Some Like It Hot, a musical adaptation of the cross-dressing film that starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, has waltzed away with 13 Tony Award nominations.

With songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the present follows two musician mates who disguise themselves as girls and be part of an all-girl band to flee Chicago after witnessing a mob hit.

It has been became a candy, full-hearted embrace of trans rights starring Christian Borle and J Harrison Ghee, each who earned nominations.

Three exhibits tied with 9 nominations every: & Juliet, which reimagines Romeo And Juliet and provides a few of the largest pop hits of the previous few many years; New York, New York, which mixed two generations of Broadway royalty in John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda; and Shucked, a shock light-weight musical comedy studded with corn puns.

Kimberly Akimbo, with Victoria Clark enjoying a youngster who ages 4 occasions sooner than the typical human, rounds out one of the best musical class.

In one of the best new play class, nominations have been distributed to Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt, which explores Jewish id with an intergenerational story, and Fat Ham, James Ijames’ Pulitzer Prize-winning adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set at a black household’s barbecue within the fashionable South.

The remainder of the class is made up of Ain’t No Mo, the short-lived however critically applauded work by playwright and actor Jordan E Cooper, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Between Riverside And Crazy, and Cost Of Living, parallel tales of two caretakers and their respective sufferers.

Wendell Pierce, who has received a Tony for producing Clybourne Park, earned his first nomination as an actor on Broadway for a blistering revival of Death Of A Salesman and Jessica Chastain, an Oscar-winner for The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, received her first Tony nomination for a stripped down model of A Doll’s House.

Pierce will face off towards each stars of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Corey Hawkins — in addition to former Will & Grace star Sean Hayes from Good Night, Oscar, and Stephen McKinley Henderson, who earned his second nomination, having received one in 2019 for Fences.

Jodie Comer, the three-time Emmy nominated star of Killing Eve, earned a nomination for her Broadway debut in Prima Facie.

Audra McDonald, who has received six Tony Awards, can prolong her reign if she beats Comer as greatest main actress in a play for Ohio State Murders.

The final slot within the class went to Jessica Hecht, staring within the play Summer, 1976.

Two exhibits that closed rapidly nonetheless picked up nominations — KPOP, which put Korean pop music on Broadway for the primary time, and Ain’t No Mo, wherein the United States authorities emails each black citizen with the supply of a free airplane ticket to Africa and explores how varied personalities reply to the supply.

KPOP received three — together with greatest unique rating — and Ain’t No Mo nabbed six, together with a greatest new play nomination.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s frothy and broadly panned Bad Cinderella earned zero nominations, as did A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical, a stage biography of the singer-songwriter who has had dozens of top-40 hits.

Two well-received revivals from the late Stephen Sondheim — Sweeney Todd with Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban, and a star-studded Into The Woods – have been recognised.

Sweeney Todd acquired eight nominations together with for Groban and Ashford, and Into The Woods earned six, together with for Brian d’Arcy James and Grammy Award-winning Sara Bareilles, her third Tony nomination.

Ariana DeBose will host the June 11 awards celebration from New York City’s United Palace theatre reside on CBS and on Paramount+. It is her second-straight stint as host.