Tonys Latest: Lauren Patten wins as musical featured actress
The Latest on the Tony Awards (all times local):
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7:20 p.m.
Lauren Patten has edged out her co-stars from “Jagged Little Pill” to win the award for best featured actress in a musical.
The show plumbs Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakthrough album to tell a fictional story of a family spiraling out of control. Patten plays teenage lesbian Jo in the show and gets to belt out the song “You Oughta Know.”
After opening in New York, “Jagged Little Pill” producers have apologized to fans for changing Jo from gender-nonconforming to cisgender female after the show moved from Boston to Broadway.
Growing up in Downers Grove, Illinois, Patten was drawn to the performing arts early on, and by age 4, had begun appearing in commercials and community theater productions. Patten, who has been on Broadway before in “Fun Home,” has a recurring role on the CBS crime drama “Blue Bloods.”
For the Tony, she beat out Kathryn Gallagher and Celia Rose Gooding from “Jagged Little Pill,” Robyn Hurder from “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” and Myra Lucretia Taylor of “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical.”
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7:15 p.m.
Theater veteran Lois Smith has won her first Tony for “The Inheritance.”
She won for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play. Smith previously earned nominations for “The Grapes of Wrath” in 1990 and “Buried Child” in 1996.
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