Tony Awards

The 77th Annual Tony Awards, held on June 16th, celebrated the outstanding achievements in Broadway across every theatrical genre and scale of production for the 2023-24 season. This impressive body of work is truly worth celebrating, and PRG is proud to have made significant contributions.

For over three decades, PRG has played a pivotal role in the Broadway community, providing essential services such as lighting, audio, video, scenic, automation and more. This season, PRG has lent its expertise to an impressive 31 out of 36 Tony-eligible shows, including numerous 2024 Tony nominees.

Highlights include:

• The coveted Best Musical awarded went to The Outsiders (12 nominations) which also won the Lighting Design award for co-designers Brian MacDevitt (lighting) and Hana S. Kim (projection) and the Sound Design award for Cody Spencer. PRG provided lighting, projection and audio services for the production.
• For two other nominated musicals, Water For Elephants (7 nominations) and Cabaret (9 nominations), PRG provided multi-discipline services, including audio, lighting, scenic and automation.
• Hell's Kitchen rec’d 13 nominations, including Best Musical. PRG supported the show Off-Broadway at The Public theater before its move to Broadway, where we provided lighting, scenic and automation services.

Tony nominated productions in the top categories, supported by PRG:

• Best Musical
• Hell’s Kitchen
• Illinoise
• The Outsiders
• Suffs
• Water for Elephants
• Best Musical Revival
• Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
• Gutenberg! The Musical
• The Who’s Tommy
• Best Play
• Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
• Mary Jane
• Mother Play
• Prayer for the French Republic
• Best Play Revival
• Appropriate
• An Enemy of the People
• Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
• In the scenic, lighting and sound design categories, PRG supported 19 nominees.
• PRG highlights for individual design categories:
• Scene Design Musical
• Robert Brill — Hell’s Kitchen
• Takeshi Kata — Water for Elephants
• David Korins — Here Lies Love
• Tom Scutt — Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
• Scene Design Play
• dots — An Enemy of the People
• David Zinn — Jaja’s African Hair Braiding
• Lighting Design Musical – (includes co-nominated projection designers)
• Brandon Stirling Baker — Illinoise
• Isabella Byrd — Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
• Natasha Katz — Hell’s Kitchen
• Bradley King and David Bengali — Water for Elephants
• Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim — The Outsiders
• Lighting Design Play
• Amith Chandrashaker — Prayer for the French Republic
• Jane Cox — Appropriate
• Natasha Katz — Grey House
• Sound Design Musical
• M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer — Here Lies Love
• Nick Lidster for Autograph — Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club
• Cody Spencer — The Outsiders
• Sound Design Play
• Stefania Bulbarella (projection design) — Jaja’s African Hair Braiding

The Tony Awards ceremony was live broadcast on CBS on June 16.