriate, and Amy Ryan in Doubt a Parable.

00:23 While William Jackson Harper in Uncle Vanya, Leslie Odom Jr. in Pearly Victorious, a non-Confederate

00:31 romp through the cotton patch, Liev Schreiber in Doubt a Parable, Jeremy Strong in An Enemy

00:37 of the People, and Michael Stobarg in Patriots are nominated for the best performance by

00:44 an actor in a leading role in a play.

00:46 For best musical, the nominees are Alicia Keys' jukebox hit Hell's Kitchen, LeDroit

00:53 a dance-heavy show inspired by Sufjan Stevens' acclaimed 2005 concept album The Outsiders,

01:00 which is based on S.E. Hinton's seminal novel Sufs, the Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai

01:08 produced musical about the American women's suffrage movement and the stage adaptation

01:13 of Sarah Gruen's beloved book Water for Elephants.

01:17 Meanwhile the nominees for best play are Jaja's American Hair Braiding by Jocelyn Bayo, Mary

01:23 Jane by Amy Herzog, Mother Play by Paula Vogel, Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon,

01:31 and Stereophonic by David Adjmi.